Muslims from Minnesota talk about Trump and what promoted their vote in 2024

In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali -Americans Politics spoke, religion and how their votes influenced the 2024 elections. Some showed a new affinity for the Republican Party with Donald Trump.

“The Somalis were inherently democrats,” Salman Fiqy He told Fox News Digital.

Fiqy also explained that the first wave of Somali immigrants arrived in the United States at the end of the 90s and dedicated himself to politics during the Obama era.

“That’s why they were aligned with the Democrats and then things have changed for the worse with the Democrats,” said Fiqy.

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Fiqy is an open republican and conservative who has publicly supported President Donald Trump. Confidently told Fox News Digital that many Somali voted for President Trump.

The main problem was education, said Minneapolis’s place.

“The LGBTQ agendas that push the children, where we tend to have large families, we value children and … we see the things of a conservative lens,” said Fiqy.

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The support of Somali Americans for the Democratic Party has decreased since the presidential election of President Joe Biden in 2020. In Cedar-Riverside in Minnesota, the home of many Somali immigrants, support for the nominated presidential Democratic Kamala Harris 14 points fell.

More than 25,000 Somali Americans live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many fled from the Civil War of his country in the 1990s. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has Traditionally he has been at home to immigrants, including Swedes, Norwegians and Danish. Currently, Somali are the predominant group in the community, establishing several businesses 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 preferred to vote for Trump with those opinions, although they knew that Trump would come with the luggage, and they preferred to assume the luggage,” said Fatmata A Fox News Digital.

A “copy practitioner,” Fatmata has a business at Karmel Mall, located in Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis. Karmel is the first Somali shopping center in the United States, which houses a large amount of Somali businesses, including barber, restaurants, clothing stores, electronic retailers and hairdressing rooms.

Fatmata is not somali and identifies as black. She told Fox News Digital that she is Muslim and that she often gets involved with the Somali community. Your business provides a copy that “aligns more with the Islamic vision of the copy.” She planted her business at the Somali shopping center because it was easier to find customers.

He added that Muslim values ​​led their opponents and Somali Americans to vote.

“I think one of the main problems with Muslims voting … specifically voting for Trump is due to the problems that are aligned with their religious values, which felt that things were going too right, and they did not agree with those those Things, “Fatmata said.

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Trump too He won Muslim voters The last election, rather than her opponent, former vice president Kamala Harris, an exit survey of the American-Islamic Relations Council.

Fatmata told Fox News Digital that many Somali Americans did not like Trump’s rhetoric about deportationsHe still voted for the Republican candidate.

“We knew it approached. They were those elections that we had to let them know that these are the things it represents, that perhaps we do not agree as the minority community.”

A business owner at Karmel told Fox News Digital that he voted for Trump due to his policies in favor of companies.

“I support and voted (by) Mr. Trump last time. Some things … (I) I think it was better for the business because, since I am a type of business and the exemption of taxes that I was giving us too. Yes., That was the reason why I support it “, an owner of a business that did not want to reveal his identity told Fox News Digital in an audio recording.

In Cedar-Riverside, Fox News Digital spoke with a pharmacist from the neighborhood who said that Somali Americans have nothing in common with Trump.

“I don’t think any somali person, including me or my family, or even as a Somali in general, support him. I mean, what does he have in common with the Somali community? What are you going to ask? I mean, there is no commonity” Said a pharmacist who worked at Cedar Pharmacy at the Somali shopping center.

“I don’t see any illegal immigrant here. The United States has always been a country for immigrants from the beginning,” said the Somali pharmacist.

On the other side of Cedar Pharmacy street, another owner of a business called Salah, who directed a restaurant called Barakalaa Somali Cuisine, shared a contradictory statement. When asked if the Somali supported Trump, he replied “yes.”

“I see that all together in the community vote for the candidate,” said Salah.

Fatmata said the choice was not easy for Muslims and Somali Americans.

“Do we vote for him to protect the religious views of our children, in addition to everything he has? Maybe, the last time it was the Muslim prohibition and those things. Do we still vote for him compared to that we sell education Religious of our children and do we take that?

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“Those who voted for him. And I think some of these things, when it comes to their children who are loved and close to us, only had to take some really bitter pills. And I think that is why some people voted for him Not because they wanted to vote for him 100%, but may have been the best option or option because they felt it was better for their children. “