How Minneapolis’ Somali Muslim community became the jihad terrorist recruitment capital of the US

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Third World jihad savages embedded in America, and now, through stealth jihad, they are bringing their hatred and bigotry into the hallowed halls of Congress. I wonder: if there had been Nazi/German-American Bund members of Congress during World War II, would the Democrats have lauded and rewarded them with coveted committee positions?

“How Minneapolis’ Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US,” by Hollie McKay, Fox News, February 16, 2019 (thanks to Wendy):

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – 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.

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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? 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.”

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. Investigators told Fox News that early on, al-Shabab recruiting was almost exclusively word-of-mouth. One family connection to a contact in the terrorist group would be pulled in as a recruit, in a process that was repeated as the ranks of the al-Shabab grew.

But that chain seemingly changed when ISIS came on the scene around 2014. Personal connections still played a part, but it became much more about digesting online recruitment videos and turning to “alternative news sources,” which played into violence being committed against Muslims around the world.

“Recruitment takes place online as well as face-to-face radicalization, sometimes with promises of what appears to be legitimate opportunities. For al-Shabab, they focus mainly on the negative impact of US counterterrorism policies – like targeted assassinations and drone strikes that sometimes kill innocent civilians in Somalia – to attract recruits and sympathizers,” explained David Otto, director and counterterrorism program coordinator at Global Risk International. “They blame the failures of government on foreign intervention and link it to the reason why most Somalians have escaped home. The promise that al-Shabaab will restore a Sharia state and get rid of the government is somewhat attractive.

The first tide of jihadists left in 2007, under the banner of joining al-Shabab after neighboring Ethiopia invaded Somalia a year earlier, citing its own need to face the direct threat encroaching their borders from within that unstable country.

Since then, some 23 men from the Twin Cities allegedly made it to the Horn of Africa, specifically to take up arms with al-Shabab. At least two became suicide bombers, and an estimated seven more are believed to have died on the battlefield….

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5 years ago

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Jim Gramling Sr
Jim Gramling Sr
5 years ago

Ask yourself: Who was responsible for placing 100,000 Somali Muslims in Minneapolis, MN and specifically U.S. Congressional District 5 (also Kieth Ellisons “district” – former U.S. Congressman, DNC Deputy Chair, now Attorney General of Minnesota)? Or did “redistricting” wrap district 5 around the most Somali’s? Could it be orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood in support of their self-admitted civilization jihad against the United States? We know this infiltration is supported by the Democrat Party leadership but is anyone on the conservative side, including our President tune in to this treasonous activity?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I’d say Trump has his hands full. He’s not the kind to micro manage. He’s a patriot.
Even the GOP doesn’t support Trump. The GOP wants open borders and mass immigration too!
Trump is one of the few in D.C. that doesn’t want it.

Veto-Proof Majority in Congress Sends Spending Bill to Trump
By Sean Moran 2/14/19

The House passed the spending bill, 300-128, featuring strong Democrat support for the bill and mixed Republican support. The spending bill contains $1.3 billion in wall funding.
The Senate passed the spending bill earlier on Thursday, 83-16.
..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/14/cveto-proof-majority-in-congress-sends-spending-bill-to-trump/

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
5 years ago

Mark Dayton, by his words and actions , has clearly stated that had a hand in it. Treason.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

I have a few articles, if you’d like to see, where Trump says he’s putting a “cap” on the amount of muzlims that HE is letting in. Apparently, everyone wants to blame the demonrats, or anyone else, they can think of, for this problem. But it is, a horrible shame, that our prez, or anyone, can’t stop our local, state, and federal government from being taking over, by these, so called, “people”. Just wonder, how many MORE Americans will have to die, before deportation orders are given, if ever. Bad enough, the Secretary of Education is no where to be found, when more and more schools are teaching our young children, the 5 tenets of faith, of islam, and how to dress, walk, and talk like a muzlim! And that trillions of Ameican dollars are going overseas, to make either Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, etc etc….great again. But wait, the military option is on the table for, Venezuela! Maybe we can make THAT country great again!

