Muslim American

After video surfaced last month of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, making an anti-Muslim joke about her colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, elected officials and advocacy groups have taken the opportunity to speak out about ongoing xenophobia across the country, including in Massachusetts.

As the results from precincts across District 7 trickled into her Nubian Square campaign office, Tania Fernandes Anderson took to the stage to acknowledge what had long seemed like a forgone conclusion: she handily defeated perennial candidate Roy Owens, the unconventional Roxbury minister whose anti-Muslim rhetoric failed to sway voters.