In Minnesota, Muslims and Somalian Americans She talked about politics, religion and that their voices were intended for the 2024 elections. Some have shown a new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
“Somalians were inherently Democrats,” Salman Fiqy said Fox News Digital.
Fiqy further explained that the first wave of Somali immigrants came to the US in the late 1990s and engaged in politics during the Obama era.
“So, that’s why they saw themselves aligned with Democrats and then things changed to even worse with Democrats,” Fiqy said.
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Salman Fiqy had previously run for a state representative as a Republican. Fiqy is an open conservative who publicly supported Donald Trump. (Fox News Digital)
Fiqy is an open Republican and a conservative who has publicly approved President Donald Trump. Fox News Digital said confidently that many Somalians voted for President Trump.
The best question was education, Minneapolis Local said.
“LGBTQ programs pushed towards children, where we tend to have big families, appreciate children and … we see things from a conservative lens,” Fiqy said.
Most Somali The population is Muslim, the government data states.
Somalian Americans’ support to the Democratic Party declined to President Joe Biden’s presidential elections in 2020. In the Cedar-Riverside in Minnesota, in the house of many Somali immigrants, support for the Democratic Presidential candidate Kamal Harris dropped 14 points.
Over 25,000 Somalian Americans live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many fled to the civil war of their country in the 1990s. There is a Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Traditionally was at home Immigrants, including Swedes, Norwegians and Dance. Currently, Somalci are a prevailing group in the community, establishing several companies and the “Somali Center” in Cedar-Riverside.
“They [Somali Americans] They were very scared that their children would be raised in the situation, and they preferred to vote for Trump with these views, although they knew Trump was coming with luggage, and they preferred to take over the luggage, “Fatmata told Fox News Digital.
Fatmata “Copy practitioner”, Fatmata owns a company at Carmel Mall, located in the Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis. Carmel is the first Somalian shopping center in the US, hosting many Somali companies, including barber shops, restaurants, clothing stores, electronic retail and hairstyles.
Fatmata is not Somalian and identifies as black. Said Fox News Digital that she was a Muslim and often deals with the Somali community. Her job provides a copy that is “more aligned with Islamic copying.” She planted her job at the Somali shopping mall because it was easier to find clients.
She added that Muslim values forced their colleagues and Somalian Americans to vote.
“I think it is one of the main issues with the voting of Muslims … specifically voting for Trump, because of the questions that align with their religious values, that they felt like things were going too much to do so, and they didn’t agree with those things,” he said is fatmat.
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Carmel Mall is a Somali shopping mall, filled with various companies. (Fox News Digital)
Trump too gained Muslim voters The last election, more than his opponent, former Vice-President of Kamal Harris, a Council output survey for US-Islamic relations.
Fatmata told Fox News Digital that many Somalian Americans did not like Trump rhetoric on deportationsBut he was still voting for a Republican candidate.
“We knew he was coming. We just decided to know that these were the things that are advocated, that we may not agree as a minority community.”
One company owner in Karmel told Fox News Digital that he had voted for Trump for his business policies.
“I support and I voted [for] Mr. Trump last time. A few things … [I] You think it was better for a job, because, since I’m a business guy and a tax break that he gave us too. Yes, that was the reason I support him, “the owner of a company who did not want to discover his identity told Fox News Digital in an audio recording.
In Cedar-Riverside, Fox News Digital spoke with a neighborhood pharmacist who said that Somalian Americans have nothing in common with Trump.
“I don’t think any Somalian person, including me or my family, even as a somali in general, did not support him. I mean, what he has in common with the Somali community? What will you ask for? I mean, no communion,” said the pharmacist who worked in Cedar pharmacy in the Somali Market Center.
“I do not see illegal immigrants here. The United States has always been a country for immigrants from the beginning,” Somali’s pharmacist said.
A woman named Fatmata told Fox News Digital: “I think she is one of the main questions with a Muslim vote … especially voting for Trump, because of the questions that align with their religious values, that they felt like things were going too far , And they did not agree with these things. “ (Fox News Digital)
Over the street from Cedar Pharmace, another owner of the company named Salah, who led a restaurant called Barakalaa Somali Cuisine, shared a conflicting statement. Asked if Somalci supported Trump, he answered “yes.”
“I see everything together in the community as they vote for a candidate,” Salah said.
Fatmata said the choice was not easy for Muslims and Somalian Americans.
“Do we vote for him to protect our children’s religious attitudes, plus everything else he has? Maybe last time it was a Muslim ban and those things. Do we still vote for him opposite whether we sell the religious upbringing of our children and take it a lot.
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“Those who voted for him. And I think some of these things, when it comes to your children who are dear and close to us, just had to drink some really bitter pills. And I think some people voted for him, Not because they wanted to vote for him 100%, but he may have been just a better choice or option because they felt like it was just better for their children. “
