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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress | Al Jazeera

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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress | Al Jazeera



[dropcap]Palestinian[/dropcap]-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar have become the first Muslim women elected to US Congress. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

Tlaib took Michigan’s 13th congressional district in a race in which she was the sole major party candidate. Omar won Minnesota’s strongly Democratic fifth congressional district, replacing the first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison, who vacted his seat to run in the state’s attorney general race.

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Who are Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar?

Tlaib, 42, was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrant parents.

She made history in 2008 by winning a seat on the Michigan Legislature, becoming the first Muslim woman to do so.