Tag: Congress
Defenders of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar manage to change Congress resolution intended...
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar has been under intense scrutiny for her outspoken views regarding the United States’ relationship with Israel.
In early February, she suggested on...
‘Separation of religion and state’ used on both sides of the...
Ilhan Omar has become the first person to wear a religious head covering in Congress at her swearing in ceremony. In November,Democrats announced a...
The election of two Muslim congresswomen due to the “Trump Effect”,...
Two Muslim women have been elected to Congress in the United States’ 2018 mid-term elections. Ilhan Omar, 37, is a Somali-American who won in Minnesota’s fifth...
Rashida Tlaib’s victory as the first Muslim woman elected to Congress...
Rashida Tlaib has become the first Muslim woman elected to the US Congress. Her win has highlighted the contested relationship between politics and religion, and especially Islam, in the US, as well as contention in the country regarding the compatibility of Islam with western values and way of life.
