[202] On July 17, it was reported that the U.S. DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN IMMIGRATION SCHEME TO ACQUIRE A GREEN CARD WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING? Saudi Arabia, for one", "No, BDS Is Not Anti-Semitic, And Neither Is Ilhan Omar", "Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign", "Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. 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. [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. [123][125] In a 2012 tweet, she wrote, "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. 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. She sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. We've seen repeated reports alleging that Elmi and Omar are brother and sister. In 2009, Omar she entered into both a "faith" marriage and a legal marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. BBC. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. 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Patrick. My father named me Ilham and inspired me to lead a life of service to others. This story has been shared 272,911 times. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, NOW WATCH: 8 key takeaways from Trump's State of the Union address, amid other Islamophobic attacks and insults against Omar, In a November 17 speech on the House floor, poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016. "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?" 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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[136] The Democratic House leadership released a statement accusing Omar of "engaging in deeply offensive anti-Semitic tropes". [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [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. 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. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. [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. Reacting to the murder of Floyd, the majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police department. 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. As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, in 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her husband (brother?) "[123][129] The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world", was criticized as drawing on antisemitic tropes. Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. 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. Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. [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. [37][34] Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. 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. Talking to reporters before boarding Marine One, Trump said, "There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. "[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." [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. Coolican, J. Patrick. Omar eloped with British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. 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. He has shut down a Facebook account he used to use and turned his Instagram account private on Thursday after Trump's comments. The unsubstantiated rumors that Omar's ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British national, is her brother and that she married him to help him get a green card circulated around the internet and . Zurowski, Cory. 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. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . 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. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. 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. The marriage between Omar and Elmi ended . 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She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. [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. that she believed U.S. foreign policy and economic sanctions are aimed at regime change and have contributed to the "devastation in Venezuela. 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. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. [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. 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. 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. The next year, she. USA Today. 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. [180] She described Trump's action as a "U.S. backed coup" and said that the U.S. should not "hand pick" foreign leaders[181] and should support "Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue. ", 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.". "Everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name," Trump said at the rally. He even possessed a high school diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior. 4 Unproven rumors claim that Omar married her alleged brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help with immigration issues [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. Omar, 37, and Hirsi, 39, have three children; her divorce filing requests joint legal and physical custody. By On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. [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. 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. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. She reconciles with Hirsi. Exacts Revenge", "Jayapal Joins Pocan As Co-Chair of Congressional Progressive Caucus", "Sanders proposes canceling entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, escalating Democratic policy battle", "Rep. Omar, alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, releases student-debt cancellation bill", "Ilhan Omar introduces bill to end school lunch debt shaming", "Democratic members of Congress arrested during pro-choice protest", "Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar among Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest", "Saudi Arabia Declares War on America's Muslim Congresswomen", "Who's afraid of Ilhan Omar? Still, documents have not surfaced showing that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. 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. Omar legally married her second husband, Elmi, in 2009. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. "[217] The Post was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) meeting. [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. 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