My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I'm clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. 20:43 GMT 18 Jul 2019. she told the Star Tribune. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. 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. "[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. The statements were quickly criticized as allegedly drawing on antisemitic tropes. The couple had two children together from 2002 to 2008. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar exchanged vows in 2009 and they divorced in 2017. 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. 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. 12 August 2016. That relationship ended, and Elmi has moved back to England. [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. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). The pair go on to have two children. Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally. 2002: She marries Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in a religious ceremony but it is not recognized legally. [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. She suggested he's Islamophobic. They obtained. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. When sworn into public office in 2016, Rep. Ilhan Omar was married to an individual named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The next year, she. "Ilhan Omar, Marriage, and Somali Culture: An FAQ." 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. Jennifer Smith Advertisement - story continues below But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband [and alleged brother] who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation. [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. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. [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. 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. BBC. [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. 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. [78] The campaign primarily focused on crime and Omar's effectiveness in office. [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. By In response to the AP's request for comment, her campaign sent a statement saying, "all of Rep. Omars tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. [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. 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. [10][11] She has been the target of several death threats, as well as derogatory comments by political opponents, including Donald Trump, as a result of her background. 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. In 2011, Hirsi reconnected with his first life partner once more. Why has Elmi not put the matter to rest by coming forward and explaining the nature of his relationship with Omar? "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. [79] Omar's campaign outspent Samuels's $2.1 million to $800,000; Samuels ran television ads while Omar's campaign did not. 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. [128], In 2018, Omar came under criticism for statements she made about Israel before she was in the Minnesota legislature. 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. 1997: Omar and her family settle in Minnesota after fleeing war-torn Somalia. [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. [107] Omar criticized Trump's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran, saying the sanctions devastated the "country's middle class and increased hostility toward the United States, with tensions between the two countries rising to dangerous levels. Elmi was later granted US citizenship, although he was also chastised by the media. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. 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. After an extensive background search, I have not been able to . 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? [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. I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that,' he said. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. One Minnesota-based immigration lawyer told the Star Tribune that cases of siblings marrying each other to commit immigration fraud were practically nonexistent, saying, "It is so rare that you would think that it would be more easily uncovered.". Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 . Where he lived before he married Omar in 2009 in Minnesota remains a mystery. [81], Brian Stelter of CNN Business found that from January to July 2019 Omar had around twice as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC, and about six times the coverage of James Clyburn, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. 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. [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. Johnson, Scott. " He then gave the reporter a different birthdate for himself than the April 4, 1985, birthdate given for Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Omar's divorce petition. . I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so. She responded to Netanyahu that she had intended to meet members of Israel's legislative Knesset and Israeli security officials. [2][4], In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. The couple had two children. "[212], Omar has frequently been the target of online hate speech. 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. [6] Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. "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?" 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. [79] Omar won the primary with 50.3% of the vote to Samuels's 48.2%, a margin of less than 2,500 votes. 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 her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . "[156][157] Many prominent House Democrats stood by Omar. 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. Omar claimed in 2016, when the rumor that they were related emerged online and denied it as 'absurd and offensive', that he moved to the UK in 2011. 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? )[218][219], On April 12, President Trump retweeted a video that edited Omar's remarks to remove context, showing her saying, "Some people did something. 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. [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. "[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. The couple had two children. 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. 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. 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. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Omar's remarks "unacceptable". Since then, he has been gallivanting around London attending music festivals, staying in posh hotels and frequenting local pubs. Why did Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar divorce? 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. [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. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". 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. She reconciles with Hirsi. 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. Omar's statement. 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". ", 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.". "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. [198] Neither candidate won their primary election. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. The headline read, "REP. ILHAN OMAR: 9/11 WAS 'SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING'", and a caption underneath added, "Here's your something 2,977 people dead by terrorism. We've seen repeated reports alleging that Elmi and Omar are brother and sister. Stay up to date with what you want to know. The rumors allege that Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who some claim is her brother, as a shortcut for him to navigate immigration laws. In short, he claimed to simply be a . "[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." ", 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.". [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. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. [102], Omar condemned China's treatment of its ethnic Uyghur people. "[116][117] She has said, "we don't need nearly 800 military bases outside the United States to keep our country safe. She legally wed Hirsi just months later right in time before she was sworn into office in 2018. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! "[108], In October 2019, Omar voted "present" on H.Res. [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. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. Sign up for notifications from Insider! [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. 16 August 2016. [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. 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. "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 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. [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 and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. Both Democratic and Republican legislators criticized the ban and requested that Israel rescind it. [169] In June 2019, she participated in Twin Cities Pride in Minnesota. She said she began to fear for her life when the evacuation began and as she was being escorted to a secure area she made a phone call to the father of her children to "make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn't make it out." In 2009, she married a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she ultimately divorced in 2017. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was not listed in the documents. [12][13][14][15], Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982,[16][17] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. "[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 June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. This material may not be reproduced without permission. She unseated the senior member of the Minnesota legislature . In 2008 Omar and Hirsi reached an "impasse" in their relationship and separated (again under Muslim custom). On another application dated September 30, 2002, Omar applied for a marriage license in Minnesota to marry the father of her . "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. 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.". She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. That's based on telltale iconography, naming patterns, webs of linkages and the breadth of the postelection scrubbing. Thanks for contacting us. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. Stop relying on them", "Trump, Pelosi and other US lawmakers express condolences, condemn Sri Lanka bombings", "Democrat Ilhan Omar refuses to back historic US House resolution on 'Armenian genocide', "Rep. 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