A Charlotte church put up a sign about its Muslim neighbors. Then the neighbors spoke back.

A Charlotte church put up a sign about its Muslim neighbors. Then the neighbors spoke back.
BY PETER ST. ONGE April 12, 2017 Associate Editor, Editorial Pages Charlotte Observer Kate Murphy was driving to work in East Charlotte not long ago when she saw a car that looked like it had some words painted on it. She pulled up for a closer look and saw that yes, they were words. But they were more than words. They were anti-Muslim slurs. This was back in February, shortly after t...
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Fox 46 – A local Muslim woman returns from the RNC

Fox 46 – A local Muslim woman returns from the RNC
By: Lauren Dugan POSTED:JUL 22 2016 07:30PM EDT UPDATED:JUL 22 2016 10:43PM EDT CHARLOTTE, NC (WJZY) - A local Muslim went to the Republican National Convention this week to spread a positive message of Islam. Rose Hamid said she was confronted with many hate groups in Cleveland. She wasn’t there to protest. Instead, she passed out 2,500 pens marked with a web address to edu...
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WFAE – Charlotte Muslim Rose Hamid Travels To RNC To ‘Put A Positive Face On Islam’

WFAE – Charlotte Muslim Rose Hamid Travels To RNC To ‘Put A Positive Face On Islam’
As you’ve probably heard by now, politicians and delegates are in Cleveland this week for the Republican National Convention. So is Charlotte resident Rose Hamid. Hamid who is a Muslim, gained national attention when she silently protested at a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina earlier this year and was kicked out. WFAE’s Sarah Delia checked in with Hamid on the third day of the R...
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Charlotte Observer – Charlotte Muslim leader brings message of love to Republican convention

Charlotte Observer – Charlotte Muslim leader brings message of love to Republican convention
Charlotte Observer July 18, 2016 BY JIM MORRILL jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com Red flower pen in hand, Charlotte’s Rose Hamid spoke in Cleveland’s Public Square Monday, delivering the message she hopes to bring to a larger audience at this week’s Republican National Convention: that Islam is not a violent religion to be feared. “It doesn’t have to be us versus them,...
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Charlotte Observer – Opinion – Donald Trump, Rose Hamid and How to Keep America Safe

Charlotte Observer – Opinion – Donald Trump, Rose Hamid and How to Keep America Safe
  A group of people yelled and chanted, but Hamid ignored them and delivered her important and peaceful message. If we want to make America safe again, she said, empowering people to be hateful is the wrong way to go about it. “It does not have to be us versus them,” she said. Trump aide Paul Manafort said Monday that the protests outside the arena would show “a lawlessness and l...
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Roll Call – Life Before and After Getting Tossed from a Trump Rally

Roll Call – Life Before and After Getting Tossed from a Trump Rally
Opinion Life Before and After Getting Tossed from Trump Rally 'When you've met one Muslim, you've met one Muslim' Posted By Mary C. Curtis Rose Hamid, who was ejected from a Trump rally. (Photo by Mary C. Curtis.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On a recent afternoon, Rose Hamid sat at a table at one of the busiest business intersections in the city’s center, sharing information about her faith a...
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The Herald – Trump protester speaks at Winthrop

The Herald – Trump protester speaks at Winthrop
Rose Hamid, a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, hoped to make a human connection at Donald Trump's Rock Hill rally. And she did. BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@heraldonline.com ROCK HILL “I never felt anything negative about Winthrop or Rock Hill,” Rose Hamid said Friday, on her first trip back to the university campus since her notable appearance almost three months earlier. Until then, Hamid...
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Creative Loafing/CLT – A Discussion with Seven Trump Protesters

Creative Loafing/CLT – A Discussion with Seven Trump Protesters
A discussion with seven protesters who have faced down Trump and arenas full of supporters not having it By Ryan Pitkin @pitkin_ryan March 16, 2016 Over the last few months, Donald Trump rallies have become disturbing displays of Americana. Internet comment boards come to life. Bastions of bigotry. Emerging from these WWE-like events is a small but rapidly growing group of people who s...
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Creative Loafing/CLT – original coverage of Trump rally

Creative Loafing/CLT – original coverage of Trump rally
Rose Hamid took a silent stand and turned a mirror on Donald Trump's blind suppporters A rose grows from concrete Published Jan. 13, 2016 By Erin Tracy-Blackwood By now, you've all seen the video. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking at Winthrop, begins to rant about "radical Islamic terrorism" and behind him a woman stands. She's wearing a hijab and a shi...
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