Posted on 11/29/2016 3:44:33 PM PST by heterosupremacist
COLUMBUS – Fifteen miles northeast of Ohio State University, where a Somali immigrant attemped a gruesome attack Monday, Omar Hassan grieved. And worried.
“The timing is not good,” Hassan, 54, said in reference to the country’s increasingly intensified anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim fears. “We are black. We are Muslim. We are Somali. We are all the negative stigmas.”
Hassan sat in the lobby of the Somali Community Association offices upstairs and around the back of a 1970s-era strip mall on Cleveland Avenue. He said the office is the first stop for people arriving from the east African nation who are seeking an apartment, a job lead or a decent school for the children.
The large Somali refugee community in central Ohio has come under increased scrutiny over concerns that ISIS sympathizers could be hiding there. Not so, said Hassan, who has been in the United States for 26 years and in Columbus for the past 17.
“America is not my enemy. America is my friend,” he said. “Anybody who sees my different is wrong. My Somali community loves America. We appreciate our country and the opportunity America gives us. We came here for a better life. We came here for an education. We came here to work. We came here to practice our religion.”…
“We do not have a spike in crime,” Hassan said. “But we are human beings. We might have a couple of bad actors, like any community does. Crime is everywhere. Criminals are everywhere. Punish the individual, not the entire community. We do not want to get a bad label because of an individual.”
He said a recent plot by white nationalists to damage a Kansas apartment complex and kill its Somali residents was greeted with “great, great appreciation” toward law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Maybe they should stop raping and killing people then.
So the timing of the attack is not good.
But the attack itself isn’t good?
I get it.
The attack is good, just at the wrong time.
Leave already. Go back home.
I call BS on his whole speech.
They didn’t come here to practice their religion. They could practice it freely back in somalia.
They came here to IMPOSE their religion.
And somalia is hell thanks to muzzards. Get out and go back.
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