Muslim activist Linda Sarsour asked to step down

Founder of the Women's March calls for co-chairs to step down

The founder of the Women's March is calling for the movement's current co-chairs to step down for allowing bigotry into their mission.

Teresa Shook, a lawyer and educator who founded the Women's March movement, accused the group's current co-chairs – Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez – of associating with bigoted outside groups and tarnishing the Women's March's initial goals in a post on her Facebook page Monday.

The co-chairs "have steered the Movement away from its true course. I have waited, hoping they would right the ship," Shook wrote. "But they have not. In opposition to our Unity Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs."

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