“This is my home; this is the only home I’ve ever known. I was not going to let the new wave of far-right extremism make it feel like me or other folks don’t belong in a country that is ours as well.”
was elected to office. “As a visibly Muslim, Indian American young woman, it was heartbreaking to see someone with such divisive rhetoric, such hateful language, get elected to public office,” she tellsIt lit a fire in her belly. Today, the 23-year-old is a state representative-elect to the 51st House District in Illinois. In theSyed managed to flip a Republican seat and make history; in January, when she assumes office, she will be the youngest elected member of Illinois’s General Assembly.
Somali American Zaynab Mohamed, 25, made history with her election in Minnesota: She is one of three Black women, the youngest woman, and the first Muslim woman ever elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. In Maine, Mana Abdi, 26, became the first Somali American state legislator. During the campaign, it emerged that her Republican opponent had once posted on Facebook that MuslimsHe ultimately dropped out of the race, leaving Abdi to run unchallenged.
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