Big time pivot from her initial response –accusing conservative journalists of ‘Islamophobia’.
‘I am legally married to one and culturally to another’: How Ilhan Omar desperately tried to shut down accusations of bigamy amid claims she was briefly married to her BROTHER to ‘commit immigration fraud’ while she was still with her current husband
- President Donald Trump suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar was ‘married to her brother’
- Reignited an explosive rumor that first emerged during Omar’s 2016 campaign
- Omar has failed to fully disprove the claims of bigamy and fraternal marriage
‘I’m not legally married to two people, but I am legally married to one and culturally married to another.’ That’s how Ilhan Omar’s campaign spokesman Ben Goldfarb summarized Omar’s conjugal arrangements in an email in August 2016, when Omar was running for Congress and her advisers were trying to stifle allegations of double marriage — with a man alleged to be her brother.
Story continues below advertisementAn internal campaign communique sent by Omar’s spokesman Ben Goldfarb revealing his issues with her marital status
Omar supplied this email to the Minnesota Campaign and Public Disclosure Board’s investigation into her campaign financing. That investigation concluded on June 6 by ordering Omar to refund $3,500 in misused campaign funds, and to pay a $500 fine. It also revealed that in 2014 and 2015, Omar may have broken federal and state law by filing a joint tax return with her husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi — when she was married to another man.
When conservative journalists in Minnesota raised the bigamy allegations in 2016, Omar issued a statement calling the allegations ‘baseless, absurd rumors’ and issued a statement accusing the journalists of ‘Islamophobia’. Her statement was taken verbatim from Goldfarb’s email. That same email appears to admit that the allegations are not without basis. Goldfarb describes how he tried to construct a denial based on ‘real background information’, but found it ‘impossible’:
Ilhan Omar (left) says she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (right) – a Somali migrant to Britain – at a ceremony in Minnesota in 2009 and then they had an Islamic divorce in 2011
Omar in a social media posting with her children and her first and current husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi
Omar’s second husband posted a selfie on Instagram yesterday just before Trump spoke showing off the trending FaceApp face editor and comparing himself to Angelina Jolie
‘…we are probably in a position where giving real background information is helpful in tying this up. That said, having no tried to write a statement multiple times that says, ‘I’m not legally married to two people but I am legally married to one and culturally married to another’, I think it’s impossible without making it even more confusing.’
Here’s the real background information about Omar’s ‘confusing’ marital history, in her own words. In 2016, Omar told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that she had married Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (Husband 1) in their Muslim ‘faith tradition’ in 2002, and that after having two children, they divorced in their ‘faith tradition’ in 2008. No marriage certificate was issued, and there is no documentary evidence for the divorce.
In 2009, Omar married a Somali immigrant to Britain named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (Husband 2) in a wedding in an unglamorous suburban state registry. The officiator was a Christian minister named Wilecia Harris, now a pastor at the Great and Mighty Works Ministries in Richfield, Minn.
And here’s the wedding certificate:
A marriage certificate from 2009 appears to show her second marriage was officiated by a Christian minister at a Minnesota registry – despite her previous marriage and divorce being in strict accordance with Islamic tradition and shariah law
The marriage certificate to her second husband dated February 12, 2009
It’s possible that Wilecia Harris might have performed only a civil ceremony, which would suffice under Minnesota law. It’s possible that Omar and Elmi didn’t know the officiant was a Christian minister. Still, given that Omar was and is a proponent of her ‘faith tradition’, it’s strange that she seems not to have consecrated her second marriage according to Islamic law or Somali tradition. The full certificate also shows that, despite Omar’s ‘faith tradition’, the couple seem to have been cohabiting before their marriage
Omar refuses to answer questions as to when and how she happened to meet a British subject, or why she married him
so soon after separating from the father of her children. Then again, she didn’t separate that much from Husband 1. Documents released on Monday seem to show that she and Husband 1 were living together in Minneapolis at the time of her marriage to Husband 2. And when Omar and Husband 2 went to college in Fargo at North Dakota State University, Husband 1 came too. That must have made for some awkward silences at the breakfast table.
