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Ilhan Omar ni mwanamke wa kwanza wa Kisomali, Muislam anevaa hijab katika ndani ya Senate ya Marekani.
Hongera Ilhan, hongera Afrika, hongera Somalia, hongera Waislam wote duniani.
Watetezi wa Uislam wanaongeseka kwenye watunga Sheria wa Marekani, ni hatua kubwa sana kwa Uislam.
Ma shaa Allah
Update: 04-01-2019
'My choice': Ilhan Omar becomes first to wear hijab in US Congress
Congresswoman overcomes 181-year headwear ban while Rashida Tlaib takes oath on Qur’an that belonged to Thomas Jefferson
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 4 Jan 2019 03.41 GMT
Twenty-three years after leaving a refugee camp in Kenya, Ilhan Omar on Thursday became the first member of the US Congress to wear a hijab.
Rules were changed to allow Omar, a Muslim sworn in on the Qur’an, to wear a religious head covering on the floor of the House. There had been a 181-year ban on headwear of any type in the chamber.
“No one puts a scarf on my head but me,” she tweeted last November. “It’s my choice – one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I’m going to work to lift.”
Ilhan Omar, a Democratic representative from Minnesota, with Nancy Pelosi. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA
Omar, a Democrat, was part of a historically diverse freshman class in the 116th Congress sworn in amid cheers and jubilation. The House now has a record 102 women and a new generation of Muslims, Latinos, Native Americans and African Americans, more closely resembling the US population and set to take on Donald Trump in a new era of divided government. But on the Republican side, the House still consists mostly of white men.
Soma zaidi: 'My choice': Ilhan Omar becomes first to wear hijab in US Congress
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Hongera Ilhan, hongera Afrika, hongera Somalia, hongera Waislam wote duniani.
Watetezi wa Uislam wanaongeseka kwenye watunga Sheria wa Marekani, ni hatua kubwa sana kwa Uislam.
Ma shaa Allah
Update: 04-01-2019
'My choice': Ilhan Omar becomes first to wear hijab in US Congress
Congresswoman overcomes 181-year headwear ban while Rashida Tlaib takes oath on Qur’an that belonged to Thomas Jefferson
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 4 Jan 2019 03.41 GMT
Twenty-three years after leaving a refugee camp in Kenya, Ilhan Omar on Thursday became the first member of the US Congress to wear a hijab.
Rules were changed to allow Omar, a Muslim sworn in on the Qur’an, to wear a religious head covering on the floor of the House. There had been a 181-year ban on headwear of any type in the chamber.
“No one puts a scarf on my head but me,” she tweeted last November. “It’s my choice – one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I’m going to work to lift.”
Ilhan Omar, a Democratic representative from Minnesota, with Nancy Pelosi. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA
Omar, a Democrat, was part of a historically diverse freshman class in the 116th Congress sworn in amid cheers and jubilation. The House now has a record 102 women and a new generation of Muslims, Latinos, Native Americans and African Americans, more closely resembling the US population and set to take on Donald Trump in a new era of divided government. But on the Republican side, the House still consists mostly of white men.
Soma zaidi: 'My choice': Ilhan Omar becomes first to wear hijab in US Congress
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