Why Did Obama Import a Somali Muslim Congressional District for Ilhan Omar to Represent?

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Why Did Obama Import a Somali Muslim Congressional District for Ilhan Omar to Represent?
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By John Zmirak Published on March 8, 2019
 

So the Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to pass a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism. Until, that is, they’d diluted the resolution by including almost every other kind of prejudice, including the made-up, politicized crime of “Islamophobia.” It had just a few exceptions. White people, males, and Christians are not included among the groups that Congress forbids you to hate.

That exclusion is telling. It tells you that the ideology reigning today has no interest in fairness. Or even in fighting hate. It wants to direct that hate toward acceptable targets. Toward “out-groups” that once were “in-groups,” which are now legitimate scapegoats. This is precisely the worldview which philosopher Rene Girard described as Victimism. He also said that it was the ideology of Antichrist.

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[MajorClay]

Interesting 

[TomSea]

It would take some diligent detail work but to say Obama imported a Somali congressional district is not proven to me. A whole lot of of this people came in the 1990s. CNS has an article, starts out like it might support the author's case, 16% of the total of 100,000 went to MN per the article but note, they also were brought in by the numbers during the Bush administration. 2004, the biggest year of immigration for Somalis, that was not during Obama's administration. See graph below.   

Almost 100,000 Somali Refugees Admitted to US Since 9/11; 99.6% Muslim
By Patrick Goodenough | September 19, 2016 | 4:15 AM EDT

Almost 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States since 9/11, including 8,619 so far during the current fiscal year. The largest number – some 16 percent of the total over the past 15 years – have been resettled in Minnesota, home to the nation’s biggest Somali-American community.

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The man who carried out a terror attack at a mall in central Minnesota on Saturday night was identified by family as Dahir Adan, a 22-year-old Somali-American college student whose father said was born in Africa and came to the U.S. 15 years ago, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

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The figures were highest during the middle years of the George W. Bush administration, with 13,331 Somali refugees admitted in FY 2004, 10,405 in FY 2005 and 10,357 in FY 2006.


Read more at: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/almost-100000-somali-refugees-admitted-us-911

The guy mentioned above who went on the stabbing rampage at the St. Cloud Mall in 2016.... per the article came 15 years before, I don't think Obama was president... so... the distribution between Obama and Bush looks fairly equal and the article says it was actually higher average during the middle Bush years. Looks pretty equal over all though, pretty close if Bush allowed more immigration.

What the author says is often said, I'm not sure if it is totally true. It looks like the above article debunks it. I think it's pretty much, repeating myself, equal between Bush and Obama.

With a quick count on the graph, Obama may just about edge out Bush, but it's close, close to 50/50.

So, it sounds like a myth at that. Maybe the author has his reasons and maybe somehow, he is right.

16% settle in Minnesota out of 100,000? And that after 911? 16% is 16,000, not a great number of such refugees but over 15 years or whatever, that comes out to around 1,025 or so a year?  Those numbers in that perspective do not seem so high. It's not great to begin with, it also means, 84,000 went to the rest of the USA.