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May 3, 2019 · "Democrat State Rep Ilhan Omar, devoid of her hijab, apparently was arrested in 2013 for trespassing. She was booked at the Hennepin County Jail 'to prevent further criminal conduct.' She was...
Mar 7, 2019 · The 37-year-old mother of three is the first Somali-American, first African-born American, and one of the first two Muslim American women to serve in the US Congress. Ms Omar has drawn adoration...
Aug 16, 2022 · “The fact that Omar still wears the hijab is a reminder that she’s maybe ‘not one of us’ or that she’s different,” said Michael Minta, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota, Twin...
Apr 9, 2023 · Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the highest-ranking progressive in Congress, said in April 2019 that Omar may “need to do a better job speaking to the Jewish community,” but that “it is not ...
- Farnoush Amiri
Feb 20, 2020 · The image, including one posted here (archived here), shows a side-by-side photo of Rep. Omar wearing a hijab next to another image of her supposedly without it and partially balding. The posts began popping up in late January 2020 and have continued to spread.
Aug 26, 2019 · “I always introduce myself,” she told me on the phone a few days after the event, “because I don’t look Muslim, and I don’t wear the hijab.”
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party . [6]
