By Ellie Fromm
A small rally for Minneapolis Democratic Socialist Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh was held mostly in Somali on Sunday night.
Fateh, who currently serves as a Minnesota state senator, announced his mayoral candidacy last year and was recently endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer (DFL) Party. He became the first Somali American and Muslim elected to the Minnesota Senate after defeating Democrat Jeff Hayden in 2020.
During the rally, which was recorded and broadcast by Somali TV Minnesota, multiple speakers, including Fateh, took to the microphone while speaking Somali. The music is Somalian, and no American flags were flown. Some attendees wore stickers with the Palestinian flag. (RELATED: Leftists Aim To Crash Another Religious Event In Blue City That Deemed Christians ‘Far-Right’)
The mayoral hopeful, speaking both in Somali and some English, urged supporters to continue canvassing until the primary in September. Fateh finished the speech by saying, “Let’s get to work, Inshallah.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation could not immediately translate what exactly Fateh was saying when he was speaking Somali.
Fateh is running on a platform centered around protecting “undocumented residents” from an alleged “hostile federal government.” His other policies include freezing rent and raising the minimum wage. Fateh’s platform resembles New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s platform, which includes raising the minimum wage to $30 and government-run grocery stores.
Fateh won the DFL endorsement over incumbent mayor Jacob Frey, who opposed abolishing the Minneapolis Police Department and was then heckled by groups of protesters in 2020. Frey also shifted the blame for allegedly delaying the deployment of National Guard members during the 2020 riots, claiming that Governor Tim Walz did not give a timely response to his request for troops.
