Muslim women's group inundated with hate mail after endorsing Hillary Clinton

• Drudge Report link titled ‘Hijab for Hillary’ inspires threatening bigots
• American Muslim Women Pac was founded after recent party conventions

Mazin Sidahmed
Wednesday 19 October 2016 17.32 BST

A post on the aggregator site Drudge Report sparked a cascade of hate mail and phone calls to the American Muslim Women political action committee (Pac) on Tuesday.

Mirriam Seddiq, a criminal defense attorney and the founder of the group, woke up to an email with a link to a site that sold ammunition covered in pork.

“It’s bullets made to kill Muslims,” said Seddiq.

After showing the email to her Pac colleagues, she realized that Drudge Report had highlighted their seven-week-old Pac at the top of its site. A link that read “Hijab for Hillary” referred to a press release of the group endorsing Hillary Clinton last week.

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While the link meant their site received a wave in traffic, the press release also contained Seddiq and her colleagues’ names and phone numbers.

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