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Minnesota Neighborhoods Struggle With Rise of Somali Gangs
Fox ^ | 07/20/09

Posted on 07/20/2009 1:16:18 PM PDT by freed0misntfree

MINNEAPOLIS — Ahmednur Ali's family fled the chaos and violence of their East 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. By age 20, he had blazed a path to Minneapolis' Augsburg College, where he played soccer, 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: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bho44; gangs; gnag; minneapolis; minnesota; somali; somalia

1 posted on 07/20/2009 1:16:18 PM PDT by freed0misntfree
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To: freed0misntfree
I had the opportunity to go to the Twin cities a few weeks back. As I passed a small private college I saw a couple of students (white) screaming and holding posters demanding that we end aid to Israel. I just shook my head as I drove by. Al Franken yard signs were still up, and somewhere the spirit of Jesse Ventura was still hanging in the air. Minnesota is an unusual place.
2 posted on 07/20/2009 1:21:02 PM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: freed0misntfree

“32,000 Somalis who settled in the state”

If they breed like rabbits as most muslims do, they’ll be at half a million in 10 years.


3 posted on 07/20/2009 1:21:28 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: freed0misntfree
estimated 32,000 Somalis who settled in the state

If only 1% of this population becomes militant islamo-fascists, that's hundreds of people and a big security nightmare. Surveys have shown that something like 10% of the muslim population worldwide sympathizes with the goals of the islamo-fascists.

Who thought it was a good idea to settle 32,000 foreign muslims in Minnesota?

4 posted on 07/20/2009 1:23:28 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: ScottinVA

I assume their warm reception from the liberal locals overrides the butt freezing cold in the winter that they certainly aren’t culturally used to.


5 posted on 07/20/2009 1:25:47 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: freed0misntfree

I would think it too cold for them there in Minn.


6 posted on 07/20/2009 1:35:23 PM PDT by Married with Children
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Bill Clinton


7 posted on 07/20/2009 1:42:51 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: freed0misntfree

...good!...let those white Lefty’s in Minnesota experiance the savagery of third world blacks first hand...we’ll see how they feel about offering sanctuary now...


8 posted on 07/20/2009 2:01:10 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: freed0misntfree

Minneapolis was once one of our most liveable cities (for those who could handle the cold). Sad story of what open borders and immigration without assimilation will get you.


9 posted on 07/20/2009 2:05:43 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Married with Children
"I would think it too cold for them there in Minn."

They're also taking over Maine...

10 posted on 07/20/2009 2:09:15 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Damn...they’re like cockroaches!


11 posted on 07/20/2009 2:11:44 PM PDT by Married with Children
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Liberals, who care nothing about their own survival. Ted Kennedy is the ringleader of a suicidal maniac who voluntarily made Anglos the least preferred demographic to enter the US. Thank Senators Hart and Cellar, too.


12 posted on 07/20/2009 2:14:41 PM PDT by wac3rd (80 Carter/Obama 08)
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To: freed0misntfree

Minnesotans have more to fear from Somali youth recruited at local mosques for “training” in Somalia and elsewhere. Two of these “missing” youth were involved in homicide bombings in Somalia and the rest may soon be putting their “training” to use in the US.


13 posted on 07/20/2009 2:16:15 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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Who thought it was a good idea to settle 32,000 foreign muslims in Minnesota?

Some of the effort was spearheaded by well meaning but uninformed liberal churches usually with the word "United" in the title.

14 posted on 07/20/2009 2:19:22 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Clinton


15 posted on 07/20/2009 2:19:48 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

paul wellstone...who’s son had exclusive rights to build the housing for said somali’s


16 posted on 07/20/2009 2:20:36 PM PDT by Explodo (Pessimism is simply pattern recognition)
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To: freed0misntfree
How many are on the public dole...most I expect.

I get to pay for all this diversity that has made us so strong, wonderful.

17 posted on 07/20/2009 2:28:49 PM PDT by blam
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To: freed0misntfree

The Messiah’s friends...in a blue State.


18 posted on 07/20/2009 2:31:36 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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