In the year that Ilhan Omar came into America as a child, was elected to the United States as a child after 4 years living in refugee camps got elected into the House of Representatives in 2018 Her status as the first Somali-American representative received immediate notice.
She was among the two first Muslim women to be elected to Congress and was the first female to wear a hijab. She been instrumental in bringing down a long-standing 181-year-old law that prohibited wearing a headdress in the chamber. This move led a religious conservative to declare about Congress’s House flooring “is now going to look like an Islamic republic”. She responded with tweets: “The floor of Congress is going to look like America.”
Ms. Omar 37, who is a role model for many but is an affront to many. Her short political career has also been a slog
