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How Minneapolis' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US
Fox News ^ | February 16, 2019 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 02/16/2019 8:50:26 AM PST by Hojczyk

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.

FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined. And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.

In the case of the Somalis, it's no longer just the men. Early last year, a female was apprehended by authorities on charges of supporting providing material support to Al Qaeda and arson.

So what has made the area such a hotbed for such activity? And what has been Rep. Ilhan Omar's record in addressing the issue - either before she was elected, or since?

“Our focus now is on home-grown violent extremists, and the Somali population is a factor in that,” added the federal official, highlighting a 2016 incident in which a Somali-American embarked on a mass stabbing spree at the St. Cloud mall in Minnesota, before being fatally shot by an off-duty police officer. “That is a more likely scenario at this point than a large class of kids trying to get to a foreign terrorist organization in the theater of war.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: isis; islam; jihad; minneapolis; minnesota; minnesotanice; somalis
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1 posted on 02/16/2019 8:50:26 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Never saw THAT coming...


2 posted on 02/16/2019 8:51:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Hojczyk

Lemme guess, by bringing in all the skinnies from Blackhawk Down?

Was I right?


3 posted on 02/16/2019 8:52:36 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Hojczyk

And now they have their own representative (Omar) sitting on the House Foreign Affairs COmmittee with access to sensitive information. How nice.


4 posted on 02/16/2019 8:52:42 AM PST by cronustitan
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To: rlmorel

Thank you Mr. 0panzy.
Fake president.


5 posted on 02/16/2019 8:53:30 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: Hojczyk

Which group is the most troublesome on Earth:

Haitians or Somalis..?

Are there close competitors..?

Ah, Gypsies, yes.

Others?


6 posted on 02/16/2019 8:53:54 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Hojczyk

They take thousands of savages from one of the worst hell holes in the world and put them all in one place in Minnesota. Did they expect that somehow they would be changed to Norwegian Lutherans?


7 posted on 02/16/2019 8:56:23 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: redshawk

Who is Opanzy?


8 posted on 02/16/2019 8:56:26 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Hojczyk

https://www.powerlineblog.com/?s=somal&x=14&y=12

A lot here there from Minnesota and have followed this for years

Example...

COSTS OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY
Minnesota’s large and ever increasing Somali population is the ultimate protected minority in our left-wing utopia. The Somalis are black. The Somalis are Muslim. The Somalis vote Democratic. As I never tire of noting, in October 2015 Governor Mark Dayton instructed “white, B-plus, Minnesota-born citizens” to suppress their qualms about immigrant resettlement in Minnesota. If they can’t, they should “find another state,” he advised. We are directed to adjust and required to provide our support.

The Somalis may be retrograde in their treatment of women and their related attitudes toward them. They may not share the liberal appreciation of homosexuality and abortion. They may have problematic enthusiasms in other respects. But we generally agree not to look too closely, or to avert our eyes.

We don’t even have a handle on how large the community is. The official estimate (there is no official number) is something like 40,000, but the United States Attorney’s Office here used an estimate of 100,000 in its formal written agreement with Somali community leaders to undertake the so-called Building Community Resilience program.


9 posted on 02/16/2019 8:57:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Cobra64

hussein


10 posted on 02/16/2019 8:59:08 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Hojczyk

If what’s her nasty face had a son...


11 posted on 02/16/2019 8:59:17 AM PST by Track9 (Conservatives like underdogs, progressive like victims.)
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To: cronustitan

Ilhan Omar, D-ISIS


12 posted on 02/16/2019 9:00:23 AM PST by BadLands59
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To: Cobra64

??
The wookie married the fake president. That’s 0panzy.
The 0ne


13 posted on 02/16/2019 9:00:43 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: Hojczyk

It happened because no one stopped it early on.
Everyone was told they are a peaceful people... THEY ARE NOT.
They shut off U S intervention into their compounds/towns.. and the police were afraid to enter... ALLOWED TO FORM THEIR OWN GOV AND LAWS.

This is how all of this crap starts and grows... because people don’t care and just leave them alone...
UNLESS they are Christians and want to have a Bible study!

Telling the masses anything for their own good and it’s futile.. useless...


14 posted on 02/16/2019 9:11:48 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Hojczyk

Obama


15 posted on 02/16/2019 9:14:08 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Hojczyk

And they just elected one of their own to the House of Representatives.

We’re so effin’ stupid, we don’t deserve the country the Founding Fathers gave us.


16 posted on 02/16/2019 9:14:33 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Hojczyk
The Somalis have been trouble from the beginning. There was a conspiracy here in southern Missouri to give them commercial drivers licenses without proper training. A couple of hundred Somalis and Bosnians got CDLs before it was discovered. I think some went on to get Hazmat certified!
17 posted on 02/16/2019 9:15:38 AM PST by chronicles
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

part of Obama’s plan to bust up white america


18 posted on 02/16/2019 9:17:36 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: rlmorel

This country’s elite is beyond stupid. Now we have a terrorist in Congress and no one says squat.


19 posted on 02/16/2019 9:21:39 AM PST by Chgogal
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To: qaz123

BTTT


20 posted on 02/16/2019 9:23:06 AM PST by Chgogal
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