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Minneapolis: Muslims who oppose Muslim candidate threatened into silence

Sep 2, 2016 9:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Intimidation and threats: primary and favored weapons of Islamic supremacists.

Ilhan Omar and brother

An update on this story. “A Community Forced Into Silence,” by Preya Samsundar, Alpha News, September 2, 2016:

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — For several weeks, Alpha News has been covering the latest developments of scandal and controversy that have rocked the campaign of DFL primary winner Ilhan Omar.

The controversy of Omar’s alleged illegal behaviors came to light following an article posted by Scott Johnson of Powerline. Details from the post alleged that Omar was not married to the man she claimed and had married her biological brother in order to bring him to the United States from the United Kingdom.

Through interviews and information gathered through investigating social media accounts, Alpha News has enough evidence to reasonably suggest that the man identified as Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who Omar legally married in 2009, is in fact Ilhan Omar’s brother.

The latest developments in the controversy have brought troubling new details out of the Cedar-Riverside area.

A credible source from inside the Somali Community has stepped forward and provided Alpha News with information in exchange for anonymity. For the purposes of the article, we will refer to the source as Z.

Z tells Alpha News members of the Somali Community are being silenced through intimidation tactics and threats of physical violence on themselves and their families still back home in Somalia.

Z specifically mentions a man named Gulaad Hashi and identifies him as “campaign muscle”. Z tells Alpha News, “He serves as [Omar’s] muscle in the Somali community and has been leading a witch hunt to out ‘the snitch’ in the community. He has used everything from intimidation to threats to silence community members from speaking out about this, which is why no Somali has publicly come forward to state what we all know to be true.”

Alpha News obtained a screenshot of a Facebook post by Hashi with a picture of the SomaliSpot website. A member of the Somali Community has stepped forward and has translated the information for Alpha News.

According to the translation, the Facebook post states: “Somalis say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Who knows who owns this website Somali Spot? Who knows who posts on it? Soon I will expose all and, I promise, if you don’t stop what you’re doing we won’t stop until you have nowhere to hide.”

Alpha News has also obtained a Facebook Live Video posted by Hashi on August 18th, 2016. At 3:35, a woman Alpha News has identified as Farhio Khalif Jordan, the Associate Chair of the Somali-American Caucus speaks on the video. According to the translation, she states in plain terms that any Somali who opposes Ilhan Omar or talks about her personal life, including her marriage discrepancies, is turning on the Somali community and is an enemy of it.

At 5:00, Z identifies the man speaking as a male member of Ilhan Omar’s Somali campaign. According to the translation received, the man discusses purging the malicious individuals from the community and disposing of them when speaking about Omar’s marriage.

Sadly, this is not the first time that Alpha News has heard about these threats. Sources within the community have come forward and told Alpha News of the fear they face on a daily basis.

As one source described it, “I very much doubt any Somali will publicly come forward and speak about this story not only because of the repercussions they could face here in Minneapolis, but also because of the potential harm doing so could bring to their loved ones in Somalia. There is no rule of law there and the risk posed by blow back from this is too high. It is no coincidence that this was first exposed on an anonymous Somali forum.”…

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    CAIR also tells Muslims to keep Islam’s dirty secrets amongst themselves.

  2. Margaret says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Corrupt media in Minnesota will not report on this.
    I think they’re too busy looking for anti-Islam license plates.

  3. Kepha says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 11:23 pm

    So, she marries her brother? How can the US government object to that, now that the SCOTUS has declared in _Obergefell_ (very aptly “fallen over”) that ssm is a right protected by the penumbrae of the Constitution? How can we deny incest at this point?

    • PRCS says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 2:17 am

      Or bestiality?

      Or marriage between one and a shoe or shoes or any other inanimate object?

      Fundamentally changing America.

      • Myrtle Linder says

        Sep 3, 2016 at 8:59 am

        2 Timothy 3:12-14
        12. Yea, ad all that will live godly in CHRIST JESUS shall suffer persecution.
        13, But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
        14. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou has learned them;
        15. And that from a child tho hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS.

        I feel sure that many will not want to hear this truth but because so many have turned away from HIM or never knew HIM in the first place, we can see conditions are getting worse and worse. Think of our little children coming up who will have to face this evil that is covering over our country, with the anti-CHRIST peoples gaining control. We must not give up.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 5:08 am

      She is kinda cute.
      I can see why her brother would wink at her.

      Look out Huma, Hillary might have a new unscrupulous Muslim BFF in waiting here.

    • Gen Jones says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 11:23 am

      Kepha, while I appreciate and respect most of your comments this slander against gay married couples is silly. Same sex marriage is done by mostly conservative and religious people who wish to uphold the law and their own moral beliefs and to be part of a community and raise children like any other loving couple. SSM proves that gay couples wish to have their commitment recognized, the opposite of the depravity of which you accuse them. Likening it to incest and beastiality is illogical. God made gay people, get over it.

      • Kepha says

        Sep 3, 2016 at 11:49 pm

        In Adam’s fall, we sinned all, becoming prey to the evils of this life, to death itself, and the pains of Hell forever. We are thus subject to sins ranging from adultery and zoophilia with theft, murder, and plain old sodomy in between. All of these sins, including the sexual perversions we are now being forced to celebrate, are things that made the death of Jesus Christ on the cross the necessary atonement for our sins.

