Muslim Americans make up a significant voting bloc in key swing states. And they have a single voting priority: Gaza.


Dalia Mogahed is former Research Director at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). She is also the CEO of Mogahed Consulting.
Muslim Americans make up a significant voting bloc in key swing states. And they have a single voting priority: Gaza.

Closed accounts, denied transactions and investigations – Muslims face banking bias like no other faith group in the US.

From India to France, bigots are scared of the hijab. Why are Western feminists so deafeningly silent about this?

Islamophobic acts have an effect not only on Muslims but the entire society in which they occur.

And what does the current debate on the Taliban and women’s rights tell us about Western (mis)perceptions of Muslims?
![A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021 [AFP/Wakil Kohsar]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/000_9LB8EF.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Egyptians need to negotiate with each other for a new social covenant of mutual acceptance and cohesion.
![Egyptian media often incites differences rather than provide objective reporting, write Mogahed and Kaplan [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014614184758814734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)