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What I heard at the terrorism trial
Powerline ^ | August 11, 2025 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 08/11/2025 10:43:37 AM PDT by T Ruth

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States. What do Minnesota’s Somali citizens think of us? We know amazingly little about the community, probably because we are afraid to ask the relevant questions. We know they are mostly Muslim — we can see the hijabs, we are familiar with the many local controversies ... over the past 35 years — but are they loyal residents or citizens of the United States? In the conflict between the United States and Muslim terrorists, for example, whose side are they on?

Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson observed at the sentencing of Abdiaziz Farah last week for his food fraud crime spree that Farah treated us as “suckers.” That is certainly true, but it expresses the problem in almost reassuringly familiar terms. I wonder if the problem doesn’t run deeper than that.

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They are all young first- or second-generation Somali Minnesotans who freely took advantage of educational and employment opportunities in the Twin Cities. They all appeared to be talented and resourceful young men. They had social lives centered on local mosques. They supplemented their education with Islamic studies. They were all observant Muslims and they were all ungrateful for the good lives and conventional opportunities afforded them in Minnesota. They wanted to live under the caliphate declared by ISIS. They yearned to wage jihad and to die as Islamic martyrs. They hate the United States.

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It appears that efforts to discover a “recruiter” who had attracted Somali Minnesotans to ISIS had proved unavailing. Growing up Muslim, receiving religious education and attending local mosques — the Al-Farooq Youth and Family Center in Bloomington was mentioned frequently — the defendants needed little more than the videos supplied by ISIS to recruit them.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: isis; minnesota; mohammedanism; muslim; somalis

1 posted on 08/11/2025 10:43:37 AM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

Let’s just deport these muzzies back to Somalia then.


2 posted on 08/11/2025 10:45:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T Ruth

War with Islam...not if, but when.
And datz da way ‘tiz.


3 posted on 08/11/2025 10:48:31 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: T Ruth

If you have questions look to england.


4 posted on 08/11/2025 10:50:24 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: No name given

Seriously. Best thing for everybody.


5 posted on 08/11/2025 10:55:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: T Ruth

> They are all young first- or second-generation Somali Minnesotans who freely took advantage of educational and employment opportunities in the Twin Cities. <

Second-generation Muslim immigrants (everywhere) might be more polished than their parents. But many studies have shown that, in general, second-generation Muslims are also more radical.

So buckle up, folks. This ride is just starting.


6 posted on 08/11/2025 10:58:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: T Ruth

Farah treated us as “suckers.
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Unfortunately, this is becoming common among many people, even native Americans.
Stealing from taxpayers is not consider sinful.
In the good old Soviet Union, that was desirable action. There was even a saying: “If you do not steal from government, you are stealing from your family!”

Unfortunately, that’s the way we are heading!


7 posted on 08/11/2025 11:10:56 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: T Ruth
... but are they loyal residents or citizens of the United States?

Mr Johnson, surely that is a rhetorical question.

8 posted on 08/11/2025 11:27:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Da Coyote

I feel the same way. Never, ever trust a mussie.


9 posted on 08/11/2025 11:28:16 AM PDT by seabeeson
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To: T Ruth

And just how did all these Somalis wind up there in the Frozen North with all those Scandies and German descendants?!

When I think of Minnesota I think of Andersens and Andersons and Nyquists and Lofquists.... not Mohammeds.


10 posted on 08/11/2025 11:29:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: T Ruth

When I worked in Saudi one of our drivers was a Somali named Abdi. Great guy. Of course I don’t know how he would have been if the roles were reversed and I was working under him.


11 posted on 08/11/2025 11:30:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Rummyfan

Not so long ago, Chris Rock joked, “Ain’t no Black people in Minnesota! The only black people in Minnesota is Prince and Kirby Puckett.”


12 posted on 08/11/2025 11:33:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ronald77

Indeed Islamic followers want the country with nuclear weapons what could go wrong.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 11:39:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Ronald77

What is happening in England is coming here. It is just a matter of time. And it won\t be very long, at the longest. You can believe it or not. Most don’t. Watch your election results. Each election, more muslims are elected to positions of power. When the muslims reach 10% they start acting. They start chopping heads . They start stabbings. They start blowing things and people up. But the American Public gives not one shit.


14 posted on 08/11/2025 11:44:04 AM PDT by sport
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To: seabeeson

My fellow Texans feel the same way. I live in Irving, a city that has two large mosques. Have heard very little from them in the 30 years I’ve lived here. I believe a message has been delivered to them, I,e. Y’all try any of that jihad crap, and your mosque will be nothing but smoking ruins in 24 hours.


15 posted on 08/11/2025 11:50:06 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Rummyfan

“””When I think of Minnesota I think of Andersens and Andersons and Nyquists and Lofquists.... not Mohammeds.”””

That is still largely true. But most of the skinnies don’t live in Minnesota, they live in Occupied Territory of Minneapolistan.


16 posted on 08/11/2025 11:56:18 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: T Ruth

A lot of camel jockeys in Michigan.


17 posted on 08/11/2025 11:58:36 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: T Ruth

Instead of putting the lovely Abdulaziz in jail we need to cherish and support him and encourage others to become “recruiters”. The more young Somalis go to hell-known lands to fight for whatever, the less of them will pollute the beautiful state of Minnesota with their presence.


18 posted on 08/11/2025 1:20:45 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: T Ruth

My son in law worked for the TSA at the Minneapolis St Paul International airport and said it was not uncommon for Somalis to have hundreds of thousands of of dollars in cash in their carry on bags with tickets to Somalia. Apparently it is not illegal to have large amounts of cash in carry on baggage if it is declared.


19 posted on 08/11/2025 4:04:46 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: T Ruth

No good Muslim exists.


20 posted on 08/11/2025 5:35:01 PM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ship)
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