Fargo adds Somali Heritage Day two weeks after Muslim terror attack.
On July 13, 2023, Mohamad Barakat, a Syrian refugee, packed up several rifles and handguns 1,800 rounds of ammo, a hand grenade, and a car filled with gas cans on the way to carry out an Islamic terrorist attack at Fargo’s Downtown Street fair aiming to kill thousands of Americans. Instead the terror refugee got into a confrontation with police and died in an exchange of fire.
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley insisted that there was ‘no evidence of political, racial or religious motivation’. “At this point it seems [no] more notable that he’s Muslim than I’m Lutheran,” he bafflingly argued. He also dismissed footage of Mohamad holding a Koran.
“I can’t discern, from the evidence that we have, any other motivation,” he claimed.
A year before, Fargo had gotten its first Somali Muslim mayoral candidate, the head of a social justice group, who had been photographed meeting with top state officials. And no one was looking to offend the state’s growing Muslim population who were wielding more political clout.
And so the story of one of the worst Muslim terror plots in the country quickly disappeared and most people forgot about it. Few asked why there was a major Muslim terror plot in Fargo.
While Mohamad had been Syrian, the previous Islamic terrorist attacker out of Fargo had been Somali. In 2016, Dahir Adan, part of a Somali refugee family that had been resettled in Fargo, stabbed 10 people in the Crossroads mall in Minnesota while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and demanded to know if his victims were Muslims or non-Muslims and therefore ‘fair game’.
The FBI claimed that the Muslim terrorist’s motive may never be known. ISIS or the ‘Islamic State’ took credit for the attack and its ‘unknown motive’ in the name of Islam.
While the attack was going on, his brother, Abdullahi Adan, was already in prison in Fargo and was part of a group of Muslim inmates suing the prison system for $100 million, complaining that pork was being secretly put in their food. Several of the litigants were Somalis including a Somali Muslim man charged with robbing a store and another Somali man accused of attempted kidnapping, terrorizing and robbery. The sole non-Somali was a black Muslim convert who had murdered two men in a drug frenzy and then tried to burn a building down.
“They fed us pork during the holy month of Ramadan,” the Somali who robbed a store complained. Somali names are prominent among the inmates of the Cass County prison system and in the cases of assault, robbery and rape that litter the local news.
Fargo likes to brag about its diversity and the fact that nearly 1 in 10 in the city are ‘foreign born’. Fargo’s population shot up from 74,000 in 1990 to 90,000 in 2000 to 128,000 today. Somalis flooded Fargo, as did Iraqis, Bosnians and Bangladeshis. Amid the pure snows rose mosques, ethnic welfare nonprofits, Halal markets and other outposts of the new population.
By 2000, six hundred Somali families occupied Fargo, by 2004, Somalis outnumbered Hispanics in the Fargo public school system. Refugee resettlement, led by Lutheran Social Services, continued bombarding the state with foreign migrants, 70% of them into Fargo.
After President Trump’s outrage at the $1.5 billion in Somali fraud, Rep. Hamida Dakane, the first Somali Muslim to hold office in the North Dakota legislature, dismissed Trump and bragged about a Somali Muslim population encompassing Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Washington, Virginia, Maine, and North Dakota. “We are history,” she declared. “And we will always rise.”
Earlier this year, Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney declared that June 28 was to be ‘Somali Heritage Day’. The new Somali Heritage Day was a mere two weeks after the anniversary of the Muslim mass terror plot in Fargo.
And over the summer, Fargo held its Somali ‘culture fair’ to commemorate Somalia’s ‘independence’.
In North Dakota, as in Minnesota, Somali community groups getting government grants played a key role in wielding political power. The Afro American Development Association sounds like a black group, but in reality it was founded by Hukun Dabar, a Somali Muslim ‘community organizer’, who has been photographed with Rep. Dakane, as well as former Gov. Doug Burgum, and other state and local officials, along with Somali officials.
Hukun Dabar ran in the mayoral election in Fargo in 2022 and came in fourth.
