"[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. ", 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. [252][253] On November 17, 2020, Omar's campaign terminated its contract with Mynett's firm, saying the termination was to "make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. [76] Omar's margin of victory was 24 points less than Biden's in the district, the highest underperformance of any Democrat in the nation, which Nathaniel Rakich of FiveThirtyEight attributed to increased Republican spending and Moore's progressive pro-marijuana campaign. 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. [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. [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. Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. 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. Omar. 4 Unproven rumors claim that Omar married her alleged brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help with immigration issues [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. 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. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. "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. [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. Omar eloped with British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. 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. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. [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. No news outlets have been able to independently verify their authenticity or make contact with Elmi or any of Omar's family members who could confirm that he and Omar are not related. BBC. [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. Omar called the resolution "historic on many fronts" and said, "We are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-Semitism, racism, and white supremacy. 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. [155] On February 2, 2023, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a resolution, on a party-line vote, to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for what Speaker Kevin McCarthy called "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks. (Screenshot/Power Line) In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn't seen him since 2012. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. 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. that she hadn't seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn't know anyone who could help her contact him. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. "Ilhan Omar Offers Answers to Questions About Her Marital History." 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. Documented-based reporting by Steinberg, et al. [211], Foreign media has widely covered Trump's remarks about Omar and The Squad. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. [182], In February 2019, Omar questioned whether Elliott Abrams, whom Trump appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela in January 2019, was the correct choice given his past support of right-wing authoritarian regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, his initial doubts about the number of reported deaths in the El Mozote massacre in 1982, and his two 1991 misdemeanor convictions for withholding information from Congress about the IranContra affair, for which he was later pardoned by George H. W. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. and [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. [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%. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. Ross Ibbetson For Dailymail.com 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. pic.twitter.com/v3VKm3ysLr, STRANGER THAN FICTION NEWS (@jonrohnson) February 14, 2019. In response to the AP's request for comment, her campaign sent a statement saying, "all of Rep. Omars tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law. [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. When journalist Glenn Greenwald responded that it was remarkable "how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans", and tagged Omar for a comment, she replied with a quote from a hip hop song, "It's All About the Benjamins", alluding to the $100 bill of that name. In 2011, they had a "faith" divorce, but remained legally married. As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, in 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her husband (brother?) In 2017, Omar formally petitioned for divorce from Elmi, whose last known location -- according to Omar's statement as recorded in Minnesota court records -- was in London as of 2011. "[143][144] Omar said she was simply criticizing Israel, drawing a distinction between criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and being anti-Semitic. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Omar's remarks "unacceptable". 17 August 2016. I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that,' he said. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. She declined to provide copies of the papers, which included refugee resettlement approval forms and identification cards, but they appeared to list her father, siblings and Omar by order of birth, with Omar as the youngest of seven children. 1997: Omar and her family settle in Minnesota after fleeing war-torn Somalia. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. 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. [123] Then-The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss wrote that Omar's statement tied into a millennia-old "conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator". 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. [2] 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. 18 August 2016. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. U.S. When sworn into public office in 2016, Rep. Ilhan Omar was married to an individual named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. [247][2] In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced,[54] and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, on Feb. 12, 2009, according to a marriage certificate issued in Hennepin County. [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. Conservative websites have claimed for years that Omar's second husband was really her brother. I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so. 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. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". [38] During a contentious precinct caucus that turned violent in February 2014, she was attacked by five people and was injured. [79] Omar's campaign outspent Samuels's $2.1 million to $800,000; Samuels ran television ads while Omar's campaign did not. 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. 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. Hirsi is the father of Omar's three children. Johnson, Scott. " 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. He still works as a freelance copywriter and editor and while based in London, travels the world. 