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These 2 articles are very sad. These are just kids.
A TIMELINE:
1991 A civil war leads to the collapse of Somalia's last functioning central government.
through.............
Fall 2008 The second wave of men who left for Somalia were younger and more successful than their predecessors.
With the exception of one of the men, an American convert to Islam, they were young Somalis who had mostly been raised in the United States and seemed to be excelling at their high schools and colleges.
They dropped out and disappeared in small groups, first in August and then November.
One of the kids:
Burhan Hassan, born in 1991, was only 5 when he arrived in Minneapolis from a refugee camp in Kenya. The youngest of four children, he grew up in the Towers, playing basketball and soccer, and spending much of his free time at the Abubakar mosque, where he received an award for memorizing the Koran.
Known to his friends as Little Bashir, he excelled at math and dreamed of becoming a doctor or lawyer.
He talked of applying to Harvard, his uncle, Abdirizak Bihi said. The 17-year-old boy was a senior at Roosevelt High School when he disappeared on Nov. 4, later calling home from Somalia.
A Call to Jihad From Somalia, Answered in the U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition.
The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here.”
For a group of students who often met at the school, on the University of Minnesota campus, those words seemed especially fitting. They had fled Somalia as small boys, escaping a catastrophic civil war.
“Why are we sitting around in America, doing nothing for our people?” one of the men, Mohamoud Hassan, a skinny 23-year-old engineering major, pressed his friends.
In November, Mr. Hassan and two other students dropped out of college and left for Somalia, the homeland they barely knew. Word soon spread that they had joined the Shabaab, a militant Islamist group aligned with Al Qaeda that is fighting to overthrow the fragile Somali government. The students are among more than 20 young Americans who are the focus of what may be the most significant domestic terrorism investigation since Sept. 11. One of the men, Shirwa Ahmed, blew himself up in Somalia in October, becoming the first known American suicide bomber. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert M. Mueller, has said Mr. Ahmed was “radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota.”
Praise be to the God of multiculturalism and diversity!
"Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word."
Praise be to the God of multiculturalism and diversity!
"Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word."
Personally, I believe this is the source of the next big attack on America. While it's good that we have some sort of record of the individuals taking part in terrorist training, I do not believe that it's possible for the government to keep track of every U.S. "citizen" engaging in such. As a result, someone somewhere will fall through the cracks and we won't know until after we've suffered mass casualties that it was a U.S. citizen that caused such harm on our country. I firmly believe this.
They all need to be returned to their motherlands.
They never should have been in the United States in the first place.
Let them hash out their problems in their land, it's where they belong.
It's obvious they're not Americans at heart. How many more are still here and need to be returned to their nations of origin? They're just biding time until they plot against us on our own soil anyhow. What happened in France will happen here eventually. You all better get ready.
They all need to be returned to their motherlands.
They never should have been in the United States in the first place.
Let them hash out their problems in their land, it's where they belong.
It's obvious they're not Americans at heart. How many more are still here and need to be returned to their nations of origin? They're just biding time until they plot against us on our own soil anyhow. What happened in France will happen here eventually. You all better get ready.
Muslims want you dead, they despise and loath western civilization ideals.
Personally, I believe this is the source of the next big attack on America. While it's good that we have some sort of record of the individuals taking part in terrorist training, I do not believe that it's possible for the government to keep track of every U.S. "citizen" engaging in such. As a result, someone somewhere will fall through the cracks and we won't know until after we've suffered mass casualties that it was a U.S. citizen that caused such harm on our country. I firmly believe this.
They have patience which is something American no longer have or understand. this is why some of the 9/11 terrorists lived her for years along side us the one even let his family associate with the Americans. Pretty scary I'd say.
What happened in France will happen here eventually.
This is something I'll agree with, mainly because if there's one thing Americans aren't especially good at, it's taking lessons from history. (If we were, we would never have gallantly volunteered to take over the mess in Vietnam from France).
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