"We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage, Trump said. When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but b****, we don't want them in our country."
"Also, it was flat out wrong calling not only our congresswoman garbage' but calling the entire community garbage', saying they're good for nothing, Fateh told Al Jazeera. It is a community that has been resilient, that has produced so much. We are teachers and doctors and lawyers and even politicians taking part in every part of Minnesota's economy and the nation's economy."
"Right now our community is afraid, said Fateh, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor Minneapolis last month. We've had our mosques be targeted. Myself, I had a campaign office vandalised earlier this year, and so we want to make sure that our neighbours understand that we're standing up for one another, showing"
President Donald Trump directed derogatory language at Representative Ilhan Omar and the Somali diaspora, calling Omar and her associates "garbage" and saying he did not want them in the country. Minnesota state Senator Omar Fateh, of Somali descent, called the remarks hurtful and disgraceful and said the Somali community has been resilient and contributed teachers, doctors, lawyers and politicians to local and national life. Fateh accused the president of political theatre to rally his base ahead of midterm elections and warned that such rhetoric could fuel further political violence, noting past targeted attacks, mosque threats and vandalism that have left the community fearful.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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