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MuslimGirl founder Amani Al-Khatahtbeh talks stereotypes and Donald Trump

A quick search online for tweets and videos directed at the @MuslimGirl handle on Twitter throws up some ugly results. One is a video entitled: “The Government Needs to Deport Or Kill Muslims Now.” Of the two comments posted beneath it, one reads: “F***in outstanding sir the only good muslim is a dead one man woman or child [sic].”

The video has been viewed just 121 times. It’s a minor act of racism from someone seemingly tweeting into the void, with few followers. But it’s part of a constant trickle of abuse faced by 24-year-old Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, whose most defiant act was simply to set up a website catering to Muslim women in the West.

She is the founder and editor-in- chi


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