Asra Nomani (pictured), 51, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who is a Muslim immigrant, has spoken out about why she decided to vote for Donald Trump

A Muslim woman who immigrated to America from India as a child has spoken out about why she decided to vote for Donald Trump - and has received threats and hate in the process.

Asra Nomani, 51, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, made her support for Trump clear in a Washington Post Op-Ed on Thursday.

In the piece, titled 'I'm a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump', she details the reasons she didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.

'I am a single mother who can't afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president's mortgage-loan modification program, "HOPE NOW", didn't help me.

'Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration,' she wrote in the article.

Nomani said she knows Trump can be ineloquent at times but said she has no fears for herself in Donald Trump's America.

'The checks and balances in America and our rich history of social justice and civil rights will never allow the fear-mongering that has been attached to candidate Trump’s rhetoric to come to fruition,' she wrote.

She said what 'poisoned the well' for her support of Clinton was when leaked emails from the Clinton Foundation alluded to a financial connection between the organization and Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Nomani goes on to say several reasons pushed her to vote for Trump.

The first being her experience with Islamic extremism.

'As a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the "Islam" in Islamic State,' she said.

Nomani said she voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 but has not been won over by him during his presidency.

She said what 'poisoned the well' for her support of Clinton was when leaked emails from the Clinton Foundation alluded to a financial connection between the organization and Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

She said she knows Trump isn't Islamaphobic or racist but can be insensitive, but she said his insensitivity reflects people's genuine fears

After that, she was on board to 'make America great again'.

Now, however, she has received threats and been called a traitor for making her allegiance public.

'As you can tell I don't have horns on my head, right, but nonetheless I am now being (characterized) as a traitor, to my own liberals as an idiot, names that I can't even repeat on air,' she told Fox News.

She said her fellow Muslims have told her Allah will 'send her to the gates of hell'.

However, Nomani said she feels confident that many Muslims feel the way she does and has received many responses of people thanking her for going public.

She said she knows Trump isn't Islamaphobic or racist but can be insensitive.