151 during his presidential campaign donald trump proposed a total ban on the immigration of muslims to the united states a plan that sparked backlash along with claims of racism and xenophobia its one of the reasons why sakeena ahmed a 10yearold muslim girl wrote a letter to trump begging him to be good ahmeds mother aamina ali ahmed told abc news she encouraged her daughter to write to the presidentelect after she questioned about his proposed policies she was just like why does donald trump not want to allow muslims to come to this country why is he being so mean doesnt he know who we are and were not bad people ali ahmed recalled and i said you know what sakeena why dont you write him a letter lets not talk politics why the 2016 election is dividing family and friends peek inside donald trumps childhood home in her handwritten letter the fourth grader told trump imagine if everybody hated your religion you said you want to make america great again can you show me ahmed continued dont we all have the same plan we all just want to live in peaceand not war ahmed ended her note by writing my only wish for you is to be good and i hope this letter does make you good ali ahmed 39 said shes shared the letter on social media but hasnt received a response from trump yet sakeena ahmed 9 of illinois wrote a letter to donald trump begging him to be good aamina ali ahmed right now shes trying to ease the fears of her husband and four children after trump defeated hillary clinton to become the countrys 45th president in fact ali ahmed said that she and her family decided against going to the movies after the election results came in i told my husband we cant live our lives in fear we cant live our lives looking over our backs thats just not living she did however suggest that she and her eldest daughter who also wears a hijab would instead wear hats earlier this month a statement to ban muslims from entering the us temporarily disappeared from trumps website but was restored thursday on the campaign trail trump appeared to alter his stance saying that the ban should apply to countries with connections to terrorism and not muslims specifically