What is being done to prevent more Muslims in Minnesota from joining the jihad? Why, nothing. To take any such action would be “Islamophobic.” “Terror Recruitment Video Highlights ‘Minnesota Martyrs,’” by Nina Moini, WCCO, January 3, 2016: MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) A new video, aimed at recruiting jihad fighters, highlights Minnesotans who have left to fight with […]
Minnesota: Parents question public high school’s choice to sing “Allahu akbar” at holiday concert
“No child should be forced to sing a song about the Muslims and the religion of hatred.” Uh oh. That kind of talk is going to get the Multiculturalist Victimhood Re-educators swarming into Blaine, Minnesota. “Another parent, who didn’t want to be identified, said by phone that considering the recent events in Paris and San […]
Minnesota leads the U.S. in Muslims who have tried to join the Islamic State
And in response, the leader of the Global Somali Diaspora in Minneapolis is playing the victimhood card. More below. “Minnesota leads the nation in would-be ISIL terrorists from U.S., report finds,” by Paul McEnroe and Allison Sherry, Star Tribune, September 29, 2015: Minnesota leads the nation in the number of people who have left or […]
The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem
“Since Al Shabaab began recruiting Minnesota’s youth in 2006, the Twin Cities have been a focus of overseas terror recruiting by organizations like the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). This cycle of terror recruiting has exclusively targeted Minnesota’s Somali community.” And now, even after this jihad recruitment has been going on for […]
Minnesota: Judge won’t drop charges against Muslims accused of trying to join ISIS
“Defense attorneys sought to dismiss several counts, arguing that membership or independent advocacy for a terrorist organization is protected under the First Amendment, and that the Islamic State is more like a nation than a terror group because it proclaims itself sovereign, controls territory and has an army….Davis also disagreed with a defense argument that […]
Minnesota: Muslims angered informant revealed local Muslims’ Islamic State plot
They’re angry that “some members of the community are looking at other members of the community [as] spying to [sic] each other and sending them, their kids, to jail.” But wait a minute — Muslim groups in the U.S. always insist they’re cooperating with police and the FBI and yet are still stigmatized. So why […]
Minnesota Muslim pleads guilty to trying to join the Islamic State
If only he had been able to join a Google Hangout with non-Muslim teens, this could have been avoided! “Yusuf said he attended meetings in Minnesota last March and April in which participants discussed fighting.” Where were those meetings held? Who else attended? What are those people doing now? Is the FBI in Minnesota on […]
Another Muslim from Minnesota killed fighting for the Islamic State
When Muslims from Minnesota were going to fight with al-Shabaab in Somalia, authorities dismissed it as a manifestation of ethnic loyalty: they were Somalis going back to Somalia to fight for their homeland. But Somalis going to Iraq and Syria? That cannot be explained away by referring to ethnicity: it is clearly motivated by religious […]
Minnesota imam refuses to denounce the Islamic State
It’s “complicated.” Beheading hostages, crucifying enemies, terrorizing Christians, selling Yazidi and Christian women as sex slaves — it’s “confusing.” “Minnesota imam looks at ‘caliphate’ through Islamic lens,” by Ibrahim Hirsi, MinnPost, November 28, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Any time a militant organization rises with violent acts in the name of Islam, some […]