The accounts have since been deleted, however. Why did Omar's 2016 campaign literature reference Ahmed Hirsi as her "husband" when she hadn't yet divorced Ahmed Elmi or married Hirsi? [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 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. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider 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." Following that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (British Citizen). 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? [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. 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. Elmi's social media account . [2][4], In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. Omar said she is in the process of legally. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. At an October 2019 rally in Omar's district in Minneapolis, Trump praised the work of conservative blogger Scott Johnson, who authors the Power Line blog. As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, in 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her husband (brother?) 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. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. 2008: She and Hirsi separate. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. 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. Despite being unverified, the post was picked up by Powerline, a blog that "features commentary on the news from a conservative perspective," who reported in a 12 August 2016 post that: A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information suggesting Omar's involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. 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. My father named me Ilham and inspired me to lead a life of service to others. Given that Omar and her siblings all came to live in the U.S. under identical circumstances as refugees, and that Omar herself became a naturalized U.S. citizen while still a minor, how did one of her siblings end up with such a radically different immigration status that she would have needed to marry him in order to facilitate his U.S. residency application? "[109], Omar opposed the October 2019 Turkish offensive into northeastern Syria, writing that "What has happened after Turkey's invasion of northeastern Syria is a disastertens of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have escaped, and Turkish-backed rebels have been credibly accused of atrocities against the Kurds. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. [247][2] In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced,[54] and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. 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. Ahmed is blessed with three children: Isra Hirsi, Adnan Hirsi and Ilwad Hirsi. 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. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, also in a faith-based, not legal, proceeding. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. 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. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! "Ilhan Omar Offers Answers to Questions About Her Marital History." 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. Conservative websites have claimed for years that Omar's second husband was really her brother. He is also a staunch social activist. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. . Ross Ibbetson For Dailymail.com The next year, she. Elmi is the man who has been accused, without substantiating evidence , of being her brother. And why is there no record of Elmi's having applied for or obtained such status if that was the whole point of his supposedly "fraudulent" marriage to his alleged sister? Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. ", 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. [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. Her brother was a British citizen. Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. Coolican, J. Patrick. 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." Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. "[156][157] Many prominent House Democrats stood by Omar. [152] On March 7, the House passed the amended resolution. 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. [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. [136] The Democratic House leadership released a statement accusing Omar of "engaging in deeply offensive anti-Semitic tropes". [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. 18 August 2016. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. 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. [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. [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. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policies qualify immigrants as eligible to apply for permanent residency status (and later become naturalized citizens) if they are the "spouse of a U.S. citizen" or the "brother or sister of a U.S. [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. [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. In 2009, Rep. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who was the son of Nur Said. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". "[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. Omar's statement. [255], Support for boycott efforts and other criticisms, Remarks on AIPAC and American support for Israel, 9/11 comments and World Trade Center cover, Omar and Elmi were married in 2009. [47], During her tenure as state Representative for District 60B, Omar was an Assistant Minority Leader for the DFL caucus. 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. 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 . and That's based on telltale iconography, naming patterns, webs of linkages and the breadth of the postelection scrubbing. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. He then returned to the United Kingdom where he now lives. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. [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. 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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. "[173][174], In May 2020, Omar signed a letter backed by AIPAC calling for the continuation of the UN embargo against Iran,[175] with her office noting that it was a "narrow ask that we couldnt find anything wrong with." 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? 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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. However, it wasnt until 2017 that Omar finally got around to divorcing Elmi. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. The New York Times 30 December 2018. 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. The controversy continues in the statements Omar made in the divorce documents. 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. 4 Unproven rumors claim that Omar married her alleged brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help with immigration issues 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. Hirsi, Ibrahim. [205][206][207] The crowd reacted by chanting, "Send her back, Send her back. The claim first appeared in 2016 as an anonymous, since-deleted post on SomaliSpot, an online discussion forum geared toward the Somali community. "[208][209] Trump later called the crowd "incredible people, incredible patriots" and accused Omar of racism and antisemitism. [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. [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. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. [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. [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. The rating on this fact check was changed from "Unproven" to "Unfounded" a rating that Snopes launched after the initial publication of this page based on the absence of demonstrable evidence to support the claim. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. 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. She unseated the senior member of the Minnesota legislature . 3. 17:33 GMT 18 Jul 2019 [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. [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. 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. Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. 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. "[217] The Post was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) meeting. Their divorce. Stay up to date with what you want to know. 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. [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. 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. 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. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. 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. She then met and married Elmi, a British citizen, in 2009, according to the statement. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. Omar, who was born in Somalia in 1982, came to America as a refugee with her father and siblings in 1995 by way of a Kenyan refugee camp and resettled in Minneapolis, where she became a US citizen. [29][30][31], Omar's family secured asylum in the U.S. and arrived in New York in 1995,[32][33] then lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia,[25] before moving to and settling in Minneapolis,[25] where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office. 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". Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. [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. 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. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. 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. [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. [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". She and Hirsi married legally the following year. 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. [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%. 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. [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. 21 June 2018. [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. 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 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. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. [104] During her House campaign, she said she did not support the BDS movement, describing it as counterproductive to peace. [202] On July 17, it was reported that the U.S. "[147], Reaction among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates was mixed. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. "[143][144] Omar said she was simply criticizing Israel, drawing a distinction between criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and being anti-Semitic. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. Jackson, David. [4][5], In March 2020, Omar married Tim Mynett, a political consultant whose political consulting firm, the E Street Group, received $2.78 million in contracts from Omar's campaign during the 2020 cycle. 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. "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. [12][13][14][15], Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982,[16][17] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. 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. 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