[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. [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". [41], In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. [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. ", "House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia", "These Muslim and Jewish community leaders are united in frustration at Ilhan Omar's comments", "House Votes To Condemn Anti-Semitism After Rep. Omar's Comment", "Rep. 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[142] House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Nita Lowey also called for an apology and criticized the statements in a March 3 tweet, which led to an online exchange between the two. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. 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. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! [228] Omar said that she had not shared an elevator with Boebert, that the story was made up, and that Boebert's comments were "anti-Muslim bigotry". [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 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." Also in 2017, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, and they officially wed in 2018. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. 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. "[35], In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that Omar had to pay back $3,500 that she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law, plus a $500 fine. [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. Elmi was later granted US citizenship, although he was also chastised by the media. 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. [196], Two Republican candidates for congressional office have called for Omar's execution. 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. The issue has raised questions about her relationships and allegations from conservative websites that her marriage to Elmi was a sham, intended for immigration purposes. The pair go on to have two children. "[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. Omar's political skills no matter to whom she is (or was) married are remarkable. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. While Omar soaks up headlines for inciting President Trump, her elusive second husband and rumored sibling has been globe-trotting and sharing his adventures on social media. "[123][129] The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world", was criticized as drawing on antisemitic tropes. [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. [167], In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. [139] Peter Beinart, after tweeting that the controversy was about "policing the American debate over Israel",[140] thought Omar's statement inaccurate, wrong and irresponsible, but argued that her congressional critics were more "bigoted" on Israeli-Palestinian issues than Omar. 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. "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?" [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. has developed the following information: Rep. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, a citizen of the United States, married her biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a citizen of the United Kingdom, in 2009, presumably as part of an immigration fraud scheme. 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. "[220][221][222][223] Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump's retweet, predicting that it would incite violence and hatred. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. [77], In the August 9 Democratic primary, Omar faced former Minneapolis councilman Don Samuels and three other opponents. What may still be of slightly more interest, is her marriage to her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. One of them just won a seat in Congress", "Ilhan Omar reveals racist threat to shoot her at state fair", "Leave the US, Trump tells liberal congresswomen of color", "Trump Tells Congresswomen to 'Go Back' to the Countries They Came From", Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "On the edge of making history, Ilhan Omar confronts fresh wave of scrutiny", "Ilhan Omar: First female Somali American lawmaker", "We Should Be Paying More Attention to Somalia", "Ilhan Omar's improbable journey from refugee camp to Minnesota Legislature", "Ilhan Omar Just Became the First Muslim Women Elected to US Congress", "Ilhan Omar On Being Unapologetically Muslim", "Glorified and Vilified, Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar Tells Critics: 'Just Deal', "Ilhan Omar: 'There's a Reason That I Got Elected to Be in Congress, and It Has Nothing to Do With the Fact That I'm a Refugee', "Rep. Ilhan Omar, Somali refugee turned congresswoman, to publish memoir in 2020", "Ilhan Omar elected first Somali-American legislator in the US", "Ex-Somali refugee's U.S. Congress win sparks debate in former home Kenya", "Ilhan Omar's American story: It's complicated", "Ilhan Omar: Who is Minnesota's Somalia-born congresswoman? (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012). 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.. "[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. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. [211], Foreign media has widely covered Trump's remarks about Omar and The Squad. 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. According to Omar's proffered version of events, she fled the Somalian civil war with her family in 1991 and lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before immigrating to the U.S. in 1995. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. 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. [245], In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (n Aden). 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 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. That's based on telltale iconography, naming patterns, webs of linkages and the breadth of the postelection scrubbing. The prize is awarded annually on a readership basis. 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. "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. Omar claimed in 2016, when the rumor that they were related emerged online and denied it as 'absurd and offensive', that he moved to the UK in 2011. In a November 17 speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar a member of the "Jihad Squad" and referred to Omar's "brother-husband. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election[63] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota,[10] and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress. "[151] Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus believed Omar was unfairly targeted because she is a black Muslim, saying that "the Democratic leadership did not draft a resolution condemning Donald Trump or other white male Republicans over their antisemitic remarks. [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. [152] On March 7, the House passed the amended resolution. 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[36] She graduated from North Dakota State University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree, majoring in political science and international studies. "Ilhan Omar Offers Answers to Questions About Her Marital History." In 2012, as his ex-wife welcomed her third child, he was in Kuala Lumpur. 