Furthermore, he said that the marriage was conducted through a Christian minister even though both Omar and Ahmed Elmi are Muslim, because he suspects imams in the Minneapolis area would have ...

Ilhan Omar reacted to a report that confirmed that her second husband Ahmed Elmi is her brother. An old rumor that Rep Ilhan Omar married her brother and committed immigration fraud resurfaced as ...

Omar and Hirsi had two children together without being legally married, and separated in 2008. She legally married Elmi in 2009 but later reconciled with Hirsi and had another child with him in 2012.

Omar shot down unproven claims spread in some right-wing circles that her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was actually her brother and the two had really wed to advance his immigration case.

He reportedly said that the marriage was conducted through a Christian minister even though both Omar and Ahmed Elmi are Muslims. The DailyMail provided a chronology of events that unfolded after ...