“THIS IS THE END FOR ICE”: Somali Muslim Network, CAIR, and Dark-Money Groups Drive Anti-ICE Insurgency in Minnesota in the ICE Riots Including CAIR and the organization that recruited Rep. Ilhan Omar.

CAIR terror group leader, “I think this is the end for ICE.” CAIR-linked leaders brag as riots escalate, illegal alien criminals are shielded, and a web of Muslim groups, politicians, and dark-money foundations mobilize to dismantle federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

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The Somali Muslim Network in the ICE Riots Including CAIR and the organization that recruited Rep. Ilhan Omar.

By Daniel Greenfield, February 3, 2026:

“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”.

CAIR is an unindicted Hamas terror funding co-conspirator whose leadership praised Oct 7.

Nausheena Hussain, a former deputy director of CAIR-MN, and Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment (RISE), who also works for the Brooklyn Park Islamic Center, had served as a committee member at Headwaters, and reposted a message stating that “Minnesota is under occupation by federal agents.”

CAIR MN also retweeted a message from State Sen. Omar Fateh complaining that Gov. Tim Walz still hadn’t visited a mosque to show support for Somalis, along with an invite to a ‘Somali Bar Association’ event offering “practical guidelines for encounters with ICE”,

Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of CAIR-MN, a Somali Muslim migrant, had previously blamed the exposure of Somali fraud on the Jews, appearing to argue that discussing Somali fraud, which in Minnesota is estimated to reach into the billions, was “Israel First” and praising Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, even as liberal Jews were trying to defend Somalis.

The Somali Muslim leader had taken part in a campaign to get an art professor fired for displaying Islamic art that he had considered blasphemous and had protested the death of Dolal Idd: a Somali Muslim criminal who was shot after opening fire on police officers.

Hussein and State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed had reportedly handed out cards to Somalis telling them not to talk to federal law enforcement. Anisa Hagi-Mohamed, one of the Bush fellows and a Somali migrant, claimed that the fighting against ICE feels like a “civil war.”

The Bush Foundation (no relation to the presidential family) has been responsible for funding many of the radical groups involved in anti-ICE activities. While the Bush Foundation was started by an engineer who died in the 1960s, the organization has become an extreme organization with little relation to its founder. Its grantmaking coordinators include at least two Somalis, Ramla Bile and Farhiya Abdulkarim, (the Bush Foundation has currently hidden its list of key people).

“Being a Minnesota Somali is a profoundly special identity for me and many others, and we wholeheartedly belong here. Our belonging is not contingent upon meritocracy or our material contributions,” Bile argued. The Somali had previously been furious at an officer wearing a hijab as a costume, denouncing the officer, “I was literally sick to my stomach.” Bile recently promoted the creation of an ‘Immigrant Rapid Response Fund’ for “mobilizing and organizing”.

Somalis have become so disproportionately represented in the Bush Foundation that nearly a third of its 2025 fellows are Somali Muslims, four times as many as Latinos and Asians, to the extent that Bush is becoming a Somali organization. And one aimed at fighting ICE.

The Minneapolis riots helped divert attention from the massive Somali Muslim fraud that has topped over $1 billion. While the city burns, the ongoing investigation into Somali fraud is being sidelined and the efforts to suppress further arrests of Somali illegal aliens is running into riots.