Motivational Blog

Based on the article “The Epicenter of Disgrace” by David Lane of American Renewal Project

Scott W. Johnson, co-founder and chief editor of Power Line, documents in the January 2026 issue of Imprimis the massive public-programs fraud scandal, committed almost entirely by Somali perpetrators, that has now captured the nation’s attention. Federal prosecutors estimate that as much as $9 billion may have been stolen from American taxpayers.

Today the Land of 10,000 Lakes hosts the largest Muslim Somali population in the United States, concentrated primarily in the Twin Cities. While Somali migration to Minnesota predates the Obama years, refugee admissions increased substantially under President Barack Obama [2009-2017]. Once established, family, clan, and institutional networks drew Somalis from across the country, reinforcing Minnesota’s status as a national hub through secondary resettlement.

The warning signs were unmistakable.

A 2015 House Homeland Security Committee examination of Americans who joined or attempted to join ISIS between roughly 2011 and 2015 found that Minnesota led the nation in producing foreign fighters for ISIS. Yet political and bureaucratic alarm bells fell on deaf ears. In early 2021, the FBI flagged fraud concerns to the Minnesota Department of Education. They were ignored.

Federal surveillance later revealed that Feeding Our Future sites that claimed to serve thousands of children daily, had no children present. Johnson concludes that responsibility rests squarely with Minnesota’s political leadership, consisting of Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Representative Ilhan Omar, whose protection, permissiveness, and ideological intimidation allowed fraud to spread like a cancer.(2)

This breakdown reflects a broader civilizational shift. America’s historic ‘melting pot’, which once demanded assimilation, loyalty, and civic responsibility, was inverted in the late 20th century. Assimilation came to be labelled as oppression, loyalty as nationalism, and victimhood turned into a form of political currency.

That diagnosis parallels Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s warning that free societies require a common culture. Writing in The American Mind [January 27, 2026], she argues that some cultures arrive intact; they do not adapt, but instead self-replicate.

She describes Minnesota’s Somali social structure as resistant to individual accountability, impersonal law, and transparency. Silence is enforced, loyalty rewarded, and corruption becomes systemic.

In 2023, Hirsi Ali converted to Christianity, concluding that “atheism can’t equip us for civilizational war.” Ordered liberty, she argues, requires moral and spiritual foundations strong enough to sustain it.

Long before this moment, Alexis de Tocqueville described the moral infrastructure of freedom as “the habits of the heart” - the internalized virtues of biblical wisdom that allow a people to govern themselves from within.

What the secular media refuse to name is now unmistakable. Minnesota is experiencing a collision of moral frameworks - one shaped by Islamic clan-based societal framework, the other by a Christian-formed Western civic order.

America’s Judeo-Christian Founders built a culture of personal accountability, law above tribe, public office as a public trust, truth-telling as a civic duty, and assimilation into a shared culture.

That order depends on internalized moral restraint, shaped by Biblical wisdom such as categories of guilt, repentance, and responsibility articulated in the Ten Commandments. When those norms erode, bureaucracy multiplies in a futile attempt to replace conscience with compliance. Proverbs 28:2 states “When a land transgresses, it has many rulers.”

Minnesota is not an anomaly; it is a warning. 

The choice before America is no longer theoretical: recover the Biblical moral framework that once sustained freedom or surrender it to fraud, coercion, and dissolution. Minnesota is the early tremor. What follows will reveal whether America still has the will to recover its soul as found in biblical wisdom.

 "Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."