Glorified and Vilified, Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar Tells Critics: ‘Just Deal’
Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.CreditCreditJenn Ackerman for The New York Times
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Dec. 30, 2018
WASHINGTON — As a 12-year-old refugee from Somalia adjusting to life in the Virginia suburbs, Ilhan Omar fended off bullies who stuck gum on her scarf, knocked her down stairs and jumped her when she changed clothes for gym class.
Her father “sat me down, and he said, ‘Listen, these people who are doing all of these things to you, they’re not doing something to you because they dislike you,’” Ms. Omar recalled in a recent interview. “They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence.”
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