[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. [196], Two Republican candidates for congressional office have called for Omar's execution. 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. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. [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". [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. [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. [23][24][25][26] She was raised by her father and grandfather, who were moderate Sunni Muslims opposed to the rigid Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. 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. ", "Venezuela special envoy, Rep. 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"[215][216] According to the study, "Key themes included Muslims as subhumans or 'Trojan horses' seeking to impose Shariah law on America. A large proportion of these trolls were likely bots or automated accounts run by people, organizations or state actors seeking to spread political propaganda and hate speech. DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN IMMIGRATION SCHEME TO ACQUIRE A GREEN CARD WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING? [249][250][251] The campaign's contract with Mynett's firm became a focus of criticism by her Democratic primary opponent and conservative critics that received significant local and national media attention. Prosecutors also alleged that Hasson was in contact with an American neo-Nazi leader, stockpiled weapons, and compiled a hit list. On Wednesday, Trump was on the White House lawn when he made the comment. [148] While Senator Cory Booker found her comments "disturbing", he recognized that some of the attacks against her had "anti-Islamic sentiment." 1997: Omar and her family settle in Minnesota after fleeing war-torn Somalia. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". Where he lived before he married Omar in 2009 in Minnesota remains a mystery. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. 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. "[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 duo was never officially married, at least at the time. Prominent progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has for years found herself on the receiving end of a slew of incendiary attacks from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans including persistent but baseless rumors that she married her brother. 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. She then met and married Elmi, a British citizen, in 2009, according to the statement. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, also in a faith-based, not legal, proceeding. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. 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. [198] Neither candidate won their primary election. [138] Omar issued an apology the next day, saying, "I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes", and adding, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. "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. [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. She reconciles with Hirsi. that she believed U.S. foreign policy and economic sanctions are aimed at regime change and have contributed to the "devastation in Venezuela. "Glorified and Vilified, Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar Tells Critics: Just Deal.'" 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. 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. 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. Kirsten Gillibrand said, "those with critical views of Israel should be able to express their views without employing anti-Semitic tropes about money or influence", but also criticized the Republican Party for censuring Omar while saying little or nothing when President Trump "defended white supremacists at Charlottesville." [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. Elmi is reportedly a British citizen who currently lives in the UK. She sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. [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. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. "[201] Two days later, the House of Representatives voted 240187 to condemn Trump's "racist comments". They obtained. [134][135], A number of Democratic leadersincluding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburncondemned the tweet, which was interpreted as implying that money was fueling American politicians' support of Israel. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. 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. [35][25], Omar attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer. [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. Right-wing bloggers claimed that Omar is married to two men for immigration fraud purposes, and one of them, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. 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. 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. [136] The Democratic House leadership released a statement accusing Omar of "engaging in deeply offensive anti-Semitic tropes". 16 August 2016. "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. After Johnson was elected, she served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015. [116][117] Omar accused Politico of distorting her comments and said that she had been "saying how [President] Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics," adding, "One is human, the other is really not. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! 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. [46] Her term began on January 3, 2017. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. "Everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name," Trump said at the rally. "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. 3. By "[212], Omar has frequently been the target of online hate speech. 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. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. 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. Yet when Mr. Nur Omar Mohamed passed away in June from COVID-19 complications, an outpouring of support from the Somali community wrote his name as "Nur Said Elmi." That is significant because the man Omar was married to from 2009 until 2017 was named "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi." Perhaps Ilhan Omar has something untoward related to her marriages that she's covering up. [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. 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. Two agents. 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. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado is the latest high-profile conservative to revive the unverified claim amid other Islamophobic attacks and insults against Omar. Why did Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar divorce? 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? (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. [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. The 38-year-olds complicated personal life has been the subject of enduring scrutiny since she was sent to Congress at the 2018 midterm elections. 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. 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. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. "[220][221][222][223] Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump's retweet, predicting that it would incite violence and hatred. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. [41], In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. "Kirsten Gillibrand . Ahmed Elmi Osman: Minister for the Interior and Local Governments Ahmed Elmi Osman: Minister of Security Hassan Osman Mahamud Aloore Minister for Finance Shire Haji Farah: Minister for Justice Ismail Mohamed Warsame Minister of Constitution, Federalism and Democracy Sahro Said Nur Minister of Planning and International Relations Ali Ahmed Faatah 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. 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? The two agents said they would share the information with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Department of Education, but did not commit to opening an investigation into the firebrand lawmaker, the source said. 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Both Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage documents and her 2017 divorce proceedings state that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was born on April 4, 1985. [154], On March 7, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 40723 to condemn "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry" in response to Omar's remarks concerning Israel. She then divorced Elmi before marrying Hirsi legally. In short, he claimed to simply be a . 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. she told the Star Tribune. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. Some outlets and blogs have pointed to social media posts from accounts supposedly linked to Elmi in which he posted photos of Omar during the period of time she said in her divorce papers that she wasn't in contact with him, where he seemingly referred to her third child as a "niece.". Numerous public documents obtained and reported by news outlets including the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Examiner, however, cast doubt on Omar's official timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 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. [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. 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. 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. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [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%. 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. Omar and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. Hirsi, the father of her three children, remarried just 37 days after the divorce was finalized in November and Omar has been repeatedly photographed leaving the same Washington, DC, apartment as Mynett. 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. [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. The couple legally divorced in 2017. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. "Poll: 20% Believe Barack Obama Was Born Outside U.S." Omar's statement. 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. Furthermore, the site Snopes pointed out some significant logical holes in the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother and that she married him to help him gain citizenship. [132] Omar said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. 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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. [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. [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. [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 other members of "The Squad" are Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That's why I say, 'Hey if you don't like it, let 'em leave, let 'em leave'", and "I think in some cases they hate our country". 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. The couple had two children together from 2002 to 2008. "[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. At one point, they were. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. [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". Omar married her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in an Islamic faith ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but the couple did not obtain a legal marriage certificate. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. 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