Here’s The Horrifying Proof That All Cultures Are Not Equal

More than any other failed state in Africa, Somalia has been in the news a lot lately.

First, several Somalis were convicted in a $250 million scheme to defraud U.S. taxpayers by claiming they cooked meals for children when they were really buying sports cars. Then several Somali politicians in the U.S., including Ilhan Omar, announced that they’re working on behalf of Somali interests, not America’s. Then a Somali man in a playground in Minnesota harassed a woman named Shiloh Hendrix and her 18-month-old child, prompting the woman to drop the n-bomb heard around the world. Then, to cap it all off, the Democrat Party endorsed a Somali socialist to be the next mayor of Minneapolis. And at the moment, he appears to be the frontrunner.

So, it’s safe to say that, three decades after the U.S. government determined that Somalis deserved “temporary protected status” in this country as refugees from their own dysfunctional governance — a “temporary” status that has never been revoked — Somalis are dominating our news cycle and some of our major elections.

And yet, for all the ways that Somalis have found their way into our national discourse in recent months, there’s one fundamental question that has remained unanswered: What exactly are all of these Somalis doing in this country? What value do they add? What is their goal? We’re told that, if we draw any general conclusions about Somalis based on the observable behavior of Somalis, then we’re bigots. We’re not allowed to inquire into their motives in any way.

But despite all of the deflection, no one has ever explained, in an affirmative way, what Somalis actually care about. What core principle would they defend, in large numbers, if it ever came under attack? We know (based on the candidates they elect) that Somalis wouldn’t defend the Constitution, or the freedom of speech or freedom of association. So what’s their motivation? Aside from draining the U.S. treasury, what single issue really matters to them?

Regardless of how often I’ve asked this question, directly or indirectly, I’ve never received a response. But suddenly, and somewhat unexpectedly, that’s all changed now, thanks to a court case in Minnesota involving a Somali man named “Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie.” The mystery is now over. Yes, as part of this criminal proceeding, the Somali community in the state of Minnesota has just revealed what they’re truly passionate about. And their answer, in rather unambiguous terms, is that they’re passionate about the right of men to sexually abuse and torment other people’s children. This is the “culture” they’re defending.

This is what they’re willing to excuse. And there’s no debating this. They went to court and made their voices very clear.

Let’s start with the specifics of this case. Local news in Minnesota won’t talk about it, for obvious reasons, so instead of playing a clip, I’ll summarize the background myself. 42-year-old “Qalinle” was born in Somalia, spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya, and arrived in the United States in 2006.

Credit: Hennepin county sheriff’s office.

He worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft most of the time. In 2024, Qalinle was in Minneapolis when he noticed that a 12-year-old girl was playing in her backyard alone. He parked his Toyota in an alley outside and asked if the girl’s mother was at home. She said no. A short time later, the man put his hand over the girl’s mouth, hit her head to the point that she became “dizzy and disoriented,” drove her a short distance away, and sexually assaulted her in a manner that is too graphic to describe on this show.

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Five days later, the child told a school counselor about the attack. The next month, as police investigated, the girl’s parents discovered that the man was still calling their daughter and sending her text messages. He was saying things like, “Hey beautiful, I miss you, when can I see you again?” The parents pretended to be their daughter to lure the man back. When he arrived at the home, they held him there until police arrived. Once arrested, the man didn’t display any form of contrition. He claimed that he thought the girl was really 19-years-old. He criticized the mother. He continued to fight the charges until he was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in May of this year.

Based on this series of events — which again, is as sanitized as I can make it — any community or culture with a shred of decency or morality would make it very clear that “Qalinle” does not represent them. They wouldn’t make excuses for him. They certainly wouldn’t minimize what he had done. Instead, they would recognize his behavior as unspeakably evil. And if they said anything to him at all, they’d urge him to repent for the acts of horror he committed, rather than continue to dodge accountability.

But that’s not how the Somali community of Minneapolis has responded to this case. Instead, as AlphaNews first reported, the Al-Ihsan Islamic Center in St. Paul submitted a “community letter of support” for Qalinle, addressed to the judge in the case. I’m going to read directly from this letter, because it answers any and all questions you might have about Somali culture and the Somali “community” in the United States. Here’s what they wrote.

Left: Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie/Department of Corrections; Right: Al-Ihsan Islamic Center/Minnesota Judicial Branch. Alpha News.

