Social media erupts after clip of Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking Somali at rally goes viral
By Misty Servi – Just the News – AlphaNews.com – Oct 31, 2025
Conservative activists and commentators blasted candidate Omar Fateh, who has been referred to as the Zohran Mamdani of Minneapolis, for appearing to support another country while running to be mayor of a major American city.
(Just the News) — Social media on Thursday erupted after a video went viral that showed a Democratic mayoral candidate in Minneapolis speaking Somali during a rally, and waving what appeared to a variation of a Somali flag.
Democratic socialist candidate Omar Fateh, an American who was born to Somali immigrant parents, addressed a rally of supporters earlier this year when he began speaking the foreign language and waved the flag in an attempt to get votes from the city’s Somali population.
Conservative activists and commentators blasted Fateh, who has been referred to as the Zohran Mamdani of Minneapolis, for appearing to support another country while running to be mayor of a major American city.
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Mamdani is a self-described “Socialist” who has called for the government to “seize the means of production.” He denounced the police, writing, “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety. What we need is to Defund The NYPD.” Mandani also said that “Queer liberation means defund the police.” Zohran Mamdani has called for emptying jails, saying that “violence is an artificial construct.”
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