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Ilhan Omar, US House Representative

"No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It's my choice — one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I'm going to work to lift," Omar Tweeted after becoming the first federal legislator to wear a religious headscarf, which she works into her outfits with style, sense, and sophistication. "There are two women in Congress right now — one of them wears a hijab and the other doesn't — and for me it was a choice that I made to have a visible visual representation of my faith . . . I thought you know the best thing that I could do was to make sure that I was visually showing up in every aspect of society as a visible Muslim so that people can start to associate positive interactions with Muslims," she said in a 2019 interview with Yahoo.

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