Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, a hard-left Democrat, narrowly won re-election last week by defeating a Somali challenger, State Sen. Omar Fateh. Yet immediately thereafter, he signaled the future victory of Fateh and his Somali brethren by devoting much of his victory speech to expressing gratitude to the city’s Somali residents (numbering at least 20,000) in the Somali language. In part, here is what the mayor said, basically:
Dadweynaha weyn ee Minneapolis, waxaan taas si ula kac ah u leeyahay, sababtoo ah meel kasta oo aad ka timid, Minneapolis waa inay noqotaa meel aad ku faano inaad ku noolaato. Haddii aad ka timid Boosaaso ama Muqdisho, haddii aad ka timid Hargeysa ama Garoowe, haddii aad ka timid Beledweyne ama koonfur-galbeed, Minneapolis waa meel aad u timaado raadinta barwaaqada, meel aad u timaado in aad qoyskaaga kobciso.
Which translates to:
To the great people of Minneapolis, and I say that very intentionally, because no matter where you are from, Minneapolis should be a place where you are proud to call home. Whether you are from Bosaso or Mogadishu, whether you are from Hargeisa or Garowe, whether you are from Beledweyne or southwest, Minneapolis is a place where you come to seek prosperity, where you come to raise your family.
According to Wikipedia, Jacob Frey was born into a Jewish family in Arlington County, Virginia, and is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he excelled in track and field. Yet somehow, after moving to Minneapolis to practice “civil rights” law, he has morphed into a huge Somali booster prone to speaking directly to Somalis in their own language.
Not surprisingly, the election has inspired the emergence of a tribalist split between the local Somali clans. Mirroring the ongoing civil war in their homeland, which has been underway virtually since Somalia acquired its independence in the 1960s, the Hawiye and Daarood clans supported different candidates in the mayoral contest. The schism was in fact evident within the immediate family of Rep. Ilhan Omar, another Dem and member of “The Squad.” Omar allied herself with the Daarood faction in support of Fateh, while her ex-husband, Ahmed Hersi, supported Frey and the Hawiyes. (Ahmed Hersi is not to be confused with another former husband of Omar, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is also allegedly her brother. But that’s another story.)
The Somalian capture of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota, which has up to 94,000 Somalis, is one of the mysteries of our time. It appears to have begun in the early 1990s, as Somali refugees coalesced around a welcoming native population after both fleeing and (as we see in this instance) bringing along with them their civil war.
You can’t make this up.
For more, see Suna Tiimes.