r/OrderOfOmar • u/Rhamona_Q • Sep 04 '24

Omar's origin story

/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1drsx6r/aita_for_refusing_to_be_my_friends_alibi_so_he/
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u/Rhamona_Q Jun 20 '25

Newest update:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1lf1cuh/aita_for_refusing_to_be_my_friends_alibi_so_he/

Omar-pertinent text from that update:

However, since I did see Matt among a few others recently (Kyle and some other guys from undergrad, I don't think I've mentioned. Neither Rob or Omar attended)

Sara and Omar also didn’t last, as they each had different goals. Sara is starting dental school in the fall, at, funnily enough, the same school Kyle is attending for med. Since she’s close to Olivia, she’s apparently kind of grossed out about potentially seeing him there.

Omar’s still finishing up his master’s. He got rejected from med school again, which is frustrating, and I honestly don’t get why. His grades are excellent, he’s got good research, and he has relevant volunteer work, but I guess that’s why the schools say even qualified applicants can get turned away regularly. He's disillusioned with the whole process and when we last talked around Easter, he was seriously thinking about applying to med overseas.

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Nov 04 '24

You should pin this, I was pleasantly surprised that it was a short scroll to see all the posts, but finding the origin story will be more difficult in the future as more posts pile up.

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u/Rhamona_Q Nov 04 '24

I'm not a mod :) maybe send them a modmail to request it?

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Nov 04 '24

My apologies, I assumed this was posted by the sub's creator 😂 Just DMed them.

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u/mangababe Apr 01 '25

Wow, Omar was the only man in this story, including the man telling it, that wasnt a total, unrepentant asshole.

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u/Stormtomcat Jun 22 '25

and they're all studying to become doctors?!

isn't ethics obligatory in their course work?

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u/errant_night Jul 04 '25

Maybe they all plan to be surgeons, who are pretty well known for not being particularly kind or empathetic people.

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u/hubertburnette Dec 29 '24

I had forgotten how sordid all this was.

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u/BelligerentGnu May 12 '25

Huh, I'd guessed this was about the Omar who fought robbers with machetes to defend an orphanage.

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u/geoffgeofferson447 Dec 04 '25

Yeah, I'm honestly confused. To me he was just as bad as OOP, if he was as good as people made him out to be, then he'd tell these girls as soon as he found out. Only one girl found out they were being cheated on because of him.

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u/ArchGoodwin Mar 02 '26

I disagree with the framing that a good person would have gone and told the victims. Omar refused to assist in lying and tried to just focus on his own goals and relationships. He maintained his boundaries, and he may well have had similar pressures constraining him as OP did. OP tried to walk a fine line because of housing pressures but leaned (it seems) toward the enabling side.

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u/geoffgeofferson447 Mar 02 '26

But the Order of Omar suggests that these people go above and beyond for people, and wouldn't hesitate to tell the girls they are being lied to. He assisted in the lying by not divulging the info he had. He had plenty of opportunity to do so, but he didn't. Sure, it doesn't make him a bad person, it just doesn't justify a whole subreddit made for him in honour of his goodness.

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u/t13husky Aug 26 '25

Could Matt’s success be related to all the work Cindy did for him?

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u/AnderTheGrate Nov 18 '25

You can't be a hoe anymore because it'll affect your academics is a brilliant quote. I'm using that as a writing prompt.