Muslims who have become mayors in different cities in America.

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In 1991, Charles Bilal was elected mayor of Countess, Texas. He is the first elected Muslim mayor in US history. This event was an important milestone in the political history of the United States. News BBC Bangla. In the past few years, especially in cities like Dearborn and Hamtramack in Michigan, where Muslim and Arab-AmericansThe population is high, with several Muslim mayors elected.
Abdullah Hamood is the current mayor of Dearborn, Michigan. He was elected in 2022 and made history as the city's first Arab-American and first Muslim mayor.
Hamoud was born into a Lebanese Shia Muslim family in Dearborn, Michigan. His father worked as a truck driver, and his mother, who completed high schoolCouldn't, later went on to study again and became a small business owner.
Amer Ghalib is the mayor of Hamtramack, Michigan. Elected in 2021, Ghalib is also the city's first Muslim mayor.
Ghalib was born in Yemen. He came to the United States in 1997 and worked at an auto parts factory while attending Hamtrameck High School.
Sadaf Zafar was the mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey from 2019 to 2020Served as She is the first Muslim woman and the first woman mayor of South Asian descent in the United States.
Zafar was born in Chicago to South Asian Muslim immigrant parents. His mother was born in Pakistan and his father was born in Yemen, but his father's parents were citizens of India. Their family originally hails from the Kutch region of western India.
Mohammad Hamiduddin is the former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey. heElected mayor for the first time in 2010 and again in 2016.
Hamiduddin was born in the Bronx area of ​​New York City to an Indian Muslim family from Hyderabad. He moved to Teaneck, New Jersey with his family in 1981.
Historic elections in New York City
The most recent and sensational event was the November 4 election, in which Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City.has been
Zohran Mamdani, the son of famous filmmaker Meera Nair, was born in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, on October 18, 1991. The politician's father, Mahmud Mamdani, who has just turned 34, is an Indian-born Ugandan educationist.
When Zohran was 5 years old, his parents took him to South Africa. Two years later they moved to New York for permanent residence.
Mamdani is now in New York historyFirst Muslim, first South Asian origin and youngest mayor in over a century.
His victory is seen as a strong symbol of the growing influence of Muslims in US politics.
Total number and future
There are no precise figures on the total number of Muslim mayors in the United States, as religious data is not officially tracked. But the Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR) and JETPAC data, as of 2023, there were 235 Muslim elected officials in the United States, including 12 serving as council mayor, chair or president.
In recent times, the number of Muslim candidates is increasing in every election in the country. These statistics indicate that the presence of Muslim Americans in politics, from the local level to the national level, is becoming strongerUS society is opening up a new horizon of pluralism and inclusive politics.