Posted on 10/18/2019 5:19:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The first member of the House of Representatives of Palestinian origin, Rashida Tlaib managed to change the momentum on the Palestinian question. She is fighting tooth and nail, with three other Democratic women representatives, to get Donald Trump removed from office. Michigan, bordering Canada, is best known for its once flourishing automotive industry. But the 2008 election of a Muslim woman of Palestinian origin to the Michigan House of Representatives revealed another aspect:
Michigan’s strong Arab-American community.
“Miss First” elected with 84% of the vote
The eldest daughter of a Palestinian couple of modest background, Rashida Tlaib is the only one of fourteen siblings to have pursued higher education: political science at Wayne State University and then law at Western Michigan University. Far from the Ivy League – the eight private universities of the Northeast, the most prestigious in the country – and its intelligentsia. Her rise is relentless, nevertheless.
After three successive terms in the Michigan legislature, Rashida Tlaib targets the federal level. In 2018, “Miss First” – as her relatives call her – was nominated by the Democrats for the 13th District of Michigan. Elected with 84% of the vote, she has been a member of the House of Representatives since January. She is the only woman of Palestinian origin and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
The lawyer immediately made it her duty to deny the image of the submissive Arab woman to whom some seemed ready to assign her.
Even before she arrived in Washington, she wondered how Donald Trump, “son of a b…,” had been able to escape impeachment. Salty language much criticized by her opponents.
(Excerpt) Read more at theafricareport.com ...
Less than 20 years after 9/11 we have a representative of Hamas from MI and a representative of Al-Shabab from MN.
And the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House from 2009 to 2017.
Amen.
In violation of the Constitution.
When the likes of creepy joe and warpath warren get beaten like a drum in 2020 the hard left progs are going to use that as "proof" that centrist dems can not win and the party must become communist supporting leftists fully into socialism.
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Anyone notice the almost absence of AoC and Omar stories, lately?
I assume, since both are being investigated, they have crawled back in their hole a bit.
Or, did stucco faced Nancy just tell them to shut up?
She is helpless, needless, and useless.
She will just push more voters toward Trump.
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