Ilhan Omar Addresses Council On American-Islamic Relations

At Public Access America we believe in offering full content as so to allow our listeners to determine for themselves how to feel. Personally I’m of the belief that free speech is imperative to our democracy. Plus a diverse discourse is why America is what it is today. We will never ask you to feel a certain way about representative Omar, but I will admit to admiring her for taking the chance to speak in an environment that is trying to silence her. In this day and age of clipped content, where people make up their minds based on divided partisan and political ideals, I only hope you listen to a full speech and realize that content is edited on both sides to make you feel, when in fact you should hear, If in fact you care, and decide based on the entirety of the facts. CAIR-LA was honored to have Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as the featured speaker for the 4th Annual Valley Banquet. https://ca.cair.com/losangeles/event/4th-annual-valley-banquet/ Born in Somalia, Ilhan and her family fled the country’s civil war when she was 8 years old. They lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for four years before coming to the United States, eventually settling in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in 1997. Ilhan’s interest in politics began at the age of 14 when she was as an interpreter for her grandfather at local DFL caucuses. Watching neighbors come together to advocate for change at the grassroots level made Ilhan fall in love with the democratic process. Through her advocacy work, she’s advanced important issues, including support for working families, access to education, environmental protection, and racial equity. In 2016, Ilhan became the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the United States. She was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, where she’s lived for the past 20 years and where she and her husband Ahmed are raising their three children. In 2018, she won the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison, the first American Muslim elected to Congress, becoming one of the first two American Muslim women elected to Congress. @IlhanMN Source Link: CAIR GLA https://youtu.be/7INpvY0J0RI Congresswoman Ilhan Omar speaks at the CAIR-LA 4th Annual Valley Banquet, Saturday March 23rd at the Hilton Woodland Hills. For the latest, follow our Socials @cairgla FB: https://facebook.com/cairgla TW: https://twitter.com/cairgla IG: https://instagram.com/cairgla YT: https://bit.ly/2MQf9RK We are proud to be curating a stream of positivity, fact, and information on Twitter at @PublicaccessPod (twitter.com/PublicAccessPod) Facebook as well @PublicAccessAmerica (facebook.com/PublicAccessAmerica). Please take a moment to subscribe, rate and review on iTunes ( goo.gl/soc7KG) The Stitcher Smart Radio App (goo.gl/XpKHWB) or any where you find your favorite podcast.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy