Ahmed Elmi is Ilhan Omar's second husband who she married in 2009 in Minneapolis She had already been married to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi but only under sharia law - it was never recognized by. "[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. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. Ahmed married Omar in 2018 and divorced in 2019. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [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. 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. [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. In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. [148] While Senator Cory Booker found her comments "disturbing", he recognized that some of the attacks against her had "anti-Islamic sentiment." "[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. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. 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. Montemayor, Stephen "On the Edge of Making History, Ilhan Omar Confronts Fresh Wave of Scrutiny." 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. [159][160] Less than two hours before the ban, President Trump tweeted that Israel allowing the visit would "show great weakness" when Omar and Tlaib "hate Israel & all Jewish people". Rep. Lauren Boebert revived unproven rumors sthat Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to commit immigration fraud. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. "[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. 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. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! [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. She is a member of the DemocraticFarmerLabor Party. Instead, Omar maintained, she and Hirsi were married in their Muslim "faith tradition.". 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. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. "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. "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. She unseated the senior member of the Minnesota legislature . Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. , updated [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. 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. In the course of that divorce, Ms. Omar submitted an "Application for an Order for Service by Alternate Means" to the State of Minnesota on August 2, 2017, and claimed, among other things, that she had had no contact with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi after June 2011. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. 2012: Omar and Hirsi have their third child. Perhaps Ilhan Omar has something untoward related to her marriages that she's covering up. "[220][221][222][223] Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump's retweet, predicting that it would incite violence and hatred. [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. . (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012). The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. [41], In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. [82] A CBS News and YouGov poll of almost 2,100 American adults conducted from July 17 to 19 found that Republican respondents were more aware of Omar than Democratic respondents. [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. She swore under oath that she did not know the name of a single member of his family and did not know anyone who knew him. Jennifer Smith
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It means "Inspiration" in Arabic. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. Omar claims to have married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002, then divorced him before marrying Elmi legally. 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? [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. 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. [60] On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party after two rounds of voting. In August 2016 Omar released a statement saying, "I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so." Several months later, Omar filed for divorce from Elmi in May of 2017, and research indicates he now resides in London. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. The claim first appeared in 2016 as an anonymous, since-deleted post on SomaliSpot, an online discussion forum geared toward the Somali community. 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Prosecutors also alleged that Hasson was in contact with an American neo-Nazi leader, stockpiled weapons, and compiled a hit list. 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. [105] In a Washington Post op-ed, Omar wrote, "Our criticisms of oppression and regional instability caused by Iran are not legitimate if we do not hold Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to the same standards. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. [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. "[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. 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 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. citizen." If Elmi went to such lengths to commit marriage fraud to stay in the United States, it also doesn't make sense why he did not respond to Omar's multiple attempts to serve him with divorce papers given that she would have presumably been his sponsor for a green card. Why did Omar's 2016 campaign literature reference Ahmed Hirsi as her "husband" when she hadn't yet divorced Ahmed Elmi or married Hirsi? "Since before she was elected to office, Ilhan has been the subject of conspiracy theories and false accusations about her personal life," a spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, told the Star Tribune in 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. 2008: She and Hirsi separate. [167], In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. 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. 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? 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." Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. [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%. This marriage began in 2009, to Mr. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. )[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. [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. 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. I never liked the M sound. He is also a staunch social activist. 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. 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[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. Coolican, J. Patrick. [133], In February 2019, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened to "take action" against Omar and Rashida Tlaib for their support of the BDS movement. 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. Omar's father Mohamed, is living in the US. and
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