Look, I hate Ilhan Omar as much as I could hate any human in my life, but I’m not going to celebrate her father Nur Omar Mohamed dying after falling into a coma from the COVID-19 virus in Minnesota. I don’t know what kind of man Nur Omar Mohamed was, therefore I really can’t judge him. That’s just how I’m wired. I’m not a progressive communist who celebrates death of my political enemies. Nur Omar Mohamed was 67 years old.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) father Nur Omar Mohamed has died due to complications related to the novel coronavirus, the Minnesota lawmaker announced Monday evening.
“It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19,” Omar said in a statement Monday evening.
“No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him,” the statement continued. “My family and I ask for your respect and privacy during this time.”
Omar also included the an Arabic phrase from the Quran reading, “Surely we belong to God and to him shall we return”: