{"id":48395,"date":"2018-11-07T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48395"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:23:14","slug":"first-two-muslim-women-elected-to-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/first-two-muslim-women-elected-to-us-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"First two Muslim women elected to US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48397\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Talib-Umar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Talib-Umar.jpg 612w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Talib-Umar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/>Michigan&#8217;s Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota&#8217;s Ilhan Omar both made history Tuesday by winning their elections and becoming the first Muslim women to be elected to the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tlaib won the congressional seat for Michigan&#8217;s 13th district after former Representative John Conyers abruptly stepped down following sexual harassment allegations, leaving the seat vacant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian-American Muslim ran under the Democratic Party, having previously served six years in the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With no Republican opponent, Tlaib defeated Etta Wilcoxon of the Green Party and Sam Johnson of the Working Class Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Why am I running? Because this is about electing the jury to impeach @POTUS and I will make a heck of juror,&#8221; Tlaib said in a tweet aimed at U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tlaib campaigned on a platform that advocated for a $15 minimum wage, free public college tuition and ending corporate welfare. A proud Palestinian, Tlaib has also been an advocate for Palestinian rights and is an outspoken critic of Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Congratulations to my sister @RashidaTlaib on your victory! I cannot wait to serve with you, inshallah,&#8221; Omar, who also won her election, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seat Omar won, Minnesota&#8217;s 5th district, was formerly held by Rep. Keith Ellison, who was the first Muslim to take a seat in Congress. Ellison did not run for re-election as he sought the state attorney generalship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Omar, another Democrat, is a Somali-American who came to the U.S. over two decades ago as a refugee. She campaigned on a progressive platform and won the endorsement of the Democratic Party&#8217;s fledging progressive wing, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She ran against and defeated Republican candidate Jennifer Zielinski, becoming the first congresswoman to wear a hijab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, a record 90 Muslims were contesting in the polls since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to Jetpac, an organization that helps Muslims run for political office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six Muslims ran for political office at the national level. Aga Khan, Omar Qudrat and Mahmoud Mahmoud all ran for a seat in the House of Representatives but fell short of their goals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/first-two-muslim-women-elected-to-us-congress\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan&#8217;s Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota&#8217;s Ilhan Omar both made history Tuesday by winning their elections and becoming the first Muslim women to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Tlaib won the congressional seat for Michigan&#8217;s 13th district after former Representative John Conyers abruptly stepped down following sexual harassment allegations, leaving the seat vacant. The Palestinian-American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,30,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48399,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395\/revisions\/48399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}