She suggested he's Islamophobic. In 2011, Hirsi reconnected with his first life partner once more. Omar was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016 and to Congress in 2018, one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. Omar married her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in an Islamic faith ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but the couple did not obtain a legal marriage certificate. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". [212] Many foreign politicians condemned Trump's comments. My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I'm clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war. [86] The charges are related to Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and incitement of the attack at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. by his supporters, which occurred during the certification of electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election that affirmed Joe Biden's victory. 3. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, born Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (born 1983 in Somalia) is the Democratic Party representative from Minnesota's 5th district, previously held by Antifa promoter Keith Ellison.Ilhan Omar is a bigot who previously held a seat on the coveted House Foreign Policy Committee.. A phony anti-establishmentarian, Omar voted in 2021 to make Nancy Pelosi House Speaker. [192] In December 2019, George Buck, another Republican running for Congress, also suggested that Omar be hanged for treason. Omar and Hirsi reconciled after that and . [141], On February 27, 2019, Omar said of her critics: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." They were said to discuss the claims that Omar married Elmi, a British citizen, so he could obtain a green card and study and work in the United States. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. Was attending school in North Dakota instead such a priority as to merit committing marriage and immigration fraud and risking a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison? Omar released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016 to address the persistent rumors that she married her brother, which she called "absurd and offensive," and gave a timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 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Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, an ethnic Somali from the Majeerteen clan of Northeastern Somalia,[20] was a colonel in the Somali army under Siad Barre and also worked as a teacher trainer. When Omar and Elmi separated in 2011, the congresswoman claimed she couldnt get in touch with him because hed moved to the UK and she didnt know where he was. "[216], On April 11, 2019, the front page of the New York Post carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month. According to prosecutors, Hasson is a self-described "long time White Nationalist" and former skinhead who wanted to use violence to "establish a white homeland." "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding a sibling 15 years, 20 years later to seek to do what people accuse me of?" [137] The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) also denounced her statements. [133], In February 2019, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened to "take action" against Omar and Rashida Tlaib for their support of the BDS movement. "[106], In 2019, Omar signed a letter led by Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Rand Paul to President Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the futurein particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was married to a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (as referenced here), but there is no evidence of a connection to the name "Esmi". Ilhan Omar: Her Back Pages." [202] On July 17, it was reported that the U.S. "[116][117] She has said, "we don't need nearly 800 military bases outside the United States to keep our country safe. , updated In short, he claimed to simply be a . 2012: Omar and Hirsi have their third child. Omar "was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, contradicting the story she tells to explain her multiple marriages," the Washington Examiner reported Sunday based on an extensive review of local records such as speeding tickets that display addresses. In 2011, they had a "faith" divorce, but remained legally married. Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. Omar and Hirsi were engaged in 2002 but never legally married, having a Muslim ceremony instead, Omar said. [25] She is a member of the informal group known as "The Squad", whose members form a unified front to push for progressive changes such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. The rumors allege that Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who some claim is her brother, as a shortcut for him to navigate immigration laws. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. [171], Omar has been critical of U.S. foreign policy, and has called for reduced funding for "perpetual war and military aggression,"[172] saying, "knowing my tax dollars pay for bombs killing children in Yemen makes my heart break," with "everyone in Washington saying we don't have enough money in the budget for universal health care, we don't have enough money in the budget to guarantee college education for everyone. [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. The claim first appeared in 2016 as an anonymous, since-deleted post on SomaliSpot, an online discussion forum geared toward the Somali community. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Omar said. [97] In June 2019, Omar and Senator Tina Smith introduced the No Shame at School Act, which would end the marking ofand punishment forstudents with school meal debt. In October, the mom-of-three filed for divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi after The Post exclusively revealed allegations she was having an affair with DC political consultant Tim Mynett. The couple had two children. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. BBC. New evidence indicates that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was residing with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, while also being legally married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. "Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive." Omar is poised to make history as the country's first Somali-American state lawmaker with an expected victory in. