by Roger Kimball
We have had Ilhan’s number at least since 2016, back when she was running for a seat in Minnesota’s state government.
Where is William of Occam when you need him? The celebrated author of “Occam’s Razor”—Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem—would be a useful chap to have around when trying to understand The Case of Ilhan. The hijab-clad, Trump-and-America-hating, Somali-born woman who has been representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since January 3, 2019, is everywhere in the news. The proximate cause of this new interest was the October 12 pre-dawn search of Ilhan’s Washington, D.C., home by Homeland Security Investigations. The search took about five hours and yielded a number of potentially interesting items, including cell phones, personal computers, notebooks, and her passport.
That DHSI raid was an eyebrow-raising event. But really, at this point, the news was almost superfluous. Indeed, we have had Ilhan’s number at least since 2016, back when she was running for a seat in Minnesota’s state government. It was then that Powerline’s Scott Johnson first polished his magnifying glass and began, terrier-like, to follow the trail of this incestuous fraudster. Johnson recently released a compilation of research, originally put together by David Steinberg and published on X, about Ilhan. Their work was supplemented in 2020 with an excellent book by Benjamin Weingarten called American Ingrate.
Careful readers will note that I have thus far omitted to disclose the surname of this infamous Ilhan. That is because, until recently, we have been misled about that. Weingarten repeats the name she has been known by in his subtitle: “Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party.” But while he accurately describes the effect of Ilhan’s political activities, it is no longer certain that we can rightly address her as “Omar.” Really, it now seems she should be known as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.” That, anyway, is how the Department of Justice addressed her in a recent filing.
And who is this “Nur Said Elmi”? Why, that would be Ilhan’s second husband, the man she married in 2019. It is also overwhelmingly likely that he is her brother. How overwhelmingly? Five years ago, Miranda Devine noted that DNA test results showed that there was a “99.999998 percent chance” that said Nur Said Elmi was not only Ilhan’s second husband but also her brother. Devine also pointed out that “a few hours before we went to press, my informant was arrested by Biden’s FBI. Funny that.” Yes, hilarious. Recently asked point blank whether she had married her brother, Ilhan said “not to my knowledge,” a response worthy of Bill Clinton.
If you are awake, then you know that Ilhan’s irregular habits about saying “I do” are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There is also the matter of her immigration status. She applied to come to this country from Somalia as a child. But now there are credible allegations that she was in fact an adult when she applied to come to this country and that someone altered her application to show that she was still 17. If true—and I am willing to take bets on it—then she is in deep trouble. As legal scholar John Yoo pointed out, “The minute that it’s discovered that she either filed false naturalization papers or was part of a conspiracy to do so, she’s not a citizen, and she has to be ejected from Congress immediately, and she really was never legitimately elected to Congress for the last few years.”
Remember all of those “Learning Centers” in Minneapolis, the fake government-funded (i.e., taxpayer-funded) organizations that were just fronts for Somali fraud? Thanks to Nick Shirley and others, we know that the ticket for that systematic fraudulent activity was some 9 billion-with-a-“B” dollars. Extra credit question: who is the congressional representative for Minneapolis? Yes, that’s right, it’s our girl Ilhan.
If you can’t get enough scandal about her, try searching for “Ilhan wine fraud” or “Ilhan tax fraud.” If that is not enough, try looking into her family’s activities in Somalia. It turns out that both her father and grandfather were high-ranking military officials in the regime of Siad Barre, which killed more than 100,000 people in the infamous Isaaq genocide.
The foundation for these revelations was laid largely by Scott Johnson. As he notes in a prelude to the compilation mentioned above, already in 2019,
there was probable cause to believe that Omar had committed a wide variety of criminal misconduct. At the time, Omar’s role in creating the circumstances leading to the Feeding Our Future fraud—a case which resulted in the 2025 conviction of her close relative/campaign worker and U.S. taxpayer funds being sent to Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia—had not yet occurred, nor had her substantial financial disclosure “accounting error.”
Reports of her campaign’s links to the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood’s “open secret” of widespread vote-buying among Somalis . . . were still few. And the assertion did not include my January 24, 2019 story . . . on the remarkable national security risk of her sister Sahra Noor’s husband. . . . For a decade, every Democratic Party figure and member of the media who denigrated these articles lied to you. Either they lied about the quality and scale of evidence, or they lied about having performed due diligence. By October 2020, perhaps a hundred items of evidence with only one rational reason to exist had been made public. As of October 2026, no public evidence beyond Omar’s denial supports Omar’s story. We are beyond reasonable doubt.
Naturally, the Dems are pushing the narrative that Ilhan’s current woes are all because mean old Donald Trump doesn’t like her and is pursuing her as a matter of partisan lawfare. That conveniently omits the fact that, as Jonathan Turley and others have pointed out, the DOJ began investigating aspects of her case under Joe Biden. And what will the outcome or upshot be? Alan Dershowitz predicts that Ilhan will resign from Congress. “There are too many things now stacked against her. She is not going to want to stick this out.” Maybe so. But maybe she will first be reelected on November 3, just in time for the government to begin denaturalization and deportation proceedings. That’s if she is lucky and does not find herself in jail. What is it that people say about the wheels of justice? Oh, right, that they may grind slowly, but they also grind exceedingly fine. Ilhan whatever-her-name-is is on the cusp of discovering the truth of that old saw.
Photo: US Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat from Minnesota, waits for the arrival of Britain's King Charles III during a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and the president and publisher of Encounter Books. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (St. Augustine's Press), The Rape of the Masters (Encounter), Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Ivan R. Dee), and Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity (Ivan R. Dee). Most recently, he edited and contributed to Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads (Encounter) and contributed to Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order (Bombardier).
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/25/thoughts-about-ilhan-whats-her-name/
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