What Covering Hate As A Muslim Journalist Taught Me About The Media

It’s Sept. 9, 2016. A Trump supporter in Brooklyn has allegedly attacked two Muslim women and their babies. I think about my pregnant friends in the area. I don’t want to call and worry them. A month later, “Fuck Allah” and “Fuck Arabs” are among the anti-Muslim messages spray-painted on the Muslim Community Miraj Center in Bayonne, New Jersey. A friend texts me the photo of the mosque before it makes the news. I live 20 minutes from that center. Another month goes by. A Muslim teach...