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These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer. During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges or when they simply need advice. How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility? How do you repair this kind of damage? My daughter Michaela guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives. Everyone has their own destiny. Everyone. Today. MATT WALL SHOW the Somali community in Minnesota rallies around a man who abducted and abused a child. They told the judge to go easy on him because he's still getting accustomed to our culture. So what does that say about Somali culture? Also, several more states have now banned junk food from the food stamp program. We'll talk about that. And also the rise of so called EBT influencers on Tick Tock, which is as horrible as it sounds. 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Then several Somali politicians in the US 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 hendricks 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 probably the frontrunner. So it's safe to say that three decades after the US government determined that Somalis deserve 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protected status in this country as refugees from their own dysfunctional governance, a temporary status that has never been revoked, Somalis are dominating our news cycle and some of our major elections as well. 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 these Somalis doing in the country? What value do they add? What's their goal? We're told that if we draw any general conclusions about Somalis, Somali culture 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 the deflection, no one has ever explained in any affirmative way what Somalis actually care about. What's their culture all about? This culture that we're importing into this country en masse, 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 US 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 Kalino Ibrahim Deary. Now the mystery is 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, apparently 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. Now, let's start with the specifics of this case. Local news in Minnesota won't really talk about it for obvious reasons. So instead of playing a clip, I'll summarize the background myself. 42 year old Kalino was, was born in Somalia, spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya. He arrived in the United States in 2006. He worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft most of the time. In 2024, Kalino was in Minneapolis when he noticed that a 12 year old girl was playing in her backyard alone. So he parked his Toyota in an alley outside and asked if the girl's mother was at home. She said no. 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. 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, quote, hey beautiful, I miss you. When can I see you again? The parents pretended to be. To be, to be their daughters to, to lure the man back. And when he arrived at the home, they held him there until police arrived. Once arrested, the man didn't display any form of contration. He claimed that he thought the girl was 19 years old, which apparently would make it okay to abduct her. He criticized the mother. He continued to fight the charges until he was convicted of first degree criminal sexual misconduct in, in May of this year. Now, based on this series of events, which again, is as sanitized as I can make it for the purposes of this show, but based on all this, any community or culture with decency or morality would make it very clear that Kalino 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 that he committed rather than, you know, continue to dodge accountability as he's been doing. But that is not how the Somali community community in Minneapolis has responded to this case. Instead, as Alpha News first reported, the Al Hasan Islamic center in St. Paul submitted a community letter of support for this man addressed to the judge in the case. Now, 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. So this is them speaking for themselves. Here's what they wrote. Quote. We, the undersigned, members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt support for Kalino Diri, a member of our community. Many of us first met Kalino 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, Kalinel has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture, learning English, adjusting to a fast paced system and and raising children in an environment far different from the one he grew up in. Before the situation, Kalindal was known as a devoted family man and an outgoing person. Despite the financial pressures of life in the U.S. kalino also still managed to support needy family members back in Somalia. The situation Kalinel is currently facing comes as a deep shock to all of us. Now this is a letter that you might write if this guy had, say, lost his license because he got too many speeding tickets or something, 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 Colinl was just convicted for hitting a 12 year old girl in the head, abducting her, 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, much less a community of people that we have invited into our home, into our country. 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 have chosen. And on top of that, they shouldn't brag that he's funneling money out of the US economy and sending it back to Somalia. But the most revealing part of the letter is when Somalis that wrote this letter explained that Colonel quote has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture. Well, that's about as explicit as it gets, apparently, in Somali culture, at least according to the people who wrote this letter. This is what they're implying. 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. And 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. You know, just like it's tough to learn, say, the rules of baseball or, or tipping etiquette when you go out to eat. It's just like that. And that's the position of this Islamic center in St. Paul. He's adjusting to our culture and having some growing pains when it comes to the whole, you know, not sexually abusing children thing. Never mind the fact that at the time of this attack, Lynnel 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 quote 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 assault a child. It doesn't require education to know this. It doesn't require customs, doesn't require anything but 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 in Minnesota is acknowledging that by their own words, they don't have that level of moral awareness, which means, quite simply, that they don't have any business being in this country. They should be deported, and their temporary protected status, which has gone on for 34 years, should be immediately rescinded. Now, if it's true that abusing children is a part of the culture, then as they're implying and as the statistics really do bear out, then this culture should not be permitted to enter the US under any circumstance. Now, to be clear, I'm not cherry picking one letter here. The Al Hassan 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 this guy's family and close associates wrote letters to the judge as well. And they all said the same thing. Here's how prosecutors summarize those letters in their sentencing memo to the judge. Quote, finally, defendant's family and friends 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 is convicted of or that they are dismissive of his crime. Family members are focused on the impact that this has had on him and his family. None of them acknowledge the victim and her family. While they cite that he's 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. There's the understatement of the century. 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 member of their community. They're responding by threatening to kill the victim's mom. They're continuing to terrorize the family as a community. And by the way, at trial, Colonel made it clear that he blames the victim's mother for what happened. 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. Now, you could tell in that paragraph I just read that the prosecutor is trying to search for some plausible reason why all of the Somalis involved in this case are defending this man. Like to a man they are all defending him. And he says that, well, maybe the family didn't know that 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 the country. 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. They and 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 in this case, with release from prison after 10 years and the rest, served on probation, was going to do 10 years in prison for abducting and sexually assaulting a child out of her parents backyard. 10 years. This is a sentence that without any doubt whatsoever, should have been life imprisonment at a minimum, assuming the sharks and the firing squad weren't available. But that won't happen because of Minnesota's laws, which are extremely permissive when it comes to child abuse. Colino 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 a 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 of how these stories are covered, if the media touches them at all, watch this. We begin this evening with a disturbing.