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  johnpi 10:44 am on January 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Area 51, Bantu, Bantus, black helicopters, Cloward-Piven, conspiracy theories (24), Muslim Refugees (9), Muslim refugees in America (4), nativism (5), New Hampshire, refugees (17), Somali Bantus, somalia (78), Somalis (8), Somalis in America, whacked out conspiracy theories (10)

  A federally funded education program for Somali refugees in New Hampshire has been put on hold after accusations by another group of Somali refugees that it was teaching ‘Muslim doctrine.’

  The accusations arise out of a longstanding rift in the Somali community between Somali Bantus, a minority in their homeland, and the majority.

  “There’s been a lot of rumors about bad blood between the different factions, said Dan Calegari of Southern New Hampshire Services. “I work with these people daily. There’s never even been any hint of religious activity. … It really comes down to animosity between different segments of the Somali population.”
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  Somali Bantus, the descendants of African slaves, are a marginalized minority in Somalia that suffered greatly during the country’s civil war. Many were evicted from their farmland by other Somalis and fled to neighboring countries. Thousands of these refugees eventually made their way to the United States.

  There is a language difference between Somalis and Bantu Somalis, said Idhow, which is how the rift all started. Because some Bantu refugees were more fluent in their own tribal language than Somali, the local elders thought it best to have a group that specifically served the Somali Bantu community.

  Hilariously, the folks at this website looked at this story and decided it was the sign of a left-wing conspiracy.

  Last night we heard from reader Thomas in response to the Manchester Somali story I posted yesterday. He confirms for us that the Cloward-Piven strategy* to overload the welfare system with poor and angry people was well-established in radical leftwing circles 40 years ago! Thank goodness we are all catching on, I just hope it’s not too late for us.

  Apparently, Cloward-Piven is to nativists what Area 51 is to the UFO people. Sadly, I’ll have to report this to my overseers back in Moscow. A black helicopter will be sent to mutilate their cattle…

   

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  johnpi 7:49 pm on October 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: al Shabaab (39), al Shabab (43), kenya (17), somalia (78), Somalis (8), Somalis in America

  Kenyan police arrest American Muslim trying to cross border to get to al Shabaab-controlled region of Somalia.

  An American man has been arrested in northern Kenya while trying to enter an area of Somalia controlled by Islamist insurgents, police and residents said on Monday.

  Lawless Somalia is viewed by the international community as a breeding ground for al Qaeda-linked groups which have been carrying out an insurgency against the U.N.-backed administration of President Sheikh Shariff Ahmed.

  A witness told Reuters that the man was arrested on Sunday by police manning the immigration office at the border town of Liboi in Kenya’s North Eastern province. He was on his way to Qoqani in southern Somalia without any security escort.

   
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  johnpi 10:58 am on October 5, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: al Shabaab (39), al Shabab (43), somalia (78), Somalis (8), Somalis in America

  Somalia president condemns Minnesota terror recruiting.

  The president of Somalia on Sunday denounced the recruiting of young men from Minnesota’s huge Somali community for terrorist activity in his war-ravaged homeland, and said he plans to work with the U.S. government to bring those still alive back home.
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  Ahmed is in Minnesota for three days as he tries to build support for his struggling government. He’s met with scholars, university students, former Somali leaders, women, elders and others.
  Sunday evening, he spoke to about 5,000 people at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The crowd cheered when Ahmed again condemned the terrorist recruiting.

  “Those responsible for this trouble, I am asking them to stop what they are doing,” he said in Somali that was translated.

  Ahmed expressed his condolences to the parents of the young men who have been recruited and said his government would give them any assistance it could. He said he was saddened to see the men flee the U.S. to engage in violence.

  “These parents brought their children here for a peaceful life,” he said.

  Ahmed also plans trips to Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, another city with a large Somali population, as he continues to advocate for peace in Somalia.

   
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  johnpi 6:35 pm on September 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: seattle (3), somalia (78), Somalis in America

  FBI comparing DNA to link Somalia bombing with Seattle man.

