/blogentry/125411 eddessaknight's Blog: Headscarf Muslim Woman to run for U.S. Senate in Arizona as Demo en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator /blogentry/125411#c175092 /blogentry/125411#c175092 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 01:31:46 GMT eddessaknight <br />MORE TO COME

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There weren t a ton of people commenting on U.S. Senate hopeful Deedra Abboud s campaign Facebook page before Tuesday. Then Abboud, a little-known candidate in Arizona s 2018 Democratic primary, posted a short tribute to the Founding Fathers, religious freedom and the separation of church and state and the floodgates opened. Sorry no room for Muslims in our government, wrote Chris Siemers. Towel headed piece of s , wrote Brian Zappa. Abboud, a liberal 45-year-old lawyer and first-time political candidate, might be a long shot in red-state Arizona. But the fact that Abboud, who converted to Islam in her 20s, also wears a visual marker of her faith a headscarf might also have just landed

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