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What's the deal with her district?Cant believe any americans would vote for omar. Sad.
It seems to be mostly white, and the minorities are, I believe, mostly Christian blacks and hispanics, yet they only elect black muslims?
Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar. Her opponent on the Democratic primaries was Mohamud Noor (not the murderer) and he won her state seat after she went to Congress.
It gets funnier, her predecessor was an old Jewish woman who tried to pander to Somalis by legalizing cousin marriage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Kahn
In 2003 she introduced a bill to repeal the ban on first-cousin marriage in Minnesota, but it died in committee. Republican Minority Leader Marty Seifert criticized the bill in response, saying it would "turn us into a cold Arkansas."[4]
She reportedly got the idea after learning that cousin marriage is an acceptable form of marriage among some cultural groups that have a strong presence in Minnesota, namely the Hmong and Somali.[5]