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.
Officially authorities claim to be baffled by Mohamad’s decision to open fire on cops and firefighters, but the decision by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the bomb squad to search Mohamad’s apartment suggests that they privately have an explosive motive in mind.
“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.
If Mohamad acted in the name of Islam, it would not be the first terror attack 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.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Since Gov Burgam is one of those delusional Republicans running for POTUS, I do hope he makes it to the debates, and that somebody asks him about his support and celebration of the islamization of Fargo and North Dakota
Spudmans1 says
Let Donald Trump have a go at him and that will clear things up concerning Burgam becoming POTUS!
Concerned citizens says
Sioux falls is embedded with them…only a matter of time. Thankfully we have a governor who thumbs her nose at refugees, migrants, and their ilk
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Reynolds or Noem?
somehistory says
What the so-called leaders are doing to the country and its people is a crime. Citizens who are born here…and not with a mozlum background…have, for many decades, through many presidential “administrations,” and changes to society, expect to be able to live and raise their families.
These ones don’t expect their ‘governments”….city, state and national…to put some fake do-gooding as more important than their safety and well-being. To take tax money, which means hours, weeks and years of work, and give it to some “charity” which emboldens those receiving the generous handouts.
Yet, the local, state and fed governments have dismissed all worries and complaints, called any concerns about terrorism a ‘phobia,’ and brought in millions of mozlums who have the idea that the country and its resources are theirs for the taking….demanding, and whining and lying until they have the numbers to take offices and lives.
It’s a crime. And the consequences are beginning to really come to light. Those responsible will reap from sowing their rotten seed producing rotten fruit..
All honest people should hang in and not lose hope.
Patrick Kelley says
Each day that passes, the US becomes more saturated with Muslim immigration. Muslim Immigration is welcomed w/open arms among the woke/leftist Democratic religious, Antifa/BLM communities. These ignorants are contributing to the demise of America, by welcoming Muslims who want to kill all non-Muslim, Jews, and Christians in the USA. It emboldens Muslims to continue the progression of jihad, exemplifies Islamic immigration jihad in America.
Look at how advanced the Islamic immigration jihad is in France, England, and Germany. Islamic gangs rule the streets in many locations, killings are common, with limited/weak prosecutions of young Muslim perpetrators. Significant historical architectural buildings are being converted to mosques, growing the footprint of Islam. Muslims are now mayors of European communities.
Trudeau is a converted Muslim and he is the head of Canada. Here in America we have Muslim members of Congress.
Keep reading and following Robert Spencer at jihadwatch.org, or Pamela Geller at the Gellerreport.com. I love watching the humor of Robert Spencer and David Wood (Christian Apologist) as they converse about Islamic events worldwide. Also, David recommends guests on the “Speakers Corner” in France where Christians debate Muslims. Great interchanges of conversations centered around religion, very engaging.
Wellington says
Parasites tend to spread everywhere. Even to North Dakota. And nothing in man’s history is more parasitical than that wretched religion founded in the 7th century AD by a very wretched, albeit diabolically clever, man.
GreekEmpress says
Yep. Even to North Dakota. Even to Fargo.
Ilhan Omar attended college at North Dakota State University in Fargo. And look how she’s paid the US back for taking her in. ?
GreekEmpress says
And subsidized by ND taxpayers—
https://theminutemanblog.com/2019/06/20/north-dakota-taxpayers-helped-fund-rep-ilhan-omars-rise-to-fame/
Catherine Malay says
She married her brother to get him into the US. The US has gotten very stupid over the centuries and Obama made it worse by bringing Foreigns into our government Muslims etc. they are infiltrating our government and will eventually implement their laws into our government and society.
somehistory says
i elmi, alias i omar, is a professional at making a living, high on the hog, by fraud.
She arrived in this country as a result of the lies/fraudulent activity of her father, a terrorist named elmi who pretended to be omar in order to get in., as omar was an approved name …by b clinton….to come from somalia.
She committed fraud to attend the university and get her brother/husband in.
And she’s still being “subsidized” by taxpayers.
