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🧵In the weeks after 9/11, Bangladeshi immigrant Rais Bhuiyan was shot in the face by white supremacist Mark Stroman.

Before Stroman was executed for his crimes, Bhuiyan forgave him, and even unsuccessfully sued Texas in an attempt to stop the execution.
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Despite forgiving Stroman, Bhuiyan has not forgotten.

"Seeing the level of hate and intolerance and discrimination in this country is a constant reminder that what Mark did to me did not end there," Bhuiyan told Axios.
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He says he’s seen improvement over the last 20 years but believes there were setbacks in 2016 when then-candidate Donald Trump promised a ban on Muslim immigration.

"He added more fuel to fear and to violence, and afterward things got worse."
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Bhuiyan has worked with Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who is sponsoring a resolution to honor victims of post-9/11 hate crimes. A similar resolution failed in 2015, but Bhuiyan hopes this year — the 20th anniversary — will be different.
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