Hamas-Linked CAIR’s Minnesota Director Is Running a Health Care Business Out of His Home

On May 7, 2026, Alpha News reported that Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR-Minnesota, was operating a taxpayer-funded adult foster care program out of a Rosemount residence.

Six days later, Alpha News reported that Hussein’s name was removed from the foster care license on the same day the outlet made an inquiry.

According to Alpha News, Hussein’s name had appeared on the license alongside Fardosa Adan Hassan, a business partner of Hussein’s in his other business, Zeila Consultants, a business he created to “develop and offer cross-cultural training workshops on East African cultures” that listed the other individual on the foster care license, Fardosa Adan Hassan, as a consultant.”

The license phone number reportedly matched the number used for Hussein in multiple CAIR press releases, and the business address matched the address listed on several unpaid parking tickets issued to Hussein.

Alpha News also reported that Minnesota Department of Human Services data showed the program received more than $110,000 in taxpayer-funded reimbursements between August 2025 and February 2026.

No allegations of wrongdoing have been made against Hussein, Hassan, or the adult foster care program.

But Hussein is not just a private businessman. He is one of Minnesota’s most visible Somali and Muslim activists, and he has repeatedly criticized scrutiny of Somali fraud as biased or anti-Somali.

In late June, while denouncing Rep. Tom Emmer’s comments about Somali assimilation, Hussein said:

I’ve lived here for, you know, all of my life now. I mean, as Minnesotan as you get. I deer hunt in Minnesota. I do all the — so what is he talking about? I don’t know what he’s talking about.

That answer is harder to take seriously in light of Alpha News’s reporting.

There may be good reasons not to discuss the Rosemount business in detail. No one should show up at a residence, bother patients, harass staff, or interfere with a business.

But the public question remains.

Hussein says he does not know what Emmer is talking about. Yet public records reportedly point back toward Hussein and a taxpayer-funded adult foster care business in a sector under scrutiny in Minnesota.

That does not prove wrongdoing.

It does make the innocent-bystander act harder to perform.

CAIR appears on television hundreds of times a year, usually accusing others of bigotry. But when the uncomfortable question points back toward CAIR’s own leadership, local media curiosity seems to disappear.

Hussein says he is “as Minnesotan as you get.”

Once, that might have meant Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bob Dylan, Hubert Humphrey, lakes, snow, and Midwestern modesty.

Now, unfortunately, Minnesota is also known for repeated taxpayer-funded fraud scandals.

So perhaps Hussein is right.

A CAIR activist denouncing scrutiny of Somali fraud while appearing connected to a taxpayer-funded adult foster care business may be, in its own odd way, about as Minnesotan as it gets.