Beautiful Somalia Backfired : Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh killed by Al-Shabab

A journalist traveled to Ilhan Omar’s homeland of Somalia to challenge stereotypes and prove the country was “beautiful,” only to end up being killed by terrorists.

Before President Trump’s tweetstorm in which he encouraged Omar to go back and fix her own country, Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh was trying to do precisely that.

Nalayeh returned to the country of her birth to tell “uplifting” stories about Somalia, according to the Washington Post.

The journalist became well known for her relentlessly positive tweets about Somalia. Just one week ago, she lauded the “beauty” of the place.

During a video tour on her YouTube channel of the town of Kismayo, Nalayeh said she was hopeful the area could be rebuilt and revived, “Because this place is beautiful!”

On Friday last week, Nalayeh was killed in that very same town when al-Shabab militants stormed the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo.

Some people fall prey to their own propaganda. This journalist Hodan Nalayeh no doubt also learned that Islam is a religion of peace, and that only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think otherwise.

Sources :https://summit.news/2019/07/18/journalist-travels-to-ilhan-omars-homeland-to-prove-somalia-is-beautiful-gets-killed-by-terrorists/