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Each time, Niemoller said, \u201cI did not speak out\u201d because he was not a socialist, a trade unionist, or a Jew.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThen they came for me \u2014 and there was no one left to speak for me,\u201d said Niemoller, who spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI had that thought, and I was thinking of the poem on the Statue of Liberty,\u201d Allen said. \u201cIt was about that time we were seeing these horrible images of [Syrian refugee children] being washed up\u201d ashore in Europe.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Using hijab as a spiritual way to support Muslim women, Allen was afraid that the US might repeat its history of forcing minorities like Muslims to live in internment camps, like they did with Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Allen, a librarian, published author, and a member of a church choir from Conway, US state of Arkansas, has been wearing hijab for almost two years to support Muslim women and counter hateful rhetoric targeting the religious minority. \u00a0 Nancy Allen, a librarian, published author, and a member of a church choir from Conway, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[452,252,835,714],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-christian","tag-hijab","tag-publish","tag-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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