Outrage has ensued after the state of Minnesota, which is home to the largest Somali population in the West, unveiled their new flag. Critics note it is eerily similar to the country of Somalia, home of Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
@EndWokeness posted photos of Minnesota’s old flag, new flag, and the flag of Puntland State of Somalia with the caption:
“Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the West. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is from Puntland. Minnesota just unveiled their new flag. I’m sure this is just a coincidence.”
The Western Journal reported the new flag, an ” abstract shape of the state with an eight-pointed white North Star,” still could be altered by officials. However, it has “come under a searing microscope” because of the online references to the similarities between the new design and “the flag of a state within the historically impoverished African nation of Somalia.”
As World Net Daily writes, the state’s “new official flag looks like one from terror hotbed.” The outlet also notes that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. is a “far-left radical Muslim who once described 9/11 as some people ‘doing something,’ is from the terrorist-packed Somalia state of Puntland, which flies the banner.”
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said Luis Fitch, head of a commission to pick a new flag, emphatically stated, “The next generation will be raised with a new flag. It’s going to happen. We’re not going to be able to make everybody happy. The whole idea since day one was to make sure we can [create] a flag that unites us instead of separates us.”
The design was chosen out of thousands after the 13-member team took 2,600 designs, narrowed them to six, then three, then one. The old flag featured the state seal, which “features a white settler plowing a field in the foreground while a Native American man on horseback rides away into the sunset,” the report explained.
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