Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar comes from a big family and people often ask about her brothers because of all the talk around her life and background. She was born in Somalia and grew up as the youngest in a group of seven kids.
That means she has six older siblings some brothers and some sisters though she keeps most of their names private for family reasons.
From what has come out in interviews and reports over the years Ilhan Omar grew up with her father and grandfather after her mother passed away when she was very young.
The family left Somalia during the civil war spent time in a refugee camp in Kenya and then came to the United States in the nineteen nineties.
They settled in Minnesota where she eventually got into politics and became the representative for her district.
One sibling who has been mentioned publicly is her sister Sahra Noor who works in health care and has done things like run a clinic in the Twin Cities area before moving on to other projects including some work in Kenya.
As for brothers the details stay pretty quiet. She has said in the past that she has brothers but she does not share full names or much about their lives probably to protect their privacy like she does with the rest of the family.
A lot of the questions about a brother tie back to old stories and claims that started years ago mostly online and in some political circles.
Those claims suggested that one of her past husbands Ahmed Nur Said Elmi might have been her brother and that the marriage was done for immigration reasons. Ilhan Omar has called those ideas false and offensive many times.
News outlets in Minnesota like the Star Tribune looked into it along with other places and they could not find proof to back up the brother part.
Fact checks from different groups have said the same thing the allegation does not hold up and she has shared records about her marriages to show her side.
Her family story really focuses more on how they made it through tough times as refugees and how her father and grandfather raised her with values that pushed her toward public service. She talks about them a lot more than listing out every sibling.
In the end Ilhan Omar has brothers as part of those six older siblings but their personal stories are not out there much and the main attention stays on her own path from refugee to congresswoman rather than deep family details.
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