This week, Zuhdi answers the question that large media platforms should be asking when they let Islamists dominate the representation of American Muslims in the social, political, cultural, and theological realms: Can’t American Muslims do better than the Islamists? Shouldn’t we expect better? American Muslims can certainly do better with regards to ideological diversity, integrity, maternity, and Western values than the radicals like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, or the shape-shifting corruption of Mohammad Tawhidi. Platforming them is a bigotry of low expectations.

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