3. [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". "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. "Scott reports that his sources told him, that Omar's legal husband was Omar's brother, and that she married him for fraudulent purposes, you mean like, coming into the United States maybe?". After Johnson was elected, she served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015. Why has Elmi not put the matter to rest by coming forward and explaining the nature of his relationship with Omar? "[108], In October 2019, Omar voted "present" on H.Res. 2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a "British citizen." School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University. . She legally wed Hirsi just months later right in time before she was sworn into office in 2018. Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally. 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. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. 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. [227], In November 2021, Republican Representative Lauren Boebert said she had shared an elevator with Omar, and that she and a Capitol Police officer both mistook Omar for a terrorist. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. 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? 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. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, also in a faith-based, not legal, proceeding. My father named me Ilham and inspired me to lead a life of service to others. "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. They were reportedly married in a religious ceremony in 2002. [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. On Somalia What Trump said: "She smeared US service members involved in Black. [188], On April 7, 2019, Patrick Carlineo Jr., was arrested for threatening to assault and murder Omar in a phone call to her office. 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. [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. 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". She reconciles with Hirsi. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. Omar did win a seat in Minnesota's House of Representatives, and two years later she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 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 Omars allowed Ilhan, her genetic sister Sahra, and her genetic father Nur Said to use false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family." Steinberg also alleges that Rep. Omar married her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009: he had already reportedly been granted asylum in the UK. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Joe Rogan accused of anti-Semitism while defending disgraced Rep. 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"[104] The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar. Complicating matters further, both the Star Tribune and the Examiner reported that the address in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights that Omar and Elmi listed on their 2009 marriage-license application was the same location Hirsi listed as his home address when applying for a business license with the state government that same year. After that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali, until they got a faith-based divorce in 2011 when she returned to Hirsi. 23 August 2016. [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. The New York Times 30 December 2018. 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Ilhan Omar, accusing her of 'a vile anti-Semitic slur', "Minnesota Congresswoman Ignites Debate On Israel And Anti-Semitism", "Rep. Ilhan Omar Criticized Again for Alleged Anti-Semitism", "Sanders, Harris and Warren defend Ilhan Omar amid controversy over Israel comments", "Three 2020 Democrats express concern that attacks against Ilhan Omar will stifle debate on Israel", "NYC Mayor Denounces BDS in Radio Interview", "Did pro-Israel lobby funding influence Democrats' responses to Ilhan Omar? That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. ", He added: "Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate.". In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. [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. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. 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. Still, documents have not surfaced showing that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. 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. 16 August 2016. 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. 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. "[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. 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. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. Associated Press. [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." However, its Omars 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi which has raised eyebrows and now prompted the involvement of the FBI, with records indicating she lived with both men at the same time. 14 September 2015. [36] She graduated from North Dakota State University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree, majoring in political science and international studies. She sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? [194] In August 2019, she published an anonymous threat she had received of being shot at the Minnesota State Fair, saying that such threats were why she now had security protection. 17 October 2018. Both Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage documents and her 2017 divorce proceedings state that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was born on April 4, 1985. [170] In August 2019, Omar wrote on Twitter in support of the Palestinian LGBT rights group Al Qaws after the Palestinian Authority banned Al Qaws's activities in the West Bank. Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. Freshman Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who burst into the national spotlight last fall as part of a wave of trailblazing lawmakers in Congress, is divorcing her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, PEOPLE. In 2011, Elmi moved to London (he is a British citizen of Somali descent), Omar and Hirsi got back together and had their third child a year later. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. 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. [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". Elmi is reportedly a British citizen who currently lives in the UK. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy. I never liked the M sound. It means "Inspiration" in Arabic. "Marriage Discrepancy Clouds Ilhan Omar's Historic Primary Victory." [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. 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.". After that, he moved home to England. 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? [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. 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.. The couple legally divorced in 2017. The next year, she. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar exchanged vows in 2009 and they divorced in 2017. [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. [46] Her term began on January 3, 2017. He states that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed shortens his name. In 2012, as his ex-wife welcomed her third child, he was in Kuala Lumpur. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. [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. "Fox 9 Removes Story About Investigation Into Ilhan Omar's Marriage History." [18][19] She was the youngest of seven siblings, including sister Sahra Noor.

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