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America's first Muslim senator appears at new office, plans Quran oath
Abdulrahman Al-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, appeared with his wife outside his new office in the Senate building in Washington. He said he would take the oath of office on a copy of the Quran in January.
Michigan senator-elect Abdulrahman Al-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, has begun preparing to take his seat. On November 11, he appeared outside the door of his new office in Washington's Hart Senate Office Building, where a sign displayed his name and the title "senator-elect" for Michigan.
In another photo, Al-Sayed appeared alongside his wife, Sarah Jukaku, in the Senate building and captioned it with the brief phrase: "New headquarters." Photos of the new office drew widespread attention and received tens of millions of views within days.
Al-Sayed said he would take the oath of office on a copy of the Quran when he joins Congress in January, explaining that he had not yet decided which copy he would choose. He noted that former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Quran on which Representative Keith Ellison took the oath when he entered Congress in 2007. He also referred to a copy considered the oldest in Michigan, which is held by the University of Michigan. "I don't know which copy I will choose, but I will take the oath on the Quran," he said.
Members of Congress are not required to use any religious book when taking the oath. Al-Sayed was born in Michigan in 1984 to Egyptian immigrant parents and grew up in the Detroit area. He studied at the University of Michigan, then earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford and a medical degree from Columbia University, and served as Detroit's health director.
Al-Sayed, the Democratic candidate, won a Michigan seat in the midterm elections held on November 3, in which Democrats secured a majority in the Senate.
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