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
5 years ago
Reply to  Joan C.

It’s unbelievable the citizens and his fellow American lawmakers do not support the effort this president is making to protect his nation, it’s citizens,it’s culture and it’s future from this backwards ideology!
The real patriots of America need to rise up and show the naive, weak sheep how to fight back. The forefathers of that nation would expect no less

Marc
Marc
5 years ago

“I wonder: if there had been Nazi/German-American Bund
members of Congress during World War II, would the Democrats
have lauded and rewarded them with coveted committee positions?”

A very legitimate question: The self-proclaimed “democrats”/left/liberals are
once again acting as stirrup holders for the bad guys. No new achievement.

There are many of those examples in history. “The SPD prevented
Hitler’s expulsion in good time” https://textuploader.com/155pm

https://www.welt.de/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/article149328924/Die-SPD-verhinderte-beizeiten-Hitlers-Ausweisung.html

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201808101067094626-sweden-documentary-nazi-past/
Activate English subs in Youtube https://dokumentar.samtiden.nu/

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

We shouldn’t underestimate Islam.
Hitler was a Muhammadist.
Then Muhammadist tyrannies became rich through oil.
Now it continues through Muhammadist immigration & wars.
Meanwhile Africans are enslaved in Somalia.
Today Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Left is using same tactics of intimidation/suppression and violence used by illegals/jihadis and are funded by same same sources.

They are savages they do not even spare firemen http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/swedenistan-islamonazis-attack-firemen/

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MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Muslims, like herpes, can be suppressed but never eradicated. They’ll flair up wherever they are, which is why where they are should be is the cesspool they come from…

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

You can’t let others limitations and inabilities become your own. It can be eradicated from the planet, the only question that is, is what is the best way to achieve that objective.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Like the total slaughter of millions of people? One must wonder about your final solution…

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

It would be the best if they voluntarily give up their ungodly pursuits, but as always, we can only react to their decision. They have repeatedly and openly declared war on us. If we flipped their narrative on its head, we’d 1st start by asking them to leave Islam, same as they ask us to voluntarily submit to it, but in the end we all know that wouldn’t work, but it is the proper protocol. What happens then should be determined by virtuous people. Can they be found?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Rep. Ilhan Omar facing new scrutiny over past effort to win leniency
for 9 men accused of trying to join ISIS

By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News 1/26/19

Omar, who was then a Minnesota state representative, was part of a group that sent letters to Judge Michael Davis urging him to give shorter sentences, arguing that harsher penalties would only lead to more people joining the terror group.

“Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to-be 50- or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion,” read Omar’s letter to the judge, as obtained by FOX 9 of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

“Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment,” she added.

“I was not going there to pass out medical kits or food. I was going strictly to fight and kill on behalf of the Islamic State.”

— Abdirahman Yasin Daud

But Omar told the judge that the best way counter extremism was with empathy rather than punishment.

“A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-plea-for-lenient-sentences-for-men-accused-of-trying-to-join-isis-resurface

Bottom line – they all got lengthy sentences.

ace wheeler
ace wheeler
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Ever see this photo of Omar and her brother? This was taken when she took the Oath of Allegiance for the Minnesota Legislature.

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Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  ace wheeler

The only oath a moslem will honour is the koran and the only state they will serve is islam.
Never trust a muzrat!

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I keep wondering how in the world she got into our government! She should be DEPORTED and we shouldn’t allow Muslims INTO this country!!

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

Want to see a few articles, where Trump has put a “cap” for the amount of muzlim, that can come into this country? Sorry to say, their still coming in…

Paul Ferrucio
Paul Ferrucio
4 years ago

Absolutely, if the stories are true she defrauded INS to obtain citizenship by marrying her brother to gain entry into the Us, definitely charge her, jail her and deport her back to terrorist ridden, Muslim, Somalia…there she will have no voice!! and fit in with ANTI AMERICAN HATING MUSLIMS.