        And, since homosexual couples “love” each other, it gives them the right to deprive a boy adopted by two men to see a model of womanhood and thus relate to someone of the other sex; or a boy raised by two “lesbian moms” to have a model in a parent of his own sex? There’s already an outfit called Jephthah’s Daughters out there airing their woes about being sacrificed as children to society’s love of the novel and grotesque. Then again, more of such hurt people in the future will be a field day for future lawyers (and nobody else).

        Jesus quoted that God made us male and female and thus instituted heterosexual marriage when he spoke against divorce (Mt. 19).

        • Kepha says

          Sep 3, 2016 at 11:50 pm

          And I’m sure that those who commit brother-sister incest are very “loving”, too.

        • Jay Boo says

          Sep 4, 2016 at 12:06 am

          In fairness and full disclosure of the whole truth, there are some strait couples who abuse their children horrendously. Some husbands will go to church on Sunday and beat their wives to a bloody pulp on Monday.

  4. billybob says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 11:23 pm

    So did they report this to the police?

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 5:09 am

      CAIR tells Muslims not to even talk to the police.

  5. davej says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    Intimidation is a fundamental threat to Freedom and Democracy.

    It is the tactic of the thug, the bully, the criminal and the Fascist. The cowardly psychopath who drives a large truck to run over innocent families.

    It is in the threats to cartoonists, no-go zones, mass prayers blocking the streets and accusations of, so ironically, “Islamophobia”.

    While it is true that most of the wold is already run by criminals, larceny seems mild next to Islam. The regular criminal just wants to cheat or steal from you, usually not burn down your church, rape your wife and kill the both of you.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 12:35 am

    This reminds me of several yrs ago when Diana West learned from government papers that only about 20% of Moslem “relatives” brought in for family reunification were actually related. You can bet whoever grabbed that DNA data and analyzed it is working in the basement now. Some federal gubmint employees *are* fired, this crime researcher probably got the can.

    The Minnesota Media would never dream of reporting on this story. It doesn’t fit with their narrative.

  7. f c king says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 4:30 am

    It seems that I read that about 75,000 Somalis have committed fraud to obtain Visas. Send them all back. This is a joke ? If I were to commit identification fraud, I would get the book thrown at me.

    • Rob says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 9:10 am

      “…If I were to commit identification fraud, I would get the book thrown at me…”

      Yes – but you must remember that these poor dears don’t know any better. We must make allowances for their sad circumstances; and culture of intolerance in which they grew up.

      …so don’t be beastly to them.

      As Mr Obama said, “We must pray to god for the strength to change (ourselves)”

      Look it up on youtube “The Official Lie” by Masrk Steyn

  8. Baucent says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 4:37 am

    Looks like Ahmed is enjoying a nice glass of white wine in that photo. Halal no doubt.

  9. Angemon says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 5:01 am

    “A Community Forced Into Silence

    What is more bigoted, possibly “islamophobic” – investigating the Somali community or letting thugs run rampant? Just kidding – it’s about appearances, not results – investigating the community looks bad while letting thugs run rampant can be swept under the rug.

  10. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 5:43 am

    New laws are needed to make deportation for such people automatic.

  11. John Billings says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 9:02 am

    What most disturbs me about this report is not that the Somali woman married her brother; Islam has all sorts of perversions. What really bothers me is that there is such a thing in the USA as a “Somali community” with its own language, which the report said several times had to be translated; that Somali thugs can silence other members of this “community”; and that anyone in America should be threatened, or their families threatened, without an immediate government intervention (police, FBI). How can this be happening in my America?

    • Steve says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 11:25 am

      Quit voting for D’rats

    • Kepha says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 11:53 pm

      So? When my mother was growing up on the prairies of the Midwest, every little town had three Lutheran churches: one for the Germans, one for the Norwegians, one for the Swedes.

  12. Paul Clark says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Should anyone care?You don’t really believe the good citizens of Minneapolis care? From what I can determine this city is loaded with black racists, liberals, socialists disguised as democrats and a few republicans that behave like democrats. Based on knowledge of this city and state of the past 30 years, their ideology left them no other place to go. There will be no peaceful or legal resolution to this . Islam will not allow this and our leaders are too cowardly to challenge. Welcome more and bigger mosque that teach even more hate and murder.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Sep 3, 2016 at 2:01 pm

      The Twin Cities are too loaded down with foolish, ignorant old-time Dems and the newer, virtue-signalling leftist Dems to ever let any ‘phobic conservative get another chance at public office. Mass importation of what will become generations of ‘D’ voters, with all the goodies provided, gives leftists the upper hand forever.
      The leftist Dem Mpls. mayor, as well as the Governor are set in stone.
      Amazing what taxpayer dollars will buy.

  13. LB says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 10:11 am

    Looks like there really are a few decent Somali folks like this Z guy. I guess not ALL Somali muslims want Sharia in USA, only about 99,999%

  14. 762x51FMJ says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    A recent report took Somalia off of dangerous places to visit. The somalians can return home now, it is nearly as safe in Somalia as it is here, when random crime is factored in with all the gang related drug/gun crime. It is statistically safer to walk streets in the Somaliland part of Somalia then North Minneapolis.

  15. Kay says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 12:11 am

    It was just another way to twist our systems, to use them.
    The “marriage” they’d follow– besides for immigration purposes– would take place in some other venue.

  16. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 8:39 am

    Jay Boo says
    September 4, 2016 at 12:06 am

    In fairness and full disclosure of the whole truth, there are some strait couples who abuse their children horrendously. Some husbands will go to church on Sunday and beat their wives to a bloody pulp on Monday.

    About time you learnt what the fallacy of Tu Quoque means, Jay Boo.
    You might also learn to spell “Straight”

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