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More on missing Minneapolis Somali youths, and gee Denmark’s are missing too

Posted by acorcoran on December 8, 2008

The saga of the missing Somali young men continues.  Here is the latest, from AP no less.   Hat tip for this post:  several friends from Tennessee.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three Somali families tell similar stories: A son or nephew disappears. A passport is gone. Days later the phone rings, and the teen says he’s in Somalia.

The phone call is abrupt and short on details. And then, nothing.

Relatives of three teenagers say they fear their loved ones are victims, brainwashed to return to Somalia to fight. The impoverished nation on the Horn of Africa is caught up in an Islamic insurgency and hasn’t had a functioning government in 17 years.

“We are not sure who is responsible,” said Hussein Samatar, a community leader and uncle to a 17-year-old who traveled to Somalia. “But we, as a community, believe they have to be held accountable.”

Read on and see that their families want some explanations and that they are pointing a finger at the local mosque.   Actually I want some explanations too.  Are we breeding Islamic fighters in the State Department’s Refugee Resettlement program?   Many of these strapping young men who we have fed, housed, educated and kept healthy would be dead now in Somalia if they had been raised there.

Instead we raised them here so they could go back and fight as part of the Al Shabaab (youth movement) terrorist group whose goal is to establish Sharia Law.  We will just have to hope and pray they stay in Somalia (if they are there) and hope and pray the Obama Administration doesn’t decide to send Americans to Somalia to put down the growing insurgency.

Earlier reports identified the terrorist group Al-Shabaab as the group recruiting in Minnesota.  That is the group that has said it wants to send the West to hell.   Looks like they are on the rise in Somalia and establishing Sharia Law according to this news report from China:

MOGADISHU, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — Ten people have been killed and nearly 16 others wounded in separate violent incidents in southern Somalia as an insurgent group announced formation of an Islamic administration in Merka, a southern port town, local media reports said Saturday.

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In the southern port town of Merka, provincial capital of Lower Shabelle province, the Islamist Al-Shabaab movement, which controls the town, has set up “an Islamic administration” for the town which has been under their control since November.

Spokesman for the group, Sheik Muqtar Robow Abu Mansoor, told local residents in announcing the administration that it would serve the people and work to reconcile between them.

“The new administration will implement the (Islamic) Sharia Lawand will govern justly in the interest of the people in this town,” Abu Mansoor said.

Al-Shabaab controls a number of key towns and cities in southern Somalia and has formed similar administrations which implement strict Islamic Sharia law.

There is more!  Now, Danish Somalis are missing and presumed to have gone to Somalia as well to fight with Al-Shabaab.

More and more Somalis with a residence permit in Denmark are going to back their former homeland to get military training and religious school at the al-Qaeda related terror group al-Shabab. This has gotten the Danish intelligence service to pay more attention to Somalis living in Denmark, reports Politiken.

The head of the Somali Society in Aarhus, Abdirashid Sheikh Mohamud, is concerned about the development and calls it a “very sensitive area.”

“The government in Somalia has complained in the past about people from Scandinavia who support al-shabab either militarily or financially. I believe that about 15 people from Jutland traveled to Somalia to train with the group. In Zealand there are certainly several,” he says to Politiken.

He has unsuccessfully tried to warn against an extremist group among a small, non-integrated part of the 16,000 Somalis in Denmark.

New Islamic terrorists brought to you by immigration policies of  do-gooders in western countries.  Great, just great.

Start here to learn more about the Somalis missing in Minnesota.   Incidentally the Somali Islamic terrorists we raised in America may have been here illegally in the first place!

P.S.  We buried the first American Somali suicide bomber just last week.

12 Responses to “More on missing Minneapolis Somali youths, and gee Denmark’s are missing too”

  1. Racktamus said

    I’m wondering, why should we care? US immigration services can be used and abused like anything else, that is true, but other than pointing that out, what significance is this issue? Either A): We should not allow Muslims to function/ immigrate, or B): We shouldn’t allow people to exercise their free will? I’m not getting angry about this when there are bigger outrages and abuses in the country to worry about.

  2. mark21281 said

    How so?

  3. acorcoran said

    Mark, You haven’t even begun your reading assignement, I can tell!

  4. mark21281 said

    Well there are devils in our mix as well. We have repeatedly had Americans sending powdery anthrax-looking substances to government offices via the US mail. I haven’t read any denunciations of Americans as a whole for these actions. There were Nazis that sneaked into the US with refugee and immigrant populations during and after World War ll, yet there was no attempt to tar all European or Christian immigrants as a result.

  5. mars said

    I agree that certain things would be better served on other blogs. This particular one is about refugees and the fact is that Somali refugees have surfaced as a big problem in many ways not generally foreseen. It’s not just that they continue to be a drain on public resources, but that , among this substantial population, there is a real threat to our national security. Even the State Department is freaking about it. (although couching its fears in very general but transparent language). “Devout” Somali muslims are a fairly recent phenomena, fueled by intense prosthelitizing and social and economic pressure from extremists in Kenya, Somalia and now here in the US. It IS a big deal that somali men have ” gone missing” in such numbers. It’s a big deal that somalis remaining in the US may have the same proclivity and intentions. It burns me to see Mosques referred to as ” community organizations” or other rot in relation to their complictity. Do I believe every Somali refugee is the devil incarnate? NO. but there are devils in the mix for sure.

  6. Marken said

    Just to update my above comment, the UW-Minnesota today removed the Koranic references to hatal food from their website.

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  8. Marken said

    acorcoran, thanks for the update, I just came across a UW-Minn Extension website for recent Somalian arrivals, it was written in Somalian with English translations. It had the usual extension advice, how to survive a Minnesota winter, preventing colds, dealing with your teenager, reminding Somalis that the Koran requires that they eat only Hatal meat and that Somalis should only buy meat from Hatal meat shops…OK the last one did get my attention. I wrote the director of the Extension to ask that Koraniac references be removed, without getting too much into the obvious separation issues, an ideology most likely Somalis are not familiar with (and the fact that tax payers are sponsoring this advice), I also thought about the only Somalian I am familiar with here who is trying to get away from being told what to do by muslims, I’m certain there are others.

  9. acorcoran said

    Dear Real Moesoeoelem and Patrick, Let me know when you guys get your blog up and running. I look forward to visiting and reading your views there.

    http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/commenting-at-refugee-resettlement-watch/

  10. patrick said

    Wow! You people are dumb.

    As ARM pointed out, you must be afraid of everything. I mean, some missing Somali kids in Minneapolis? Do you drive a CAR? Have you ever walked on a SIDEWALK or taken a BATH in a BATHTUB?

    Each of these things is statistically more dangerous than terrorism. Yet, I don’t hear you calling for the restriction of immigration of bathtubs or cars into Minneapolis. Why not? Wouldn’t that be more helpful to public safety?

    Is your fear of terrorism really just a thinly veiled fear of brown people or Muslims? If not, please help me make sense of it.

  11. a real moesoeoelem said

    My god, you must be terrified of everything. How do you walk out the door in the morning? Three missing youths in Minneapolis! You know, I bet there are missing youths all over the country! Holy Crap! Get the guns and batten down the hatches till they find every last one!:D

    To further entertain myself with your fear of everything Muslim, another part about Islam that is ok (in addition to the part about no interest on loans – who-hoo!) is the part about God’s unconditional love of everyone, of all faiths.

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