Kemenangan muslim Amerika di berbagai pemilihan ini diumumkan oleh kelompok advokasi muslim Amerika antara lain American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Jetpac, dan MPower Change.
Di antara 34 pemenang pada 2019, sebanyak 16 adalah muslimah. Namun ini hanya perhitungan sementara.
Read MoreIn Virginia, four Muslim women won their races. Democrat Ghazala Hashmi unseated incumbent Republican Glen Sturtevant in a surprise victory to take a State Senate seat. Also celebrating in Virginia were Lisa Zargarpur, elected to the Prince William County School Board, Buta Biberaj, who became Loudoun County’s new commonwealth’s attorney in a tight race against the incumbent Republican candidate, and 24 year-old Abrar Omeish, who took a place on the Fairfax County School Board making her both the youngest person to hold elected office in the state.
Read MoreHashmi joins other Muslim women who secured historic wins on Tuesday, including 24-year-old Abrar Omeish, who is also from Virginia and shares the accolade with Hashmi as one of the first Muslim women elected in the state, as well as being the youngest woman to hold elected office in Virginia’s history. In Minnesota, Nadia Mohamed became the first Muslim and Somali person elected to the St. Louis Park City Council. Meanwhile in Maine, Safiya Khalid, another Somali Muslim woman, became the youngest person and the first Somali immigrant elected to the Lewiston City Council.
Read More"Nadia Mohamed, Ghazala Hashmi, Abrar Omeish dan Safiya Khalid. Para perempuan Muslim Amerika ini masing-masing membuat sejarah semalam. Mencalonkan diri untuk jabatan terpilih dan menang," katanya, seperti dikutip SINDOnews, Kamis (7/11/2019).
Read MoreA woman elected to the Fairfax County School Board this week is the first Libyan-American ever elected in the country.
Abrar Omeish, 24, also is one of the youngest people ever elected in Virginia and one of the first Muslim women elected in the commonwealth.
“Those are certainly accomplishments,” she said. “The reason they’re relevant is we broke barriers.”
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