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Ismail al-Faruqi – Muslim philosopher and scholar; Jonathan A C Brown – Muslim lecturer and scholar. Amina Wadud - Islamic scholar and activist; Suhaib Webb – Muslim lecturer and activist; Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the New England area [138] [139] [140] Hamza Yusuf – Muslim scholar [141]
In mid-November 2008, President-elect Obama and Clinton discussed the possibility of her serving as U.S. Secretary of State in his administration, [24] along with rumored nominees such as Bill Richardson, John Kerry, Sam Nunn and Chuck Hagel [25] and on November 21, reports indicated that she had accepted the position. [26]
Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager. [5] Ilhan Omar: Democratic: MN-05: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 27 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January ...
Shortly after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Obama privately told him he was interested in finding an important place for Biden in his administration. [21] Biden declined Obama's first request to vet him for the vice-presidential slot, fearing the vice presidency would represent a loss in status and voice from his Senate position ...
The outgoing president has made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again plan to create a database of Muslims is a bad idea. Obama just made it harder for Trump to ...
Obama went on to address Muslim and Jewish Americans, asking why they would support someone who instituted a “so-called Muslim Ban” and sat down for “pleasantries with Holocaust deniers ...
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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 ]