Editor’s Note: Husain Abdullah, a former Vikings and Chiefs safety who retired in 2016 due to concussion concerns, is currently attending grad school at Southern Methodist University, where he’s studying Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. He will be traveling to Rwanda to work with orphans of the 1994 genocide in March, and to Greece in the summer to work with Syrian refugees. An American Muslim, Abdullah spoke with and wrote to SI's Amy Parlapiano about the country’s current state of affairs and how to best move forward. His thoughts are below:
I wasn’t really aware of Trump’s executive order until Saturday.