VOA标准英语2012--US Muslims Join Together to Impact Politics, End Discrimination
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(九月)
US Muslims Join Together to Impact Politics, End Discrimination
The number of Muslims living in America has increased by two-thirds since the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil 11 years ago. Many emigrated here and they live with discrimination from some Americans who connect all Muslims with the attacks. Half of all young Muslims under age 29 in the United States are registered to vote. But a Gallop 1 survey also shows that number is the lowest among the country’s main religious groups. Nadia Hussain-a delegate from California-- blogs about young American Muslims.
“They don't come from this lineage of voting and civic 2 engagement, and because of some of the barriers that have been happening with anti-Muslim rhetoric 3 that has been happening in our environment nationally they're even further isolated,” Hussain said.
The two Muslims elected to Congress are trying to change that. Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota became the first Muslim elected to Congress in 2006. He spoke 4 to the Democratic Muslim Caucus 5 ---pointing out incidents of discrimination in America.
"All of them simply demonstrate to us the essential importance of engaging and being involved and shaping not only the Democratic Party, but the communities we all come from,” Ellison said.
The Muslim Democratic organizations would like to get the same clout 6 of other special interest groups. Of the 6,000 delegates here at the convention, 100 are Muslim… twice as many as four years ago.
Ohio Delegate Cathina Hourani is a native American who converted to Islam years ago. She says having a large voting bloc 7 could change the way other Americans view Muslims.
“If we band together and vote. Start voting for those representatives that have our best interest at heart, that represent us as Muslims in our community, we would no longer have the hate and the fear,” Hourani said.
Ninety percent of American Muslims voted for Barack Obama in the last election. These delegates hope to mobilize others like them to vote again… for the same man. At the Democratic National Convention.
- They are coming at a gallop towards us.他们正朝着我们飞跑过来。
- The horse slowed to a walk after its long gallop.那匹马跑了一大阵后慢下来缓步而行。
- I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
- The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
- It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
- The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.女王有特权，但无真正的政治影响力。
- He gave the little boy a clout on the head.他在那小男孩的头部打了一下。