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Minnesota Somalis fear backlash after Kenya mall attack [Waah]
Reuters ^ | 9/24/2013 | David Bailey and Todd Melby

Posted on 09/24/2013 5:05:37 PM PDT by markomalley

Members of the largest ethnic Somali community in the United States expressed frustration on Tuesday, fearing a backlash after the attack on a Kenya shopping mall by a Somalia-based Islamic group that has recruited fighters in Minnesota.

It was unclear whether any of the attackers were connected to Minnesota's Somali community. But Somali-American leaders in Minneapolis were quick to condemn the assault after early unconfirmed reports identified one or more of the attacking al Shabaab rebels as recruits from the United States.

At least 20 young ethnic Somali men have left Minnesota since 2007 to join al Shabaab in Somalia, some dying there, U.S. authorities have said. The Minnesota Somali community has been the focus of a federal investigation since then.

An affiliate of al Qaeda, al Shabaab has been designated a terror organization by the United States. At least 67 people were killed in Nairobi's Westgate Mall, along with five of the attackers.

"This attack has generated a real concern among the Somali communities and fear of backlash," said Omar Jamal, a community activist and former head of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amnesty; kenya; minnesota; noamnesty; nodreamact; somalia; waronterror
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1 posted on 09/24/2013 5:05:37 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Then they better get their asses out in front of cameras and start denouncing violence in the name of islam. Otherwise they are complicit and deserve backlash.


2 posted on 09/24/2013 5:08:24 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: markomalley

I’ve been sick of these formulaic ‘backlash’ stories since 9/11.

The MSM are happy to practice guilt by association when it comes to the Tea Party or gun ownership but demonstrably violent Muslims get a pass.


3 posted on 09/24/2013 5:08:27 PM PDT by relictele ("An elective despotism was not the government we fought for..." - James Madison)
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To: markomalley

We are always quick to here from the leaders. Haven’t seen any Somali on the street interviews.

Also a month from now, after there has been absolutely NO backlash, I’d like to have these leaders apologize to the people of Minnesota for the slander they dropped on us today.


4 posted on 09/24/2013 5:09:36 PM PDT by DManA
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To: markomalley

MN Somalis? Aren’t these the guys who refuse to transport seeing-eye dogs in their cabs?


5 posted on 09/24/2013 5:09:49 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: markomalley

I am in favor of sending them home, they have not assimilated and continue with their 7th century mindset including FMG!


6 posted on 09/24/2013 5:10:39 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: markomalley

ISGAS

I Scarcely Give A Sh..


7 posted on 09/24/2013 5:10:45 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: markomalley

These are the same Somalis that sucker punch developmentally disabled people on bicycles in the Twin Cities,


8 posted on 09/24/2013 5:12:34 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Cyber Liberty

Yep. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2827800&page=1


9 posted on 09/24/2013 5:12:39 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: markomalley

So sorry. Better hop the next flight back to Mogadishu where you and your families can feel safe.


10 posted on 09/24/2013 5:13:44 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: markomalley

Somali muzz in Minnesota are a huge problem, but the Democrats invited them here and rolled out the red carpet for them. So now we all suffer.


11 posted on 09/24/2013 5:18:08 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: markomalley

The MSM and leftists are always more concerned with backlash than the actual terror attacks


12 posted on 09/24/2013 5:18:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Exactly. I’d like to hear a little outrage from the supposedly peaceful Muslims. Occasionally one hears a little fear (of “reprisals”) from them, but never any rejection of the hideous things their coreligionists have done in their name.


13 posted on 09/24/2013 5:22:19 PM PDT by livius
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To: markomalley

They’re Somali’s now, but the press called them Americans when they were committing the atrocity in Kenya.


14 posted on 09/24/2013 5:23:25 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: markomalley
The American Somali infestationcommunity provides many employees for the AQ firms working around the world. A backlash of some sort would be in order. It is not, however, likely at all unless the Press can whip one up by crying out against the prospect.
15 posted on 09/24/2013 5:29:46 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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Why the Hell are we letting these scumbags in here when white South Africans need a home?


16 posted on 09/24/2013 5:30:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: seeker41
I am in favor of sending them home,

along with all other Mohammedans in the 50 States. We are not speaking of Freedom of Religion here. Moslems have proclaimed themselves the enemies of the United States and are an irredeemably hostile ideology that should be expelled.

17 posted on 09/24/2013 5:33:24 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: markomalley

“An affiliate of al Qaeda, al Shabaab has been designated a terror organization by the United States. “

Obviously didn’t contribute to the Obama campaign. That was their first mistake.


18 posted on 09/24/2013 5:35:04 PM PDT by Tallguy (Hunkered down in Pennsylvania)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Apparently (real reason) liberal churches decided Minnesota was too white, too blond, too Christian, too Eurocentric.

So they financed the mass importation of the worst, most unassimilable muzzies on the planet as a “correction”.

Wonder how many Somalis voted for Al Franken?


19 posted on 09/24/2013 5:35:34 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: markomalley; GeronL

If there were a bunch of AMERICANS with roots in somali that had some concerns over being targeted because of those ties that would be one thing. But those madmoafrosomaliminnecans can KISS MY SHINY METAL ***


20 posted on 09/24/2013 5:36:38 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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