MUSLIM FEMALE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKES HISTORY BY WEARING HIJAB IN CONGRESS
IIhan Omar, the Muslim female house of Representative Member, makes history by putting on hijab on the floor of the House of Representatives as regulations are modified to permit religious head coverings, and she was then sworn in on the Quran.
She was oppoturned to be one of the first female Muslim members of Congress, she took her seat wearing the hijab yesterday.
Ilhan Omar who is a Democrat made history as she become one of the first two Muslim women to come into Congress, and IIhan Omar did so with her head covered.
She came into U.S as a refugee, from Somali and she is 37 years old. She is representing the fifth district of Minnesota, which encompasses all of Minneapolis and some of its suburbs.
Democrats, in accordance with the official procedure, were stop the ban on religious head coverings on the House floor yesterday afternoon, as part of a package of law to govern the House. That package changes the ban on head coverings to keep out "non-religious headdress".
That means IIhan Omar will be permitted to use her hijab when she is on the House floor to give speeches during normal sessions and vote.
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