Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The Somali Muslim Network in the ICE Riots: Including CAIR and the Organization that Recruited Rep. Ilhan Omar

The Somali Muslim Network in the ICE Riots
Including CAIR and the organization that recruited Rep. Ilhan Omar.
“I think this is the end for ICE,” Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, Minnesota (CAIR-MN), bragged, as the violent riots against immigration enforcement continued. “This is the moment where we continue to double down.”

The Somali Muslim leader’s aggressive rhetoric showed the role that his people were playing in the campaign to protect illegal alien criminals, some of them fellow Somali Muslims, from deportation as part of a network of extreme groups engaging in intimidation against ICE.

A left-wing media story described one of the Somali anti-ICE patrols featuring Kamal Yusuf, who doesn’t speak English, but wears a “F___ ICE” vest and tracks federal law enforcement.

This was linked to the Somali-American Leadership Table (SALT) organization co-founded by Imam Yusuf Abdulle, a director of the Islamic Association of North America (ISNA). ISNA was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and is an unindicted co-conspirator in funding Islamic terror linked groups. “We are fighting,” Imam Abdulle bragged.

ICE has taken into custody multiple Somali rapists and pedophiles, including Sahal Osman Shidane (criminal sexual conduct fourth degree of a victim 13 to 15 years old and Abdi Gelle Mohamed (sexual abuse of a minor) as part of a larger Somali rape crisis in Minnesota. The state has seen horrifying Somali assaults on women and children go unpunished a man who assaulted a teenage girl in a college bathroom stall (and is already out), a man who assaulted a 4-year-old girl and was given no prison time, and a Somali pedophile who assaulted a 10-year-old girl in 1998 and whom the federal government has been trying to deport since 2001.

So it was no wonder that Somali Muslim groups rallied to oppose immigration enforcement.

Ayada Leads, a Somali Muslim organization, boasted that “Rep. Ilhan Omar is the first woman Ayada Leads recruited to run for office.” Since then, Ayada has taken credit for State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, State Rep. Hodan Hassan, and Mayor Nadia Mohamed of St. Louis Park, MN whom it describes as “the youngest elected official trained by Ayada Leads”.

These days, Ayada Leads tweets messages urging its supporters to report ICE federal immigration law enforcement officers while warning “Remember SALUTE when reporting.” SALUTE is a military acronym meaning ‘Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment’.

Habon Abdulle, a Somali immigrant from Mogadishu who was honored by Rep. Omar on the House floor and invited as her guest to the State of the Union address in 2020, heads Ayada Leads (originally the WOW Network) and has been doing a media tour complaining about the impact of immigration enforcement and immigration laws on Somali migrants in Minnesota.

Ayada Leads has been listed as part of the anti-ICE coalition, its social media has promoted protests as “revolution” and “resistance”, and urged support for the pro-illegal mobs, promoted bail funds for the arrested rioters and suggested that some serve as ‘emergency contacts’.

The Somali Muslim group even defended the church rioters who disrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul.

Abdulle expressed her appreciation to the Headwaters Foundation. Headwaters is headed by Bilal Alkatout, a Kuwaiti immigrant and gay ‘Palestinian’ who has “never stepped foot in Palestine”. Headwaters is a notorious local operation that helped fund BLM during the riots and more recently provided funding to pro-Hamas groups like ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’.

Headwaters has called for eliminating ICE and offered six figures to build “a future without ICE”. It had urged support for anti-ICE groups like MIRAC which have defended the use of violence.

The Headwaters Foundation funded a number of Islamic groups including the local chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is also involved in the anti-ICE coalition, took part in rallies calling for an end to immigration enforcement and demanded that Minnesota investigate “federal agents for terrorizing Somali & other immigrant communities”. --->READ MORE HERE

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