ARE YOU SITTING DOWN? Somali Muslims in Minnesota are supporting Donald Trump

More and more Somali Muslim voters are coming forward to support the re-election of former President Donald Trump and vote for conservative candidates in November.

Alpha News Salman Fiqy, a small business owner who recently ran in the Republican primary for a seati n the Minnesota House. He was recently pictured right behind President Trump at a rally in St. Cloud. Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the United States with about 90,000 residents.

“This is a long conclusion that we arrived to. Due to many issues, the reason why we supported … soon to be President Donald Trump is due to some issues … some of the issues are education issues, economic issues, safety, and many other issues,” Fiqy said. Fiqy came to Minnesota 15 years ago as a Democrat, but he said after watching things “get worse” for years, he feels it is time for a change.

“Safety is one of the major concerns of the Somali community because if we look back at what happened in 2020 in the riots, Lake Street tends to be residential or where the Somali population have businesses and reside in. Many businesses went out of business because of the riots and the business activities have declined, as you may know,” he remarked.

Fiqy also discussed a restaurant owner he knew who had to pay $20,000 to remove a homeless encampment on his own after the city of Minneapolis refused to do anything about it. Fiqy considers education “the major concern.” In many cases, Somali families have led the pushback to left-wing education policies in the Twin Cities.

“I know exactly why I’m supporting what I’m supporting right now, why I switched to the Republican Party for the values and the principles that they stand for. We have shared values and interests with the Republican Party.  I don’t really care about any backlash I might get,” Fiqy said.