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.
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