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First Muslim Women Elected to US State of Georgia’s House of Representatives, Senate

A Palestinian-American became the first Muslim woman elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.

According to Rahyafte (the missionaries and converts website):Ruwa Romman, 29, was born in Jordan and moved to the United States when she was 7.

“Good morning! My name is Ruwa Romman, and I’ve just been elected to become Georgia’s first Muslim woman in the state house and first Palestinian ever elected to any public office in the state,” she tweeted.

On 24 May 24, 2022, Romman won the Democratic primary against Democrat JT Wu for Georgia House District 97. On November 8, 2022, Romman won the general election for Georgia House District 97 against Republican John Chan, making her the first Muslim woman to be elected into the Georgia State House of Representatives.

In her campaign platform, Romman said she would treat gun violence as a public health issue and promised to push for better background checks, studies on preventing gun violence, and legislation to keep guns away from domestic abusers.

Meanwhile, the daughter of a working-class immigrant family from Bangladesh is the first Muslim woman elected to the US state of Georgia’s Senate, representing a suburban Atlanta district.

Nabilah Islam, 32 won the American midterm polls in Georgia.

“We won with 53% of the vote in a challenging year. Our margin of victory is a testament to our brilliant team & hard working volunteers. We ran a strong campaign & fought hard. My sincerest thank you to the voters who put their trust in me to be their voice in the State Senate,” she tweeted.

Raised in Gwinnett County, Nabilah Islam describes herself as a lifelong fighter, organizer, and community advocate dedicated to advancing dmocratic causes and values.

Nabilah graduated from Gwinnett County Public Schools. Nabilah put herself through college at Georgia State University by working at a luggage store in Peachtree Corners.

In 2020, Nabilah served as a Senior Advisor to the Gwinnett Democratic Party where she helped lead outreach to Vietnamese, Korean, and Latino communities – leading to the strongest Democratic performance in the county in decades and helping to elect President Joe Biden. During the critical Senate runoffs, Nabilah led an organization called Save Our Senate, which knocked on over 34,000 doors, turning out Black and Brown voters across Gwinnett for Senators Ossoff and Warnock. Nabilah was also appointed to become the President of IPAC an organization dedicated to getting out the Muslim American vote, she led a historic effort of reaching out to over 60,000 registered Muslims voters across the state during the critical runoffs.

Following the murder of George Floyd and amidst calls for racial justice across the nation, Nabilah partnered with now-Gwinnett County Commissioner Kirkland Carden to demand the removal of the county’s last remaining Confederate monument, which had been placed just steps away from the site of the lynching of Charles Hale. Thanks to her continued activism, the racist monument was taken down.

 

Source: maktoobmedia.com

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