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Gaslighted about Somali Refugees
https://www.americanthinker.com ^ | December 16, 2025 | Sloan Oliver

Posted on 12/16/2025 7:33:05 AM PST by bitt

Since this country’s founding, newly arrived immigrants wanted to become Americans, and did just that, conforming to our culture and values. Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?” How is it considered racist to expect newly arrived immigrants (legal or illegal) and refugees to become “Americanized”?

Early 1993, I deployed to Somalia to support Operation Restore Hope. If you saw the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down, the Mogadishu of 1993 was worse than portrayed in that movie. Somalia was never what one could call a “successful country.” However, by the time that President Bush sent U.S. troops in 1992-1993, it had collapsed into complete failure. To say Somalia was a typical third-world or regular failed country is an insult to “run-of-the-mill” failed countries. It was, and remains, the most impoverished, dysfunctional, undeveloped, backwards, failed (Throw in your own adjective.) country on the planet. Why is that?

Instead of answering why Somalia failed, in our lack of wisdom, we decided to bring the very people who failed and their failed ideology into our country. Even worse, we’ve told them. “Because things worked so splendidly back home, don’t bother assimilating.” Of all the stupid ideas this country has ever advanced, (and we’ve advanced many) bringing uneducated third-world refugees with no skills into this country, giving them endless government freebies, insisting they not assimilate, while encouraging them to remain faithful to their failed Islamic ideology and culture is perhaps our dumbest yet.

In the early 1990s, Somalia collapsed for many reasons, corruption being a major one, leading to civil war between various clan warlords. Tens of thousands were killed in the fighting and multiple times more died from famine and disease. Smith Hempstone, former ambassador

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: somalirefugees

1 posted on 12/16/2025 7:33:05 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/16/2025 7:33:20 AM PST by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Somalis appear to be the worst version of America hating muslim. And there is lots of competition for that title.


3 posted on 12/16/2025 7:43:15 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: bitt

Somalia is the butthole of the planet and its inhabitants have been brutal thieving backwater genetic dead-ends since the last ice age. Importing them was like giving a cancer patient an injection of gutter water.


4 posted on 12/16/2025 7:55:30 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: bitt
The 0bama library should've been built in beautiful downtown Mogadishu. It would fit in perfectly with the skyline of that dystopian 💩 hole


5 posted on 12/16/2025 7:58:12 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley and Iryna Zarutska are my daughters. Charlie Kirk is my brother )
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To: bitt
Biggest gas-lighter of all is idiot Governor Tim Walz - who is busy blaming White People for the $8b Somalis stole from taxpayers via fraud:

Tim Walz Blames White Men For Widespread Fraud in Somali Community

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/tim-walz-blames-white-men-widespread-somali-fraud/

6 posted on 12/16/2025 8:08:10 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?ZS)
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To: bitt

So? Who cares???

Kick ALL somali’s and their spawn out of the USA forever.


7 posted on 12/16/2025 8:15:42 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: sauropod

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8 posted on 12/16/2025 8:35:54 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Bon of Babble

Democrats knew they were stealing - but were worried about saying anything for fear of losing the Somali vote.


9 posted on 12/16/2025 9:06:22 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: bitt

“In Somalia, there is no national identity or loyalty to country. Society is based on family and clan. Loyalty goes to family, then to clan, and that’s it. It’s above everything. That loyalty says, “When in a position to do so, get what you can, get all that you can.” So, if a Somali gets a government position, they are expected to hand out freebies to family and fellow clan members. Such corruption is not frowned upon; it’s expected and demanded. “

That’s the essence of the third world mindset “get all you can while you can” and it’s why it is so poor and miserable.

The golden rule is totally foreign to them. Instead they live by “do unto others, before they do it unto you”.

A very shortsighted and dumb way of living.


10 posted on 12/16/2025 9:15:32 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Bon of Babble
Tim Walz Blames White Men For Widespread Fraud

He is white and he is one of those that allowed the fraud to happen, so maybe he has a point?

11 posted on 12/16/2025 10:34:51 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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To: bitt

Africans have warned me to stay away from anybody from Somalia. One nurses aide said she wouldn’t even work a shift with one.


12 posted on 12/16/2025 11:36:45 AM PST by Baladas
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To: bitt

The only people who should be considered for immigrant status are people who love us and want to be one of us. And who will be promptly self-supporting. And only in numbers that can be readily integrated.

The importation of tens of thousands of Somalis was intentional sabotage. Destroying your own country does not qualify you to inhabit ours.

There may well be an individual Somali or an individual family who merit living here but they will be the exception. As a group they certainly do not.


13 posted on 12/16/2025 11:38:07 AM PST by marron
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To: bitt

Just tell the skinnies if they go back home, they can get free Scat for life.


14 posted on 12/16/2025 11:42:24 AM PST by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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To: GOPJ

They were also terrified of being called Racists! - which is exactly what the Somalis threatened to do:

“At one point, Feeding Our Future threatened regulators directly – warning that delays in approving Somali-owned feeding sites would spark a public racism scandal ‘sprawled across the news.’

The state backed off. Money kept flowing.”

—Daily Mail


15 posted on 12/16/2025 1:20:51 PM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?ZS)
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To: marron

should be considered for immigrant status: people who love us, want to be one of us, and promptly self-support.

Amen.


16 posted on 12/16/2025 2:53:09 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Impala64ssa

Is that his LIEBRARY?


17 posted on 12/18/2025 10:38:48 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: brownsfan

It’s like the worst possible combination of the fanaticism of Arab Muslims and the general fecklessness, stupidity, and corruption of African tribesmen. All wrapped up into one very skinny package.

}:-)4


18 posted on 12/18/2025 1:20:14 PM PST by Moose4 (All I ever wanted was to be left alone.)
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To: bitt

What’s funny is almost everyone in Minnesota claims Somalis have made America successful. ROTFLOL. Yeah, right. Like why didn’t they stay and make Somalia successful?


19 posted on 12/18/2025 6:31:43 PM PST by beachn4fun (Save America. Close the Universities. Stop Immigration.)
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