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Minneapolis struggles with rise of Somali gangs
AP/My Way NEws ^ | 7/20/09 | Pat Condom

Posted on 07/20/2009 8:39:59 AM PDT by pissant

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Ahmednur Ali's family fled the chaos and violence of their West African homeland Somalia in the 1990s, eventually making their way to Minnesota like thousands of their compatriots.

While many of the estimated 32,000 Somalis who settled in the state have struggled to adapt, Ali flourished, blazing a path to Minneapolis' Augsburg College on a soccer scholarship by age 20. He studied political science and aspired to a political career modeled on President Barack Obama's.

He was shot and killed last September outside a busy community center where he worked part-time as a youth counselor, and prosecutors said the 16-year-old accused of killing him was part of a gang.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: illegalaliens; somalia; somalis; terrorists; wot
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To: mplsconservative

Send em packin before they breed, Minnesota!!

It’s a little too late for that, unfortunately.

Maybe you can push them up to Canada. Hear they have a dandy healthcare system there.


41 posted on 07/20/2009 9:39:34 AM PDT by Bluebeard16
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To: MBB1984

The Somalians were placed in Minnesota precisely because it was “lilly white.”

The Multiculturalists in the State Department made the decision for the Minnesotans.


42 posted on 07/20/2009 9:43:01 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: pissant

Let them take Al Franken along for the ride...one way.


43 posted on 07/20/2009 9:46:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: rahbert

They are brought in for purposes of political control. Certain critical areas are flooded and thereafter vote “correctly.” See Maine once a bastion of Republicanism.


44 posted on 07/20/2009 9:48:29 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: the long march

“gangs”...yeah another euphemism for Islamic terroists. Wake up America...... it may already be too late’

A very radical Islam group held a ‘conference’ yesterday in Chicago at the Oak Lawn Hilton.

They are openly recruiting 9-18 y/o young men to carry out their Islamic terror acts.

I will never use a Hilton when traveling ever again. Won’t attend any convention at one- nothing.


45 posted on 07/20/2009 9:49:30 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: pissant

Minnesota:

1. Elects Jesse Ventura as Governor (later replaced by Pawlenty)

2. Invites in thousands of Somali muslims.

3. “Elects” Al Franken to the Senate (fair or not, it was close enough for ridicule)

4. Bitches about the condition of the economy (63% think it sucks as of today’s Ras poll)

5. And now is beset with Somali gang violence

Sorry, Minnesota — You emptied the compassion reservior when you sent Franken to the Senate. Suck it up.


46 posted on 07/20/2009 9:50:07 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: pissant

It’s the height of arrogance and narcissism to imagine that people who have turned Mogasishu into a uninhabitable anarchic warzone would suddenly become good Americans simply by being in America.

The State Department people who made the decision to import these people should be tried for felony murder, and I mean it.


47 posted on 07/20/2009 9:50:37 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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What genius decided to sponsor the mass transfer of these savages to Minneopolis, previously one of the most pleasant and, weather aside, most livable of our big cities? Somalis have turned their own country into a sewer of poverty, hatred, violence, and intolerance. Why would they not bring their dysfunctional way of life with them? Their mass transfer to Minnesota was a crime perpetrated against the citizens of that fine state. It goes without saying that no more Somalis should be admitted to the USA. And, like any non citizens involved in criminal activities, they should be turned over to ICE for immediate deportation upon conviction. Don't even jail them here. Life in the hell they have made of their own country is worse than prison.
48 posted on 07/20/2009 9:52:13 AM PDT by Godwin1 (O)
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To: pissant

Keith Ellison was a harbinger of discord for Minn. and it’s been downhill ever since.


49 posted on 07/20/2009 9:53:54 AM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: fishtank

That’s funny, last week I was visiting Minneapolis also. But I was drinking too much beer to read any Yellow Pages.


50 posted on 07/20/2009 9:54:56 AM PDT by SteelCurtain_SSN720 (If you pass the rabid child, say "hammer down" for me)
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To: existtoexcel

bttt


51 posted on 07/20/2009 9:55:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: pissant

I don’t much care for Somalis as a rule, they are big here in taxis

strange lot


52 posted on 07/20/2009 9:58:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (Flame and Citron....great movie about Dane resistance........Sarah Palin, there is no substitute)
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To: wardaddy
From what I saw in Seattle, the men worked as cabbies and parking lot attendants, while the women seemed to line up at social services.

Not too many Somalis in New York, or East Africans in general.

53 posted on 07/20/2009 10:01:45 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: SteelCurtain_SSN720

I also had time to go running twice from downtown over to UMN and back again over the foot bridges.

The brazilian bbq was great!

Came back almost ten pounds heavier.


54 posted on 07/20/2009 10:04:11 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: mplsconservative

Thanks for the correction, I do not like the “blame Bush” monotony, but that was when I first heard about them, and it was in Maine, not Mn.


55 posted on 07/20/2009 10:05:52 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: mplsconservative

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”


56 posted on 07/20/2009 10:06:32 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: pissant
“...family fled the chaos and violence of their West African homeland Somalia...”

Geez, the last time I checked a map, Somalia was in EAST AFRICA —not “west Africa.”

Obviously another journalism major wrote this story without checking their basic “facts.” But then again what should we expect from a Minneapolis journalist named “Pat CONDOM”?

...just saying...

57 posted on 07/20/2009 10:36:41 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: pissant
Hmm, sounds like they are following in the strong traditions of the Cubans, Jamaicans, Dominicans, Italians, Mexicans, and Irish.
58 posted on 07/20/2009 10:37:22 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: La Lydia
Lib's in Minneapolis worked hard to import these potential terrorists. They are now reaping the benefits of multiculturalism in the Twin Cities.
59 posted on 07/20/2009 10:40:13 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: fishtank

Hell holes of liberation theology? Where do you get that? Care to elaborate?


60 posted on 07/20/2009 2:56:03 PM PDT by nightwalker
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