Democratic Iowa congressional candidate and Lutheran minister Sarah Trone Garriott wrote in an opinion piece, published after criticism of her 2021 reading of a Muslim prayer in the Iowa Senate, that the September 11 attacks made her more aware of “anti-Muslim bigotry” and the “harm” it caused.
Trone Garriott, who is running in Iowa’s Third Congressional District against Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, wore two face masks while reading a prayer written by a Muslim constituent on the floor of the Iowa Senate in 2021.
At the time, Trone Garriott defended the decision by saying, “Every single prayer has been a Christian prayer at the Senate. We really needed to have some diversity because that is our community. The Des Moines metro is very diverse religiously.”
A 2024 study found that both Iowa and the Des Moines area are less than one percent Muslim.
Following the backlash, Trone Garriott published an op-ed titled “Why I shared a Muslim prayer in the Iowa Senate.” In the piece, she wrote that Christian voices had been “overwhelmingly represented” in the chamber and argued that her prayer was intended to reflect religious diversity.
Trone Garriott wrote that after the prayer, she received messages referencing “Sharia law,” Islam as a “violent religion,” and claims that the United States is a “Judeo-Christian country” where Muslim prayers were unwelcome.
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