Ilhan Omar’s first husband was “embarrassed” when her effeminate “brother” — who she is accused of marrying — came to live with them in Minnesota, a family friend told The Post.
The congresswoman (D-Minn.) had two young children with Ahmed Hirsi, when she suddenly split from him in 2009. She then quickly married an “extremely feminine Somali guy from London,” Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, fond of wearing short shorts with cowboy boots.
She was able to do this as she had only been wed to Ahmed in a 2002 Islamic ceremony which was not recognized by the state.
One of Hirsi’s close friends claimed Omar and her first husband were actually still together, and Elmi suddenly moving in caused strain on their relationship. The legal marriage was reportedly so he could get “papers” to start a new life in the US, as The Post has previously reported.
“The whole community was gossiping about [Elmi] when he first arrived,” the source, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Post.
“He was walking around in tight female clothing, which is heavily frowned upon in the Somali community, so I went to ask Ahmed about it.
“He told me that it was his wife’s brother from London and that Ilhan had ‘embarrassed all of us by bringing him here’. Ahmed used very strong words and said it was ‘disgusting.’”
Hirsi is said to have been at the heart of Minnesota’s Somali community and was hugely popular after settling there with his family.
“He was very sociable and had his finger on the pulse of everything that was happening,” the source told The Post.
“Ahmed was known by his nickname, South Side. He is a good man and has friends all over town.”
But the source claimed to have noticed a change in Hirsi when an Elmi moved to Minneapolis.
“All of the Somalis in Minneapolis were gossiping and trying to find out who this guy was,” he said. “Then everyone realized it was Nur Said Elmi’s son, and Ilhan’s brother. Everybody was shocked.”
Repeating the allegations which have dogged Omar for years, the source said “Ahmed told me it was his wife [Omar] who brought him over, and it was her brother,” he told The Post.
echo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Getting sloppy… pick a bullshit and narrative and stick with it. Is her name Omar or not? Instead of asking which lies we should believe, maybe we should accepting lies and demand hard proof.
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 3 hours ago
I think they default to the name not as an acknowledgment of it as her true name, but because it is how she is identified.
Like Hitler and Stalin had real names… And we might make fun of them for rebranding themselves… But we don’t habitually refer to them as their actual names.
It’s like that.
echo@lemmy.today 19 minutes ago
Hitler identified as Hitler because that is the name he was given. There were people who wanted to ridicule and bring Hitler down who called him by his father’s name, but that didn’t change the fact that he was Hitler. In that since, the whole Omar thing seems very much "like that’. Still… why aren’t the asshats who are taunting Omar using the same supposed name against her consistently? It just seems sloppy and proof that they’re full of shit.