  The FBI in Seattle is comparing DNA recovered from last week’s suicide bombing in Somalia with that of the man’s relatives, according to a federal law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. FBI agents are investigating whether an American Somali refugee from Seattle was involved in the bombing on a peacekeeping base in Somalia that killed 21 people.
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  The FBI believes “outside influences” are at work in Seattle’s Somali community, trying to recruit and radicalize young men to carry out jihad in their homeland. They are fighting to overthrow the United Nations-backed government, whose forces currently only hold pockets of the capital with the help of some 5,000 African Union peacekeepers.

  Those influences — whether they be radical Islamic Web sites or outside recruiters — are “a danger to the Somali community, and the Seattle community at large,” Special Agent Fred Gutt of the FBI’s Seattle field office said Thursday.

  Sahra Farah, the director of the Somali Community Services of Seattle, said she hopes to find out about the danger posed to young Somalis at a community meeting where she’s planning to talk about the report that the Seattle man killed the 21 peacekeepers and civilians when he set off a suicide truck-bomb at a checkpoint in Mogadishu.

  “We want to know, ‘Is it happening here? Has anyone heard of it?’ Sometimes you never know it’s coming into your community until the last minute and it’s already happened,” said Farah, who has yet to set a date for the meeting.

   
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  johnpi 8:51 am on September 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: al Shabaab (39), al Shabab (43), gangs (2), Muslim children (8), somalia (78), Somalis (8), Somalis in America

  World Policy Review had a pretty good three part investigative series that delves into the question of why Somali-American youth in Minnesota would be susceptible to appeals to go fight in Somalia.

  Part I here.
  Part II here.
  Part III here.

  Here’s an excerpt from Part II:

  For protection and justice, many young Somalis turn to gangs with names like the “Hot Boyz” and the “Somali Mafia.” Minneapolis community organizer Shukri Adan estimated in a report to the city that between 400 and 500 Somali youths are in gangs, according to the Associated Press.

  What’s striking is the similarity between the Somali gangs and Shabab, which not coincidentally means “youth” in Arabic. Like the Somali gangs in Minneapolis, Shabab originally formed to defend innocent victims of violent crime, before evolving into the armed wing of an Islamic political movement from which it subsequently split. Today, the group mainly functions as a loose alliance of mercenaries, religious zealots, criminals and, yes, street gangs.

  During our visit to Mogadishu in November 2007, city residents told us they feared the gangs more than they did any Shabab army, for the gangs would stop cars and steal drivers’ cash and cell phones. Over the years, Shabab has become what it once despised. So, too, have the Somali-American gangs. Formed to protect Somali youths from white violence, the Minnesota gangs are now suspects in a number of killings . . . of Somalis.

  For young Somali-Americans already deep into gang culture, the step to joining a group that is, in essence, just a bigger, better-armed and more strictly religious gang, based in another country, is a short one.

   
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  johnpi 8:31 pm on August 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CAIR (44), greeley, JBS plant, meatpacking, Nebraska, Ramadan (59), Somalis (8), Somalis in America

  CAIR: EEOC letter says Neb. plant must do more for Muslim workers’ prayer needs.

  Muslim advocates said Friday that federal officials determined a Nebraska meatpacking plant wasn’t doing enough to accommodate the religious needs of its Muslim workers but stopped short of laying out specific recommendations.

  The Chicago-based Council on American-Islamic Relations said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission outlined its decision in a letter sent to the organization this week. The decision comes after a nearly yearlong investigation into conditions at the Grand Island JBS plant, where hundreds of Muslim workers walked out in protest last September because they weren’t given time to pray.

   
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  johnpi 9:08 am on February 24, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: humor (59), ignorance, Somalis in America

  A Puget Sound columnist has become anxious after discovering in some change someone gave her “a 10-shillings coin from the Republic of Somalia dated 2002. It has a dromedary camel on one side and a coat of arms on the other.” She writes that all she really knows about Somalia is that it is home to a gang of pirates, and then writes:

  Now, I know I am making a whole lot out of one little coin, but one does not expect a coin from Somalia to show up in grocery store change in Puget Sound unless someone from Somalia parted with it. Are we being scouted for an attack on our ferry system? Lord knows we’ve got a bunch of ferries plying the waters that would be easy prey.

  This is the same writer who waxed eloquent a few years ago on the joys of slavery for American blacks.