Posted on 04/26/2015 1:49:35 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Six Minnesota men of Somali descent have been charged with terrorism-related offenses in a criminal complaint unsealed last week. The fellows were allegedly trying to get to Syria to fight for ISIS, or as we sometimes more charitably name them in newspaper headlines, Islamic militants. Our local six are just the latest Westerners accused of traveling or trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group, which beheads people, throws homosexuals off roofs of buildings, destroys historical wonders of the world, marries off girls at about 9 years old, stones to death adulterers and shoots children. Other than that, they are just good-hearted soldiers who gather around a fire of burning tires at night and sing songs. Might we nip in the bud that the temptations of ISIS must be countered with yet more government plans? The governor's response to the terrorism charges against our local six, for example, drips with the obsequious call for more ways to engage the young men and provide them more opportunities. And various community leaders have called for more outreach and bridge building and pro-activity. Omar Jamal, who is often a hail-fellow-well-met in the back room of Stogies on Grand, says he believes the young fellows from Minnesota were entrapped.
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Anyone who practices Islam has chosen evil.
Whaddaya, some kinda rassist?
Everyone knows that the Somalis, just like every other human being on the face of planet Earth, wants to live in an American suburb, with half an acre of lawn, a 2700 square foot home, a couple of Japanese cars in the driveway, a son on the high school football team and a daughter with braces.
Show them how they can get that and they'll blend right in. You'll never hear from them again, until their grandkids start software companies and build shopping malls.
Yes, we can see with our own two eyes that it’s worked just like that for American blacks (assimilation, I mean). /s (You do have to use the sarcasm tag on FR, as I was reminded when reading a thread last week, lol)
“—— And various community leaders have called for more outreach and bridge building and pro-activity.”
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Makes me want to gag !!!!
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“”bridge building””
Sounds good to me. They can build the bridge then we can hang them from it - after we kill them and burn their bodies first...
Muslims are evil.
Treason on two feet, too.
+1
It is written in their book that there can be no peace until all the rest of us submit or die.
No amount of outreach can bridge that.
Build a bridge and then throw them off of it.
But if they had job opportunities in Minneapoliss, they would not have gone to join ISIS! (/Harfing sarcasm).
There may be jobs in Minnecraponus, but try finding people who will do the work.
Slightly off topic, but Harf would fit in well with the hipster “intelligentsia” in Minnecraponus.
Our changing definition of evil
I hope and pray that Joe Soucheray really doesn’t believe the headline of his column April 26 (”They chose evil. ‘Outreach’ programs can’t change that”). Other than the fact that he doesn’t use the term The Great Satan, he could have found some of his hopeless thinking and desperate language about evil in the training manuals of the very jihadists he castigates.
Or he might have sifted through Pioneer Press archives and copied similar headlines and columns about whoever we have fought in war, whether it was American Indians, Germans, Japanese, North Vietnamese, Taliban or Iraqis. Journalists often have been at the front of the pack to label our enemies as godless, evil monsters incapable and undeserving of any basic consideration or respect. In so doing, we can maintain the class structures that perpetuate injustice and almost impossible living circumstances. That rationale also eases our conscience when we shoot off indiscriminate bombs from drone aircraft directed from thousands of miles away. Mr. Soucheray must be aware that our national definition of evil changes almost on a daily basis depending on whom we are supplying with bombs and bullets.
Mr. Soucheray, a direct recipient of the largest and most generous outreach program in world history (American male white privilege), posits that outreach programs won’t work in this case for six Minnesota men of Somali descent. The closest he can muster to empathy or understanding is the manner of how those six men planned their trip to Syria: “like six friends trying to organize a fishing trip to Canada or a golf outing to Ireland.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated that “he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.” I ask that in the future, Mr. Soucheray and the Pioneer Press turn away from passive acceptance and apathy regarding complex social ills and instead invest and offer your insight and influence to addressing real solutions for not just the challenging dilemma of the six men who now languish in jail but also the many other men and women who are considering following their example here in Minneapolis and around the world.
Tom Murray, Shoreview
(letter to the editor from a barking moonbat in the Pioneer Press today)...good old ‘white male privilege’ makes people terrorists!
Let’s just go back long ago, to where all these problems started: Wheel Maker Privilege! Check your privilege!
Yep. That's the ticket. Like Marie Harf-Wit says, all they need is a good job and they'll turn out just like Ward Cleaver.
Liberals really are insane - but so are the rest of us for even allowing the same Liberals to bring these people into this country by the millions. We are setting up our own bloodbath. Once they get back with all that ISIS combat/murder/mutilation/rape training, they will return and train their Muslim friends how to go after the infidels here in America.
This is not going to end well for America.
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