Dabar also co-founded the Ethnic Self Alliance for Refugee Assistance (ESHARA) which claims to help migrants apply for ‘public benefits’ and offers legal aid. It played a role in planning the Somali Cultural Festival. Its leadership appears to be Somali and its ‘partners’ include Lutheran Social Services, North Dakota’s Office of Refugee Services and the city of Fargo. Reports state that ESHARA’s funding was rerouted by the state of North Dakota through Lutheran Social Services so the Somali group was no longer “overburdened with paperwork”.
Hamida Dakane had started out as one of the “care coordinators” for ESHARA.
“They’re funding other groups but not our group,” the future state representative ranted. “I’m here to provide for my community, but when you hire someone else who has never lived with these people, who never spoke this language, who cannot walk into grocery and talk to people the way we can do—what will you call that other than oppression?”
News reports have described Dabar as “a business partner involved with Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services, which is part of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services is at the epicenter of the fraud consuming the state.
“They come here as refugees, the majority of them, and they are carrying trauma, and that when the highest level of the government calls names and dehumanizes them, it hurts all of us,” Ahmed Makaraan, who currently heads ESHARA, complained.
Makaran had started out at Dabar’s Afro American Development Association.
Cani Adan, a former staffer at the Afro American Development Association, founded New Roots Midwest which aims to create “endless opportunities for immigrants” in North Dakota and Minnesota through various services. Adam has posted pictures of himself with incoming Gov. Kelly Armstrong Gov. Armstrong recently condemned Trump for criticizing Somalis.
New Roots Midwest doesn’t list the rest of its staff, but its social media appears to feature Somalis, Somali celebrations and translations from English into Somali.
These organizations are competing in a crowded space to provide services to Somali migrants, refugees and settlers in Fargo. And they’re also competing against the established white liberal groups. Abdi Jama, a Somali refugee who heads Global Youth United in Fargo, accused the New America Consortium, another organization linked to Lutheran Social Services, which offers services to Somalis, of “money laundering, deception, corruption”
Meanwhile the Somalization of North Dakota continues through ‘refugee resettlement’ into Fargo, as well as Grand Forks and Bismarck: all of which now have Somali populations and mosques.
Global Friends, an affiliate of the Church World Service coalition, has been resettling Somalis in Grand Forks. The most visible spokeswoman for the Somalis there is the owner of a Somali restaurant which had hosted an Islamic ‘Iftar’ event with Mayor Brandon Bochenski, and which was raided by the Department of Homeland Security over accusations of illegal money transfers.
Despite claims by local politicians, Somalization isn’t making North Dakota any better. Just like in Minnesota, Somalization and Islamization are making North Dakota that much worse.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Minnesota I understood, but North Dakota too? That state is not even a blue state: it’s pretty red. Is Fargo a Democrat city? For a lot of these states, the main city is all that’s needed to flip the state
somehistory says
Infidel, the AG says he’s a Lutheran, and the Lutheran Services have been bringing in muzzies by the…”thousands”?….
So ND may be Red, but the Lutherans wanting to profit (big money) are responsible. What color are they?
The AG’s statement makes no sense after he said the fact of the perp being muzzie was not any different than his claiming to be Lutheran.
““I can’t discern, from the evidence that we have, any other motivation,” he claimed”.
This statements sounds to me, like a contradiction of the denial of illslime being the *motive.*
Nienie says
July 14, 2023
mo barakat, 37; born 1986 in Syria, @ age 14 with family, sought asylum in USA 2012. Became US citizen 2019.
July 14, 2023 wearing protective vest and very heavily armed with 1200 rounds ammo, he ambushed and opened fire about 14:15 at a group of 4 police officers & 3 firefighters responding to an unrelated traffic accident.
Officer Jake Wallin, 27 (former US Army soldier, served in Iraq) was killed as he took aim to respond to shooter (per body cam footage). He was engaged to be married.
“His final act of valor was to selflessly face the shooter and attempt to neutralize him, and save many others.”
Police Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes and bystander K Koswick were injured.
Lutheran Social Services is financed and run by “Evangelical Lutherans of America” originally Scandinavian heritage immigrants (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (originally German, Czech, heritage) and
Wisconsin Synod planned to unify in the 1970s; by 1980 they went separate ways.
