u.s. they live in minnesota around the twin cities. one religious leader saying, quote, the perpetrators of this barbaric act do not share our islamic values. and one community activist has worked for years to prevent al shabaab from recruiting in the area. mike toeben is live in minneapolis for us now. mike? reporter: and john, it s a unique situation where you have young people who are recruited and radicalized here in the united states, then sent abroad to engage in the violence. the recruiting is not all that different from american street gangs. the people who are targeted are generally poor. they didn t make it in america. oftentimes they come from broken home, single parents or no parents at all. the recruiter takes on the role of mentor, even father figure, and leads the individual down the path toward radical islam and ultimately violence. now, there are tens of thousands of somalis living in the twin cities area. from their ranks activists are rising up to combat the recrui
this was a few years after the civil rights act of 1964, the voters right act of 1965. i was able to climb the corporate ladder at pillsbury. i was able to climb the corporate ladder at burger king. i was able to be head of god fathers pizza, took that company and prevented it from being bankrupt. i ended up with the second largest employer in the country, the national restaurant association. don t you think if i saw racism along the way in all four of those or five, that i would have recognized it? this is why i don t have a lot of patience for people who want to blame racism on the fact that some people don t make it in america. one of the greatest things about this country, sean, and i have experienced it, if you put your mind to it and you don t play the victim card, you can do whatever you want to do in this country. i am walking proof of that. you know what, i think it s a great message for everybody. there is some residual racism,
this was a few years after the civil rights act of 1964, the voters right act of 1965. i was able to climb the corporate ladder at pillsbury. i was able to climb the corporate ladder at burger king. i was able to be head of god fathers pizza, took that company and prevented it from being bankrupt. i ended up with the second largest employer in the country, the national restaurant association. don t you think if i saw racism along the way in all four of those or five, that i would have recognized it? this is why i don t have a lot of patience for people who want to blame racism on the fact that some people don t make it in america. one of the greatest things about this country, sean, and i have experienced it, if you put your mind to it and you don t play the victim card, you can do whatever you want to do in this country. i am walking proof of that. you know what, i think it s a great message for everybody. there is some residual racism,
uprisings. you have the top down which is the president, top down, bottom up, the uprising on the streets and inside out. they are looking for that 1960 s moment. all right. glenn, let s talk a little bit about this. in bedford, new hampshire, at least one family is absolutely upset because apparently and they want some educators canned because apparently there is a book that their son was assigned and what it describes jesus christ as is a wine guzzling vagrant and a precocious socialist. book is called nickel and dime, not getting by in america. book by a woman who tried to get by tried to make ends meet with minimum wage jobs. here s the thing. as outrageous as that is about jesus, again, we re attacking the whole thing. jesus is now a marxist. the point of this book is you can t make it in america. might as well been written by theories. you can t make it in america.