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Textile Stalls: Mosque Upstairs and Somali Community

textile stalls: It will increase rather than decrease ... This is not going to reduce, according to National Observer. At Minneapolis's Karmel Square Somali Mall, a labyrinthine market of textile stalls and tea shops with a mosque upstairs, virtually every vendor had a television tuned to 24-hour news channels running Trump's wild Thursday news conference. Sometimes when you're left with no options and you're looking for a better life for yourself, people do take risks, said Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota. When asked what they thought of the man on the screen, many of the men gathered around shook their heads or scoffed. We know a lot of good things about Canadian people, said Mahamed Cali, who runs a local Somali-language radio station. Quizzed on their views on Canada, however, and many heaped praise on Trudeau and pointed out that his immigration minister, Ahmed Hussen, was once a Somali refugee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.