[205][206][207] The crowd reacted by chanting, "Send her back, Send her back. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. 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. [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. 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. 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. 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. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. She is a member of the DemocraticFarmerLabor Party. 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. The couple legally divorced in 2017. 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. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed the ban to Israeli law preventing the entry of people who call for a boycott of Israel (as Omar and Tlaib had done with their support for BDS). Forliti, Amy. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. As reported by Business Insider here , there is no hard evidence that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who she legally married in 2009 based on her statement, ( here) is her brother or that Omar committed fraud. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." Also from 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar lived with, raised three kids with, and illegally filed multiple joint tax returns with a second man not Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. 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. 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." Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. Sign up for notifications from Insider! [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". 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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). 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. [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. 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. 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". "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?". [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. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. [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. [77], In the August 9 Democratic primary, Omar faced former Minneapolis councilman Don Samuels and three other opponents. [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. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. In 2009, Omar she entered into both a "faith" marriage and a legal marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. 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 WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. Omar was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016 and to Congress in 2018, one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. [98], Omar supports Medicare for All as proposed in the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. "[126][127][124] Omar has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. [56] The Campaign Finance Board's investigation also found that in 2014 and 2015 Omar had jointly filed taxes with a man she was not legally married to. 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. 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. 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[242][243], Following a July 2019 tweet by Trump that The Squada group that consists of Omar and three other congresswomen of color who were born in the United Statesshould "go back" to the "places from which they came",[14] Omar and the other members of the Squad held a press conference that was taped by CNN and posted to social media. "[172] Omar has criticized the U.S. government's drone assassination program, citing the Obama administration's policy of "droning of countries around the world. [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. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. "[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. "Marriage Discrepancy Clouds Ilhan Omar's Historic Primary Victory." [41], In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. [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. "[208][209] Trump later called the crowd "incredible people, incredible patriots" and accused Omar of racism and antisemitism. [132] Omar said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. 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. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. Elmi's social media account . 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. [104][106] She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi married within their faith tradition in 2002. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. [167], In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. [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. [196], Two Republican candidates for congressional office have called for Omar's execution. Powerlineblog.com. [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 response, Omar reaffirmed her remarks, insisting that she "should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee. In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . citizen." [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". 27 October 2018. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. Johnson, Scott. " "[201] Two days later, the House of Representatives voted 240187 to condemn Trump's "racist comments". She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. [169] In June 2019, she participated in Twin Cities Pride in Minnesota. "Ilhan Omar Offers Answers to Questions About Her Marital History." Elmi was later granted US citizenship, although he was also chastised by the media. 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. [247][2] In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced,[54] and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [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. "[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 father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. After that, he moved home to England. The controversy continues in the statements Omar made in the divorce documents. The couple had two children together from 2002 to 2008. City Pages. Or maybe, like countless other people, she's had a complicated romantic past that she'd rather not discuss publicly. What became of Elmi afterwards has remained somewhat of a mystery. Black Lives Matter and other activists used the phrase to call for police budget reductions and a plan to delegate certain police responsibilities to other organizations. We've received your submission. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. 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. [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. 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? 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.. (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. [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. She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". Reacting to the murder of Floyd, the majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police department. The duo was never officially married, at least at the time. 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. 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. The three government agencies said they would not confirm the existence of any ongoing or potential investigation. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". The other members of "The Squad" are Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She responded to Netanyahu that she had intended to meet members of Israel's legislative Knesset and Israeli security officials. Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. Elmi's profile in the UK begins in 2013 whenhe started working as a public relations assistant that year, then went on to dabble in fashion writing. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. This material may not be reproduced without permission. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. [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". Omar and Hirsi had two children, but in 2008, they obtained a. "[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. We found no public records or credible sources contradicting Omar's account of her past, nor any substantive evidence corroborating claims that Elmi is her brother or that their marriage was otherwise fraudulent. Thanks for contacting us. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. 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. 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? But as a British citizen Elmi could have studied at any university in the European Union or European Economic Area, and in some of those countries his education would have been tuition-free. He even possessed a high school diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior. Power Line also included this graphic on the Omar Elmi family. 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. Boebert referred to Omar as the "Jihad Squad". [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. [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 released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016 to address the persistent rumors that she married her brother, which she called "absurd and offensive," and gave a timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 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? What may still be of slightly more interest, is her marriage to her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Omar said. [168] In May 2019, Omar introduced legislation that would sanction Brunei over a recently introduced law that would make homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death. 12 August 2016. 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. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders defended Omar. We've seen repeated reports alleging that Elmi and Omar are brother and sister. "Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life even when it is personally painful. [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. [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. [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. 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