By Daniel Greenfield July 20, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog
Three
blocks from where Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police officers and
firefighters, the Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead squats across from a
school bus company. Nearby are other elements of the new enclave like
the Somali Community Development group which offers English and
citizenship classes and the Al Hamdi Restaurant from whose vicinity an
eyewitness reported hearing the shots that took the life of one police
officer and wounded two others.
“The
first thing we always want to know in a situation like this is,
‘Why?”Why would somebody do this?'” Chief David Zibolski wondered.
Perhaps he should ask in Fargo’s own Little Mogadishu and inquire of the
politicians who turned Fargo into a refugee camp.
It is not even the first Islamic terrorist from Fargo.
In
2016, Dahir Adan, a Somali refugee who penetrated the country along
with a massive family that was tragically resettled in Fargo, went on a
stabbing spree in a St. Cloud, MN mall. The Somali refugee had gone
around the mall shouting “Allahu Akbar” dedicating the violence to his
Islamic deity, and demanding to know if potential targets were Muslims
before stabbing them.
ISIS claimed credit for the attack after
Adam, like Mohamad, was fatally shot and killed, but not until after he
stabbed 10 Americans. Fargo Muslims however quickly rushed to play the victim.
“Somali
mall workers are afraid to go to their jobs today. I was even afraid to
use public restrooms,” Hukun Abdullahi, a local nonprofit leader, had
claimed.
Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams admitted that her
biggest concern from the Muslim terrorist attack was that, “the more we
make, you know, these kind of things an issue, the more people are
abusive to (refugees) publicly.”
Police Chief David Todd denied, “I don’t have any indication that radicalization is occurring here in Fargo.” Seven years later,
Officer Jake Wallin, who had survived Afghanistan and Iraq, was
murdered by a Muslim attacker in Fargo. There’s never any indication
until someone dies.
The violent attacks by Mohamad Barakat and
Dahir Adan may surprise people who still think of Fargo, North Dakota as
quintessentially American. Refugee resettlement has changed that.
8%
of Fargo is foreign born. Much of that population comes from the Middle
East and Islamic areas in Africa like Sudan and Somalia. Even much of
the European refugee contingent is Bosnian. The massive influx of
refugee resettlement allowed local politicians to boast that Fargo was
growing much faster than the rest of the state or the country.
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
embedded into the Fargo area.
“Millennials who are increasingly
working in these jobs like to have a multicultural area that has
differences in people,” Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney contended. “We really need a diverse population to be more like a normal American city.”
When
Fargo City Commissioner Dave Piepkorn had warned that millions of
taxpayer dollars were being spent on refugee resettlement and that the
area was becoming more dangerous, Somalis launched a recall campaign.
Piepkorn has since been stripped of Deputy Mayor status.
Little wonder that few elected officials have had the courage to speak out against what is being done to Fargo and North Dakota.
Lutheran
Social Services of North Dakota, its coffers swollen by dumping
migrants from Islamic terror states on the area, suddenly faced a
dieback under the Trump administration. The organization filed for
bankruptcy and shut down in 2021, but rather than offering any relief,
things actually got worse for Fargo and North Dakota.
Under
Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, the former head of Lutheran Social
Services, became the Executive Policy Director at the state’s Department
of Human Services. Burgum, who is now running for president, announced
that the state would take over refugee resettlement from Lutheran Social Services. Burgum had previously turned down an offer from the Trump administration to allow governors to end the practice of refugee dumping.
While
Gov. Burgum claimed that the state would handle the invasion more
responsibly than Lutheran Social Services had, bringing in the head of
LSS put the lie to any such notion. Gov. Burgum had proclaimed that
April would be Arab American Heritage Month, not to honor the Christian
Lebanese, actual refugees who had first fled Islamic terror to move to
North Dakota, but those Muslims who “built the first mosque in the
United States of America.”
By 2022, the Lutheran Immigration and
Refugee Service North Dakota had taken over for the LSS and 78 Afghans,
along with Syrians, Somalis and Iraqis were being resettled in the
state.
That same year Rep. Hamida Dakane, who wears a hijab,
became the first Somali legislator in the state House of Representatives
from a district in Fargo. Dakane had found fame after an alleged vandalism incident
at the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center, holding up a “Hate Has No Home in
Moorhead” sign as representatives of “Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian
and Satanism” movements gathered to help. Then she joined Fargo’s Human
Rights Commission.
“I am not representing a Muslim state,” Dakane, who entered this country on a student visa, noted. “There is a lot of things in Islam that doesn’t align with Democrats, but that doesn’t apply to the community.”
Mohamad Barakat may have had less patience waiting for North Dakota to become Islamic.
Fargo
is slowly getting there. Somali restaurants, halal markets and ethnic
associations are dotting the map. Especially around the area where
Mohamad Barkat murdered a police officer. School districts are spending a
fortune dealing with non-English speakers, primarily Somalis and Kurds,
and a great deal of money goes to subsidize Headstart and food stamps.
Gangs proliferate trafficking in drugs and prostitution. And worse crimes appear and disappear.
Omar
Mohamed Kalmio, a Somali refugee who shot and killed his American Sioux
girlfriend, her mother, brother and another family member in nearby
Minot, is still fighting his life sentence. Kalmio should have been in
ICE custody after he and a group of Somalis had previously stabbed a man
in the back with a knife.
In Grand Forks, Hawo Osman Ahmed, had allegedly threatened women with a knife. “Come over here I’m going to cut you,” she had warned, “I’m going to slice your neck.”
“I feel like I’m a Muslim woman who’s being attacked because I am a Muslim woman living in Grand Forks,” she later complained.
Authorities
generally steer clear of such cases if they know what’s good for them.
The prosecution of a sex trafficking ring by the Somali Outlaws gang
across the country which allegedly involved girls as young as twelve was
shut down by federal authorities, advocates and political pressure amid
claims of racism, Islamophobia and cultural differences .
“We
are heartbroken by this tragic loss,” Gov. Burgum said in response to
the Somali act of violence that killed one police officer and wounded
two others. “We also pray for the full recovery of the officers and
civilian who were wounded in this horrible incident.”
‘Horrible incidents’ like these could be averted by ending refugee resettlement.
Gov.
Burgum refused to end refugee resettlement when he had the opportunity
to do so. The blood of the victims of refugee resettlement are on the
hands of those who enable it.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. Thank you for reading.
