Bashir Ahmad is a graduate of an American university and served in the United States military. He is also a practicing Muslim who has lived part of the last six years in Pakistan helping to build the mixed martial arts scene in the country.
Ahmad has been back home in Virginia, just miles from Washington, D.C., since July preparing for the birth of his first child. The words of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have been very much on his radar.
Trump said in early December, in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, that he would be in favor of not allowing any Muslims into the United States until there was a viable vetting process to determine who was and who was not a terrorist.