According to Omar, Husband 2 went back to London in 2011 after a ‘faith-based’ divorce. But according to Alpha News, screenshots from Husband 2’s social media show him living in Minneapolis as late as August 2012. In the same year, she had a third child with Husband 1 and turned Husband 1 into Husband 3 with, she has claimed, another ‘faith tradition’ marriage. Regardless of the ‘faith tradition’ divorce from Husband 2, she was still legally married to him in civil law. Unwittingly or not, she was, as Ben Goldfarb admitted in 2016, now married to two people at the same time.
lhan Omar’s second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in a recent social media post – he is a British national and lives in London
Ilhan Omar’s second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in a recent social media post – he is a British national and lives in London
A social media post from Omar’s second husband taken in New York in 2017 purporting to be at the Trump Tower
Omar has sworn that she didn’t legally divorce Husband 2 until 2017 because she couldn’t get in touch with him. Apart from being an admission that she knew she was still legally married to him when she made her second ‘faith tradition’ marriage with Husband 1 and 3 in 2012, this is implausible. Now-deleted postings appear to show that Omar went to London in 2014, and that she and Elmi (Husband 2) were in touch on social media. And this week, new evidence discovered by investigative journalist David Steinberg appears to show that Husband 2 was in Nairobi from December 2012 — and that he was in contact with Omar’s sister.
The nature of Omar’s relationship to Husband 2 is clouded by as-yet unsubstantiated allegations of double marriage and immigration fraud, which Omar has consistently denied. In 2016, an anonymous writer posted photos on a Somali site alleging that Husband 2 is Omar’s brother. The post and a cached copy have both been deleted, and Spectator USA cannot verify them independently, but Scott Johnson of Powerline took copies:
A post which appears to disprove Omar’s claim she could not divorce her second husband because she had been out of touch with him – this picture purportedly taken in London during that time
Another screen-grab from the Somali website which appears to show Omar with her second husband
The posting includes photographs that appear to disprove Omar’s claim that she couldn’t divorce Husband 2 because she didn’t know where he was. The posting also claims that Husband 2 refers on social media to Omar children by Husband 1 & 3 as his ‘nieces and nephews’, that his and Omar’s father is called Nur Said Omar, and that her marriage to Husband 2 was false and bigamous:
‘A look at her social media accounts proves that at no point were her and Ahmed Hirsi [Husband 1 and 3] living apart,’ the anonymous poster to Somali Spot wrote, ‘nor was she ever in any other relationship. They have always been a couple, even when she was legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi [Husband 2].’ On Sunday, the Washington Examiner published what it described as ‘dozens of documents’ proving, the Examiner claims, that Omar was living with Husband 1 (Hirsi) while married to Husband 2 (Elmi).
Records already unearthed by David Steinberg appear to confirm that one ‘Ahmed N. Elmi’ studied at Arlington Senior High School in St Paul, MN. This Ahmed N. Elmi has the same birth date as the ‘Ahmed N. Elmi’ listed on Ilhan Omar’s marriage certificate of 2008 and divorce papers of 2017. Several of his classmates confirmed to Steinberg that the father of Ahmed N. Elmi the high schooler was called Nur Said Elmi Mohamed — the same name as a name used by Ilhan Omar’s father.
A ‘Throwback Thursday’ post shared by Omar’s second husband recalling his days at Arlington High School in Minnesota
Questioned by Alpha News, Husband 2 in London didn’t deny that he had attended high school in St Paul, MN. Meanwhile, his online profile included his degree from North Dakota State University. So there can be no doubt that Ahmed Elmi the high schooler is the same Ahmed Elmi who married Ilhan Omar — and who now claims not to know her at all.
A picture taken by Omar’s second husband while living in Stratford in east London
It’s impossible to read this mounting pile of credible evidence without wondering if Ilhan Omar was, perhaps unknowingly, implicated in education and immigration fraud, and whether, perhaps unknowingly, she was married to two men at the same time. So Cockburn can understand why questions have been raised about Omar’s domestic arrangements by investigators like Scott Johnson of Powerline; Preya Samsundar (now a GOP strategist) and Christine Baumann, formerly of Alpha News; and David Steinberg, formerly of PJ Media.
Cockburn can’t understand why Omar refuses to engage directly with these accusations of immigration fraud. For three years, websites have implied that she knowingly entered a false and even incestuous marriage, possibly for immigration and educational fraud. If the accusations are false, she could sue for defamation. Instead, she pretends that the accusations don’t exist — just as she pretends not to hear questions about her Minneapolis ward being a hotspot of terrorist recruitment. But they do exist, and the emails and documents Cockburn has seen suggest that Omar and her team know that at least some of the accusations may be true.
