(Note from Scradje : There is a nexus between the following article and Putin’s still undeclared wars against Ukraine and Europe. See comments for more).
An attack on US congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a flashpoint with far deeper implications
Ms Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance as she hosted a town hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Theodore Dalrymple
28 January 2026
The criminal (and idiotic) attack on Ilhan Omar, an elected representative of Minnesota in the American Congress, will only heighten the tensions of which it was an expression. It will serve to entrench people further in their ideological bunkers.
Minnesota is home to the largest number of Somali immigrants, legal and illegal, and their descendants, in the United States, about 90,000, or 1.5 per cent of the state’s population. There have long been concerns about the fraudulent use of funds, supposedly for purposes of social support, by members of this population, going back to the days of Covid, when hundreds of millions of dollars went missing from feeding programmes for children of Somali origin.
It is now believed that billions more in funding, for such activities as childcare, have been lost to fraud by Somali-dominated groups.
Caution must be exercised in making accusations against whole population groups, however.
First, it must be proved that the fraud really existed, and second that such fraud has not occurred elsewhere on a similar scale. This seems to me unlikely. Where huge sums are available for welfare spending, fraud is a permanent temptation, as is plainly visible in Britain.
Such fraud is encouraged in diverse populations: where social security is concerned, diversity is weakness, especially vulnerability to fraud.
Such systems work relatively well, for example as they did in Scandinavia, with a homogeneous population where people had much in common, including basic loyalty, and where trust was high and honesty could be assumed.
But where diversity increases the basic loyalty to a system that makes it workable can no longer be assumed: the system becomes a resource to be looted, all the easier to do when control is weak, which it usually is.
The assumption of multiculturalists was that immigrants who arrive in large enough numbers to form communities or ghettoes would soon nevertheless assimilate to the mores of the community in which they arrived.
This might have been true had their numbers had been small, or where welfare services did not exist that made such assimilation unnecessary. But multiculturalists mistakenly supposed that the fate or trajectory of immigrants had nothing to do with the cultural traits or characteristics that they brought with them; only with the degree of friendliness and generosity of the reception they received counted.
This was very naïve, to put it mildly. It is, or ought to be, obvious that certain groups will find it easier than others to assimilate to life in a Western democracy. The idea that the Western democratic state is somehow “natural”, the default position of mankind, and therefore easy for everyone to assimilate to, is false.
I first began to think about this 50 years ago in Rhodesia. It was clear to me that the regime as it then was could not last, irrespective of whether or not it deserved to do so. But it seemed to me unlikely that a Western parliamentary regime would take its place. On reflection, my puzzle over why I, on my salary as a junior doctor, could live like a king, while an African doctor in precisely the same financial position could not, provided an obvious explanation.
I came from a culture in which my salary was mine to do with as I pleased; the African doctor came from a culture which imposed upon him inescapable social obligations, to his extended family, his village, his clan, obligations of which mere taxation at source did not relieve him.
This was not morally wrong; indeed, in some ways it was morally admirable; but a population of people with such inescapable obligations was not one from which a relatively honest and disinterested polity could easily emerge, especially once the worm of material envy and ambition had been introduced into it, as it had been by colonialism. A descent into a kleptocratic chaos was only to be expected.
It would not be at all surprising if Somali immigrants regarded funds for general welfare as a resource to be looted: in fact, it would be surprising if they did not. In 1994, the foremost scholar of Somali history, poetry and society, the late IM Lewis, wrote a book title Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society.
Where such a call is strong, where clans are still of vast importance, the disinterested disbursement of funds for social welfare is not to be expected, difficult enough as it is anywhere.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/28/real-reason-immigration-and-welfare-states-dont-mix/
From the 1960’s onwards, the major European nations constructed their economies on a socialist welfare state; a gigantic Ponzi scheme. The militaries were cut back to pay for it. The UK created an entire new class of cradle to grave slackers who would vote Labour.
It was Merkel, an actual or defacto Kremlin agent, who ran down their military and made the country completely dependent on ruZZian energy. Simultaneously, she opened up the floodgates for the mass immigration of dangerous people from primitive cultures knowing full well that they would never assimilate and the destabilization they would bring would lead to a surge in support for far right ruZZia-controlled parties such as AfD (Germany), Reform (UK), Fidesz (Hungary), National Rally (France), Northern League (Italy), Freedom Party (Austria), Party for Freedom (Holland) etc.
A UK Conservative politician active throughout the second half of the last century was Enoch Powell. He made a famous (or infamous) speech in 1968 on the consequences of continued unchecked mass immigration :
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the 20th century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.”
It became known as the “rivers of blood” speech. He was invited to debate the topic on US talk shows.
The Conservative Party kicked him out, but he continued with his message until he died. He was of course proved right.
Powell was no ordinary politician. He was of extraordinarily high intelligence. After attending Cambridge university, he became the UK’s youngest ever professor at the age of only 25. In 1939, he volunteered for the British army as a private. By the end of the war he had risen to Brigadier (one step down from General) at age only 30. Noticing that the UK was short of Russian speakers, he taught himself and was able to translate clandestinely obtained Russian military intel for the British army.
But when his giant brain turned its attention on the immigration question, he went from hero to villain and the left vilified him constantly. Painfully for him, his own party turned on him.
What Powell understood was that intelligent, educated immigrants in small numbers form their own communities, but they integrate and become valuable members of society. The greatest example being the Jews.
Uneducated immigrants in large numbers almost never integrate : they import their own savage “values”, eg first cousin marriage, “honour killings”, terror, child rape, thieving and deception. They become world class at milking the benefits system. Despite that “success”, they still hate the host state with a vengeance.
The putler murder gang saw mass immigration of degenerates into Europe as something that they could exploit and that is why we are where we are now.
The Trump regime of course actively seeks alliances with the worst and most dangerous putlerist parties such as Fidesz and AfD.
A Europe led by the likes of AfD, Reform, National Rally etc will become a ruZZia affiliate without the need for military action.
This was the master plan of Steve Bannon for years; he made no secret of it.
It’s now official maga policy too.
Indeed, the liberals are at fault that we are having a surge of popularity for anti-democratic fascists across the free world, and mass immigration is the main reason. It’s all so perverted.