(DC Pundit) – Rep. Ilhan Omar’s personal life has once again taken center stage in the political theater. Just when we thought we’d seen the last of the Minnesota Democrat’s scandalous headlines (barring her usual anti-Semitic gaffes, of course), a new chapter unfolds in the saga of her, shall we say, unique marital history.
According to a report in the U.K. Daily Mail that’s spicier than a Somali restaurant’s secret recipe, sources claim Omar confided in friends that her “second husband” was actually her brother, and their marriage was nothing more than an immigration paperwork party.
Enter Abdihakim Osman, a friend of Omar’s first/third husband (keep up, folks, this is more complicated than quantum physics). Osman claims that in Minneapolis’ Somali community, this brotherly love was a badly kept secret. He even suggests the couple opted for a Christian minister to tie the knot, presumably because local imams might have raised an eyebrow or two at the family reunion masquerading as a wedding.
Let’s break down this marital merry-go-round, shall we? Omar first married Ahmed Hirsi in a 2002 Muslim ceremony, but they didn’t bother registering it with the state. Then enters Ahmed Elmi, described by Osman as an effeminate young man sent from the U.K. for “rehab.” One can only assume this rehabilitation didn’t involve substance abuse, unless the substance in question was excessive fashion sense.
“People began noticing that Ilhan and [Hirsi] were often with a very effeminate young guy,” Osman said. “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.”
• Omar's former friend, Ahmed Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi. pic.twitter.com/uzYmRDnxzB
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While Omar’s first wedding was apparently a grand affair uniting two large clans, her marriage to Elmi was so hush-hush, it makes Area 51 look like an open house. “No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,” Osman revealed.
Omar allegedly told Osman she needed to “get papers for her brother to go to school.”
The saga continued with Omar divorcing Elmi in 2017, “remarrying” Hirsi in 2018 (quotation marks necessary because they apparently never really parted), and then divorcing him again after an affair with her chief fundraiser.
Now, with the FBI reportedly sniffing around “a trove of documents” related to Omar’s marital history, it seems this political soap opera might be heading for a season finale. Marriage fraud, after all, can carry up to five years in jail and $250,000 in fines – a plot twist Omar probably didn’t see coming.
As this tale of love, politics, and questionable paperwork unfolds, one thing’s for certain: Ilhan Omar’s family tree is more tangled than a bowl of spaghetti. And while she may no longer be able to hide behind cries of conspiracy theories or Islamophobia, she’s certainly given us all a masterclass in how to keep political journalists employed. Bravo, Congresswoman. Bravo.
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