[83], In July 2019, Omar introduced a resolution co-sponsored by Rashida Tlaib and Georgia Representative John Lewis stating that "all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution". The three government agencies said they would not confirm the existence of any ongoing or potential investigation. 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? [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. At about the same time, the Examiner published a story reporting that in dozens of publicly available traffic violation and court records, Hirsi "listed his address at a single Cedar Riverside address consistently in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011," the same address Omar listed in separate traffic-violation cases, including during the time she was split from Hirsi. Following that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (British Citizen). In response, Buck was removed from the National Republican Congressional Committee's Young Guns program. Omar said she is in the process of legally. [164][165] AIPAC released a statement saying that it disagreed with Israel's move and that Omar and Tlaib should have been allowed to "experience Israel firsthand", while the head of the American Jewish Committee put out a statement agreeing with AIPAC on the matter. "[217] The Post was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) meeting. [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. 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. [155] On February 2, 2023, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a resolution, on a party-line vote, to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for what Speaker Kevin McCarthy called "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks. The social media hashtag #IStandWithIlhanOmar was soon trending in the United States and other countries. He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. [27][28] Her grandfather Abukar was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport, and some of Omar's uncles and aunts also worked as civil servants and educators. [193], In April 2019, Omar said that she had received more death threats after Trump made comments about her and 9/11, "many directly referencing or replying to the president's video". [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! [42], As of September 2015, Omar was the Director of Policy Initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network, advocating for women from East Africa to take on civic and political leadership roles. [239], In 2018, Omar was featured in the music video for Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" featuring Cardi B. [212] Many foreign politicians condemned Trump's comments. "[147], Reaction among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates was mixed. 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. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. [10][11] She has been the target of several death threats, as well as derogatory comments by political opponents, including Donald Trump, as a result of her background. Omar has stated that the couple. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. 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. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was not listed in the documents. "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?" 21 June 2018. In 2009, Rep. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who was the son of Nur Said. 17 August 2016. [138] Omar issued an apology the next day, saying, "I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes", and adding, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. 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. Still, documents have not surfaced showing that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. Exacts Revenge", "Jayapal Joins Pocan As Co-Chair of Congressional Progressive Caucus", "Sanders proposes canceling entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, escalating Democratic policy battle", "Rep. Omar, alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, releases student-debt cancellation bill", "Ilhan Omar introduces bill to end school lunch debt shaming", "Democratic members of Congress arrested during pro-choice protest", "Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar among Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest", "Saudi Arabia Declares War on America's Muslim Congresswomen", "Who's afraid of Ilhan Omar? Thanks for contacting us. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. What may still be of slightly more interest, is her marriage to her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. 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. Omar has repeatedly denied that her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother; the congresswoman called the allegations "absurd and ridiculous." She says Elmi is a British citizen and. 4 Unproven rumors claim that Omar married her alleged brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help with immigration issues ", He added: "Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate.". The FBI is looking into reports that Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother in order to ease his immigration to the U.S., the New York Post reported on Sunday. [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. . No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. 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." "Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive," Omar said in a statement in 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. Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. Also in 2017, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, and they officially wed in 2018. 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 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. The controversy continues in the statements Omar made in the divorce documents. that she hadn't seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn't know anyone who could help her contact him. [148] While Senator Cory Booker found her comments "disturbing", he recognized that some of the attacks against her had "anti-Islamic sentiment." According to internet sleuths, Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all lived together in Fargo, where both she and Elmi studied atNorth Dakota State University. That's why I say, 'Hey if you don't like it, let 'em leave, let 'em leave'", and "I think in some cases they hate our country". [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. If Omar did marry her brother, she could be found guilty of committing marriage fraud a felony offense punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $250,000. Omar later clarified that she was referring to the well-documented influence pro-Israeli lobbyists, especially AIPAC, exert in Washington. (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. The Examiner further discovered a 2013 local news article which said that Omar and Hirsi "moved to North Dakota so that Omar could finish her bachelor's degree in political science" from 2009 to 2011, the exact time frame during which she was legally married to Elmi, who also attended North Dakota State. "[179] Omar hoped to see a new police department that would be modeled after the Camden County Police Department in New Jersey. 