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Asmaa Abdol-Hamid

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movement against the occupation forces and that "they have the right to live in a country where they can make their own decisions". In a reaction to the controversy which her interview started, she maintains her support for the Iraqi resistance, and compares it to the
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Asmaa Abdol-Hamid was the first hijab-clad television host in Denmark and got elected as a deputy in the Danish Parliament, and she is the first woman with a scarf to attend the Danish City Council in Denmark.
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seat for the Red-Green Alliance. She is listed seventh on the party's parliamentary candidate list. Her candidacy caused debate in Denmark over the fact that she intends to serve wearing a
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She served as spokesperson for the eleven Muslim organizations who filed a complaint with the police after the
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should be criminally prosecuted for publishing editorial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet
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Abdol-Hamid is one of seven children. She was born in the United Arab Emirates to parents of
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from Odense University College of Lillebaelt and worked as family coordinator in
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She and her family are practicing Muslims. When she was 14 the family moved to
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Feminist, socialist, devout Muslim: woman who has thrown Denmark into turmoil
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during the mid-1980s, due to the police's harassment. The family was granted
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In 2005 she was elected as deputy member of the Odense city council for the
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People associated with the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
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In 2006, Abdol-Hamid hosted a TV show "Adam og Asmaa" together with
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Emirati-born Danish social worker and politician (born 1981)
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for a few years. In the 1970s, her parents moved to the
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Arabic
Odense
Palestinian
Lebanese
refugee camp
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Dansk Flygtningehjælp
political asylum
Genner
Southern Jutland
Rødekro
Vollsmose
Odense
social worker
Roskilde
Social Democratic Youth of Denmark
Red-Green Alliance
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Muhammad
Adam Holm
hijab
Folketing
Copenhagen
hijab
Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen
Pia Kjærsgaard
Danish People's Party
Headscarf
Integration

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