Not all Lutheran churches supported the immigration of unvetted mo slums.
somehistory says
Thank you for that, Nienie. The ones who do, seem to be in it for the money they get from the government.
If they didn’t get any money, would they be so gung-ho for bringing them in and giving them everything?
Ralph says
In a clear case of avarice over self-protection and maintaining our national heritage, the Christian sects have been at the forefront of facilitating importing of turd world bozos. Follow the money.
GE says
I just got back from Fargo. Although ND has been a red state, Fargo is thought of as a “progressive” city, and the mayor, Timothy Mahoney is a Democrat.
I only saw one Muslim couple at a hospital downtown—not Somalian though. When the first Somalians were brought in several years ago, they turned parks in Moorhead and Fargo into temporary war zones battling with the Liberians. Fargo cops it a quick stop to it.
Right now the number of Somalians in Fargo is about 1,160. But if Fargo and Bismarck go the way of Minneapolis, the state is in for it.
Lutheran Social Services is really outdoing themselves.
somehistory says
Thanks for the report on the ground there, GE. Glad you stayed safe.
GE says
Thanks, somehistory. For some reason, Fargo has always been a resettlement location. When I lived there before, there were a lot of Cuban refugees living there. Fortunately, all the ones I met were hard working, productive people. When I asked one “Why Fargo, with the snow, the cold winters, etc.?” He told me that the government said “That’s where you’re going.”. After seven years, they were allowed to relocate, and after their time was up, most left and went to Florida.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I remember a story – forgetting whether it was Fargo or Bismarck – of a bull being loose and animal control trying to catch it. There was a muslim there, who stopped the bull and slit its throat. The animal control guys were understandably upset w/ him
gravenimage says
Thank you for that view on the ground, GreekEmpress.
Hal says
Right…but the aim is to flood North Dakota with them to flip ND blue.. abd they will in a short time….KEEP NORTH DAKOTA RED!
JM says
Lord God, please help us.
John Hawkins says
JM, your god is not going to help you. You will have to do it yourself.
somehistory says
You believe you have the authority to speak for God?
Nancy says
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within us. We are inextricably connected to God.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I don’t understand how the Somalis in Fargo have acquired such power. in North Dakoa.around 0.22% to 0.26% of the population is Somali, with approximately 1,700 to 2,000 Somali individuals residing in the state.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It works when they live, vote and work in packs, unlike the rest of the population
gravenimage says
And all the foolish Infidels bending over backwards to appease them.
Alkflaeda says
My understanding obviously hinges on what I believe about Islam – but I believe that it is demonic, and that demons intimidate. This may possibly explain the paralysis of the authorities in the face of the grooming gangs in the UK.
Rick Gordon says
Wow …. This was all new news to me. I don’t know what the North Dakota politicians thought would happen. At least that state has oil and gas money they can use to support this 5th column – that will grow rapidly – along with their demands.
Wellington says
If North Dakota will be lost to willful ignorance, Leftism and Islam, then, count on it, all of America will be lost.
What an effing stupid age we live in. None more foolish in the history of Western Civilization.
somehistory says
“Internal Minnesota attorney general memo settles debate on Somali fraud”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/internal-minnesota-attorney-general-memo-settles-debate-on-somali-fraud/ar-AA1SJ06g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=fe17b8d5310c49e48dff1b580cf36462&ei=18
jerry glenn says
North Dakota surges in the national Islamopandering derby. Lutheran Social Services is right with it.
OLD GUY says
There seems to be no end to the stupidity of our leaders. To say his motive had nothing to do with his islamic religion is a pure out right lie.
Winston 101 says
Q. How do, poor, needy immigrants, who need all these services, afford to pay for creating Mosques and Islamic Centers with Islamic Schools. On top of that, these same poor, needy, immigrants send money back home.
A. The combination of Petrodollars, NGO’s and Useful Idiot Charities, fund and support the building of Islamic Rabats(Forts) throughout America. These are Islamic Strongholds on the Frontier of the
Islamic Caliphate. This network of Economic & Charitable Jihad needs to be investigated, addressed and dismantled.
Islam must be banned from the U.S., as the invading Government that is building Strongholds, that it is.
gravenimage says
The Somalization of North Dakota
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No place is safe.