It reads like the lyrics of the song in West Side Story where the "Jets" gang members sing to Officer Krupke claiming they are just misunderstood kids, not punks and criminals. The Minneapolis Star Tribune takes this approach to the story of young male Somali refugees that have taken residence in Minneapolis who have decided to go back to Somalia to "visit." The suspicion is, though, that are they going back to join terrorist gangs there. The Star Trib claims they absolutely are not in its coverage, however. Yet, for some unexplained reason, the Star Trib also leaves out the fact that Somali recruiters have been seen roaming the streets of Minneapolis encouraging Somali men to return for just that purpose, as well as other important details linking the “visits” with terrorism. Why would the Star Trib leave out such important facts in the story?
Somali citizen convicted in al-Shabaab recruitment case deported from US
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In Somalia, al Shabaab Far from a Spent Force
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Last November, a Somali who had attended several years of school here plotted to bomb a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, hoping to kill hundreds of families.
The subject of Somali immigration comes up now because PBS is about to show a propaganda piece, Welcome to Shelbyville (complete with local outreach), about the wonders of extreme Somali diversity. Multiculti liberals pretend that Somalis are just another group moving to America, very similar to many people’s ancestors. Anyone who objects to the enforced diversity is a racist knuckle-dragger, in the liberal view, and even the film’s trailer seems to go out of its way to slime the American residents of Shelbyville who don’t want to be Somalified.
As I write, news is appearing that Captain Phillips of the
Maersk Alabama has been freed from his Somali pirate captors. This may mark the end of the extraordinary American passivity towards this major public menace. Maybe even President Obama will be tempted by the celebration to speak on the issue. (My theory on his silence: given the choice between black pirates and white American sailors, he sides with the former.)
An aspect of Somalia which
does interest the Administration, however, is the activities al-Shabab militia which holds much of southern Somalia.
is essentially a log-rolling effort by elements in the Defense Department who want military action against this group. They are trying to justify this by claiming al-Shabab is contemplating terrorist acts within the US, for which, others argue in the piece, there is really no evidence at all.