To me, the hijab means power, liberation, beauty, and resistance. https://t.co/mOF2wSZ1Gu
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 29, 2019
Tell that to the women under arrest in Iran for refusing being forced to wear it.
Via Twitchy:
We’ve joked before about how freshmen congresswomen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez find time to tweet between photo shoots: Ocasio-Cortez just appeared on the cover of TIME, where she tweeted to thank the photographer and makeup artist for getting her skin tone right. She’s also appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone recently, and was on the cover of Vanity Fair last year. And then there was that time she was “slaying lewks” in Interview magazine.
Rep. Ilhan Omar has been getting the star treatment as well and appears on the cover of Vogue Arabia. She tweeted a link to the story and added her own excerpt about her feelings about the hijab: