No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. "[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. This material may not be reproduced without permission. [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 filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. The core evidence, as laid out by Power Line's Scott Johnson and local Minneapolis conservative website Alpha News starting in 2016, is the following: Omar was legally married to a man named Ahmed. (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. as well as other partner offers and accept our. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. Ross Ibbetson For Dailymail.com By 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. Ahmed married Omar in 2018 and divorced in 2019. , updated She and Hirsi married legally the following year. Ahmed Hirsi is an ex-husband of the US Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar. 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. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. A Somali community member speaking under the terms of anonymity has confirmed to Alpha News that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed is the same person as Nur Said/Nur Mohamed and is the father of Ilhan Omar and Sahra Noor. 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City Pages. "[57][58][59], On June 5, 2018, Omar filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection. [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". On July 19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "I reject [Trump's comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted. But the conspiracy is not without holes. Powerlineblog.com. "[216], On April 11, 2019, the front page of the New York Post carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month. 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. 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. "Poll: 20% Believe Barack Obama Was Born Outside U.S." Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. 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. Here are some of the key points from their report: In 2002, Omar, then 19, religiously married Ahmed Hirsi, but not legally. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. At one point, they were. Unlike some states, Minnesota does not recognize common law marriage, and so such a joint filing is not legally permitted. My father named me Ilham and inspired me to lead a life of service to others. "[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. Also, if Ahmed Elmi were truly Omar's brother, why would he have needed to take the drastic step of marrying her in order to secure a path to U.S. citizenship? Omar's statement. June 23, 2019 04:32 PM MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. D ozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire. 3. 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. [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. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was married to a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (as referenced here), but there is no evidence of a connection to the name "Esmi". 17 October 2018. [2][4], In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. 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In the speech Omar said, "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us [Muslims in the U.S.] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abusesand the very Administration directing these human rights abusesis not a solution. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi married within their faith tradition in 2002. "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. "[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. "Marriage Discrepancy Clouds Ilhan Omar's Historic Primary Victory." The origin of the rumor captured in the above tweet is spotty. Boebert referred to Omar as the "Jihad Squad". In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. The accounts have since been deleted, however. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. 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. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. "[212], Omar has frequently been the target of online hate speech. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and later said the two obtained a divorce in their Muslim faith tradition albeit not a legal one in 2011. [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. Bush. 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. After Johnson was elected, she served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015. 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. 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. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders defended Omar. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was not listed in the documents. They were said to discuss the claims that Omar married Elmi, a British citizen, so he could obtain a green card and study and work in the United States. The following year, in 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said . Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. 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. . And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. Omar eloped with British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. It means "Inspiration" in Arabic. [78] The campaign primarily focused on crime and Omar's effectiveness in office. On a marriage certificate dated February 12, 2009, it says that Ilhan Abdullaahi Omar married a man by the name of Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Hennepin County, Minnesota, who she herself identified as a British citizen. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. "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. After President Trump repeated an unsubstantiated rumor that Ilhan Omar's second husband was in fact her brother on Wednesday, there was fresh scrutiny on the Democratic congresswoman's tangled personal life and marital history. As per reports, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. (Screenshot/Power Line) In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn't seen him since 2012. 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. The unverified rumors that Omar married her brother originated from an anonymous user on a Somali-American internet forum in 2016, and have circulated around the internet ever since. 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. ", Trump poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, accusing Omar, who came to the US as a young girl, of "abandoning her country" and saying "she should apologize for marrying her brother.". 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. 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We also sent a list of questions to Powerlineblogger Scott Johnson, who responded on 25 March 2019 but offered nothing more substantive in support of the claim than inference and supposition. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Trump to "take down his disrespectful and dangerous video" and asked the U.S. Capitol Police to increase its protection of Omar. Then came a voice mail", "Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders Condemn Netanyahu West Bank Annexation Plan: 'The Nail in the Coffin to a Two-state Solution', "Ilhan Omar calls on Israelis to vote Netanyahu out of office", "This Is What the Beginning of a Real Israel Debate Looks Like", "The controversy over Ilhan Omar and AIPAC money, explained", "Rep. 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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? [38][39][40], Omar began her professional career as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota, working in that capacity from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater MinneapolisSaint Paul area. "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". [195] In September 2019, she asserted Trump was putting her life in danger by retweeting a tweet falsely claiming she had "partied on the anniversary of 9/11". [239], In 2018, Omar was featured in the music video for Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" featuring Cardi B. . 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. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. "[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. [164][165] AIPAC released a statement saying that it disagreed with Israel's move and that Omar and Tlaib should have been allowed to "experience Israel firsthand", while the head of the American Jewish Committee put out a statement agreeing with AIPAC on the matter. 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. [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. [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. He is also a staunch social activist. and Representatives to Israel that Miftah co-sponsored, but that was before Israel enacted its anti-BDS law). "[201] Two days later, the House of Representatives voted 240187 to condemn Trump's "racist comments". On Wednesday, Trump was on the White House lawn when he made the comment. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that,' he said. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. [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%. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. In 2011, they had a "faith" divorce, but remained legally married. She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. 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. Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. The New York Times 30 December 2018. Omar later clarified that she was referring to the well-documented influence pro-Israeli lobbyists, especially AIPAC, exert in Washington. Two agents. 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 2012, as his ex-wife welcomed her third child, he was in Kuala Lumpur. Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. The marriage between Omar and Elmi ended . 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). Jennifer Smith [47], During her tenure as state Representative for District 60B, Omar was an Assistant Minority Leader for the DFL caucus. [70][71] Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. However, it wasnt until 2017 that Omar finally got around to divorcing Elmi. Ahmed is blessed with three children: Isra Hirsi, Adnan Hirsi and Ilwad Hirsi. 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. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. "[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. [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. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. "Minnesota House Hopeful Calls Marriage, Fraud Claims 'Lies.'" 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? [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. [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. Her brother was a British citizen. "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. Hirsi is the father of Omar's three children. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. 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? Right-leaning blogs have made a sport of digging into Ilhan Omar's personal history, sifting through public records and surfing through social media profiles of people believed to be associated with her, and in so doing they have inevitably surfaced some yet-unanswered questions. "[220][221][222][223] Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump's retweet, predicting that it would incite violence and hatred. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. Congresswoman Omars office did not respond to request for comment but she has repeatedly denied the allegations calling them disgusting lies.. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. [202] On July 17, it was reported that the U.S. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. "[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. [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. 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. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. 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