Cockburn also fails to understand why Minneapolis’s leading paper, the Star-Tribune (the ‘Strib’), was so slow to investigate this mountain of evidence. Which brings us back to Ben Goldfarb’s email of August 2016. Goldfarb advised Omar’s team how to dissuade a local reporter from digging into Omar’s story:
‘Someone should reach out to talk off the record [with Olson] and shut it down with him as we do with the Strib.’
Goldfarb advised Omar’s team how to dissuade a local reporter from digging into Omar’s story
Omar’s campaign finance irregularities — and perhaps also advance information about further releases of damaging evidence — seem to have woken the Strib from its slumbers. Earlier this month, the editorial board noted that filing false tax returns is against the law. It also described the entire issue as ‘worthy of greater scrutiny’. It certainly is, and one of the questions worthy of scrutiny is why the Strib took so long to address a scandal on its own doorstep, and why it allowed itself to be ‘shut down’ in the first place. As Omar has said, the allegations are a ‘shit show’.
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immigration fraud should be a crime punishable by lots of jail time. look forward to seeing both her and her brother in orange jump suits.
wont work, she is a citizen, and i dont think they have a way to remove that
Don’t forget we had a different Congress, Court and the atmosphere in US at that time. “Pislamophobia” didn’t exist yet.
Yes, of course. But I am sure nothing will happen to her at all.
The perverted libturds will understand and accept the parasitic feral animal muslim’s excuse, but anyone with a functioning brain cell would never had voted that POS oxygen thief into any office!
Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to US :
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
Nobody cares about this in The House??
Pelosi…??
AOC?
the real scandal here is the culpability of the minneapolis democrat-run media. an 8-year old could have scooped this story years ago, but the democrat-media in the transgender cities won’t touch it
Agree 100%
Agreed. It’s an “Arkansas arrangement”.
Q: What is the first thing a 13 year old Arkansas girl says after sex?
A: “Get off, Daddy, you’re crushing my cigarettes”.
They say they wear that head-towel out of modesty.
Ha!!
These are one sick bunch of people.
ALL of islam was founded on CRIMINAL PRINCIPLES. Old MO played nice to those in Medina and sneaked back to sack and destroy the place as he murdered the Jews there. Nothing has changed and islam is indeed CRIMINAL. Mo deserved to be poisoned by his wife and suffer so long as well , It was a shame that the infidels did not destroy criminal islam way back then!
Shouldn’t ICE and the Department of Justice be looking into this? Isn’t this a fraud on the American Gov’t? Legal ramifications should be coming!
The second marriage was obviously a paper marriage for immigration purposes.
A few of those pictures of Omar’s brusband remind me of the late musician Prince, in his “Purple Reign” days….
Instead of continually asking this pig if she married her brother, why doesn’t the gov just charge her with fraud and let the courts sort it out. Clearly, there is some kind of illegal activity here. How deep it goes, is what needs to be investigated.
Some people…..married their own siblings.
…..to perpetrate their their fraudulent immigration statuses here. Who knows the extent of all the fraud dumped on us back when obama was pulling his scam here. They are also sending hundreds of millions in cash back to somalia through their scam “day care frauds” that they’re pulling on MN and the US government. But let’s not talk about that either, say the politicians.
If a man and a woman get married in Mogadishu but get divorced in Minneapolis, are they still brother and sister?
Who is investigating? FBI?
Brilliant:)
Yes, yes and yes.
“Omar” may not even be an actual “omar”. Reportedly, she’s part of the Elmi “family” that immigrated to the US with another family named Omar. In their first act of fraud, both families conspired to become one (the omars) due to immigration problems with the Elmis. Due to the “urgency” of obama’s rush to dump these hostile enemies of America here, probably not much “vetting” of their backgrounds was done, anyway. Who knows the extent of the immigration fraud enacted by the democrats on the country back then?
A cultural habit of Negroes and many in the TURD world. Their problem? INCEST!
http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/siowfa13/Laughing_Animals_2570870k.jpg
Another name for rep omar is ‘prostitute’! Keep in mind that the obama caused those somalies to be imported into America and concentrated in Mn for the purpose of getting another moslem into a position of power in America. Along with K.Ellison and the many other foreign and domestic traitors America will be doomed to being under sharia unless these vermin are purged completely from our country.
The American-American
Tough day for the Omar apologists.Obviously,she has no more understanding of the marriage law than she does of the Constitution.
This is all so sick..
However, ‘the sickness’ is reflective of just how corrupted Minnesota has become today.. People here are unbelievably unwilling to address a hard truth here. …Any hard TRUTH..
They are actually willing to embrace this chain of ILLEGAL INSANITY, and just let it pass..
