To find out who my representatives were in congress, I simply googled "Who is my senator" found the first website and entered my zip code. Republican Steve Knight is my member and Democrats Dianne Fienstien and Kammala Harris are my senators.
To further express my concern Steve Knight regarding growing Islamaphobia in my city of santa clarita, I further proceeded to leave him a message on his phone (tel:202-225-1956) saying that currently crimes torwards islamic people in Santa Clarita is growing. On facebook my friend Shaheen expressed his experience being denied to be seated at a restaurant due to his mother wearing a Hijab due to the "headpiece making fellow guests uncomfortable...". I believe this was rather an act of racism and do not support it.
This is such an important issue and one to definitely bring up to your rep's attention. One thing to keep in mind is that, in this particular instance, it seems that discrimination occurred based on ethnicity or religion and not race.
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