Today, I am Muslim.
Always - I will be a human who supports basic human rights. I am not referring to rights associated with being a woman or a man or having lighter or darker skin color or your sexual orientation or what God you worship or don't.   I'm talking about the bigger picture.  HUMAN rights. And in fact until we stop separating ourselves into groups, demanding OUR rights for whatever group we identify with, until we stop doing that, we can never truly be equal. Your president is proving just that.  By picking and choosing who gets rights and who doesn't. 

I am very sad. Anxious, worried. I am truly embarrassed to be a citizen of the United States of America. A country built by immigrants.  A wonderful beautiful place created by people from somewhere else (well, you know - after we sliced and diced the indigenous folks.)  A country who's very founding documents require us to welcome those seeking sanctuary. Instead our leader is slamming the door on those fleeing the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII. A crisis that in large part WE, you and me, the United States, created.  Your president is discriminating against, oppressing literally millions and millions of people - based on their religious affiliation.  It is immoral it is in-American.   It is wrong by any civilized standard.  History has proved it to be extraordinarily destructive.   It is opposite of what this country is supposed to stand for.    

And this is only the start. Generations of diplomacy are circling the drain. The new foreign policy akin to what happens on a second grade playground. Except this is real world. The president of the greatest country on earth pouting and shouting and tweeting and otherwise acting like a 70-year old toddler, sowing confusion and fear across the globe. And angering really big, really well armed nations.  Why? Aside from feeding the oversized ego of somebody who has never even lived real life........what possible benefit is there to anyone?

Donald Trump. The best president Putin could buy.

I am embarrassed to be a citizen of the United States of America. You can tell me to leave, go somewhere else if I don't like it here. But I won't. It isn't ME being un-American.  I'm not the one violating so many principles this country was founded on.   It's not me tearing up the constitution and stomping on the flag.  And it wouldn't be prudent for me to go anywhere else, anyway.  Your president is making sure of that.  By leading with hate and paranoia, your president is making sure that being a citizen of the United States is becoming a very unpopular condition.  Increasingly unsafe for all of us. 
Both abroad and at home.  
  
I'm probably getting too told to be climbing over all these walls he wants to build, anyway.
Yes, today I am Muslim.