The young actress is Hina Khan, a Los Angeles-based Muslim actress of Pakistani heritage. Trump has made only vague statements to the media about the possibility of creating a database of Muslims in the United States. Those statements also don’t draw a distinction between a database of all Muslims in the country and one tabulating only Muslim immigrants. Asked whether Muslims would be required to sign into the database, he said, “They have to be — they have to be.”Shortly afterward, Trump disputed reports that he had endorsed the idea of creating a database for Muslims. Casting an actress who is Muslim is a must to give the PSA some “sense of authenticity,” Nackashi said.

Source: Washington Post January 15, 2017 18:28 UTC