[Washington Post] Michelle Boorstein - Gaithersburg software engineer Saqib Ali was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates this month, part of a concerted march of Muslims into American civic and political life. Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison became the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. In the Washington, D.C. area, eight Muslims ran for office in Maryland this year. Zahid H. Bukhari, director of Georgetown University's Project MAPS, a long-term research project on American Muslims, estimates there are 1.5 to 2 million registered American Muslim voters. "More Muslims are running for office; Islamic centers are becoming more of community centers; everybody is much more involved," Bukhari said.
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