Posted on 02/16/2019 4:46:20 PM PST by jazusamo
This should come as a surprise to no one, except perhaps Minnesotans. Or should I say, " Minnesotans "?
More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.
FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined. And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.
In the case of the Somalis, it's no longer just the men. Early last year, a female was apprehended by authorities on charges of supporting providing material support to Al Qaeda and arson. So what has made the area such a hotbed for such activity?
You could ask any member of the armed forces or American intelligence agencies who've served in Somalia, but you might not get the answer you want to hear. Or you can watch the movie directed by Ridley Scott:
And what has been Rep. Ilhan Omar's record in addressing the issue - either before she was elected, or since?The answers matter because federal authorities say they remain "highly concerned" about the terrorist connection with the Minneapolis Somalis - even though al-Shabab is struggling against the Somali government, and the so-called ISIS “caliphate” has crumbled under a sustained U.S.-led military campaign.
“We are very conscious that there may still be fertile ground for that, and that is could re-start at any time," one federal official told Fox News. "Based on historical experience, we had (an uptick) in 2007 and 2008 going for al-Shabab, then a lull. Then, as ISIS came back, we saw a whole bunch of people no longer headed for Somalia. They were headed for Iraq and Syria. That really caught us off-guard, we didn’t see that coming. It didn’t make sense to us. We understood why kids were going back to Somalia, but going to Syria was another we issue.”
Not really. An Islamic radical is an Islamic radical, fighting not for a "country" but for the caliphate and the ummah. The fact that even today we have government officials who can't understand the difference is surely a cause for concern. These are people whose "faith" compels them to wage war on the West and those sufficiently radicalized will do it when and wherever they can -- as the number of "lone wolf" attacks in the U.S. and Europe can attest.
With by far the largest Somali American population in the United States - estimates of up to 100,000 - the insular ethnic community in Minnesota offers a rich recruiting ground."For over a decade, Islamist terror groups have been able torecruit from Minnesota. This is, in part, because Minnesota has a large Muslim population compared to other parts of the U.S,” said Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security expert at The Heritage Foundation. “However, it is also because there have been small segments of the Somali community there that have struggled to integrate into the U.S. Al-Shabaab and ISIS have exploited this – upon religious, political cultural and identity issues to offer a compelling alternative to Western democracy.”
Josh Lipowsky, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project concurred the immigrant community in Minnesota has proven to be ripe for targeting in recent years by specifically playing into the card of being something of an outsider and that “society has shunned them.”
Society might be shunning them for a good reason. Then again, the Somalis seem to be doing a pretty good job of shunning Americans as well:
Local authorities contend it has been challenging for them to penetrate the Somali-American community in Minneapolis, who remain a unique immigrant population that hasn't actively assimilated with the neighboring township. In the neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside, for example, it's possible to go about day-to-day business without ever interacting with a non-Somali.“You can buy your clothes at a Somalia mall. You can buy insurance at a Somalia insurance adjuster. You can buy real estate at a Somali real estate adjuster,” explained a U.S official. “I think that is pretty unique.”
And pretty dangerous as well. Especially now that they have their very own congresswoman.
As for Omar, she spoke up for a group of six Somalis arrested in 2015 for trying to cross into Mexico, as part of a plan to join ISIS in Syria. As the case went to trial the following year, the then-state representative wrote a letter to the trial judge requesting “compassion” - and lighter sentencing on behalf of one of the Minnesota men, who was facing 30 years jail time.“Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment,” Omar wrote. “The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation.”
And how did that "rehabilitation" work out? Not well:
In November 2016, a Minnesota judge gave 21-year-old Abdullahi Yusuf an unprecedented opportunity to avoid jail time by undergoing experimental “ rehabilitation ,” after having pled guilty in 2014 to purporting to join ISIS.Six months later, he was back before the Judge having violated the terms of his probation – having been caught watching a news documentary about western ISIS fighters in the halfway house where he was confined. Nonetheless, Yusuf completed the carefully tailored “Heartland Democracy Education” program centered on studying literature, philosophy and writing poetry and in late 2017 was “integrated back into society” where he will be monitored for the next 20 years.
As real Minnesotans are discovering, no good deed goes unpunished.
We never should have started importing them.
Thanks George HW Bush......
Can’t we stuff them all into containers and ship them back on a slow boat?
I wonder how many of those 100,000 Somalis illegal migrants voted in their own Congresswoman?
Hmmmm...
A slow, LEAKY boat.
The media and education systems are part of the coup.
Check out the average IQ of Somalis.
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The average IQ of Somalis (68) is below the classification for “intellectually disabled” (70), meaning by default they get “diminished capacity”.
They should stay and not come here....
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….The average IQ of Somalis (68) is below the classification for “intellectually disabled” (70), meaning by default they get “diminished capacity”.
Thus,all will require thousands of property tax school systsem dollars a year in each school system to upgrade their class learning levels from retarded to stupid. Adults will be rapists and home invaders and dope taking welfare bums.
Perfect Dems!!
Well, the biggest business in Somalia is piracy. That says a lot!
maybe intern them....they are far more dangerous to us than the Japanese were in WW2.
Minnesota and Maine attract a disproportionate number of Somali immigrants because they have the most generous welfare programs in the country.
A lot of Somalis were hired in the cattle slaughtering businesses in Minnesota and elsewhere. Doing jobs that other Americans won’t do, and for some, because they killed their own cattle/sheep etc. for food in their native Somalia.
As the nuns used to say, “Old habits die hard”.
Let me get this straight. You bring in thousands of inbred, illiterate people from a failed 3rd world craphole who wipe their butts with their bare hands, mutilate the genitalia of their infant girls, who refuse to assimilate, refuse to work and you don’t expect problems?
I really hope that the capitol police check Omar from time to time to be sure she’s not wearing a suicide vest.
She is protected by many layers of politically correct correction minority protection. Any Officer attempting to query her would be fired before he could return to the stationhouse.
Dell had a plant in Lebanon Tennessee that did well until Michael okayed bringing in the Somalians because they work for next to nothing while being on track for American citizenship. Not only were they surly and hostile, they reduced productivity and demanded “prayer times” that destroyed the profitability of that plant so it closed down.
I also had to close my vehicle windows to about two inches because certain folks were cruising the lot stealing stuff out of cars with their skinny limbs. I blew up in a rage (no violence) once catching one taking a crap behind some stock when we had a multitude of bathrooms. Savages. So they let me go. I believe the “demands of Islam” for five prayers a day is utterly responsible for their inability to sustain a self-sustaining economy.
Minnesota and Maine attract a disproportionate number of Somali immigrants because they have the most generous welfare programs in the country.
Another “gift” from obama, our first muslum president.
Didn’t you get the Memo, FRiend?
ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL. And anyone that’s NOT an American by birth or hard work assimilating to legally BE an American is NOT to be trusted. ;)
100,000 in MN alone! Prime future terrorist recruiting grounds:
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