Posted on 12/12/2008 6:30:24 AM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- Last month, 17-year-old Burhan Hassan told his family he was catching a ride to school with a friend. He then vanished.
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“The fear among the Somali community in Minneapolis is that their young men are being preyed upon and recruited to fight jihad, or holy war, in Somalia. “
Preyed upon? Like they are innocent victims. Jeez!
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A truthful statement; they are recruiting for a religious cause which has a political component.
What do most of the missing share?
Hmmm, they’re muslim, young men and a number of them went to the same Islamic center after school.
Of course the center’s shark says “Nothing to see here, not us, move along.”
I don’t consider islam a religion.....
Islam is a criminal enterprise tenuously held together by the preponderance of ignorance and the threat of violence.
Any thoughtful person who knows history and religion would be anti-Islam. Along with Communism, Naziism, and the Black Death, Islam has been responsible for more death and destruction on the face of the planet than just about anything else since the last asteroid impact. Islam was started by predators. It has spread by predation. It has lived off the decaying corpses of the civilizations it has destroyed. It is a vast, ancient sea of corruption, oppression, fanaticism, and ignorance lapping up against the shores of the present, kept alive by the fortuitous accident of living above huge reserves of petroleum.
I hope he likes to eat grasshoppers!
While a lot of people are making light of this, it does not seem like these Somali parents are radicals sending their kids off to blow themselves up. On the contrary, this mother seems appalled at the prospect and I feel a deep sympathy for her plight.
Perhaps there is an element at this mosque recruiting Islamo fascists or it could be possible that these kids are being kidnapped.
Maybe he needed a timeout for Jihad......
Maybe he misunderstood and thought they were going to train him as a pilot.
Chorus here from the Savoyards.
I swear, there’s more Somalis in Minneapolis than in bleeping Mogadishu.
“So WHY do we continue to let all of these immigrants into the USA..??????”
Bush...
Kennedy...
McCain....
etc.
Weasel words. They're not recruiting for a political cause, they're recruiting for a RELIGIOUS cause. Islam teaches that all other religions are subservient, and that infidels can be killed without spiritual consequence.
I'm guessing that some of the other young men who have disappeared also came from homes with absent fathers, and were ripe for this type of indoctrination.
A good question to ask would be WHO is getting these kids updated passports, and facilitating their travel, especially if they are minors?
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