First Somali-American Congresswoman says she received "Islamophobic threats" in taxi

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A US politician says she was the victim of an Islamophobic attack by a taxi driver in Washington, DC.

Ilhan Omar recently became the first Somali-American to be elected to Congress,

as a representative of Minnesota.

Our US correspondent Laura Cantekin has the details.

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