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Muslim Americans have steadily risen in local and municipal leadership across the U.S., with documented historic milestones including Sadaf Jaffer as the first female Muslim mayor in the U.S. (Montgom...
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Muslim Americans have steadily risen in local and municipal leadership across the U.S., with documented historic milestones including Sadaf Jaffer as the first female Muslim mayor in the U.S. (Montgom...
Muslim American representation in U.S. government has risen measurably in the last two decades: the first Muslim member of Congress was elected in 2006 and by 2025 there are five Muslims who have serv...
population by most recent estimates, and the community’s presence in elected office has grown from almost nothing a few decades ago to dozens and, by some counts, scores of officeholders — a visible i...
Available sources do not provide a firm, single count of how many Muslims held public office in the United States in 1990; contemporary databases and modern directories focus on recent decades and not...
A direct, state-by-state tally of Muslim state legislators in 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2025 cannot be produced from the CAIR materials supplied because CAIR’s publicly available press releases and direct...
Muslim representation in the U.S. House rose from three members after the 2022 cycle (André Carson, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib) to four for the 119th Congress when Lateefah Simon won in 2024, accord...