You may not be aware of where the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis is, but locals know it as a Somali stronghold in the city. So much so that on Saturday night, Omar Fateh, the Somali-American who lost the mayor’s race to incumbent Jacob Frey last November, publicly announced that he wants to declare Cedar Riverside a “no-go zone.” But for who exactly?
Cedar Strong. White Supremacists aren’t welcome here.
— Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) January 17, 2026
We protect our own. pic.twitter.com/o7iVwHDvYL
White supremacists, of course. The Minnesota state senator who represents District 62 in southwest Minneapolis didn’t say in his Saturday post on X what constitutes white supremacy and what does not, but does it even matter? Given the way the term has been bandied about in recent years, the message seems to be that anyone who’s white who doesn’t agree with the term’s user is a white supremacist. To be sure, quite a large number of white leftists are the first to accuse others of their same race of white supremacy.
Fateh is 34 years old and was born in the U.S. He’s a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and identifies pretty much as a socialist.
David Marcus, the intrepid journeyman journalist at Fox News, unearthed this story.
“'No-go zone’ is a term popularized in Europe that refers to Muslim-majority neighborhoods where it is not safe for White people to go,” Marcus wrote. “The X posts began with Fateh and two other men standing before the iconic Cedar Riverside towers with the message, 'Cedar Strong. White Supremacists aren’t welcome here. We protect our own.'"
Marcus then “quote-posted the senator to remind him Americans can enter any neighborhood they want to, writing, ‘You don’t decide who is and isn’t welcome anywhere. We don’t allow no-go zones.’"
Fateh then responded directly to Marcus that, "This is a No-Go zone for white supremacists."
At that point, Marcus raised a number of questions that no one on the left seems to want to answer with specifics, such as what is meant by “white supremacist?” Who gives Fateh or anyone the right to determine which fellow Americans can travel some city streets as opposed to others? Who will enforce the no-go zone?
That’s where things start to get uneasily sticky. This sort of thing is not new to America, but every time it’s happened, it’s been characteristic of out-of-control lawlessness. From the 1930s, when gangland mobsters ruled Chicago, to more recent times, where parts of Los Angeles and New York, and other cities, had pockets that the Crips and the Bloods ruled.
The point is, any time you have a no-go zone that’s not established by law enforcement for some official reason, violent crime and terror always accompany it.
Marcus suspects that what Fateh was really getting at was making Cedar Riverside off-limits for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which, last time I checked, has quite a diverse make-up of its workforce. Still, if he’s right, then what Fateh seems to be hinting about is that he’s advocating for more confrontational resistance in Cedar Riverside to ICE law enforcement operations. Depending on what happens next, that can easily be interpreted as incitement.
Marcus sees all of this as “just further evidence that leadership of the Somali community in Minnesota has no interest in assimilation. They want a semi-autonomous area that they control. Not only is that not how America works, [but] it also harms the futures of those they represent.”
Expecting Fateh to see the error of his ways or to take corrective action is unlikely. The only thing people like Fateh understand at this stage is handcuffs and a jail cell. Until law enforcement, most likely an increasingly busy FBI, starts arresting people for spurring on political violence, it will only get worse.
The problem is that we know exactly where to look right now. We can see which politicians and other public figures are egging others to do their dirty work for them. We can see the documented proof of how they are doing it. And it shouldn’t be that difficult to follow the money to the funders and the schemers who are putting ordinary people up to their “ICE Out” hijinks. Activities that are now putting people in hospitals and bringing the threat of death and bodily harm to many on all sides of the issue.
It won’t be enough to arrest one figurehead and think it stopped anything. Massive legal and law enforcement actions now have to be directed at the head(s) of the snake if this is going to stop. Otherwise, it will continue until the Democrats get what they really want in all of this, which is a majority in the House and the Senate this November.
