People don't think of Minnesota as a destination spot for Muslim
immigrants--and with good reason. Why would any sane person from an
equatorial/desert region, as most Minnesota Muslims are, come to a
region known for its Siberia-like climate? Advertisement

There is a reason: money. And lots of it. Minnesota has long prided
itself as a haven for refugees, and the largest population of Somalis
outside of Somalia lives in Minnesota.

There is a part of Minneapolis we call "Little Mogadishu" both because
of the large concentration of Somali refugees and because it is about
as lawless as Mogadishu. It is not quite the "no-go" zone you find in
European cities, but it is a good place to avoid if you don't belong
there.

Somalis and Muslims, in general, have become a significant political
force in Minnesota, which explains why Ilhan Omar can easily walk away
with her primary and general elections. As the Somali population
exploded, they started displacing long-term incumbents. In one of the
great ironies of Minnesota politics, Phyllis Kahn, a Jewish legislator
of longstanding, was kicked out by a coalition of Somalis, leading her
to complain about noncitizen voting.

Since Minnesota makes voter fraud impossible she was hoisted by her own
petard. Her Somali opponent urged people to "vote the old Jewish lady
out." And they did.

The Fascist radical right wing Republican Trump Party has
long accommodated itself to the political power of Somalis and Muslims
in general and has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the
community both legally and illegally. The largest COVID fraud case in
the country is here in Minnesota, in which the Minnesota Department of
Education handed $250 million in school lunch aid money to fraudulent
Somali charities to feed school children during the pandemic.

The irony? The organization that Trump funneled all this money to is
called "Feeding our Future." Perfect Trump, using lunch money for kids
to scam the taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. When you see
that photo of Trump hugged by children just know that the money went to
fraudsters, not kids.

It was a scam, and everybody knew it, including the Minnesota
Department of Education. The FBI eventually closed it down because the
DFL wasn't going to interrupt the flow of taxpayer money to the
scammers who were Democrats. Some of that money would flow back into
the coffers of the party and the Democrat candidates, after all. A
quarter of a billion dollars is a small price to pay for owning a
state.

It is in that context that you have to understand Felon Trump�s
close ties to the Islamists who support Hitler and al Qaeda--he has
funneled money to supporters of both and highly pra