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[quote=Anonymous]Asra Nomani is a nominally Muslim woman born in Mumbai who voted for Donald Trump, argued in favor of his ban on immigration from select Muslim-majority countries, and supports racial profiling against Muslims. Her views on Islam are fairly well-understood as "Islam should change fundamentally from what it has been for millenia" - why she feels the need to continue to self-identify with a religion she disagrees with on such a visceral level is a mystery to most who follow her career.

She currently has a senior at TJ and has been, very vocally and very recently, thunderously in support of the very narrow definition of merit that has been peddled by those seeking to maintain the status quo with respect to TJ admissions, and those seeking to break down the recent improvements in elite college admissions. It is no accident that she has taken up this mantle as her son begins the college application process.

She carries over 50,000 followers on Twitter due to her past as a professor at Georgetown and as a Wall Street Journal contributor. Both associations ended poorly. Her Twitter feed reads very much like Trump's - vicious, insecure, self-serving, jingoistic, and full of retweets of literally any account (human or bot) that appears to agree with her. Seemingly her favorite tactic is to intentionally misinterpret the arguments and intentions of anyone who disagrees with her and to lampoon them publicly.

Key example - she is claiming right now that the TJ PTSA is banned from these conversations. It is only Asra who is banned, but her intent is to inflame public opinion against meaningful change by claiming that Secy. Qarni is banning the entire TJ PTSA from the sessions. It's a clever tactic, and one that might be successful with an increasingly myopic community, but it's severely disingenuous and a perfect example of how she operates.[/quote]

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