The letter reads:

“We, the undersigned members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt support for Qalinle Dirie, a member of our community. Many of us first met Qalinle through our shared journey as Somali refugees — arriving in this country with little more than hope and determination to rebuild our lives. Like so many of us, Qalinle has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture: learning English, adjusting to a fast-paced system, and raising children in an environment far different from the one we grew up in. …Before this situation, Qalinle was known as a devoted family man and an outgoing person. … Despite the financial pressures of life in the U.S., Qalinle also still managed to support needy family members back in Somalia. … The situation [Qalinle] is currently facing comes as a deep shock to all of us.”

This is a letter you might write to a judge if Qalinle had, say, lost his license because he got too many speeding tickets. Or if he got picked up by the IRS because he didn’t file his taxes on time. It is not, to any sane person, an appropriate letter to write when Qalinle was just convicted for hitting a 12-year-old girl in the head, sexually assaulting her, and then texting her to see when he could do it again.

In no universe should an unrepentant rapist receive the “strong and heartfelt” support of anyone, much less an entire “community” of people. Nor should this “community of people” repeatedly refer to this brutal sexual assault as a “situation,” which is probably the single most dismissive word they could’ve chosen. And on top of that, they shouldn’t brag that he’s funneling money out of the U.S. economy and sending it back to Somalia.

But the most revealing part of the letter is when the Somalis explain that Qalinle, “has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture.” That’s about as explicit as it gets. Apparently, in Somali culture — at least according to the people who wrote this letter — when a young girl is alone and defenseless in her backyard, you can sexually assault her as much as you want. (And indeed, the statistics bear that out; Somalia ranks as the top country in the world for sexual violence against children, among other abuses.) That’s what they’re very clearly implying here.

Therefore, according to this letter, we should have some sympathy for this poor guy. After all, he’s just having trouble getting used to our peculiar little customs in the United States. It’s apparently very difficult to adjust to this whole thing where we “don’t sexually assault children” — just like it’s tough to learn, say, the rules of baseball, or tipping etiquette when you go out to eat. That’s the position of this “Islamic center” in St. Paul. He’s just adjusting to our culture, and having some growing pains when it comes to the whole “sexual abuse of children” thing.

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Never mind the fact that, at the time of this attack, Qalinle had lived in the United States for nearly two decades. So he had quite a bit of time to get used to our laws and “customs.” And more importantly, you’re supposed to ignore the fact that, regardless of where you were raised, you should know — at an instinctual level — that it’s one of the most profound evils imaginable to sexually assault a child. It does not require education to know this. It doesn’t require “customs.” It requires having a shred of conscience. It requires having the moral awareness of a human being instead of, say, a lizard.

With this letter, the Somali community of Minnesota is acknowledging that — by their own words — they do not have this level of moral awareness. Which means quite simply that they have no business being in this country. Every single one of them should be deported, and their “temporary protected status” — which has gone on for 34 years — should be immediately rescinded. If it’s true that abusing children is a part of the culture then this culture should not be permitted to enter the United States under any circumstance.

To be clear, I’m not cherry-picking one letter here. The Al-Ihsan Islamic Center in St. Paul sent this letter to the judge, on behalf of the Somali community. But they weren’t the only ones to voice their support for this unapologetic predator. I went looking through the docket on this case, and I found that many of Qalinle’s family and close associates wrote letters to the judge as well. And they all said the same thing.

Here’s how prosecutors summarized those letters, in their sentencing memo to the judge.

If that’s difficult to read, here it is:

“Finally, Defendant’s family and friend do not acknowledge his actions, the impact they had on the Victim, or recognize his wrongdoing. The statements show that either Defendant has not told them what he was convicted of, or that they are dismissive of his crime. Family members are focused on the impact this has had on him and the family; none of them acknowledge the Victim and her family. While they cite that he is a person of good character, it is more likely that this offense is a side of him they did not know about, nor do they want to know about; but quite simply, sexual assault on a child is not something a person of good character does. … The Victim’s mother also stated that she and her family have been receiving death threats within the Somali community because of this case.”

Yes, members of the Somali community are currently threatening to murder the victim’s mother.

That’s how they’re responding to the fact that this woman’s daughter was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted by a Somali. They’re continuing to terrorize the family, as a “community.” And by the way, at trial, Qalinle made it clear that he blames the victim’s mother for what happened. He certainly doesn’t blame himself. And that might seem insane to you, or to me, or to any civilized person. But not to this wonderful community, it would seem.