Pantalones
Pantalones
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yay ????

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

It’s been going on longer than that. Obama did it in the open.
The GOP tried to hide it.

Look at the border wall vote. The GOP controlled Senate was supposed to be the firewall.

Veto-Proof Majority in Congress Sends Spending Bill to Trump
By Sean Moran 2/14/19

The House passed the spending bill, 300-128, featuring strong Democrat support for the bill and mixed Republican support. The spending bill contains $1.3 billion in wall funding.
The Senate passed the spending bill earlier on Thursday, 83-16.
..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/14/cveto-proof-majority-in-congress-sends-spending-bill-to-trump/

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

In Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, “Taliban” and other gangs run wild,
Somali Muslims don’t talk to police

FEB 17, 2019 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

They don’t talk to the police because they don’t trust them, because the police are not Muslims. The Qur’an teaches that Muslims are “the best of people” (3:110) and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). But no one will admit that is the cause, and so the police keep trying “outreach” programs to win them over. The result? Disasters such as the police career of Mohamed Noor.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/in-muslim-rep-ilhan-omars-district-taliban-and-other-gangs-run-wild-somali-muslims-dont-talk-to-police

With MUSLIM Keith Ellison as the AG of Minnesota. and his deputy being anti police, expect this lawlessness to spread, be covered up and maybe even rewarded through fake lawsuits of police brutality. Muslim Keith beats women so why should he care if there is Muslim crime? The people in the STATE voted FOR him….

Marc
Marc
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

You’re speak (and quite often) to yourself
again, at least factor 10 on Austism scale.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  Marc

So you’re a stinking Muslim, eh?

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Somalis generally lack the basic intelligence to fit into a modern western society successfully so they resort to what they know best which is crime and begging.

ace wheeler
ace wheeler
5 years ago

For crying out loud! What caused it they ask? They serious?

YOU caused it you morons. You let them in here. More “multiculturalism” at work. Our government experimenting with social engineering and the teachings of Marx. Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci! All of it designed to cause the TOTAL destruction of ALL social, cultural, political and religious institutions of the US of A!

These grown up hippies and 1960’s malcontents are destroying this country from within. Marcuse and in particular, Gramsci, recognized that a straight up violent revolution wouldn’t work in the US, so, they devised a more subtle method which we are seeing. Immigration of totally incompatible cultures, religion and societies. Destroy the family and revamp the educational system while revising history.

This enclave must be deported or neutralized before it gets any larger and does more damage than it already has.

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Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  ace wheeler

The globalists have been plotting our demise for decades. This is the fruit of their labours.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  ace wheeler

More than ready and Looking forward to that day!

Andre Lewis
Andre Lewis
5 years ago

Not just America. As I tried to post before Australia has a growing problem with Somali so called refugees. In our largest cities Somali and Sudanese gangs caused havoc assaulting people, home invasions, car jacking and robberies with little regard for the law and happy about the fear they are spreading. Some parts of Melbourne are as dangerous as Mogadishu but the police and politicians constantly cover it up and claim there are no African gangs when everyone knows there are.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Somalis are the retarded people of Africka. Your lieberals made sure to put them in middle America to infect that place and grow an Africkan colony right under your noses.

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
5 years ago

Hmmmm…isn’t that where the rogue cop Mohamed Noor who shot and killedl Justine Damond lived and worked!!!!
They live by laws unto themselves in these ghetto communities so break them up and scatter them like the vermin they are!

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  Donna Garland

And still no justice for Justine Damond!
Where are the law enforcers in this once civilised society?
Lynch the muzrat bastard!

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Agreed!
The only justice today is civil justice by the communities and it’s citizens. The courts unleash these criminals onto our streets and then play stupid and ignorant when they commit a crime again and again!
Justine’s family must be livid..he would be a marked Muslim if it was mine.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  Donna Garland

100% Donna. And I can see many taking the law into their own hands the more we are let down by the state in favour of the barbarian invaders.
There’s only one answer to this problem and that is to
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE WEST!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Beverly
Beverly
5 years ago

The destruction from Muslims has been going on long before Obama. He just exacerbated the problem to where we are more aware of the infiltration. The Muslims have been infiltrating colleges and universities for year.

