In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. Advertisement - story continues below Also in 2017, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, and they officially wed in 2018. Elmi is still in the US according to college officials and social media, 2016: The marriage is brought up during Omar's campaign for congress, She denies it and it is largely ignored because of the lack of proof around it, July 2019: President Trump thrusts the rumor back into the spotlight. Omar's political skills no matter to whom she is (or was) married are remarkable. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Reacting to the murder of Floyd, the majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police department. [159][160] Less than two hours before the ban, President Trump tweeted that Israel allowing the visit would "show great weakness" when Omar and Tlaib "hate Israel & all Jewish people". The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. 17 August 2016. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. 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". 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. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. citizen." [50][51], In 2018, Republican state representative Steve Drazkowski publicly accused Omar of campaign finance violations,[17] claiming that she used campaign funds to pay a divorce lawyer, and that her acceptance of speaking fees from public colleges violated Minnesota House rules. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, on Feb. 12, 2009, according to a marriage certificate issued in Hennepin County. [204] He made a series of false and misleading claims about Omar, including allegations that she had praised al-Qaeda and "smeared" American soldiers who had fought in the Battle of Mogadishu by bringing up the numerous Somali civilian casualties. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. What became of Elmi afterwards has remained somewhat of a mystery. "[217] The Post was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) meeting. Conservative bloggers have for years claimed that Omar's second husband, British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card. 2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a "British citizen." School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University. "Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life even when it is personally painful. Minnesota Post. After Johnson was elected, she served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015. 2008: She and Hirsi separate. [149][150] According to The Guardian, election records archived by OpenSecrets "suggest a correlation between pro-Israel lobby campaign contributions and Democratic presidential candidates' position on the controversy. [74][75] She defeated Republican Lacy Johnson and Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Michael Moore in the November 3 general election, with 64.3% of the vote to Johnson's 25.8% and Moore's 9.5%. She said she began to fear for her life when the evacuation began and as she was being escorted to a secure area she made a phone call to the father of her children to "make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn't make it out." Her brother was a British citizen. [136] The Democratic House leadership released a statement accusing Omar of "engaging in deeply offensive anti-Semitic tropes". "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?" Elmi's social media account . She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. 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." "Since before she was elected to office, Ilhan has been the subject of conspiracy theories and false accusations about her personal life," a spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, told the Star Tribune in 2019. Omar's statement. ", 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. as well as other partner offers and accept our. [22] According to MinnPost, the day before the caucus, Minneapolis city council member Abdi Warsame had told Johnson to warn Omar not to attend the meeting. [25] Her father and grandfather emphasized the importance of democracy during her upbringing, and at age 14 she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings, serving as his interpreter. In 2012, as his ex-wife welcomed her third child, he was in Kuala Lumpur. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. [25] Omar remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). Persistent claims that leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her own brother to get around US immigration laws may be legitimized by what appears to be a conclusive DNA test. [37][34] Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Omar and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. The unverified rumors that Omar married her brother originated from an anonymous user on a Somali-American internet forum in 2016, and have circulated around the internet ever since. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. "[212], Omar has frequently been the target of online hate speech. I never liked the M sound. [21][22] Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri, died when Ilhan was two. In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. The marriage was criticized a lot, as it was suggested that Elmi and Ilhan were siblings and the sole motive of their marriage was speeding up Elmi's citizenship procedure. [212] Many foreign politicians condemned Trump's comments. The couple had two children together,[2][4] including Isra Hirsi, one of the three principal organizers of the school strike for climate in the US. [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". 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. Subsequent criticism of Omar's comments often included misleading or false claims about not only her background but what she had actually said, leading some to accuse her critics of indulging in "anti-Jewish paranoia". The following year, in 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said . If Elmi was so desperate for U.S. residency/citizenship status that he engaged in a sham "marriage" with his sister in order to seek it, why did he return to England after his split with Omar? Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar exchanged vows in 2009 and they divorced in 2017. 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. [35][25], Omar attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer. They reconciled and had a third child in 2012. 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. Netanyahu also cited Omar and Tlaib listing their destination as Palestine instead of Israel, claiming he thus viewed their visit as an attempt to "hurt Israel and increase its unrest". 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. Omar claimed in 2016, when the rumor that they were related emerged online and denied it as 'absurd and offensive', that he moved to the UK in 2011. "[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. [62] The 5th district is the most Democratic district in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, (it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26) and the DFL has held it without interruption since 1963. We also sent a list of questions to Powerlineblogger Scott Johnson, who responded on 25 March 2019 but offered nothing more substantive in support of the claim than inference and supposition. Elmi is the man who has been accused, without substantiating evidence , of being her brother. [72] This led some analysts to predict a close race,[73] but Omar received 57.4% of the vote to Melton-Meaux's 39.2%. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . [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. They obtained. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. [180] She described Trump's action as a "U.S. backed coup" and said that the U.S. should not "hand pick" foreign leaders[181] and should support "Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue. Ahmed Elmi is Ilhan Omar's second husband who she married in 2009 in Minneapolis She had already been married to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi but only under sharia law - it was never recognized by. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy. [121][122], While she was in the Minnesota legislature, Omar was critical of the Israeli government and opposed a law intended to restrict the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. [107] Omar criticized Trump's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran, saying the sanctions devastated the "country's middle class and increased hostility toward the United States, with tensions between the two countries rising to dangerous levels. [152] On March 7, the House passed the amended resolution. In January 2019, amid the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Omar joined Democrats Ro Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard in denouncing the Trump administration's decision to recognize Juan Guaid, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, as Venezuela's interim president. The three government agencies said they would not confirm the existence of any ongoing or potential investigation. Two agents. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. As reported by Business Insider here , there is no hard evidence that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who she legally married in 2009 based on her statement, ( here) is her brother or that Omar committed fraud. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. "[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. Some have alleged that this marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a sham marriage entered into in order to help Ahmed Nur Said Elmi legally enter the United States in order to attend a university, and that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was, in fact, her brother. 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. [43], In 2016, Omar ran on the DemocraticFarmerLabor (DFL) ticket for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, which includes part of northeast Minneapolis. Omar has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. [187], In February 2019, the FBI arrested United States Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson, who was allegedly plotting to assassinate various journalists and political figures in the United States, including Omar. DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN IMMIGRATION SCHEME TO ACQUIRE A GREEN CARD WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING? 21 June 2018. [205][206][207] The crowd reacted by chanting, "Send her back, Send her back. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. 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. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . 2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a "British citizen." School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University. The rumor that Elmi is her brotherfirst emerged on a Somali forum where critics said both Elmi and Omar had the same father because his name was the same. "Poll: 20% Believe Barack Obama Was Born Outside U.S."
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Ilhan Omar criticizes Obama and past presidents' 'really bad policies', "Ilhan Omar says Donald Trump is "really not" human, "silly" to compare him to Barack Obama", "The four House Democrats who voted against the border funding bill", "These 6 House Democrats voted against the infrastructure bill. [247][2] In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced,[54] and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [45] In November, Omar won the general election, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the United States. 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. [77], In the August 9 Democratic primary, Omar faced former Minneapolis councilman Don Samuels and three other opponents. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election[63] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota,[10] and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress. Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said. A frequent critic of Israel, Omar supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has denounced its settlement policy and military campaigns in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as what she describes as the influence of pro-Israel lobbies in American politics. He even possessed a high school diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior. [76] Omar's margin of victory was 24 points less than Biden's in the district, the highest underperformance of any Democrat in the nation, which Nathaniel Rakich of FiveThirtyEight attributed to increased Republican spending and Moore's progressive pro-marijuana campaign. This story has been shared 272,911 times. [148] While Senator Cory Booker found her comments "disturbing", he recognized that some of the attacks against her had "anti-Islamic sentiment." In his honor I am voting for an inspirational ticket over desperate and maddening one", "Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband", "Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships", "Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar finalizes divorce", "US Rep. Ilhan Omar divorces husband in Minnesota", "Ilhan Omar makes history, becoming first Somali-American elected to U.S. House", "For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend", "Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby", "What the controversy over Ilhan Omar's tweets tells us about AIPAC today", "Trump demonized Somali refugees in Minnesota. In a November 17 speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar a member of the "Jihad Squad" and referred to Omar's "brother-husband. 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. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child in 2012, records show. [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". 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