[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. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. ", "Florida Republican condemned for suggesting Ilhan Omar be executed for treason", "Florida Primary Election Results: 13th Congressional District", "Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen", "House Votes To Condemn Trump's 'Racist Comments', "Federal agency: "Go back to where you came from" is discrimination", "Trump slams congresswomen; crowd roars, 'Send her back! 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. This is a humanitarian crisis inflicted by our own leadership," she said. What became of Elmi afterwards has remained somewhat of a mystery. Omar's statement. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. [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. 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[35][33] In response to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune arguing that Omar should be more transparent about her use of campaign funds, she said: "these people are part of systems that have historically been disturbingly motivated to silence, discredit and dehumanize influencers who threaten the establishment. Conservative bloggers have for years claimed that Omar's second husband, British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card. [189][190] In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest. Omar said that relationship ended in 2011 and the two divorced in their faith tradition, but Omar didn't take legal action to divorce him until 2017. The social media hashtag #IStandWithIlhanOmar was soon trending in the United States and other countries. Omar has stated that she and Hirsi married within their faith tradition in 2002. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. [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. 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. "[126][127][124] Omar has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. [123][125] In a 2012 tweet, she wrote, "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. [155] On February 2, 2023, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a resolution, on a party-line vote, to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for what Speaker Kevin McCarthy called "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks. 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. ", In response to the rumor, Omar issued a statement in 2016 describing the issue as one based on "a difficult part of my personal history that I did not consider relevant in the context of a political campaign," and she labeled accusations that her former husband was also her brother "absurd and offensive. (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012). Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar exchanged vows in 2009 and they divorced in 2017. [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. "Minnesota House Hopeful Calls Marriage, Fraud Claims 'Lies.'" In 2016, when it looked like Ilhan Omar stood a good chance of becoming the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives, rumors swirled that she had married her brother in an illegal effort to facilitate his obtaining U.S. citizenship status. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. [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. [191] He pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19. 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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). Thanks for contacting us. The claim first appeared in 2016 as an anonymous, since-deleted post on SomaliSpot, an online discussion forum geared toward the Somali community. The next year, she. Montemayor, Stephen "On the Edge of Making History, Ilhan Omar Confronts Fresh Wave of Scrutiny." [198] Neither candidate won their primary election. 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. 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