Saba Ahmed (born January 11, 1985) is a
Pakistani-American
Pakistani Americans ( ur, ) are Americans who originate from Pakistan. The term may also refer to people who also hold a dual Pakistani and U.S. citizenship. Educational attainment level and household income are much higher in the Pakistani-Am ...
political activist, lawyer, and engineer. She is the founder
and president of the Republican Muslim Coalition,
former lawyer at the
United States Patent and Trademark Office,
and former engineer at
Intel.
She has urged
Muslim Americans to vote Republican.
She supports
Donald Trump,
but has said she is "deeply hurt by
isignorant views of Islam."
Biography
She was born in
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
, Pakistan, moved to America when she was 12, and then grew up in
Oregon.
She came to public attention as a friend of the family of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, convicted for his attempt to
bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon. Ahmed was interviewed by the press.
She posited that he may have been "framed."
In January 2011, she was in the local news because her family said she was missing, but she was actually safe in
California. At that time her family claimed she was diagnosed with a mental disorder, but Ahmed has denied that.
In 2011, she ran for U.S. Congress as a Democrat.
In 2014, she published an essay in ''
The Guardian'', explaining that she had become a Republican in 2014 because she believes her Islamic pro-life, pro-traditional family, pro-business, pro-trade values are aligned with GOP.
In June 2014, at a panel hosted by
The Heritage Foundation on the Benghazi attacks, activist
Brigitte Gabriel taunted her after asking about their portrayal of all Muslims as bad.
In 2015, she made headlines for wearing an American flag hijab on Fox News. She was discussing Trump's comment that he would consider shutting down certain radical mosques after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris. She invited Trump to go to a mosque.
Election history
References
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Living people
21st-century United States government officials
21st-century American lawyers
Muslims from Oregon
Portland State University alumni
Intel people
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
People from Rawalpindi
Oregon Democrats
United States Department of Commerce officials
Washington, D.C., Republicans
1985 births