By MNTV Staff Writer To understand Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, start with the rent check he writes each month. In a political arena dominated by property owners and career politicians, the 36-year-old son of Somali Muslim immigrants remains a renter in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood. It is more than a biographical detail for Fat...
By MNTV Staff Writer Raised in a multigenerational household by Pakistani immigrant parents, Osman Salahuddin — now seeking reelection to the Washington State House — grew up with a close view of the sacrifices families make to build a life in America. His mother spent two decades working as a union-represented special education preschool para...
By MNTV Staff Writer When Tammy Duckworth’s helicopter was torn apart by a rocket-propelled grenade over Iraq in 2004, costing her both legs and the partial use of an arm, the surgeon who kept her alive was a young Army doctor from New Jersey named Adam Hamawy. Twenty years later, Duckworth — now a U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (MNTV) – Of the 51 Muslim Americans that MNTV has identified on the ballot in the Nov. 3 US midterm elections, four are Palestinian American — a small number, but one carrying particular weight at a moment when the genocide in Gaza has become a defining issue for Muslim and Arab voters across the […]
By MNTV Staff Writer When Americans go to the polls on Nov. 3, they will find Muslim candidates at nearly every level of government — from a US Senate seat in Michigan to statehouses, county boards, a judgeship and a rural public service district in South Carolina. MNTV has identified at least 51 Muslim Americans […]