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. 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. 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. ", 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.". "[104] The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar. [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. [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". She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. 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. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Stay up to date with what you want to know. 2012: Omar and Hirsi have their third child. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. Omar serves as whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has advocated for a $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare, student loan debt forgiveness, the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). [105] In a Washington Post op-ed, Omar wrote, "Our criticisms of oppression and regional instability caused by Iran are not legitimate if we do not hold Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to the same standards. [6] Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. This story has been shared 272,911 times. [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. "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?" She then divorced Elmi before marrying Hirsi legally. [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. [23][24][25][26] She was raised by her father and grandfather, who were moderate Sunni Muslims opposed to the rigid Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. she told the Star Tribune. [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". In 2011, Elmi moved to London (he is a British citizen of Somali descent), Omar and Hirsi got back together and had their third child a year later. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. [192] In December 2019, George Buck, another Republican running for Congress, also suggested that Omar be hanged for treason. Numerous public documents obtained and reported by news outlets including the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Examiner, however, cast doubt on Omar's official timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 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. citizen." [252][253] On November 17, 2020, Omar's campaign terminated its contract with Mynett's firm, saying the termination was to "make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support. He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. 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. [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. No evidence like a birth certificate or other legal document has surfaced to prove the theory. [116][117] Omar accused Politico of distorting her comments and said that she had been "saying how [President] Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics," adding, "One is human, the other is really not. Allegations that Elmi is Omars brother first emerged in a since-deleted post to the Somali Spot message board by a user named AbdiJohnson in 2016. 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. He then gave the reporter a different birthdate for himself than the April 4, 1985, birthdate given for Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Omar's divorce petition. "[208][209] Trump later called the crowd "incredible people, incredible patriots" and accused Omar of racism and antisemitism. Power Line also included this graphic on the Omar Elmi family. [166] U.S. Representative Max Rose (who is Jewish) also criticized the move to ban Omar, adding that Omar and Tlaib did not speak for the Democratic Party. After marrying, they immediately moved to North Dakota and both enrolled at North Dakota State University. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. 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. On another application dated September 30, 2002, Omar applied for a marriage license in Minnesota to marry the father of her . In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. After an extensive background search, I have not been able to . The duo was never officially married, at least at the time. Omar shot down these allegations as "disgusting . But experts have said that if the taxpayer files a correction within three years, as Omar's attorney and accountants did in 2016, then there are normally no further consequences, and the Internal Revenue Service is unlikely to pursue punitive measures unless there is a large discrepancy or fraudulent intent. The couple had two children. 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. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". Omar legally married her second husband, Elmi, in 2009. Yet when Mr. Nur Omar Mohamed passed away in June from COVID-19 complications, an outpouring of support from the Somali community wrote his name as "Nur Said Elmi." That is significant because the man Omar was married to from 2009 until 2017 was named "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi." 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. I never liked the M sound. "[57][58][59], On June 5, 2018, Omar filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection. Her office said that she has opposed human rights abuse "for a long time" and that signing onto it should be not be seen as a sign she supports the Trump administration's policy on Iran. ", 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. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. 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. Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 . [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. Instead, Omar maintained, she and Hirsi were married in their Muslim "faith tradition.". Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. Both Democratic and Republican legislators criticized the ban and requested that Israel rescind it. [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. "Scott reports that his sources told him, that Omar's legal husband was Omar's brother, and that she married him for fraudulent purposes, you mean like, coming into the United States maybe?". [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. In 2016, when it looked like Ilhan Omar stood a good chance of becoming the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives, rumors swirled that she had married her brother in an illegal effort to facilitate his obtaining U.S. citizenship status. [197] In November 2019, Danielle Stella, Omar's Republican opponent for Congress, was banned from Twitter for suggesting that Omar be hanged for treason if found guilty of passing information to Iran. The couple legally divorced in 2017. In response, Omar reaffirmed her remarks, insisting that she "should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee. The next year, she. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. 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. 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. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. "Ilhan Omar, Marriage, and Somali Culture: An FAQ." [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. [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. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. 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