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The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. Omar launched her re-election bid on Thursday after a turbulent term where she was criticized for her anti-Semitic remarks, showed reluctance to sanction Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was slapped with multiple campaign finance complaints after her alleged lover received more than $370,000 from her campaign. The couple had two children. Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. [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. He is also a staunch social activist. And more important, if Elmi's intention was to enter into a fraudulent marriage with Omar to gain a green card and settle permanently in the United States, it doesn't explain why he left the US and moved back overseas to London just two years after getting married. She suggested he's Islamophobic. [77], In the August 9 Democratic primary, Omar faced former Minneapolis councilman Don Samuels and three other opponents. "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. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. Ahmed is a Senior Police Officer and a Business Executive in the United States. 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. Politifact , the Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have looked deeply into that question and none were able to reach a definitive answer one . [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". "[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. 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. 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. Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said. 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. June 23, 2019 04:32 PM MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. D ozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire. Why would Omar commit a federal crime and risk a prison sentence (and possibly her own citizenship status) in order to provide her brother with the opportunity to apply for something he would already have been eligible to seek? The following year, in 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said . As per reports, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. 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. [28][34] She has spoken about school bullying she endured during her time in Virginia, stimulated by her distinctive Somali appearance and wearing of the hijab. Talking to reporters before boarding Marine One, Trump said, "There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. The post further notes that Omar married her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, implying that the latter marriage assisted his entry into the United States. [245], In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (n Aden). 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? She released the first names of her six siblings in 2016 and provided a Star Tribune reporter with photographs of her and her siblings' original refugee resettlement documents and identification cards none of which listed Elmi as one of her brothers. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. [53][54] Drazkowski later accused Omar of improperly using campaign funds for personal travel to Estonia and locations in the U.S.[17][55][35] Omar's campaign dismissed the accusations as politically motivated and accused Drazkowski of using public funds to harass a Muslim candidate. 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. [114][115], In a March 2019 Politico interview, Omar criticized Barack Obama's "caging of kids" along the Mexican border. 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. 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. [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. "[126][127][124] Omar has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Elmi's profile in the UK begins in 2013 whenhe started working as a public relations assistant that year, then went on to dabble in fashion writing. At one point, they were. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. [35][33] In response to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune arguing that Omar should be more transparent about her use of campaign funds, she said: "these people are part of systems that have historically been disturbingly motivated to silence, discredit and dehumanize influencers who threaten the establishment. that she hadn't seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn't know anyone who could help her contact him. The statements were quickly criticized as allegedly drawing on antisemitic tropes. 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. "Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life even when it is personally painful. 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. The pair go on to have two children. [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Prominent progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has for years found herself on the receiving end of a slew of incendiary attacks from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans including persistent but baseless rumors that she married her brother. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Omar's remarks "unacceptable". Saudi Arabia, for one", "No, BDS Is Not Anti-Semitic, And Neither Is Ilhan Omar", "Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign", "Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. [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. 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. On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. )[218][219], On April 12, President Trump retweeted a video that edited Omar's remarks to remove context, showing her saying, "Some people did something. "Marriage Discrepancy Clouds Ilhan Omar's Historic Primary Victory." [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. [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. Omar initially denied the split, but one source in the Minneapolis Somali community said the pair broke up months before and claimed Omar was privately lobbying Hirsi to divorce her. USA Today. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. Elmi has campaigned in the past for causes in the country. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. 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. [192] Omar asked the court to be lenient with him. "[108], In October 2019, Omar voted "present" on H.Res. [130] When asked in an interview how she would respond to American Jews who found the remark offensive, Omar replied: "I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans. [64][65][66], Omar received the largest percentage of the vote of any female candidate for U.S. House in state history,[67] as well as the largest percentage of the vote for a non-incumbent candidate for U.S. House (excluding those running against only minor-party candidates) in state history. 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). Thanks for contacting us. "Ilhan Omar, Marriage, and Somali Culture: An FAQ." [132] Omar said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. 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." 23 August 2016. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. [87][88], Speaking after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Omar said the experience was very traumatizing and that the trauma would last a long time. 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. This marriage began in 2009, to Mr. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen. 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. 27 October 2018. "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. . On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. [79] Omar won the primary with 50.3% of the vote to Samuels's 48.2%, a margin of less than 2,500 votes. "[104] The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. In the thread, which has since been deleted from Somali Spot but remains online elsewhere, AbdiJohnson claimed that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, from whom Omar was then separated, was secretly her. