(Daily Targum) Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder and CEO of MuslimGirl and a Rutgers alumna, is running for Congress to represent New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District. She is challenging incumbent Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) in the primary election on June 2.
“I always have been extremely passionate about politics and especially the way that politics impacts the lives of underrepresented, marginalized voices like mine growing up, especially having that exposure to the way that policies were being shaped where I grew up and how they played out in another part of the world,” Al-Khatahtbeh said. “Just witnessing that with my own eyes and also feeling the ramifications of that, I think always really inspired me to want to make a change and make a difference in our political landscape.”
Being the daughter of a Jordanian immigrant and a Palestinian refugee, Al-Khatahtbeh said she was exposed to inequality and anti-Muslim prejudice growing up in post-9/11 America.
