Guest Column by Mariam Durrani | When silence is not enough
During his campaign, Trump made a statement that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. In December 2015, a group of Penn graduate students, including myself, were appalled by the lack of public condemnation about such Islamophobic discourse. As a response, we created a petition condemning these statements and asked Penn President Amy Gutmann to also publicly denounce Islamophobia. Of course, this never came to pass.