That areas is likely full of her kith and kin and she has attempted to help other mozlums who broke the law to be given their freedom instead of punishment.
Thankfully, she can’t help this barakat, the murderer.
tgusa says
Refugee resettlement is an act of war on the American people. There are forces out there that hate us and some of those forces are right here among us.
ME Infidel says
I went to a Walmart yesterday in Falmouth, ME a town just outside of Portland where there is now a large Somali Muslim community. The cashier was a Somali teenager if I had to guess. He did not say a single word during the whole transaction…no greeting, never quoted me a cost for my merchandise and no thank you after the sale. Likewise, I played the game and deliberately stayed silent. Is this how Walmart trains their employees and is this what the future of our shopping experiences will be like?
somehistory says
Around five years ago, I went to a K-Mart. They had hired a young woman, mozlum, and she never said a greeting to anyone, no thank you, no come again, etc and once when I was there getting assistance for a return from the service desk, she came barreling over, pushed me, inserted herself in front of me demanding help from the clerk who had been assisting me. No sorry, no excuse me…nothing but rude behavior.
It’s how islam trains its operatives and the future of our shopping experiences will be like that and worse.
JettieG says
Black muslim was hired as receptionist at out govt cancer centre; not only can she NOT speak proper English on the phone, she is surly & rude in person. I’m sure govt workers must be citizens, but she must be a special diversity hire.
We also have a black muslim at our drug store who is equally rude & incompetent, but if you say anything, the woke mob screams at you. They all pander like suckface piglets.
gravenimage says
Not surprised by any of this.
James Lincoln says
When visiting Maine, I noticed that the Portland Press Herald plasters the smiling and well-dressed muslim invaders all over the front page.
Like they are coming here to be our friends…
Really says
According to sharia law and the Quran , Muslims are not allowed to take nonmuslims as friends.
gravenimage says
We see so much of this whitewash.
Devasur says
Meanwhile, US pastors we will convert evil hindus and destroy india for the sake of christ. While islamists invade and multiply in their backyard. As christian proverb goes “You reap what you sow”
JettieG says
I left my church coz our donations went to funding muslim “refugees”, not Christians. One family member that they helped to migrate here raped & murdered a 12 year-old girl in a local park 5 years ago. He has still not been sentenced. Most of the killers plead temporary insanity & their lefty lawyers get them put in mental institutions.
an says
It is time for US Christians to wake up and realize that conversion is wrong. The common enemy of Americans of all denominations is ISLAM. We must unite to remove the cancer.
Avenger says
You’re 100% correct Devasur. What I find amusing is the absence of Christian organizations trying to covert Muslims in countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc. It shows the cowardice and hypocrisy of these Lutheran and Catholic organizations. However these same antiAmerican groups will facilitate and profit in relocating thousands of muslim refugees into the US.
gravenimage says
Christians do not consider Hindus to be evil, nor do they engage in forced conversion as Muslims so often do.
terry says
Gated communities protected by security, seldom feel the results of their actions. But soon enough, the fierceness of mobs shall ransack, murder, rape, and pillage many of these communities. Their democratic/republican in game only grifters, scammers, and cons who worked with the Globalist Elites of the West, the Marxist, the Islamist, and the Cartels to seize the nations and the peoples of the world have for power and wealth unleashed all this violence: they own it.
OLD GUY says
The migration invasion of non-muslim/islamic countries is in full forward mode. These migrants don’t come here to become American citizens. They come here to spread islam across the world.
Grannya says
As Obuma said, the seventh caliafate, or Muslum, state for them. I may not have words spelled right but I will never forget right after he was elected.
It was scary then as it is now, lying is ok in their book!
gravenimage says
When did Obama say this? Obama has been an apologist for Islam, no doubt, but I can’t find any reference to this.
gravenimage says
The Islamization of North Dakota: The Islamic attack in Fargo shows the impact of refugee settlement
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All grimly true. Good article from Daniel Greenfield.
Muslims are also coming in from neighboring Minnesota, which is overrun by Somali Muslims.