BREAKING: Ilhan Omar Did Marry Her Brother, Friend Claims In Bombshell Report

Rep. Ilhan Omar once told friends that the man who later became her second husband was actually her brother, according to a former associate who is now speaking publicly for the first time.

The allegation, reported by DailyMail.com, centers on claims that Omar and Ahmed Elmi shocked Minneapolis’ Somali community years ago, when Omar quietly married Elmi after previously identifying him as a sibling.

Abdihakim Osman said Omar told him she wanted to help Elmi obtain legal status so he could remain in the United States while she was still married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi. Osman said few people realized at the time that plan ultimately involved marrying him.

“No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,” Osman, 40, told DailyMail.com.

Osman’s account is expected to revive calls for an investigation into the Minnesota Democrat, who has repeatedly refused to answer questions about her marriage to Elmi. Omar initially dismissed reports suggesting she married her brother as “baseless, absurd rumors,” accusing journalists of Islamophobia, but has since declined to comment publicly.

Her spokesman told DailyMail.com that Omar, now 37, does not address matters involving her family or personal life.

“The Congresswoman is focused on the work her constituents sent her to Washington to accomplish,” he said.

Omar married Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony that was not registered with the state, a common practice within immigrant communities. The couple had two children together.

Osman said Elmi appeared in Minneapolis in the late 2000s and that Omar and Hirsi, whom he referred to by his nickname “Southside,” repeatedly identified Elmi as Omar’s brother.

“People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy,” Osman said through an interpreter.

“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.’”

Osman, who runs a Somali-focused Facebook blog called Xerta Shekh, said Omar’s marriage to Elmi was kept secret, unlike her first wedding.

Washington, DC – January 26, 2023: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks in support of the No Muslim Ban bill during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol.

“When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the Minneapolis community,” he said. “I would say there were 100-150 people there.”

“But when she married Elmi, no one even knew about it.”

At the time, Osman said Hirsi was better known within the Somali community than Omar.

“He was a footballer, he promoted a lot of Somali shows, he was very popular,” Osman said. “So the scandal was about [Hirsi’s] brother-in-law more than Ilhan’s brother.”

Rumors that Omar and Elmi are siblings have circulated for years, but documentation from war-torn Somalia has made confirming their relationship difficult.

The first public report appeared in 2016 on the website Somalispot, which said Elmi, 34, enrolled at North Dakota State University shortly after marrying Omar and later returned to the United Kingdom.

The New York Post reported last month that the FBI had met with a source in Minneapolis who provided “a trove of documents” relating to the marriage. Any findings were expected to be shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Education. Convictions for marriage fraud can carry penalties of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Marriage records show Omar and Elmi wed on Feb. 12, 2009, at a Hennepin County office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Omar has said she and Hirsi separated in 2008, though their religious marriage and separation were never legally recognized.

The records list the couple as living together in Columbia Heights, a suburb north of Minneapolis.

The ceremony was officiated by Christian minister Wilecia Harris. When DailyMail.com contacted her last year, she declined to discuss the wedding or explain why a Muslim couple asked her to perform the ceremony.

Harris and her husband, Marcus, run Great and Mighty Works Ministries in Richfield, Minnesota, described on its Facebook page as a “nondenominational, Bible believing, Bible teaching, and Bible living ministry that believes in being a living example of Jesus the anointed one!”

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