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<\/a><\/p>\nGregory Aftandilian,<\/a>\u00a0Lecturer at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a>\u00a0published a recent Op-Ed on recent comments made by United States President Donald Trump directed toward\u00a0four progressive Democratic congresswomen.<\/span><\/p>\n Aftandilian’s Op-Ed, entitled “Trump\u2019s Anti-Minority Statements Hit a Low Point,<\/a>” was published in\u00a0The Arab Weekly<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on July 20, 2019.<\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n Although no stranger to anti-minority and xenophobic statements, US President Donald Trump hit a low point July 14 when he said four progressive Democratic congresswomen of minority backgrounds should \u201cgo back\u201d to the \u201ccrime-infested places from which they came.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only was this statement highly offensive, it was absurd and racist. Three of the four women were born in the United States, and the fourth, Ilhan Omar, has been a naturalised US citizen since she was a teenager.<\/p>\n That two of the women, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Omar of Minnesota, are of Muslim background recalled Trump\u2019s anti-Muslim tirades from the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n