became the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. I can see why it's tempting to say that we now live in a post-Islamophobic society, but we don’t. Muslims, and Muslim women especially, are still under attack. Muslim women are forced to choose between their safety and their faith when there is no reason that the two should be mutually exclusive. How can we claim to live in a country that practices freedom of religionif the hijab still makes our women targets With the promise of Muslim Women’s Day, I’m hopeful about a future when that isn’t the case.The public fixation on Omar andthe conspiracy theories offered by prosecutors to resolve her case after months of suspense and worry. According to her mother, Bresha likes to write and read urban fiction. She loves to sing and write poetry, and her favorite rappers are DeJ Loaf and Common. These are ordinary teenage pursuits, and yet nothing about Bresha’s situation is ordinary — especially in a Warren, Ohio, courtroom, seeing her small frame in a blue prison uniform as she sat before a judge.Twitter contentView on Twitter