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Mona Eltahawy
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I celebrated the election of @IlhanMN to the #Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016 and I celebrated her election last year to the US House of Representatives. I send her love and solidarity. We are many with you, sister google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
To so many of us, @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib’s election to the US Congress was of immense importance. I stand in support of, Congresswoman Omar and I send solidarity to my sister Ilhan who I have had the honour to communicate with in love and sisterhood. We are many with you!
Congresswoman @IlhanMN is the first Somali American, first Muslim refugee, first hijab-wearing Muslim woman and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota elected to the #US Congress. I stand in solidarity with her. She makes many of us proud. #StandWithIlhan
#IStandWithIlhan
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- Women of colour questioning the power and unchallenged entitlement of white men -

THAT is at the heart of just about every headline and “controversy” involving newly elected representatives to the US Congress.
That is why I wrote this soon after they were elected about importance of @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib - women of colour, first Muslim women in US Congress who before they even entered the House, had a proud history of talking back to Trump google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn… #IStandWithIlhan
Remember when Trump said this of Ghazala Khan: "His wife… if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say...She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.” i.e. Muslim women were silenced.
Well, @IlhanMN OWNS her voice When Trump was still just the Republican nominee for president, the American Muslim father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq launched a scathing critique of Trump’s vow to bar Muslims from the U.S. Standing with his wife Ghazala by his side at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Khizr Khan rebuked Trump by offering to lend him a copy of the U.S. Constitution.
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