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. Documented-based reporting by Steinberg, et al. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Bush. [141], On February 27, 2019, Omar said of her critics: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. 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. [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. "[208][209] Trump later called the crowd "incredible people, incredible patriots" and accused Omar of racism and antisemitism. 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. [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. 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. [102][103] In October 2018, she tweeted: "The Saudi government might have been strategic at covering up the daily atrocities carried out against minorities, women, activists and even the #YemenGenocide, but the murder of #JamalKhashoggi should be the last evil act they are allowed to commit. 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. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. She then divorced Elmi before marrying Hirsi legally. [98], Omar supports Medicare for All as proposed in the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. "[118], In June 2019, Omar was one of four Democratic representatives to vote against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, a $4.5 billion border funding bill that required Customs and Border Protection to enact health standards for individuals in custody such as standards for "medical emergencies; nutrition, hygiene, and facilities; and personnel training." She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. Ilhan then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, allegedly to help him earn a US citizenship. Reacting to the murder of Floyd, the majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police department. [70][71] Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. And also like Ocasio-Cortez, Omar has been a frequent subject of unfounded rumors (particularly ones that have targeted her family and religious background). At one point, they were. [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. 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. Jennifer Smith Elmi reportedly attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. This marriage began in 2009, to Mr. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen. She legally wed Hirsi just months later right in time before she was sworn into office in 2018. She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. Omar shot down these allegations as "disgusting . "Fox 9 Removes Story About Investigation Into Ilhan Omar's Marriage History." [22] She and her family fled Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border. [86] The charges are related to Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and incitement of the attack at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. by his supporters, which occurred during the certification of electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election that affirmed Joe Biden's victory. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. 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. On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. 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. In 2009, Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, but they separated in 2011 (without obtaining a legal divorce), and Elmi returned to England. [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. Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi, we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. 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. Jackson, David. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. [192] Omar asked the court to be lenient with him. 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. Two agents. Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said. Prosecutors also alleged that Hasson was in contact with an American neo-Nazi leader, stockpiled weapons, and compiled a hit list. However, it wasnt until 2017 that Omar finally got around to divorcing Elmi. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. [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%. 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. She responded to Netanyahu that she had intended to meet members of Israel's legislative Knesset and Israeli security officials. 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. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. After an extensive background search, I have not been able to . She reconciles with Hirsi. "[106], In 2019, Omar signed a letter led by Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Rand Paul to President Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the futurein particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan. The three government agencies said they would not confirm the existence of any ongoing or potential investigation. Instead, Omar maintained, she and Hirsi were married in their Muslim "faith tradition.". Omar has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. [35][25], Omar attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer. [12][13][14][15], Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982,[16][17] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. Omar has stated that the couple. 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. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. Subsequent criticism of Omar's comments often included misleading or false claims about not only her background but what she had actually said, leading some to accuse her critics of indulging in "anti-Jewish paranoia". [21][22] Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri, died when Ilhan was two. [212] Many foreign politicians condemned Trump's comments. 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. This is a humanitarian crisis inflicted by our own leadership," she said. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. 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. 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). "[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." Minnesota Post. One Minnesota-based immigration lawyer told the Star Tribune that cases of siblings marrying each other to commit immigration fraud were practically nonexistent, saying, "It is so rare that you would think that it would be more easily uncovered.". [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. pic.twitter.com/v3VKm3ysLr, STRANGER THAN FICTION NEWS (@jonrohnson) February 14, 2019. "Everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name," Trump said at the rally. Netanyahu also cited Omar and Tlaib listing their destination as Palestine instead of Israel, claiming he thus viewed their visit as an attempt to "hurt Israel and increase its unrest". In response, Buck was removed from the National Republican Congressional Committee's Young Guns program. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi married within their faith tradition in 2002. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. Elmi is the man who has been accused, without substantiating evidence , of being her brother. They reconciled and had a third child in 2012. [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. 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