Rashida Tlaib’s THOBE, and Ilhan Omar’s HIJAB, are making congressional history

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Now-deleted Omar tweet revealed father's family name is same as former husband's

Media fact-checkers are choosing to ignore a now-deleted social media post by Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar (Minn.) that suggests her father has the same family name as her former husband, who many suspect is also her brother.

The 2013 post by Omar wishing a Happy Father's Day to a man named "Nur Said" resurfaced late Monday night when Imam Mohamad Tawhidi pointed to it as further evidence that Omar's previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was her brother. In Somali culture, a man's middle name is typically the name of his father. Omar deleted the tweet revealing her father's name on Tuesday at 5:23 a.m., according to ProPublica's tracker of deleted tweets.

The accusation that Omar married her brother has plagued her since she first ran for public office in 2016, and she has provided little to no information to refute it aside from suggesting the accusations themselves are evidence of anti-Muslim bigotry. Media outlets such as CNN and the Daily Beast, neither of which received any cooperation from Omar, have nonetheless stepped in to label the accusation a "disgusting lie" and "baseless smear."

But neither appears ready to reevaluate their conclusions in light of Omar’s recently resurfaced—and deleted—tweet.

Asked about the new information, the Daily Beast‘s Will Sommer, who labeled the accusation a "baseless smear" earlier this summer, questioned whether the deleted post actually contained new information.

"So this claim that Omar's father is named Nur Said Elmi Mohamed has been around since at least Oct 2018," Sommer wrote in an email, pointing to a report from PJ Media's David Steinberg, who used old Minnesota public school records to determine Omar's father's name. "I haven't seen any official government documents or anything, so I don't know if that's actually his full name, but this has circulated on the right for at least a year."

Omar's post, however, confirmed Steinberg's findings. Sommer himself had previously rejected Steinberg's report, complaining that it was based on anonymous sources.

Fact-Checkers Decline to Revisit Ilhan Omar Marriage Question
 
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Tlaib Has Promoted Four Viral Racial Hoaxes in 2019

Has not corrected comments on debunked stories

David Rutz - OCTOBER 2, 2019 5:00 AM

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) has promoted at least four racially charged hoaxes or debunked stories on Twitter in 2019 and failed to issue statements retracting or correcting her comments.

The most recent example: the case of Amari Allen, a black 12-year-old girl in Virginia who claimed three white boys in her class pinned her down and cut off her dreadlocks. Allen has since recanted the story, but Tlaib has not issued a correction or deleted her tweet praising Allen as "courageous & strong" and having a "power that threatens their core."
 
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Tlaib Has Promoted Four Viral Racial Hoaxes in 2019

Has not corrected comments on debunked stories

David Rutz - OCTOBER 2, 2019 5:00 AM

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) has promoted at least four racially charged hoaxes or debunked stories on Twitter in 2019 and failed to issue statements retracting or correcting her comments.

The most recent example: the case of Amari Allen, a black 12-year-old girl in Virginia who claimed three white boys in her class pinned her down and cut off her dreadlocks. Allen has since recanted the story, but Tlaib has not issued a correction or deleted her tweet praising Allen as "courageous & strong" and having a "power that threatens their core."
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This has gotta be a boy who cried wolf situation for people eventually
 
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