Blue Muslim wave in US organizes for 2020

When she tweeted out an Arabic prayer for the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack, Ilhan Omar found herself being singled out by a major national news outlet. A click-bait headline read, “Ilhan Omar shares Muslim verse….”

The US Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota is frequently over-scrutinized, misrepresented, also vilified, just by virtue of being who she is — the first black, Muslim woman ever to be elected to the US Congress. But to her supporters, she represents something extraordinary; she is not just the most visible symbol of the “blue…