[37][34] Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. 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. [45] In November, Omar won the general election, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the United States. 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. (Screenshot/Power Line) In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn't seen him since 2012. The couple had two children. 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. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. . Omar said. 14 September 2015. Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. 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. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". 1997: Omar and her family settle in Minnesota after fleeing war-torn Somalia. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. 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. [205][206][207] The crowd reacted by chanting, "Send her back, Send her back. Following that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (British Citizen). 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. Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omars 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said. 20:43 GMT 18 Jul 2019. The resolution "opposes unconstitutional legislative efforts to limit the use of boycotts to further civil rights at home and abroad", and "urges Congress, States, and civil rights leaders from all communities to endeavor to preserve the freedom of advocacy for all by opposing anti-boycott resolutions and legislation". [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". [25] Omar remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . has developed the following information: Rep. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, a citizen of the United States, married her biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a citizen of the United Kingdom, in 2009, presumably as part of an immigration fraud scheme. Thanks for contacting us. These 13 Republicans voted for it", "House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold", "Woman running for Congress in Minnesota rejects anti-Semitism accusations", "The Charismatic Female Stars of the New American Left", "News Brief Ilhan Omar, who once called Israel an 'apartheid regime,' wins congressional primary in Minnesota", "With Election Now Over, Ilhan Omar Voices BDS Support", "Muslim Trailblazer Ilhan Omar Admits She Backs BDS Now That Election Is Over", "Pro-Palestinian lawmaker shakes up Israel status quo with seat on foreign affairs panel", "Rep. Ilhan Omar on Past Anti-Semitic Tweet: 'Those Were the Only Words I Could Think About', "Opinion | Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis", "A Jewish Republican called Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic. [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. [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. "[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. 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". "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abusesand the very Administration directing these human rights abusesis not a solution. Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. Her brother was a British citizen. [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. 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. [167], In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. [180] She described Trump's action as a "U.S. backed coup" and said that the U.S. should not "hand pick" foreign leaders[181] and should support "Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don't seem to add up. [53][54] Drazkowski later accused Omar of improperly using campaign funds for personal travel to Estonia and locations in the U.S.[17][55][35] Omar's campaign dismissed the accusations as politically motivated and accused Drazkowski of using public funds to harass a Muslim candidate. [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. 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. Elmi's social media account . [204] He made a series of false and misleading claims about Omar, including allegations that she had praised al-Qaeda and "smeared" American soldiers who had fought in the Battle of Mogadishu by bringing up the numerous Somali civilian casualties. citizen." "[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. U.S. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. [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. [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. [119][120], On November 5, 2021, Omar was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. [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. Ilhan then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, allegedly to help him earn a US citizenship. 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. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. 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. While Omar soaks up headlines for inciting President Trump, her elusive second husband and rumored sibling has been globe-trotting and sharing his adventures on social media. and Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally. In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. Omar has repeatedly denied that her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother; the congresswoman called the allegations "absurd and ridiculous." She says Elmi is a British citizen and. 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