" Just days before the election, Donald Trump had visited Minnesota and told a local crowd: “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval, and with some of them joining ISIS and spreading their extremist views. You’ve suffered enough in Minnesota.” Ilhan had won in the face of that hate speech. And it was only the beginning of her political rise. "

― Seema Yasmin , Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure