[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. However, it wasnt until 2017 that Omar finally got around to divorcing Elmi. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. Omar officially divorced Elmi in 2017 and legally married Hirsi in 2018. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. 17:33 GMT 18 Jul 2019 [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. ", "Venezuela special envoy, Rep. 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Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. Stop relying on them", "Trump, Pelosi and other US lawmakers express condolences, condemn Sri Lanka bombings", "Democrat Ilhan Omar refuses to back historic US House resolution on 'Armenian genocide', "Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed for abstaining on Armenian Genocide Resolution", "Minnesota Armenians upset U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar didn't support measure recognizing genocide", "Ilhan Omar Refuses to Back Turkey Armenian Genocide Vote, Demands Slave Trade and Slaughter of Native Americans Also Be Acknowledged", "U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar calls Armenian genocide 'an injustice' after not supporting resolution", "Omar alluded to controversial Armenian genocide vote during Sanders rally", "Ilhan Omar Rebukes Barack Obama for 'Caging of Kids' and 'Droning of Countries Around the World', "Rep. 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. [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". [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. The New York Times 30 December 2018. At the time, she'd already had two children with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and had been married and divorced from him in sharia law but their union was never legally recognized. Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 . pic.twitter.com/v3VKm3ysLr, STRANGER THAN FICTION NEWS (@jonrohnson) February 14, 2019. Unlike some states, Minnesota does not recognize common law marriage, and so such a joint filing is not legally permitted. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, List of African-American United States representatives, List of Muslim members of the United States Congress, Women in the United States House of Representatives, "#MyNameIs Ilham, I prefer Ilhan. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. The core evidence, as laid out by Power Line's Scott Johnson and local Minneapolis conservative website Alpha News starting in 2016, is the following: Omar was legally married to a man named Ahmed. "[185], On February 4, 2014, Omar was attacked and wounded by multiple attendees during a DFL caucus for Minnesota's House of Representatives District 60B. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. Only then will we achieve peace", "Ilhan Omar accused of supporting AIPAC after critiquing Assad", "Ilhan Omar: Sanctions are part of a failed foreign policy playbook. Not only did all of Omar's six siblings also gain refugee status in the US, but siblings can sponsor one another for residency status and a green card under US immigration law negating the need for Omar and Elmi to commit fraud by getting married if he really were her brother. "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?" [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. [12][13][14][15], Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982,[16][17] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. This material may not be reproduced without permission. )[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. The other members of "The Squad" are Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. [78] The campaign primarily focused on crime and Omar's effectiveness in office. citizen." [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. [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 sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. "[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. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. Roughly half of the 90,000 tweets mentioning her included hate speech or Islamophobic or anti-immigrant language. 16 August 2016. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. 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. [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. Elmi is reportedly a British citizen who currently lives in the UK. [80], Following Omar's election, the ban on head coverings in the U.S. House was modified, and Omar became the first woman to wear a hijab on the House floor. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? 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. "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". He has shut down a Facebook account he used to use and turned his Instagram account private on Thursday after Trump's comments. What became of Elmi afterwards has remained somewhat of a mystery. [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. Zurowski, Cory. 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. 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. 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. 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. [79] Omar's campaign outspent Samuels's $2.1 million to $800,000; Samuels ran television ads while Omar's campaign did not. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. In 2009, Rep. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who was the son of Nur Said. But as a British citizen Elmi could have studied at any university in the European Union or European Economic Area, and in some of those countries his education would have been tuition-free. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and later said the two obtained a divorce in their Muslim faith tradition albeit not a legal one in 2011. Or maybe, like countless other people, she's had a complicated romantic past that she'd rather not discuss publicly. Ilhan then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, allegedly to help him earn a US citizenship. 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. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed the ban to Israeli law preventing the entry of people who call for a boycott of Israel (as Omar and Tlaib had done with their support for BDS). In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . Thanks for contacting us. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. After Johnson was elected, she served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015. Omar said. 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". 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. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. 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. Omar has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. The couple legally divorced in 2017. Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. [198] Neither candidate won their primary election. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy. 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Ilhan Omar Minnesota District 05", "Omar marries political consultant, months after affair claim", "Omar's marriage to political consultant draws renewed scrutiny of campaign spending", "Ilhan Omar Attack Ad Goes After $1.1M In Campaign Funds Paid To Her Husband's Firm", "U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar severs financial ties with husband's political firm", "Aditya Mani Jha reviews This Is What America Looks Like, by Ilhan Omar with Rebecca Paley", United States representatives by seniority, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilhan_Omar&oldid=1139273566, Higher Education & Career Readiness Policy & Finance, This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 07:55. 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. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. 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. Omar legally married her second husband, Elmi, in 2009. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. [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". 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? [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. [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. As per reports, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. 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." "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Was attending school in North Dakota instead such a priority as to merit committing marriage and immigration fraud and risking a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison? House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel said it was "deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens" and asked Omar to retract her statement. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. [242][243], Following a July 2019 tweet by Trump that The Squada group that consists of Omar and three other congresswomen of color who were born in the United Statesshould "go back" to the "places from which they came",[14] Omar and the other members of the Squad held a press conference that was taped by CNN and posted to social media. [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 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. [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. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. It means "Inspiration" in Arabic. [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. and Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. [98], Omar supports Medicare for All as proposed in the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. The duo was never officially married, at least at the time. [7][8][9], Omar is the first Somali American and the first naturalized citizen of African birth in the United States Congress, and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota. She suggested he's Islamophobic. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. 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. On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Omar's remarks "unacceptable". She then divorced Elmi before marrying Hirsi legally. 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". She legally wed Hirsi just months later right in time before she was sworn into office in 2018. 14 September 2015. The following year, in 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said . Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. Ahmed Hirsi is an ex-husband of the US Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar. Elmi was later granted US citizenship, although he was also chastised by the media. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. 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? [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. [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. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. [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. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Omar and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. [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. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN IMMIGRATION SCHEME TO ACQUIRE A GREEN CARD WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING? [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. Askar, another activist in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in Expanded. 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