Huda Otoum

Huda Otoum, or Huda Etoom, (Arabic:هدى العتوم born in 1963) is a Jordanian politician, and member of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, and its political arm the Islamic Action Front party.

Life

Huda Otoum is a Jordanian politician and member of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood.

She won the women quota in the Jerash district in the 2016 Jordanian general elections, becoming member of the House of Representatives and Parliament.[1]

She ran in the 2020 parliamentary elections under the National Alliance for Reform party, but she did not win.

During a vote of confidence session on 17 July 2018 for Omar Razzaz's newly appointed cabinet, she stated in a speech replying to Razzaz's policy statement that her late mother's wish was to "wear a suicide vest and blow herself up among the Zionists". She also demanded greater attention from the government to Islamic values and called on the government to ban pornographic websites.[2]

Qualifications

Practical Experiences
  • Secondary teacher 1991 till 2003.
  • High school principal from 2003 till 2015.
  • Has the Muslim seat in the Parliament.

References
  1. "Elections bring back Islamists, allies under the Dome". The Jordan Times. Sahafi. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. "العتوم: والدتي كانت أمنيتها تفجير نفسها بالصهاينة". Ro'ya news. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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