April 12, 2016
Nader Hasan speaks on behalf of his Nawal Foundation at the Muslim Town Hall.
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Arlington: Community Leaders and Muslims Discuss Islamophobia
Promoting more than just tolerance.
Nader Hasan remembers riding bikes through Shirlington with his cousin. The two of them grew up in the area and watched fireworks together from one of the nearby hills. But the two boys from Arlington grew up into very different men. When Major Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people in Fort Hood in 2009 as part of an attempt to spread fear and hate, it forced his cousin Nader Hasan to confront extremism on both sides of his community and his country.
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