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Posted on 12/31/2006 8:12:33 AM PST by DogByte6RER
December 31, 2006
1,500 in Minneapolis protest ouster of Sharia government in Somalia
What are 1,500 supporters of Islamic jihad and Sharia law doing in Minneapolis? What are the implications of this for our own national security? Why is no one with any power or influence even asking these questions?
"Area Somalis want peace for homeland: Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists," by Liz Fedor in the Star Tribune, with thanks to CGW:
More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia.
Their protest capped a week in which transitional government troops retook Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, with the backing of Ethiopian infantrymen.
The U.S. government "gave the green light" to Ethiopia to work in concert with the transitional federal government in Somalia, and that action was "totally wrong," said Hassan Mohamud.
He is the president of the Somali Institute for Peace and Justice in Minneapolis, which organized Saturday's rally.
"We ask the president of the United States, Mr. Bush, and his administration to stop supporting the terrorists. Ethiopian troops are terrorists," Mohamud said to a cheering crowd.
Somali men, women and children gathered Saturday morning in Peavey Park in Minneapolis, and they carried an array of signs. Some said "No more war" and "Islam is the solution."
Lt. Rick Thomas of the Minneapolis Police Department estimated the crowd at about 1,500 people for a rally that ran for more than two hours.
Mohamud said he and other Somalis want the United States to support talks that can yield "peace and reconciliation."
Somalia has not had a stable government in 15 years, but many attendees at the rally said that the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) had brought some peace to the country during the past six months.
When that Islamic group took over the capital in June, many people were optimistic about the future, said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis.
"They brought back security," Jamal said in a telephone interview. "We were all hoping that the moderates would be able to take the lead in the organization of the UIC. But unfortunately, the radicals hijacked the process."
Don't they always.
Jamal said the large Somali community in Minnesota "is divided," adding that many local Somalis supported the overthrow of the Islamists over the past few days.
Jamal said he attended the rally as an observer....
Sadia Egal, 23, said she had been planning to visit her parents in Somalia in January. But the recent military actions prompted her to postpone the trip. She is fearful that her teenage brothers in Somalia could be killed in revenge slayings. "My dad asked them to stop going to school," she said, so they could stay home and avoid being targets for violence.
Egal, who lives in north Minneapolis, has not returned to Somalia since she left the country with her aunt when she was 12 years old. She works as a parking attendant and interpreter and has been saving her money for six months to pay for her plane ticket.
Abdullahi Hassan, a small-business owner from Eden Prairie, said, "What brought me here [to the rally] is our country is under occupation by foreign forces." He said the United States should support a process that would allow highly educated Somalis to find solutions to stabilize the country and build hospitals and schools that will serve the people.
Tacit U.S. approval
A member of the Somali Institute for Peace and Justice, Abdul Mohamed of Minneapolis, said the military advances last week by Ethiopian troops created "one of the worst moments in Somali history."
Mohamed disagrees with U.S. policy in Somalia, which he said is driven by "Islamophobia."
If anyone in the American government had any courage, they would tackle this head-on, explaining that they opposed the Somali jihadists not only because they had ties to Al-Qaeda, but because Sharia government institutionalizes discrimination against women and religious minorities and denies freedom of conscience, and is in general an outrage to the dignity of the human person. In other words, they would engage the ideological challenge posed by the global jihad by asserting the superiority of the values of the modern West, and of the civilization built on Judeo-Christian values. But they don't dare.
You can bet they are, names of people who might object to this outrageous demonstration.
Just think, these new immigrants will all get "it's not amnesty" soon and be voting US citizens.
Not quite.....they have a more important mission.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."
-CAIR chairman, Omar M. Ahmad (as reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald in July 1998)
“Once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. ... There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it."
-Abdulrahman Alamoudi, 1996 at an Islamic conference in Chicago
Absolutely Correct. This is the key to success. Have the whole 1,500 of them go to Somalia to FIX this. Maybe the Congressman would be their Messiah, and be the newly elected head of state.
Just lovely....
In under 5 years it will be 15,000
Saw these local Somalis here in MPLS on the news last night telling the Ethipians to "get out of "their" country.
I found myself telling them the same at my TV set.
I would have thought this was "their" country now, silly me.
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When all is Islamic there will be no war? Not likely so. When all are Islamic the technology of the world will deteriorate very rapidly and famine will reappear in the world. The Caliphate will not last because the paynim cannot maintain the technology and will destroy and waste the resources necessary to maintain some sort of world Islamic government. Mussulmans will fight. That is what they do. They live in a 0-sum fantasy world that will slip rapidly into minus-sum and with no infidels left, they will fight each other as ferociously as Arabs fight anyone so long as there are any Mohammedans at all.
There are 300 million people in the USA now. Finding 1,500 lunatics is child's play.
Democrats should be just as vocal about deporting these immigrants from islamic countries,
as they are about getting out of Iraq, because of Americans getting killed.
Must be a shortage of Muslims in Somalia.
Sharia brought peace to the area? That's like saying that cemeteries are quiet.
Here are 1500 pieces of trash America doesnt need.
Go the eff back to your dirthole countries and tyrannize people to your heart's content. Just get the eff out.
Sic semper tyrannus.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/451
(snip) Indeed, Grover Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on April 2, 2005, and Islamic law limits a Muslim woman to marrying a man who is Muslim. This is not an abstract dictum but a very serious imperative, with many "honor" killings having resulted from a woman ignoring her family's wishes.
Alrayyes (now known as Samah Norquist) has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government.
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Somali immigration......
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/02/17/somalipop/.
(snip)Faced with political turmoil and violent unrest in their home country, Somali refugees started coming to the U.S. in large numbers in the mid-1990s. Minnesota quickly became a favored destination, thanks at least in part to a number of well-organized groups established to help immigrants settle, such as Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities.
Before long, Ronningen said, a Somali community started to establish itself.
"It's fairly common in immigration, when there's a critical mass - a large group of people from the same places - that they will attract more people from their home country," she said.
In 2004, the total number of Somali residents of Minnesota was estimated to be 25,000, and Ronningen said it could be as high as 30,000 now - with no sign of slowing down.
"1,500 in Minneapolis protest ouster of Sharia government in Somalia"
OUR guvmint is doing what it can to get more Eternally-Offended Muslims
inside our borders. Things are just going to get worse.
(reposts from previous threads)
More Muslims moving to U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699992/posts
US schools compete for Saudi students -not yet able do effective
background checks on applicants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699252/posts
Victor Davis Hanson: Those Saudi Students. It’s not irrational to
be wary of this deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701943/posts
Islamism will go on for as long as it is financed by the Saudis. The real enemy is not al-Queda. Al-Queda is just an operations arm of the Golden Chain group
See post 37
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