Somali Immigrant Has a Chilling Warning for the West | Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Trojan Horse in the North: How Minnesota Became the West’s Wake-Up Call
We are witnessing a slow-motion collision in the West, a disastrous meeting of incompatible worlds that our political elites are not only ignoring but actively facilitating. Nowhere is this more evident, more visceral, and more terrifying than in Minnesota. To look at the state of affairs in Minneapolis today is to see a microcosm of a civilization that has decided to finance its own demise. The recent dialogue between Dave Rubin and Ayaan Hirsi Ali exposes this rotting underbelly of American multiculturalism with surgical precision, revealing a reality that the polite, tea-drinking elites of Western liberalism are too cowardly to confront.
The fundamental lie we have been fed for decades is that all cultures are effortlessly compatible, that you can import tens of thousands of people from pre-modern, clan-based societies into a modern constitutional republic and expect a seamless transition. This is not merely naive; it is a delusion that is getting us killed. As Ali points out, you cannot transplant 70,000 to 80,000 people from Somalia—a failed state defined by bloodlines and tribal warfare—into the American Midwest and expect the clan dynamic to simply evaporate at customs. It does not. Instead, it flourishes, metastasizes, and begins to corrode the host society from within.
The situation in Minnesota is not an accident of immigration; it is the result of a tripartite alliance of subversion that should make every patriotic American’s blood run cold. We are looking at a collusion between three distinct entities, each feeding off the other like parasites. First, you have the Somali clan dynamic itself. This is a system rooted in what sociologists might call “amoral familism,” where the only loyalty is to the bloodline. In this worldview, defrauding a faceless government agency—like the massive fraud scandals we have seen in Minnesota—is not viewed as theft or moral failure. It is viewed as a virtue, a clever way to extract resources from a weak, alien system to benefit one’s own tribe. The American taxpayer is not a neighbor to be respected; they are a resource to be harvested.
Second, there is the Muslim Brotherhood. While the media paints them as a benign religious organization, the reality exposed here is that they are an Islamist force dedicated to the transformation of America from within. They are decentralized, patient, and strategic, delegating their agenda to local ethnic enclaves. In Minnesota, this agenda is outsourced to the Somali community, creating a hybrid engine of clan loyalty and Islamist ideology.
But the third and perhaps most despicable member of this unholy trinity is the Democratic Party. The Democrats have abandoned the hard work of persuading voters with policy and have instead adopted a cynical electoral business model. They import ethnic voting blocs, pump their communities with taxpayer-funded benefits, and in exchange, harvest their votes. It is a transaction that bypasses the democratic spirit entirely. Politicians like Jacob Frey in Minneapolis think they can “dance with the devil,” assimilating into these clan structures to secure power. They do not realize they are the ones being played. They are being, quite literally, fried.
Standing at the nexus of this dysfunction is Ilhan Omar. She is not merely a congresswoman; she is a symptom of this systemic rot. She is a talented politician, certainly, but her talent lies in navigating these contradictory masters. She wears the hat of the progressive Democrat when in Washington, the headscarf of the Islamist when addressing the Brotherhood, and plays the clan loyalist when back in her district. She is 100% clan-oriented, serving the interests of a specific bloodline and a specific ideology while the American media claps like seals for her “bravery.” The hypocrisy is staggering. She uses the language of Western victimhood to shield a worldview that is fundamentally hostile to Western values.
This brings us to the broader, more agonizing failure of the West: our own weakness. We have become a civilization of “nice” people, the metaphorical ladies drinking tea who believe that if we just talk politely enough to the people who want to destroy us, they will eventually settle down and become good liberals. This is the suicidal naivety of the classical liberal who has forgotten his roots. We have forgotten that Western freedom, tolerance, and the very concept of the individual are not secular accidents. They are the fruits of a Judeo-Christian heritage that we have foolishly cut down. As Ali argues, you cannot have the fruit of the West without the roots. When we severed our society from Christianity, we didn’t become rational and enlightened; we created a spiritual vacuum that is now being filled by the clan, the Islamist, and the woke neo-Marxist.
The “multiculturalism” of the late 90s and 2000s was the gateway drug for this infection. It taught us that we must not judge, that we must be morally relativistic. We were told that comparing cultures was “ethnocentric.” Well, look where that has gotten us. We are now afraid to enforce our own laws. When we talk about fixing this—about closing the border, about the mass deportation of those who have broken our laws—the immediate reaction from the left is hysteria. They cry about the “messiness” of it all.
Let us be absolutely clear: reversing this catastrophe will be messy. There is no clean, polite way to deport millions of people who have entered illegally or who are defrauding the state. There is no way to dismantle the entrenched networks of the Muslim Brotherhood without conflict. The “Minnesota Nice” attitude is being weaponized against the very people who hold it. The left, the Islamists, and the clan leaders rely on our civility to advance their barbarism. They know that we are terrified of being called racists, and they use that fear to silence opposition while they loot the treasury and dismantle the culture.
We are seeing the early stages of a necessary correction, but it requires a stomach for conflict that the modern left finds repulsive. The Trump administration’s approach—closing the border, threatening mass deportations, drawing red lines—is the blunt instrument required for a desperate situation. The sheer hysteria this provokes from the media, the Antifa rioters, and the “ice watchers” is proof that it is the right course of action. These groups are screaming because their status quo is threatened. They are mobilizing because they know the free ride might actually be coming to an end.
This fight is existential. If the Islamists win, if the clan dynamic replaces the rule of law, if the identity-based neo-communists of the Democratic Party succeed, where does humanity go? It goes to darkness. It goes to a world that is short, nasty, and brutal. We see it in the chaos of Somalia; we see it in the totalitarianism of Iran. Why on earth would we want to import that here?
Even the cultural pillars of our decline are beginning to crack. The angry, blue-haired, Marxist feminism that has dominated our discourse is finally running out of steam. Women are waking up to the lie. They are seeing that the erasure of gender, the invasion of women’s spaces by biological males, and the demonization of men has left them vulnerable and unhappy. We need a return to reality—to successful, healthy families, to women who love and respect men, and to men who are worthy of that respect because they protect their families and their nation.
We are in the eleventh hour. The alliance of the clan, the Brotherhood, and the bureaucrat is strong, but it is parasitic. It cannot survive without a host. The American people, the host, are finally starting to develop an immune response. It will not be pretty. It will not be polite. It will certainly not be “Minnesota Nice.” But it is the only way we survive. The time for drinking tea and discussing our differences is over. The time for drawing lines in the sand has begun.
