commentary George W. Bush and Dick Cheney never went this far. Under Trump, it’s become acceptable to hate all Muslims Published April 26, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) Mohammad Ali Salih outside the White House, April 13, 2013. (Shannon Curran/AFP via Getty Images) This coming week, I am planning to return to my White House vigil. I am an 84-year-old journalist who is Muslim, Arab and Black. I have lived and worked in Washington for 46 years. I have done this before. I began my first vigil in 2008, appearing occasionally outside the White House. (See the image above this article.) I ended it in 2016, largely because Donald Trump ’s attacks on Muslims during his presidential campaign gave me reason to be afraid. Those were followed, of course, by many anti-Muslim executive orders during his first term as president, and still more during his second term. Nearly two months ago, Trump joined with Israel in launching devastating bombing attacks on Iran , a major Muslim country.…