This is likely one of the most outrageous series of interconnected series of illegal activities of this nature in the entire history of the United States Congress, and most definitely in Minnesota. But…’Nothing to see here in Minnesota, and just ‘move along – nothing to see here” is the Minnesota answer. Truly.. Here, this master ‘Grifter’ is seen as a rock star, and a ‘victim’ no less..
I live in Minnesota.. I am ashamed to be a Minnesotan these days..
Ilhan Omar is an ungrateful and dangerous anti-Judeo-Christian & Anti-American bigot, and shameless opportunist, and con artist.
She learned her lessons well, growing up in HER barbaric and terror ridden hell hole in Somalia. Her family there was and is responsible for the mess they created there. They were driven out of that place to Kenya, by yet but another dictator ruled group. This is their way of life there. …Ruled by the ‘Big Con’, by the gun and sword, and by way of intimidation, murder, terrorism, and barbarism.
Now, she wants to recreate that very same barbaric Marxist mess here. ..NO THANKS….
.. I am ashamed to be a Minnesotan these days.. Most of these loony lefties here – including those running our Minnesota government and top law enforcement offices – are far too corrupt, far too stupid and naive to see her for what she is – AND what she represents, and too cowardly to do anything about it even if they do…
Meanwhile, the mainstream Minnesota media, having abandoned any semblance of ‘journalistic responsibility’ have permanently pressed ‘The Snooze Button’..
.. I am ashamed and EMBARRASSED to be a Minnesotan these days..
Ilhan omar is a CON-WOMAN and should be censured, expelled, impeached, fired from the Congress.
Enough! We should cheer on the prosecution of this Congresswoman for all her crimes to the full extent of the law, and when and if found guilty, sentence her to the maximum prison time allowed or, in the alternative, have her deported. In the meantime, she should immediately face censure by Congress.
Strip her of her US citizenship, put her in prison along with those relatives that benefited from the fraud.
OMAR isn’t her name, arrest and deport the family she piggybacked on! Do it, do it now!!!
TRUMP 2020
Incest is a pleasure for the whole family – isn’t it? This wicked Brotherfucker’s cultural marriage has the same binding obligation as to obey the Koran and the sharia? All above any law – she deserves to be raped and stoned!
No, no not raped and stoned. But she must be investigated as thoroughly as President Trump
has been investigated.
By the way incest is a family-affair in the islam/muslim world.
Her cousin is likely a humgoat!
The investigation is one part of the prosecution – right. Sharia law is what those creepy monsters are doing to the rest of the world – consequently after their own law raping and stoning is the adequate procedure for those devils
I am not against execution, but not by stoning.
However caning for “quality-of-life” crimes is a very, very good
deterrent. Lets say five to ten reps
Under Sharia, marriages must be consummated before divorce can be granted. This includes marriages of convenience.
Ilhan omar must be investigated thoroughly. She may have arrived to the United States on a false
identity. I am fearful of her being part of an infiltration of our Government by terrorists.
Ilhan omar should be investigated as much as our president!
President Trump is “Mr Clean”, are we going to be able to say the same about ilhan omar?
Obama made sure that all parts of our Western Culture are infiltrated. Government by all means was infiltrated. Hitlery and BHO did their best to infiltrate and destroy WESTERN CULTURE!
A prime example is CA -shariah -queer and all LIB LEFT is what the schools -all levels has been changed to and it tests at the bottom of the heap—garbage and trash. Look what is going on at story time in the libraries -disgusting and WRONG! CA IS TOTALLY CORRUPT!
It is a socialist state, hence the degeneration of entire cities.
Again:
”Even though we are a nation of immigrants we are also a nations of laws. Illegal immigrants have broken those laws. That’s why in the last couple of years deportations are up 8%.
If they keep breaking the laws deportations will continue”
-Obomit on TV in 2014
(It’s in Fox news today)
Send them back Donald.
Polygamy, immigration fraud, campaign finance fraud, misuse of funds… is there any law she Won’t break??!!!
Ask our President Trump who said he was “upset that his supporters at his Greenville, NC rally yelled ‘Send her back’!”
This is one criminal for islam . Making her pay by sending back her whole family would be a good start. She needs to serve time in solitary and then made to leave the USA never to return. There are plenty like her but she is the example we need to exhibit and destroy. Then follow suit and DEPORT MILLIONS OF CRIMINALS LIKE THIS ISLAM0NAZI!
Excuses, excuses.