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She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election [64] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. representative from Minnesota, [13] and (alongside former Michigan state representative ...
Retired to run successfully for Minnesota Attorney General. [1] André Carson: Democratic: IN-07: March 11, 2008: Incumbent 16 years, 342 days Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager. [5] Ilhan Omar: Democratic: MN-05: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 44 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim.
Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5]
The U.S. Capitol Police and the House Sergeant at Arms briefed Omar and other progressive lawmakers critical of Israel — including the only other Muslim woman in Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D ...
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
First Muslim woman to serve as a United States federal judge. [24] Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author [25] Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference [26] Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [27]
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group, organized three separate protests at various locations Biden visited Wednesday ...
Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo ...