[123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. [158], In August 2019, Omar and Representative Rashida Tlaib were banned from entering Israel, a reversal from the July 2019 statement by Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer that "any member of Congress" would be allowed in. She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. [95] Omar supports Bernie Sanders's plan to eliminate all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt, funded by an 0.5% tax on stock transactions and a 0.1% tax on bond transactions;[96] she introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives. After President Trump repeated an unsubstantiated rumor that Ilhan Omar's second husband was in fact her brother on Wednesday, there was fresh scrutiny on the Democratic congresswoman's tangled personal life and marital history. 18 August 2016. [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. 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. "[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." If Elmi went to such lengths to commit marriage fraud to stay in the United States, it also doesn't make sense why he did not respond to Omar's multiple attempts to serve him with divorce papers given that she would have presumably been his sponsor for a green card. 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. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. By
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. "Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life even when it is personally painful. Omar and Hirsi had two children, but in 2008, they obtained a. [192] In December 2019, George Buck, another Republican running for Congress, also suggested that Omar be hanged for treason. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported just before the 2018 midterm elections that: During an interview, Omar showed a reporter cellphone photos of documents from her family's U.S. entry in 1995 after fleeing Somalia's civil war. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. [145][146] Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, said Omar was speaking out about "the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests. Omar and Hirsi were engaged in 2002 but never legally married, having a Muslim ceremony instead, Omar said. [224][225], Speaking at an April 30 protest by black women calling for formal censure of Trump,[226] Omar blamed Trump and his allies for inciting Americans against both Jews and Muslims. [123][125] In a 2012 tweet, she wrote, "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. "Poll: 20% Believe Barack Obama Was Born Outside U.S."
[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. Omar said that relationship ended in 2011 and the two divorced in their faith tradition, but Omar didn't take legal action to divorce him until 2017. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Trump to "take down his disrespectful and dangerous video" and asked the U.S. Capitol Police to increase its protection of Omar. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? ", Trump poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, accusing Omar, who came to the US as a young girl, of "abandoning her country" and saying "she should apologize for marrying her brother.". He is also a staunch social activist. Elmi is the man who has been accused, without substantiating evidence , of being her brother. [137] The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) also denounced her statements. [244], On October 19, 2020, Omar joined Ocasio-Cortez, Disguised Toast, Jacksepticeye, and Pokimane in a Twitch stream playing the popular game Among Us, encouraging streamers to vote in the 2020 election. The trio then decamped to North Dakota where Omar began studying political science at North Dakota State University in August 2009, the source said. "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. [56] The Campaign Finance Board's investigation also found that in 2014 and 2015 Omar had jointly filed taxes with a man she was not legally married to. 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. Because the marriage was never recognized by law, neither is the separation, 2009: Omar marries Ahmed Elmi in Minneapolis, 2010: He enrolls atNorth Dakota State University to study fine art and lives with Omar as well as her first husband, 2011: Omar claims she and Elmi split this year and he went back to the UK. [84] In the same month, Omar was one of 17 Congress members to vote against a House resolution condemning 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. [2] According to Omar, in 2011 she and Elmi had a faith-based divorce and she reconciled with Hirsi, with whom she had a third child in 2012. USA Today. Hirsi is the father of Omar's three children. [60] On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party after two rounds of voting. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. Since then, he has been gallivanting around London attending music festivals, staying in posh hotels and frequenting local pubs. Thanks for contacting us. We've seen repeated reports alleging that Elmi and Omar are brother and sister. Why did Omar say in her 2017 divorce filing that she'd had no contact with Elmi since June of 2011 when she was seemingly photographed with him in London in 2015? Ilhan then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, allegedly to help him earn a US citizenship. [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%. Omar and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. [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. . After an extensive background search, I have not been able to . Her brother was a British citizen. [14][15][201] In response, Omar said Trump was "stoking white nationalism" because he was "angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda. On a marriage certificate dated February 12, 2009, it says that Ilhan Abdullaahi Omar married a man by the name of Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Hennepin County, Minnesota, who she herself identified as a British citizen. 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. [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. In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . 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. 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. [227], In November 2021, Republican Representative Lauren Boebert said she had shared an elevator with Omar, and that she and a Capitol Police officer both mistook Omar for a terrorist. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband [and alleged brother] who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation. "[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. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. The couple had two children. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." Also from 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar lived with, raised three kids with, and illegally filed multiple joint tax returns with a second man not Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The two agents said they would share the information with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Department of Education, but did not commit to opening an investigation into the firebrand lawmaker, the source said. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [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. [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. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. Elmi's social media account . Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi, we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Jennifer Smith
Omar's statement. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. Following that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (British Citizen). Sign up for notifications from Insider! [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. Omar has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. Forliti, Amy. The strongest was mediation lawyer Antone Melton-Meaux, who raised $3.2 million in AprilJune 2020, compared to about $500,000 by Omar; much of Melton-Meaux's funding came from pro-Israel groups. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. "[180] In response to criticisms of her comments, Omar wrote that "No one is defending Maduro" and that opposing US intervention is not the equivalent of supporting the existing leadership of a country. [21][22] Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri, died when Ilhan was two. 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? The 38-year-olds complicated personal life has been the subject of enduring scrutiny since she was sent to Congress at the 2018 midterm elections. 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". 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. Right-wing bloggers claimed that Omar is married to two men for immigration fraud purposes, and one of them, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. 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. 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. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). ", 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. 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. He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. [81], Brian Stelter of CNN Business found that from January to July 2019 Omar had around twice as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC, and about six times the coverage of James Clyburn, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. 21 June 2018. This story has been shared 272,911 times. 23 August 2016. 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. After marrying, they immediately moved to North Dakota and both enrolled at North Dakota State University. 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. 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