In a sign of the times in the United States, it is being reported that a record number of Muslims and women were elected to serve in a variety of political offices across the country.
The Guardian detailed some of the many different Muslims that were elected, especially in swing states and even some traditionally red states like Texas.
The outlet wrote:
A new analysis by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), a civil rights and advocacy group, and Jetpac, a non-profit focused on increasing Muslim political representation in the US, found that Muslims won at least 83 seats nationwide, up from an estimated 71 in 2020.
Muslims also won seats in Texas, Illinois, California, Minnesota, Maine, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These newly elected officials come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including Somali, Pakistani, Afghan, Indian and Palestinian, but tend to be young and Democratic.
Growing Muslim political participation is also happening at the voting booth. A 2020 study by EmgageUSA showed significant gains in the number of registered Muslim voters in several states compared with 2016: 39% in Georgia, 35% in Texas and 46% in Wisconsin. Even though Muslims make up just 1.3% of the US population, large communities in swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Minnesota mean they can play a role in determining key races. In Pennsylvania, for instance, Emgage’s Gula said the state’s large population of African American Muslims had helped the Democrat John Fetterman defeat the Republican Mehmet Oz. (Oz, who is of Turkish descent, has described himself as a secular Muslim.)
People thought it was unthinkable that in the south, someone would vote for a woman with the last name Islam. I’m like: they did. Fifty-three per cent of this district did.
I ran because I wanted to make sure that we had representation in the halls of power. It’s so important that we don’t run away from ourselves and we lean into who we are. I think that’s what inspires folks to go out and vote for people, because they trust them.
People see themselves in my candidacy, in my story. And that’s why I think a lot of people were inspired to go out and vote.
Nabilah Islam, 32, who was elected as a state senator for Georgia, said in a statement. She is the first Muslim woman and the first South Asian woman to be elected to the Georgia state senate. She ran as a progressive.
When you’re looking at where a large number of the Muslim community is, it allows for us to ensure that we are able to have a certain level of bargaining power.
They want to be a part of the American social fabric, but they also want to be a part of building the future for America in general.
Mohamed Gula, national organizing director at Emgage, a Muslim civic engagement non-profit, said
In 2021 when the official 117th Congress was sworn in, Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri (D), and who is an ordained United Methodist preacher; swore in the Congress by praying in the name of the Hindu god Brahma, and ended the benediction with amen and “awomen.”
On top of this it is being reported that a record number of women will serve in next year’s latest class of Representatives.
CNN reported that 149 women will serve in the 188th Congress – the most ever in history, growing year-over-year.
Though most of them ran as a Democrat, there are still a lot women listed as a Republican, too.
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans will break a record with 42 women serving in Congress. Murkowski and Republican Sen.-elect Katie Britt of Alabama help bring the number of Republican women in the Senate to nine. And 33 Republican women will serve in the House next year, up from 32 this year.
CNN wrote
I want you to look at us. We are what America is. We are youngish, we are younger, we are Black, Brown, Latino, South Asian. We represent people who every single day are working so hard just to make ends.
Representative-elect Delia Ramirez, Illinois Democrat, and with the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said
There is a reported increase in women running for Governor across the country. NBC reported a week before the midterms that this was the most women seeking the Governor spot ever.
Surely enough this materialized into the U.S. having the most women retaining or being elected to serve as Governor. Yahoo wrote last week:
Nearly 100 years ago, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to serve as governor in the United States after she won a special election in Wyoming. Since then, 45 women have served as governors of 31 states, but only nine have held the office at the same time.
In January 2023, a record 12 women will head to, or stay in, governors’ mansions across the country.
In the midterm elections earlier this month, women were reelected in eight states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, New York and South Dakota. In Arizona, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Oregon, voters elected new female governors. Arkansas and Massachusetts had never had a female governor before; Massachusetts, along with Oregon, also made history by electing its first openly lesbian governor.
I think about what this means for young girls across the country who finally see more leaders who look like them.
Massachusetts Governor-elect Maura Healey told Yahoo News
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Okay then ladies, can you now define what is a woman for us?? -Ah, so you’re a women when you get elected, but then forget how to define it any other day of the week…
SEE: Biden Administration Says That Transgender Women Must Register For The Draft But Not Trans Men
Many passages could be given to describe the sorry and dead state the country is in, but these two shall suffice for now:
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
[8] Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [9] Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. [10] This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. [11] For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. Isaiah 3:12; Jeremiah 13:8-11
These are some of the many signs that your nation is dead from top to bottom in every place you look. And obviously many of these women were not [S]elected because of the policies they claimed to stand for, but solely because they are a woman, especially one that is anything but White-skinned. Moreover, since Jesus Christ and his perfect word have been thoroughly kicked-out a longtime ago, people who serve many other false gods and/or themselves have been elevated to run this country into the ground, by people who indeed have forgotten, rejected, and despised the Lord themselves.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Oy vey is right, Cary.
I will tell ya this much: Muslims getting elected anywhere is death to a nation and it’s another open door for the pope to come in and rule said nation.
Cary, I’m messed up and off the beaten path: my mom back in the 80s married a Muslim man from Syria and he’s my father – he divorced her because he’s a lying, unfaithful, cowardly, philandering Muslim and I have only spoken to him once – and that was to try to sell him knives when I was a CutCo sales rep.
I have Dutch, Mexican, Spanish, and Syrian heritage and my origins are Dutch, so I’m a train wreck, sister. I need the Lord’s help and grace.
Taquiyya …of the Talmudic& Islamic semitic, & Jesuit ‘mental assent’ …..all with these beliefs are liars & of their father the devil, not walking in the light. John 8 and 1 Thessalonians 5, Colossians 2, 2 Corinthians 11….posturing as ministers of light like him. Like what they are doing with the Catholic Orthodox dialectic with Russia….then boogeymen, equally oppressed & used by devilish leaders: Ukraine & China as the foil.
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Yet, it shall avail them nothing but a hot place in the sides of the pit in the lowest Hell & then in the lake of fire where the fire is not quenched forever & ever. YAY them: they ‘win’ the booby prize of their own choice & works. Whooptido…and the Lord shall wipe away every tear of the redeemed, & they will enter into eternity without sin, or any corruptions of flesh or death forever for whosoever will receive it, who repented toward the God with faith in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ while in the land of the living. Into new Jerusalem, the new heavens & earth, & the things the Lord prepares even beyond our ability to even imagine them as Paul wrote.