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Ilhan Omar

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The Resume

    (October 4, 1981- )
    Born in Mogadishu, Somalia
    Raised in Baidoa, Somalia
    Later based in Minneapolis
    Member of the United States House of Representatives (5th district of Minnesota, 2016– )
    Member of ‘The Squad’ (US Congressional group also consisting of Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
    Legal U.S. citizen (2000)

Why she might be annoying:

    She regularly denounces Israel.
    Her daughter was a key organizer in the American chapter of the ‘school strike for climate’ (skipping classes for demonstrations against global warming).
    She was hospitalized after a concussion in a brawl at a (2014, Cedar-Riverside) precinct caucus — which one City Council member warned her boss to keep her out of.
    A Republican state representative successfully called her out for using campaign funds on unrelated expenditures (2018).
    Senator Rand Paul proposed buying her a plane ticket to her homeland to ‘learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia.’ (Hey, she was born there and fled the Somali civil war!)

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her father and grandfather would raise her, then age two (and the youngest of seven), upon her mother’s death.
    As a teenager in the States, she would serve as her grandfather’s translator at caucus meetings.
    She began her professional career as a community nutrition educator.
    She is the only member of ‘the Squad’ not to be born in the States.
    As a counter-response to the 2019 Trump rally involving chants of ‘send her back,’ she invited Nancy Pelosi to Ghana to honor the 400th anniversary of the American slave trade.

Credit: Cool It All Right?


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 474 Votes: 46.41% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4229 Votes: 45.16% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5515 Votes: 37.52% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 3684 Votes: 39.36% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1790 Votes: 59.44% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 193 Votes: 57.51% Annoying