Author: Alaa Al-Barkawi

Why the Westminster community needs to care about the Muslim ban and everything that comes after

This past week has been an emotional rollercoaster for me as a Muslim, a Hijabi, a refugee and an Iraqi. The weekend started off with Trump signing an executive order to temporarily ban refugees and Muslims from seven Muslim-majority countries including Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Iran. Six of these seven countries are fighting terror in their homelands on a daily basis.&nbs...