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. ", 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.". Elmi's social media account . In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . 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. When sworn into public office in 2016, Rep. Ilhan Omar was married to an individual named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. 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. Persistent claims that leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her own brother to get around US immigration laws may be legitimized by what appears to be a conclusive DNA test. [102][103] In October 2018, she tweeted: "The Saudi government might have been strategic at covering up the daily atrocities carried out against minorities, women, activists and even the #YemenGenocide, but the murder of #JamalKhashoggi should be the last evil act they are allowed to commit. In 2008 Omar and Hirsi reached an "impasse" in their relationship and separated (again under Muslim custom). I never liked the M sound. [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. 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. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. "Ilhan Omar, Marriage, and Somali Culture: An FAQ." He reportedly told investigators that he did not want Muslims in the government. "Kirsten Gillibrand . 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? Omar has stated that the couple. "[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. "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abusesand the very Administration directing these human rights abusesis not a solution. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. 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. [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. However, she had filed tax returns with Hirsi before doing so. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. [145][146] Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, said Omar was speaking out about "the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child in 2012, records show. [131], In September 2019, Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley. The controversy continues in the statements Omar made in the divorce documents. [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. 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Congresswoman Omars office did not respond to request for comment but she has repeatedly denied the allegations calling them disgusting lies.. 2002: She marries Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in a religious ceremony but it is not recognized legally. [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. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. In 2009, Omar she entered into both a "faith" marriage and a legal marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. "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?". The couple had two children. BBC. In a November 17 speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar a member of the "Jihad Squad" and referred to Omar's "brother-husband. [46] Her term began on January 3, 2017. "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. After an extensive background search, I have not been able to . Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. The marriage was criticized a lot, as it was suggested that Elmi and Ilhan were siblings and the sole motive of their marriage was speeding up Elmi's citizenship procedure. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. [111][112] She said in a statement that "accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight" and argued that such a step should include both the Atlantic slave trade and the Native American genocide. [102], Omar condemned China's treatment of its ethnic Uyghur people. [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? [22] According to MinnPost, the day before the caucus, Minneapolis city council member Abdi Warsame had told Johnson to warn Omar not to attend the meeting. Since then, he has been gallivanting around London attending music festivals, staying in posh hotels and frequenting local pubs. Omar's statement. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. He has been under intense scrutiny for referring to Omar as a member of a 'squad' of migrant Congresswomen who he told to go back to 'their' countries in a series of tweets over the weekend. 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. 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? "[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." Sign up for notifications from Insider! "[126][127][124] Omar has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. "[104] The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar. Elmi also studied there for a period but dropped out, records show. 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. [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. 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. 20:43 GMT 18 Jul 2019. [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. 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. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. Since 2013, he has enthusiastically shared selfies and photos with friends in English pubs, smoking and drinking. 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. Forliti, Amy. 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". [38] During a contentious precinct caucus that turned violent in February 2014, she was attacked by five people and was injured. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. "Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive," Omar said in a statement in 2016. Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 . "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?" [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". [60] On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party after two rounds of voting. [25] She is a member of the informal group known as "The Squad", whose members form a unified front to push for progressive changes such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. 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. Roughly half of the 90,000 tweets mentioning her included hate speech or Islamophobic or anti-immigrant language. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. [41], In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. Coolican, J. Patrick. "[123][129] The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world", was criticized as drawing on antisemitic tropes. 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. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. Trump was asked about the accusation that Omar's husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was also her brother during a scrum with reporters last Wednesday and said he had heard talk that she married her . This material may not be reproduced without permission. In his honor I am voting for an inspirational ticket over desperate and maddening one", "Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband", "Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships", "Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar finalizes divorce", "US Rep. Ilhan Omar divorces husband in Minnesota", "Ilhan Omar makes history, becoming first Somali-American elected to U.S. House", "For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend", "Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby", "What the controversy over Ilhan Omar's tweets tells us about AIPAC today", "Trump demonized Somali refugees in Minnesota. "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's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. The social media hashtag #IStandWithIlhanOmar was soon trending in the United States and other countries. In October, the mom-of-three filed for divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi after The Post exclusively revealed allegations she was having an affair with DC political consultant Tim Mynett. 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." [70][71] Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. 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. Instead, Omar maintained, she and Hirsi were married in their Muslim "faith tradition.". 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. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. The following year, in 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said . [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. According to prosecutors, Hasson is a self-described "long time White Nationalist" and former skinhead who wanted to use violence to "establish a white homeland." "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". "[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. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. The duo was never officially married, at least at the time. [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. The other members of "The Squad" are Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. The Somali-community source personally observed Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all living together in the same family home in Cedar-Riverside with the couples two children. Imam Makram El-Amin of Masjid An-Nur in Minneapolis said an Islamic marriage must include the officiant and at least two witnesses, preferably one from each side of the family, to be a valid. [169] In June 2019, she participated in Twin Cities Pride in Minnesota. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. 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 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. 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. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". "[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. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. "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. [79] Omar won the primary with 50.3% of the vote to Samuels's 48.2%, a margin of less than 2,500 votes. [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. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. The marriage between Omar and Elmi ended . 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. 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. He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. Her congressional district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its first-ring suburbs. Jennifer Smith Both Democratic and Republican legislators criticized the ban and requested that Israel rescind it. [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%. She is a member of the DemocraticFarmerLabor Party. she told the Star Tribune. 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. 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. The New York Times 30 December 2018. On Somalia What Trump said: "She smeared US service members involved in Black. 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. Elmi moved back to London. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. [104][106] She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. citizen." She and Hirsi married legally the following year. Omar later clarified that she was referring to the well-documented influence pro-Israeli lobbyists, especially AIPAC, exert in Washington. [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. She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. 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. He still works as a freelance copywriter and editor and while based in London, travels the world. The FBI is looking into reports that Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother in order to ease his immigration to the U.S., the New York Post reported on Sunday. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. In 2016, he asked for help for an educational program to benefit children in 'Somaliland', an unrecognized but independent state. He lists himself as the founder of an online magazine and counts Esquire magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi among former employers. [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. [47], During her tenure as state Representative for District 60B, Omar was an Assistant Minority Leader for the DFL caucus. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. In 2011, Hirsi reconnected with his first life partner once more. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. [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. [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. In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. Stay up to date with what you want to know. Omar officially divorced Elmi in 2017 and legally married Hirsi in 2018. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. Elmi is still in the US according to college officials and social media, 2016: The marriage is brought up during Omar's campaign for congress, She denies it and it is largely ignored because of the lack of proof around it, July 2019: President Trump thrusts the rumor back into the spotlight. [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. Because the marriage was never recognized by law, neither is the separation, 2009: Omar marries Ahmed Elmi in Minneapolis, 2010: He enrolls atNorth Dakota State University to study fine art and lives with Omar as well as her first husband, 2011: Omar claims she and Elmi split this year and he went back to the UK. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. [2][4], In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. [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. "Where Can UK Students Study for Free?" [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. But lease and eviction records and traffic violations reviewed by The Post suggest Elmi was in the US the whole time living just 2.6 miles away from her at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. 18 August 2016. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. In 2009, Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, but they separated in 2011 (without obtaining a legal divorce), and Elmi returned to England. She was fined by Minnesota's campaign-finance watchdog for paying a lawyer with campaign funds to fix the mistake, as federal law prohibits people from filing joint returns with a person who is not their spouse. 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. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide,[110] causing a backlash. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . Two agents. [247][2] In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced,[54] and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. Omar and Hirsi had two children, but in 2008, they obtained a. 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