17 August 2016. "[129] After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". [128], In 2018, Omar came under criticism for statements she made about Israel before she was in the Minnesota legislature. [78] The campaign primarily focused on crime and Omar's effectiveness in office. In 2009, Rep. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who was the son of Nur Said. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. 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[29][30][31], Omar's family secured asylum in the U.S. and arrived in New York in 1995,[32][33] then lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia,[25] before moving to and settling in Minneapolis,[25] where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office. 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." as well as other partner offers and accept our. Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. [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. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. [197] In November 2019, Danielle Stella, Omar's Republican opponent for Congress, was banned from Twitter for suggesting that Omar be hanged for treason if found guilty of passing information to Iran. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. 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. 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. [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. "[126][127][124] Omar has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. After marrying, they immediately moved to North Dakota and both enrolled at North Dakota State University. Omar shot down these allegations as "disgusting . Despite being unverified, the post was picked up by Powerline, a blog that "features commentary on the news from a conservative perspective," who reported in a 12 August 2016 post that: A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information suggesting Omar's involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. Omar has not yet given a clear explanation as to why so many public documents point to her and Hirsi living together and being romantically involved while she was legally married to another man, but there is no solid evidence to support the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother. [67] She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. USA Today. Where he lived before he married Omar in 2009 in Minnesota remains a mystery. 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? "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. [46] Her term began on January 3, 2017. [37][34] Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Talking to reporters before boarding Marine One, Trump said, "There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy. [104][106] She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. Congresswoman Omars office did not respond to request for comment but she has repeatedly denied the allegations calling them disgusting lies.. [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. 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. 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. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. [62] The 5th district is the most Democratic district in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, (it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26) and the DFL has held it without interruption since 1963. [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. "[147], Reaction among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates was mixed. [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. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. 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.". [102], Omar condemned China's treatment of its ethnic Uyghur people. [97] In June 2019, Omar and Senator Tina Smith introduced the No Shame at School Act, which would end the marking ofand punishment forstudents with school meal debt. [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. [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. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. [249][250][251] The campaign's contract with Mynett's firm became a focus of criticism by her Democratic primary opponent and conservative critics that received significant local and national media attention. This is a humanitarian crisis inflicted by our own leadership," she said. 23 August 2016. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. 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." They had two children before splitting in 2008. Coolican, J. Patrick. 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. Omar eloped with British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. 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. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abusesand the very Administration directing these human rights abusesis not a solution. When journalist Glenn Greenwald responded that it was remarkable "how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans", and tagged Omar for a comment, she replied with a quote from a hip hop song, "It's All About the Benjamins", alluding to the $100 bill of that name. Conservative bloggers have claimed that Omar's second husband, a British citizen named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card.. When sworn into public office in 2016, Rep. Ilhan Omar was married to an individual named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Advertisement - story continues below [139] Peter Beinart, after tweeting that the controversy was about "policing the American debate over Israel",[140] thought Omar's statement inaccurate, wrong and irresponsible, but argued that her congressional critics were more "bigoted" on Israeli-Palestinian issues than Omar. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. 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. In 2011, Hirsi reconnected with his first life partner once more. And why is there no record of Elmi's having applied for or obtained such status if that was the whole point of his supposedly "fraudulent" marriage to his alleged sister? It means "Inspiration" in Arabic. Omar, 37, and Hirsi, 39, have three children; her divorce filing requests joint legal and physical custody. 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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? Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. 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 ." While these allegations haven't been picked. City Pages. She released the first names of her six siblings in 2016 and provided a Star Tribune reporter with photographs of her and her siblings' original refugee resettlement documents and identification cards none of which listed Elmi as one of her brothers. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. "[178][179] Following the murder of Floyd, Omar supported the police abolition movement in Minneapolis that sought to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, saying that the department had "proven themselves beyond reform. "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?" The prize is awarded annually on a readership basis. He still works as a freelance copywriter and editor and while based in London, travels the world. 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 . In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. (CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. 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. 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. The couple had two children together from 2002 to 2008. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. And we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to repression in Saudi Arabiaa country that is consistently ranked among the worst of the worst human rights offenders. 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. [85], On January 7, 2021, Omar led a group of 13 House members introducing articles of impeachment against Trump on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. 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. [245], In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (n Aden). In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. [70][71] Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. On another application dated September 30, 2002, Omar applied for a marriage license in Minnesota to marry the father of her . [14][15][201] In response, Omar said Trump was "stoking white nationalism" because he was "angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda. Omar claims to have married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002, then divorced him before marrying Elmi legally. I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so. Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. [152] On March 7, the House passed the amended resolution. The origin of the rumor captured in the above tweet is spotty. Omar. [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. [198] Neither candidate won their primary election. "Poll: 20% Believe Barack Obama Was Born Outside U.S." [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. Two agents. 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. Omar's political skills no matter to whom she is (or was) married are remarkable. At one point, they were. 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. Omar and Hirsi had two children, but in 2008, they obtained a. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. That same year, the National Legal and Policy Center alleged in a complaint, which was rejected . Omar, who was born in Somalia in 1982, came to America as a refugee with her father and siblings in 1995 by way of a Kenyan refugee camp and resettled in Minneapolis, where she became a US citizen. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). According to Omar's proffered version of events, she fled the Somalian civil war with her family in 1991 and lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before immigrating to the U.S. in 1995. The post further notes that Omar married her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, implying that the latter marriage assisted his entry into the United States. 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. 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. 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. (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012). On Wednesday, Trump was on the White House lawn when he made the comment. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election[63] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota,[10] and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress. [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. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She unseated the senior member of the Minnesota legislature . pic.twitter.com/v3VKm3ysLr, STRANGER THAN FICTION NEWS (@jonrohnson) February 14, 2019. Ilhan Omar: Her Back Pages." "[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." [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. Why has Elmi not put the matter to rest by coming forward and explaining the nature of his relationship with Omar? 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