Hello everyone

With the recent news about our community being targeted because of the actions of a few individuals, there’s been an increase in racism and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, our community is often used as a scapegoat, and it’s been stressful for a lot of us. I want to be clear that I do not condone what those individuals did. they should face full consequences!!

I’m wondering if anyone here has had interactions with ICE and what to expect. As a U.S. citizen, how should I prepare if they come to our area? Are there tips or experiences you can share? I’ve seen videos online of people being taken to detention centers in other states, and it made me wonder what actually happens. Will officers respect my citizenship? Do I need to carry anything besides my driver’s license?

Any advice or clarification would be really helpful. a lot of videos of ice just taking people to random state into detention center and im wondering if what's what will happen. Will the officer ignore my US citizenship? What happend if I dont have my birth certificate with me? Is my driver's license enough. Idk any tip os helpful

Edit: I want to say thank you to everyone who genuinely cared about this cause. We’re living in an unprecedented time, and I truly appreciate all of your advocacy and support.

And to those of you who wrote racist comments under this post and chose to contribute to the problem, I see you, and you’re not funny. Get a job or a life.

I hope this situation can end soon so we all can go back to living our normal life.

The Trump administration and MAGA world has chosen to single out and demonize the Somali community for the past 11 months, personally in all my time in America i've never seen a single Muslim community more demonized besides Palestinians. The only difference is that Palestinians rightfully got support from the Muslim community. From journalists, to politicians, to activists.

I haven't seen ANYONE in the muslim community step up for Somalis despite some of the most disgusting, vile, and dehumanizing language hurled against us. We're being called stupid, inbred, low IQ, criminals, etc. I'm not surprised by the ugliness of the hate, but i am surprised by the lack of support. As a community Somalis have gone out of our way to show solidarity to Palestinians, Sudanese, Yemenis, Syrians, etc. It just seems like the solidarity only goes one way.

Hi everyone, I think it’s important we start talking about the growing wave of racism against Somalis, particularly coming from right-wing figures like Trump and others aligned with that politics in US, Canada, UK and other European countries. At the same time, we’re also facing increasing anti-Somali rhetoric from within parts of the wider Black African diaspora.

These attacks are not random, and they are not going to stop on their own. If we stay silent or treat them as “normal,” we only give them more room to grow. This is why it’s important for us, as a community, to come together, collectivise, and begin thinking strategically about how we protect ourselves, tell our own stories, and build real solidarity.

This page is for honest discussion, shared experiences, and ideas on how we move forward, because what’s happening affects all of us, and how we respond will shape our future

I can’t speak for everyone but i’m 19 I live in London so i have a really large somali community but online and even in person now recently i’ve noticed so much hostility. Like it’s genuine hatred the way they speak about us and i think we’ve let ajinabis get too comfortable in our business.It’s so weird how comfortable people are insulting and being racist to us or islamophobic and these videos get hundreds and thousands of likes of people just cussing us in the comments and i don’t think any other african community get it like this. A few things like people just saying somali cuss words or warya in public. The most annoying is when guys who aren’t somali come up to you speaking their broken somali trying to hit on me. I don’t wear a hijab but i am a practicing muslim and very visibly somali and the compliments are so backhanded like i never would gave guessed you were somali ,when i look so obviously somali , or saying they assumed i was ethiopian or im pretty for a somali which is wild.

There is hostility in all of our communities towards us i didn’t realise how much other africans really don’t like us like they’re in comments ALWAYS bringing up somalis or how we act a certain way and other people agreeing in the comments as if they know us personally. It’s an obsession at this point how xenophobic other africans are towards us. The muslim community in the UK at least is so diverse like from east europe,all over asia yet i’ve always experienced micro aggressions from them like i feel like i don’t fit in as a black person.I think the xenophobia from other africans is the most disheartening im not really surprised when people in the islamic community are racist but other africans making fun of our features and stuff i think some of it is honestly jealousy somalis are recognised worldwide and we have very unique features and they try and make us feel bad for it. And when a somali girl embraces her features the comments are just like ugh somalis are so full of themselves like can we not be confident .Has anyone else noticed this?