You can tell, in that paragraph, that the prosecutor is trying to search for some plausible reason why every single Somali involved in this case is defending this man. He says that maybe the family members “didn’t know about” this side of him. This is the kind of line that, if you’re a prosecutor in Minnesota, you have to include in your argument. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Somalis have no business in this country, prosecutors still have to pretend that we’re dealing with one or two bad apples who can be reformed. Even when the entire Somali community rushes to defend this scumbag, and attacks the victim’s family, that’s the fiction that apparently needs to be maintained.

In the end, the Somalis got what they wanted. That shouldn’t be surprising, since they effectively control the government of Minnesota at this point. The judge, Michael Burns, handed out a sentence of just 12 years of imprisonment in this case, with release from prison after 10 years (and the rest served on probation).This is a sentence that, without any doubt whatsoever, should have been life imprisonment at a minimum — assuming the sharks and the firing squad were unavailable. But that won’t happen. Because of Minnesota’s laws, which are extremely permissive when it comes to child abuse, Qalinle will be out on the streets in just a few years.

Again, this is nothing new in Minneapolis (or the UK, where Somali rape gangs are particularly active). They don’t often report on cases like this in the local news, but they’re increasingly common.

Here’s another case from an apartment complex in Minneapolis a few years ago, to give you some idea how these stories are covered (if the media touches them at all):

They don’t tell you where “Ahmed Hersi Abdi” came from. They don’t tell you if he’s legally in this country, or who allowed him to enter. Instead they refer to him as a “stranger.” They tell us he’s “mentally ill,” and then they spend the rest of the segment talking about various “resources” for sexual assault “survivors.”

But the one “resource” they don’t talk about — even though it would drastically cut down on cases like this — is mass deportations. And that’s clearly necessary at this point, because we’re not dealing with one or two bad actors. This is an endemic problem in the culture.

Seven years ago, a region in Somalia established a new lab to investigate sexual assaults. 

See what you notice in this report:

So as of 2017, Somalia had just gotten around to criminalizing sexual assault. And then, with much fanfare, they open a “sexual assault forensic center.” And the victims, if they’re compensated at all, will be rewarded with “camels or goats.” This is an actual news report from Somalia. You have to ask: Do people realize that Somali culture is this backwards? Was there ever a vote on allowing these people into the United States? Any kind of national conversation whatsoever? Or did we just decide to grant these foreigners “temporary protected status” 34 years ago, and let them flood into the country by the hundreds of thousands, with no checks whatsoever?

Put simply, we cannot be surprised when we import massive numbers of people from a third-world hellhole, and then they go on to commit horrible crimes. This kind of behavior is part of their culture. It has always been a part of their culture. That doesn’t mean every Somali commits these crimes, or wants to. But it means that the risk is unacceptably high. And given this very obvious fact, it’s time for someone in power to answer this fundamental question: Why would we ever let anyone from that culture into our country, in any capacity, under any circumstance? Now that we’ve made that mistake, and allowed them to live here, when are we going to rectify the situation? For that matter, why are we allowing anyone to live here — of any ethnicity or nationality — who rejects every foundational principle this country stands for?

It’s not just Somalis who openly denounce America’s interests, morality, and customs. Just the other day, Illinois congresswoman Delia Ramirez went to Mexico City to announce, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” Watch:

Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez at a summit in Mexico City this weekend tells the audience while speaking in Spanish: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” pic.twitter.com/ctJs5QhFLh

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 4, 2025

Delia Ramirez is the daughter of illegal aliens from Guatemala. She was reportedly born in Chicago, which supposedly grants her citizenship. She is a walking example of why this administration should continue the fight to end birthright citizenship. And she is a reminder, as we’ve discussed, that not everyone in this country is an American — even the ones with “legal” status.

“All cultures are created equal” is one of the great lies of modern times. Many of our problems in the West are born from this lie. A lot of people have pretended otherwise over the years. They’ve invented various justifications for allowing these people to destroy entire cities in this country. But now that Somalis have finally told the truth about their culture to a judge in Minneapolis, and now that members of Congress are admitting their disloyalty to audiences in Mexico City, there simply isn’t anything to debate anymore. All we have to do is read their words, pay attention to their actions, and respond accordingly.