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was not listed in the documents. "[153] Some Minnesota Jewish and Muslim community leaders later expressed continuing concern about Omar's rhetoric and language and indicated that the issue remained divisive in Omar's district. 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[154], On March 7, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 40723 to condemn "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry" in response to Omar's remarks concerning Israel. The resolution "opposes unconstitutional legislative efforts to limit the use of boycotts to further civil rights at home and abroad", and "urges Congress, States, and civil rights leaders from all communities to endeavor to preserve the freedom of advocacy for all by opposing anti-boycott resolutions and legislation". [195] In September 2019, she asserted Trump was putting her life in danger by retweeting a tweet falsely claiming she had "partied on the anniversary of 9/11". At the time, she'd already had two children with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and had been married and divorced from him in sharia law but their union was never legally recognized. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. She was fined by Minnesota's campaign-finance watchdog for paying a lawyer with campaign funds to fix the mistake, as federal law prohibits people from filing joint returns with a person who is not their spouse. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. [239], In 2018, Omar was featured in the music video for Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" featuring Cardi B. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed the ban to Israeli law preventing the entry of people who call for a boycott of Israel (as Omar and Tlaib had done with their support for BDS). No hard evidence like a birth certificate or other legal documents has surfaced to prove that Elmi is Omar's brother or that any fraud was committed. Ahmed married Omar in 2018 and divorced in 2019. Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said. Elmi's social media account . While Omar soaks up headlines for inciting President Trump, her elusive second husband and rumored sibling has been globe-trotting and sharing his adventures on social media. But the conspiracy is not without holes. Conservative bloggers have claimed that Omar's second husband, a British citizen named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card. By "[151] Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus believed Omar was unfairly targeted because she is a black Muslim, saying that "the Democratic leadership did not draft a resolution condemning Donald Trump or other white male Republicans over their antisemitic remarks. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. ", Omar asserted that she applied for a marriage license with her current spouse, Ahmed Hirsi, when she was 19 years old in 2002, but the couple never completed the application process for a civil marriage. Omar has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. In the course of that divorce, Ms. Omar submitted an "Application for an Order for Service by Alternate Means" to the State of Minnesota on August 2, 2017, and claimed, among other things, that she had had no contact with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi after June 2011. [104] During her House campaign, she said she did not support the BDS movement, describing it as counterproductive to peace. I never liked the M sound. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel said it was "deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens" and asked Omar to retract her statement. We found no public records or credible sources contradicting Omar's account of her past, nor any substantive evidence corroborating claims that Elmi is her brother or that their marriage was otherwise fraudulent. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Minnesota Post. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. According to Omar's proffered version of events, she fled the Somalian civil war with her family in 1991 and lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before immigrating to the U.S. in 1995. "[178][179] Following the murder of Floyd, Omar supported the police abolition movement in Minneapolis that sought to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, saying that the department had "proven themselves beyond reform. Omar said when pushed for answers about their marriage in 2016 that she was 'culturally married' to one of the men while 'legally married' to another. "Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life even when it is personally painful. She then divorced Elmi before marrying Hirsi legally. [21][22] Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri, died when Ilhan was two. "Ilhan Omar, Marriage, and Somali Culture: An FAQ." We've seen repeated reports alleging that Elmi and Omar are brother and sister. [170] In August 2019, Omar wrote on Twitter in support of the Palestinian LGBT rights group Al Qaws after the Palestinian Authority banned Al Qaws's activities in the West Bank. She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. Stay up to date with what you want to know. But lease and eviction records and traffic violations reviewed by The Post suggest Elmi was in the US the whole time living just 2.6 miles away from her at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. She declined to provide copies of the papers, which included refugee resettlement approval forms and identification cards, but they appeared to list her father, siblings and Omar by order of birth, with Omar as the youngest of seven children. [46] Her term began on January 3, 2017. [35][25], Omar attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer. 