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. Furthermore, the site Snopes pointed out some significant logical holes in the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother and that she married him to help him gain citizenship. In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. 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. That's based on telltale iconography, naming patterns, webs of linkages and the breadth of the postelection scrubbing. Omar admits the marriage, more or less her second, to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and says that he is not her brother, but refuses to release any documents or specific information to support her story. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! Reacting to the murder of Floyd, the majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police department. 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. Omar shot down these allegations as "disgusting . Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was not listed in the documents. They were reportedly married in a religious ceremony in 2002. [79] Omar's campaign outspent Samuels's $2.1 million to $800,000; Samuels ran television ads while Omar's campaign did not. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. BBC. In short, he claimed to simply be a . [12][13][14][15], Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982,[16][17] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. In the speech Omar said, "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us [Muslims in the U.S.] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." 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. [111][112] She said in a statement that "accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight" and argued that such a step should include both the Atlantic slave trade and the Native American genocide. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. The headline read, "REP. ILHAN OMAR: 9/11 WAS 'SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING'", and a caption underneath added, "Here's your something 2,977 people dead by terrorism. 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. [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%. Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omars 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said. Some outlets and blogs have pointed to social media posts from accounts supposedly linked to Elmi in which he posted photos of Omar during the period of time she said in her divorce papers that she wasn't in contact with him, where he seemingly referred to her third child as a "niece.". However, she had filed tax returns with Hirsi before doing so. [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. 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. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. Ahmed is blessed with three children: Isra Hirsi, Adnan Hirsi and Ilwad Hirsi. (Screenshot/Power Line) In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn't seen him since 2012. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". [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. Last edited on 14 February 2023, at 07:55, abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota District 5, 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota District 5, 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota District 5, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 2019 Turkish offensive into northeastern Syria, September 2019 Israeli legislative election, National Republican Congressional Committee, "go back" to the "places from which they came", U.S. [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. Why has Elmi not put the matter to rest by coming forward and explaining the nature of his relationship with Omar? Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. [70][71] Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. [240], The 2018 documentary film Time for Ilhan (directed by Norah Shapiro, produced by Jennifer Steinman Sternin and Chris Newberry) chronicles Omar's political campaign. Hirsi is the father of Omar's three children. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". [78] The campaign primarily focused on crime and Omar's effectiveness in office. she told the Star Tribune. These 13 Republicans voted for it", "House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold", "Woman running for Congress in Minnesota rejects anti-Semitism accusations", "The Charismatic Female Stars of the New American Left", "News Brief Ilhan Omar, who once called Israel an 'apartheid regime,' wins congressional primary in Minnesota", "With Election Now Over, Ilhan Omar Voices BDS Support", "Muslim Trailblazer Ilhan Omar Admits She Backs BDS Now That Election Is Over", "Pro-Palestinian lawmaker shakes up Israel status quo with seat on foreign affairs panel", "Rep. Ilhan Omar on Past Anti-Semitic Tweet: 'Those Were the Only Words I Could Think About', "Opinion | Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis", "A Jewish Republican called Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . "[94], Omar supports broader access to student loan forgiveness programs, as well as free tuition for college students whose family income is below $125,000. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. Ilhan then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, allegedly to help him earn a US citizenship. In 2009, Omar she entered into both a "faith" marriage and a legal marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. 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Still, documents have not surfaced showing that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. The controversy continues in the statements Omar made in the divorce documents. At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. 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. 12 August 2016. [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. Elmi is the man who has been accused, without substantiating evidence , of being her brother. ", 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. In divorce papers asking to dissolve their marriage by alternate means in 2017, Omar swore under penalty of perjury that she had no way of contacting Elmi and said his last known location was London in June 2011. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. That same year, the National Legal and Policy Center alleged in a complaint, which was rejected . [60] On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party after two rounds of voting. Netanyahu also said that Omar and Tlaib did not plan on visiting or meeting with any Israeli officials from the government or the opposition, and additionally accused Miftah, the sponsor of Omar's trip, of having members who support terrorism against Israel (in 2016, Israel approved a visit by five U.S. In August 2016 Omar released a statement saying, "I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so." Several months later, Omar filed for divorce from Elmi in May of 2017, and research indicates he now resides in London. [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. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. 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. 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. [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. 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? 17:33 GMT 18 Jul 2019 Jackson, David. [213][214] According to a study by the Social Science Research Council of more than 113,000 tweets about Muslim candidates in the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, Omar "was the prime target. [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. [119][120], On November 5, 2021, Omar was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. Zurowski, Cory. [199][200], On July 14, 2019, Trump tweeted that The Squada group that consists of Omar and three other young congresswomen of color, most of whom were born and raised in the U.S.should "go back" to the "places from which they came". [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. 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. 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. ( CAIR was founded in 1994, but do not legally divorce until 2017 after the 9/11 in... 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