Sites like Ms. Geller’s have opened many eyes to what Islam is and what is happening here in the USA

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  Beverly

And now AFTER Obummer, we have Trump (gasp), putting a “cap” on the amount of muzlims that can come into this country (I have the articles). So now, who would so many people blame for this “infiltration”? the demonrats?

Pantalones
Pantalones
5 years ago

Still waiting for a reverse serial killing terrorist blowing up mosques and Muslims…Come on man where are you when we need you?

Dalit
Dalit
5 years ago

Make love not war is not an option. The girls have been fixed-circumcised- & have no interest in boys. The boys are restless , frustrated.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

“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.”

Wait, what am I not understanding? These Somalis (that live here in the US), are wanting to leave the US, to join Isis in another backwoods muzlim country, but the FBI stops them and arrests them? WTF? Let them goooo!! Here’s a thought, how about NOT letting them BACK IN, this country? How about stopping ANY muzlim from coming into this country?? That makes more sense to me! The less muzlim somalis in this country, the BETTER!

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

Since Trump, Demonrats, are destroying America from within! And how is it, that everyone blames Demonrats for the muzlim problems, when I have quite a few articles, saying Trump is putting a “cap” on the amount of muzlims that can COME INTO this country? Now, who’s fault is it?

William Wilhelm
William Wilhelm
5 years ago

Islam is an idealogy of world domination. Nothing more! Read the Quran.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

There is absolutely no logical reason to allow migration of Muslims into America. That’s like allowing Nazis to migrate into America during WWII. We ARE at war with ISLAM. This “EXTREME” tolerance of Islam as just another religion means we will never win the war against “terrorism” aka, Islam. Who really wants “freedom” to Muslims to practice their “faith” which commands killing of infidels?
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Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

Love that pic!
Sums up everything in a nutshell.

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

Exactly right mate. It’s like oil and water…they do not mix. You logically cannot force a barbaric culture into a civilised one. The weaker will collapse.
The problem with Muslims though…they didn’t bank on patriotic Americans, Australians and New Zealanders who will NEVER EVER give up on pushing them back into the sea from where they came.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago

Is America finished?
Of course NOT! The same way that Britain isn’t finished. Things have gone too far but it’s not too late to fight back.
The only real way we can do this permanently is to
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE USA!????????
It is a doable option for a terror free future.

jerrys
jerrys
5 years ago

Too late: The wedge of islam has started breaking up America, obamas vile poison has spread every where! The childrens minds have been poisoned by islamic propaganda from kindergarten to government service like this:
This is outrageous, those who promoted it should be imprisoned! This is a NY high school test from the university regents:
http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/Archive/20100817-gh-examw.pdf

This is from page 13 of the test ” . . Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning.
From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that
of western Christendom.
Some of the finest centers of Moslem life were established in Spain. In Cordova, the streets
were solidly paved, while at the same time in Paris people waded ankle-deep in mud after a rain.
Cordovan public lamps lighted roads for as far as ten miles; yet seven hundred years later there
was still not a single public lamp in London!
Some Spanish Moslems had homes with marble balconies and courts with lovely waterfalls.
Bedrooms were vaulted with stained glass and speckled with gold. And metal pipes carried water
into marble baths.
Nearly every mosque had a public school in which the children of the poor were taught. Many
Moslem libraries were excellent; the catalogue of one caliph’s library filled forty volumes. In
addition, the followers of Mohammed achieved much in science, particularly in chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. . . .
Source: Daniel Roselle, A World History: A Cultural Approach, Ginn and Company (adapted)”

hopespringseternal
hopespringseternal
5 years ago

When these men and women leave our country to join ISIS, they should NEVER be able to
come back. Their passports should be revoked immediately.

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