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 educate the crowds about Islam in her project ‘Salam, I Come in Peace.’ Local muslim returns from ...

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 RNC. It’s been a busy week for Rose Hamid, who along with her son made the trek to Cleveland. Her mi...

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,” she told a few dozen listeners. “These terrorist groups are not following the Islamic doctrine.” ...

  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 lack of respect for political discourse.” They did, but it wasn’t Rose Hamid’s side. It was the pr...

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 and handing out copies of the Quran in English and Spanish. (with the organization American Islamic O...

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 was a fairly anonymous, Charlotte-based writer and activist working on social justice issues and in...