{"id":224568,"date":"2019-05-16T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T10:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=224568"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T10:28:46","slug":"rashida-tlaib-becomes-first-muslim-woman-in-usa-to-preside-over-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/rashida-tlaib-becomes-first-muslim-woman-in-usa-to-preside-over-house-of-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashida Tlaib Becomes First Muslim Woman in USA To Preside Over House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib is making history again. This time as the first Muslim woman to preside over the floor of the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Not bad for a girl from Detroit that didn&#8217;t speak English when I started school &amp; first in my family to graduate high school &amp; college.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The congresswoman pointed out how her cultural identity and gender made this achievement even sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>Women in general and Muslim women, in particular, are making waves in the United States government after the US mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Presided over the U.S. House of Representatives today. Not bad for a girl from Detroit that didn&#39;t speak English when I started school &amp; first in my family to graduate high school &amp; college. This was a proud moment &amp; it sank in just a little more that I am serving in Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klafYdhcbO\">pic.twitter.com\/klafYdhcbO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1128794445879619586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously\u00a0 Rashida Tlaib made history for being the first Palestinian American woman to join Congress. Both she and Ilhan Omar, are the first Muslim women elected to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This congresswoman mentioned how this made her proud (why wouldn&#8217;t she be!).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This was a proud moment &amp; it sank in just a little more that I am serving in Congress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/minister-of-climate-change-thinks-good-weather-is-due-to-a-naik-government-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minister of Climate Change Thinks Good Weather is Due to a &#8220;Naik Government&#8221; [Video]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Female Milestones<\/h3>\n<p>Rashida Tlaib&#8217;s milestone on Wednesday happened merely days after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presided over the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez, the Latin-American Democrat, became the youngest woman ever to do so. Previously Crisanta Duran became the first Latin woman to do so.<\/p>\n<p>While women in politics is nothing new, women like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Sharice Davids, and Deb Haaland are establishing that women of color are stepping up for representation.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Sharice Davids, and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women elected to Congress. Native Americans are a very small minority in the US but are subject to the most unlawful persecution.<\/p>\n<p>All this ties into America&#8217;s multicultural identity despite the fact it has an alt-right wing president.<\/p>\n<p>It also signifies that the future is female!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/hina-pervaiz-butt-fan-moment-with-karan-johar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Pakistani Politician Had a Fan Girl Moment with Karan Johar<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib is making history again. This time as the first Muslim woman to preside over the floor of the US House of Representatives. &#8220;Not bad for a girl from Detroit that didn&#8217;t speak English when I started school &amp; first in my family to graduate high school &amp; college.&#8221; The congresswoman pointed out how her cultural [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/rashida-tlaib-becomes-first-muslim-woman-in-usa-to-preside-over-house-of-representatives\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":224583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,1612,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-fashion","9":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"Making history again!!","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rashida-Tlaib-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rashida-Tlaib-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rashida-Tlaib.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Fashion &amp; Beauty","Social Media"],"title_text":"Rashida Tlaib Becomes First Muslim Woman in USA To Preside Over House of Representatives","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,1612,1291&exclude=224568","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224568"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=224568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}