NY Times gives Linda Sarsour front page fame
Bay Ridge Arab-American leader gets citywide notice
Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York, who has been steadily gaining notice in Bay Ridge over the past five years through the dint of her civic involvement and political activism, has come to the attention of the city’s most influential newspaper.
The New York Times published a front page article on Sarsour in its Metropolitan section on Sunday, praising her “street smarts, activism and Muslim identity.”
The article, written by reporter Alan Feuer and headlined, “Homegirl in Hijab,” pointed out that Sarsour, a 35-year-old Bay Ridge resident, was a driving force in the effort by the city’s Arab-American community to get the New York Police Department (NYPD) to cut back on a controversial program involving the surveillance of Muslims.