When Slate writer Amin Ismail came into the studio to talk to me, he kept saying the same thing.

Mary, why am I so sad today? This sucks.

We'd gotten together to talk about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the name-calling, the threatening video that came out last week.

But Amon can't talk about Representative Omar

without talking about himself. So we talked about that, too.

Amon's Muslim grew up in Jersey. He's got these stories, like how on 9-11 he remembers

neighborhood kids coming to his Islamic school and throwing stones at it.

Amon started going to a public school after that.

There was that time Amin landed in court on a trespassing charge,

and the judge threatened to deport him, even though Amin's an American citizen.

So when Ilhan Omar says that Muslims shouldn't be complicit in the demonization of our community,

that resonates with me.

That makes me feel like, no, we do have a place here.

Here's this politician for once advocating for me.

That never happens as a Muslim American.

Over the last week, Amin's watched as this 20-minute speech representative Omar gave

has been reworked, reshaped into a meme and a retweet, spread first by a member of Congress,

and then by the New York Post, and then by the president.

Care was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something.

I mean that speech was around for three weeks, but even I hadn't tuned in.

Some people did something.

When Donald Trump tweeted this video, the message was clear.

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