Another point for the “conspiracy theorists” who were gaslighted and lied to for YEARS about Rep. Ilhan Omar and her relationship with her brother.
The “Squad” member has been longtime rumored to have been married to her brother, which she denied. However, the truth finally came to light in a new report, confirming the rumor.
Trending Politics reports:
According to those close to the Democrat, Omar allegedly vowed to “do what she had to do” to get her brother papers authorizing him to live in the country. Conservative critics cried foul, accusing her of marrying Ahmed Elmi in an unlawful bid to game the U.S. citizenship system.
That’s exactly what she did, claims one Somali community leader.
Abdihakim Osman, a former friend of the Squad congresswoman, is the first person to come forward and confirm that it was Rep. Omar’s intention all along to get her brother papers to live in the U.S. Because of the lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, no paperwork of their sibling relationship is available, allowing her deception to fly under the radar for two decades.
“She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country,” Osman told the Daily Mail.
It was reported that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, in a Muslim ceremony that was unrecognized legally, and then the couple split up in 2008. However, Omar had a baby while married to her brother, Elmi, in 2009.
What in the Alabama is going on here…
“When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community,” Osman explained. “When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it… No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later.”
Osman’s revelations are sure to spark renewed focus on Omar’s relationship with her brother. Originally, she dismissed accusations of a false marriage as “baseless, absurd rumors” and accused journalists of Islamophobia if they dared to ask about her marriage to Elmi. More recently, she has stayed quiet and refused to answer further questions.
“The Congresswoman is focused on the work her constituents sent her to Washington to accomplish,” a spokesperson for the congresswoman said to the outlet.
Omar and her first husband, Hirsi, were married in a Muslim ceremony that went unrecognized by the state of Michigan because they did not file paperwork. The couple had their first child while married and a second while she was legally married to Elmi.
By the late 2000s, Elmi, an “effeminate” man, began appearing by her side in the community, Osman confirmed.
“People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy,” Osman revealed. “He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him.”
“[Hirsi] and Ilhan both told me it was Ilhan’s brother and he had been living in London but he was mixing with what were seen as bad influences that the family did not like. So they sent him to Minneapolis as ‘rehab,’” the community leader added.
Lat month, the New York Post reported that the FBI was launching a probe into Omar’s marriage to Elmi, reportedly boasting a “trove of documents” to hand over to authorities.
So, as it would appear, not only with Omar marry her own brother, she also committed marriage fraud.