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Abubakar Assadique is the mosque Hassan attended. Yesterday, there were prayers there for Hassan, but there are also allegations from Hassan’s family: they say the mosque was responsible for the 17-year-old’s decision to go to Somalia. They also say that his death may be connected to his decision to return to Minnesota.
The mosque denies any involvement in any of the young men’s decision to go to Somalia.
The FBI is investigating how the young men were recruited.
Hassan’s family says that investigation and Hassan’s desire to return to Minnesota may have played a role in his death.
The mosque says Sunday’s prayer service was for the community and the family. The Hassan family says they have no connection to the mosque.
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Somalis take to the street to protest group’s actions (MN)
StarTribune ^ | 6/11/09 | ALLIE SHAH and JAMES WALSH
Posted on June 12, 2009 6:24:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men.
At a protest outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of Burhan Hassan, who relatives say was killed last week in Mogadishu by a terrorist group, accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter of discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI.
“We don’t want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up,” Bihi said. “Law enforcement will not be able to do anything without information from the community.”
About 50 people attended the rally, waving signs and hollering, “CAIR out! Doublespeak out!”
During a months-long investigation into the disappearance of up to 20 Somali men, CAIR Minnesota launched a campaign to encourage anyone asked to speak to the FBI to be aware that they can have a lawyer present.
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