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[182], In February 2019, Omar questioned whether Elliott Abrams, whom Trump appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela in January 2019, was the correct choice given his past support of right-wing authoritarian regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, his initial doubts about the number of reported deaths in the El Mozote massacre in 1982, and his two 1991 misdemeanor convictions for withholding information from Congress about the IranContra affair, for which he was later pardoned by George H. W. "[104] The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar. "[118], In June 2019, Omar was one of four Democratic representatives to vote against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, a $4.5 billion border funding bill that required Customs and Border Protection to enact health standards for individuals in custody such as standards for "medical emergencies; nutrition, hygiene, and facilities; and personnel training." "[179] Omar hoped to see a new police department that would be modeled after the Camden County Police Department in New Jersey. [132] Omar said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". Freshman Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who burst into the national spotlight last fall as part of a wave of trailblazing lawmakers in Congress, is divorcing her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, PEOPLE. Also, if Ahmed Elmi were truly Omar's brother, why would he have needed to take the drastic step of marrying her in order to secure a path to U.S. citizenship? However, its Omars 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi which has raised eyebrows and now prompted the involvement of the FBI, with records indicating she lived with both men at the same time. In 2009, Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, but they separated in 2011 (without obtaining a legal divorce), and Elmi returned to England. And we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to repression in Saudi Arabiaa country that is consistently ranked among the worst of the worst human rights offenders. 16 August 2016. [123] Then-The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss wrote that Omar's statement tied into a millennia-old "conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator". [161][162][163][159] Omar said that Netanyahu had caved to Trump's demand and that "Trump's Muslim ban is what Israel is implementing". In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. However, she had filed tax returns with Hirsi before doing so. She and Elmi did not obtain a legal divorce until 2017. [85], On January 7, 2021, Omar led a group of 13 House members introducing articles of impeachment against Trump on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. [124][125] After the election her position changed, as her campaign office told Muslim Girl that she supports the BDS movement despite "reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution. She responded to Netanyahu that she had intended to meet members of Israel's legislative Knesset and Israeli security officials. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. ", In response to the rumor, Omar issued a statement in 2016 describing the issue as one based on "a difficult part of my personal history that I did not consider relevant in the context of a political campaign," and she labeled accusations that her former husband was also her brother "absurd and offensive. [131], In September 2019, Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley. In August 2016, shortly after the rumor originally surfaced, then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andy Luger countered news reports by stating in a letter sent to an attorney retained by Omar that his office was not investigating criminal accusations related to these rumors. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. In 2012, as his ex-wife welcomed her third child, he was in Kuala Lumpur. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that,' he said. During her time apart from Hirsi, Omar began a relationship with another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she would go on to legally marry in 2009. [25][99], On July 19, 2022, after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Omar and 17 other members of Congress were arrested in an act of civil disobedience for refusing to clear a street during a protest for reproductive rights outside the Supreme Court Building. "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abusesand the very Administration directing these human rights abusesis not a solution. [168] In May 2019, Omar introduced legislation that would sanction Brunei over a recently introduced law that would make homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. Why has Elmi not put the matter to rest by coming forward and explaining the nature of his relationship with Omar? The Somali-community source personally observed Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all living together in the same family home in Cedar-Riverside with the couples two children. "[220][221][222][223] Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump's retweet, predicting that it would incite violence and hatred. In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. Not only did all of Omar's six siblings also gain refugee status in the US, but siblings can sponsor one another for residency status and a green card under US immigration law negating the need for Omar and Elmi to commit fraud by getting married if he really were her brother. "Kirsten Gillibrand . The trio then decamped to North Dakota where Omar began studying political science at North Dakota State University in August 2009, the source said. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. Why did Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar divorce? [238] Her family was named one of the "five families who are changing the world as we know it" by Vogue in their February 2018 issue featuring photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Imam Makram El-Amin of Masjid An-Nur in Minneapolis said an Islamic marriage must include the officiant and at least two witnesses, preferably one from each side of the family, to be a valid. The core evidence, as laid out by Power Line's Scott Johnson and local Minneapolis conservative website Alpha News starting in 2016, is the following: Omar was legally married to a man named Ahmed. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. 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A Somali community member speaking under the terms of anonymity has confirmed to Alpha News that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed is the same person as Nur Said/Nur Mohamed and is the father of Ilhan Omar and Sahra Noor. They had two children before splitting in 2008. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. "Minnesota House Hopeful Calls Marriage, Fraud Claims 'Lies.'" Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi ." While these allegations haven't been picked. [60] On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party after two rounds of voting. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." 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