In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali Americans talk about politics, religion and how they voted in the 2024 election. Some have shown new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
Salman Fiqy told Fox News Digital that “Somali are essentially Democrats.”
Fiqy further explained that the first Somali immigrants came to the United States in the late 1990s and were engaged in politics during the Obama era.
“That’s why they see themselves being consistent with Democrats and then getting worse with Democrats,” Fitch said.
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Salman Fiqy previously ran for the national representative as a Republican. Fiqy is an outspoken conservative who has publicly recognized Donald Trump. (Fox News figures)
Fiqy is an outspoken Republican and conservative who has publicly recognized President Donald Trump. He confidently told Fox News numbers that many Somalis voted for President Trump.
Minneapolis locals say the most important issue is education.
“The LGBTQ agenda pushes children toward children, we tend to have large families, we value children, … we see something in the conservative lens,” Fitch said.
Government data state that the majority of Somalia’s population is Muslim.
Somali Americans’ support for the Democratic Party has declined since the 2020 presidential election. In Cedar-Riverside, Minnesota, homes of many Somalia immigrants, support Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris 14 points lower.
More than 25,000 Somali Americans live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many people fled the country’s civil war in the 1990s. Traditionally, the Cedar Riverside community was home to immigrants including Swedes, Norwegians and Danes. Currently, Somalis are the main group in the community, with several businesses and a “Somali Shopping Center” being established in Cedar-Riverside.
“them [Somali Americans] Very afraid of how to grow up in this situation, they would rather vote for Trump with these views, even if they knew that Trump was with his luggage, they would rather bear the luggage. ” News figures.
Fatmata’s “copy practitioner” owns a business at Karmel Mall near Whittier, Minneapolis. Karmel is the first Somali shopping mall in the United States, with numerous Somali businesses including barber shops, restaurants, clothing stores, electronic retail and hair salons.
Fatmata is not Somali, but black. She told Fox News Digital that she is a Muslim and often interacts with the Somali community. Her business provides copies that “correlate to the perception of Islamic replication.” She has grown her business in Somalia shopping malls because it is easier to find customers.
She added that Muslim values drive her peers and Somali Americans to vote.
“I think one of the main issues with Muslim voting…especially voting for Trump is because of the question of being consistent with their religious values, they feel that things are about the right things, they disagree with these things, “Fatt Mata said.
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Karmel Shopping Center is a Somalia shopping center full of businesses. (Fox News figures)
Trump also won Muslim voters in the last election, more than his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, an export poll by the U.S. Council on Islamic Relations.
Fatmata told Fox News Digital that many Somali Americans don’t like Trump’s remarks about deportation, but still vote for the Republican candidate.
“We know it’s coming. It’s the choice we have to make, knowing that these are what he represents, and maybe we don’t agree as a minority community.”
A Karmel business owner told Fox News Digital that he voted for Trump because of his pro-business policy.
“I support it, I voted [for] Trump last time. A few things… [I] I think it’s better for the business because I’m a businessman and he also gives us tax relief. Yes, that’s why I support it.
Fox News Digital spoke with a neighborhood pharmacist on Cedar-Riverside, saying Somali Americans have nothing in common with Trump.
“I don’t think any Somali, including me or my family, or even Somali, support him. I mean, what does he have in common with the Somali community? What are you asking for for yourself? I mean, There is no common ground. “A pharmacist working in the cedar pharmacy in the Somalia Mall.
“I can’t see any illegal immigrants here. From the beginning, the United States has been a country of immigrants,” said the Somali pharmacist.
A woman named Fatmata told Fox News Digital: “I think one of the main issues with Muslims voting…especially voting for Trump is because of the problem that matches their religious values, and they feel like things are right,” he said. They disagree with these things.” (Fox News figures)
Across the street from Cedar Pharmacy, another business owner named Salah, who runs a restaurant called Barakalaa somali Cuisine, shares a conflicting statement. When asked whether Somalis support Trump, he replied “yes”.
“I see everyone in the community voting for the candidate,” Salah said.
Fatmata said that this option is not easy for Muslims and Somali Americans.
“Does we vote for him to protect his children’s religious views, and everything else he has? Maybe it was the last time it was the Muslim ban and these things. We still voted for him instead of us selling the religious upbringing of our children and accepting that right? ?
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“Those who voted for him. I think some of these things are about kids who are close to us and they just need to take some very bitter pills. I think that’s why some people vote for him , not because they want to vote for him 100%, but that he might just be a better choice or choice because they feel it’s better for the kids.”
