In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali Americans Speaked politics, religion and how their voices were influenced in the 2024 elections. Some showed a new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
“Somalis were inherent Democrats,” Salman Fiqy Fox News Digital told.
Fiqy further explained that the first wave of Somali immigrants came to the US in the late 90s and kept politics during the Obama era.
“That’s why they saw themselves in line with Democrats and then things have changed worse with the Democrats,” Fiqy said.
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Salman Fiqy previously ran for the state representative as Republican. Fiqy is a strong conservative that Donald Trump has publicly approved. (Fox News Digital)
Fiqy is a pronounced republican and conservative who has publicly endorsed President Donald Trump. He said Fox News Digital confidently that many Somalis voted for President Trump.
The best problem was education, said the Local Minneapolis.
“The LGBTQ agendas that push to children, where we tend to have large families, we appreciate children and … we see things from a conservative lens,” Fiqy said.
A majority of Somalis The population is Muslim, government data states.
The support of Somali Americans for the Democratic Party has fallen since the presidential elections of President Joe Biden in 2020. In Cedar-Drive in Minnesota, the home base of many Somali immigrants, support for democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris dropped 14 points.
More than 25,000 Somali Americans live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many fled the civil war of their country in the nineties. The Cedar-Driverside district has Traditionally at home To immigrants, including Sweden, Norwegians and Danes. Somalis are currently the dominant group in the community and they set up various companies and a “Somali shopping center” in Cedar-Riverside.
“They (Somali Americans) were very afraid of how their children would be raised in that situation, and they preferred to vote for Trump with those views, although they knew luggage,” Fatata told Fox News Digital.
A “copy practitioner”, Fatmata has a company in Karmel Mall, located in the Whittier district in Minneapolis. Karmel is the first Somali shopping center in the US and organizes an abundance of Somali companies, including hairdressing shops, restaurants, clothing stores, electronic retail and hair salons.
Fatata is not Somalian and identifies as black. She told Fox News Digital that she is a Muslim and is often busy with the Somali community. Her company offers a copy that “is more in line with the Islamic view of copying.” She planted her company in the Somali shopping center because it was easier to find customers.
She added that Muslim values ​​led her counterparts and Somali Americans to vote.
“I think one of the most important issues with Muslims votes … Specific voting for Trump is because of issues that match their religious values, that they felt that things went too much to the right, and they disagreed with Those things, “Fatata said.
Karmel Mall is a Somali shopping center, filled with various companies. (Fox News Digital)
Trump too Muslim -voters received Last elections, more than his opponent, former vice-president Kamala Harris, an exit survey of the Council for American-Islamic Relations.
Fatata told Fox News Digital that many Somali Americans didn’t like it Trump’s rhetoric about deportationsYet voted for the Republican candidate.
“We knew it would come. It was those choices we had to make, knowing that these are the things he stands for, that we may not agree as the minority community.”
A business owner in Karmel told Fox News Digital that he voted for Trump because of his pro-business policy.
“I support and I voted for Mr. Trump last time. A few things … (I) think it was better for the company, because because I am a businessman and the tax benefits he too gave.
In Cedar-Riverside, Fox News Digital spoke with a neighborhood pharmacist who said that Somali Americans have nothing in common with Trump.
“I don’t think a Somali person, including me or my family, or even as a Somali in general, supported him. I mean, what does he have in common with the Somali community? What are you going to ask yourself? I mean, there, there Is not an agreement, “said a pharmacist who worked at Cedar Pharmacy in the Somali shopping center.
“I see no illegal immigrants here. The United States has always been a country for immigrants from the start,” said the Somali pharmacist.
A woman named Fatmata told Fox News Digital: “I think one of the most important issues with Muslims voices … Specific voices for Trump is because of issues that match their religious values, that they felt that things are too much to the right and they didn’t agree with those things. “ (Fox News Digital)
On the other side of the Cedar Pharmacy, another business owner named Salah shared a contradictory explanation called a restaurant called Barakalaa Somali cuisine. When asked if Somalis supported Trump, he answered “yes”.
“I see everyone all in the community voting for the candidate together,” said Salah.
Fatata said that the choice was not easy for Muslims and Somali Americans.
“We voted for him to protect the religious views of our children, plus everything he has? Perhaps, the last time it was the Muslim ban and those things. We still vote for him versus we sell the religious upbringing of Our children and we take that?
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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 take some really bitter pills. And I think that’s why some Having voted on him, not because they wanted to vote for 100%, but he might just be the better choice or option because they had the feeling that it was just better for their children. “
