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Arsalan Bukhari: Muslim kids shouldn't be afraid to live here

caption: Arsalan Bukhari is the former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Seattle
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Arsalan Bukhari is the former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Seattle
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One of the big stories of 2017 was the Trump administration's travel ban targeting some Muslim countries. Arsalan Bukhari of the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR says the travel ban also had an impact on Americans.

KUOW's Race and Equity Team interviewed him as part of a series revisiting stories and issues that shaped 2017.

Bukhari led the Seattle office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations for a decade. He recently took a job at CAIR’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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