It is virtually certain that “radicalized Americans” will “return and stage attacks at home.” We just saw an ISIS jihadist from France return from Syria and travel to Brussels, where he committed mass murder at the Jewish Museum there. There will be many more such attacks, due to the cluelessness, complacency, and political correctness of Western authorities.
“Minneapolis FBI probes Somali-Americans fighting Assad in Syria,” by Mark Hosenball, Reuters, June 13, 2014:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating men of Somali background who have traveled from the Minneapolis-St Paul area to Syria to fight with Islamist groups against President Bashar al-Assad, an FBI spokesman said on Thursday.
Kyle Loven, a spokesman for the FBI’s Minneapolis office, said in the last few months the Bureau had received information indicating that 10 to 15 men from the region’s large Somali community had traveled to Syria.
Loven said that the FBI believed they would join up with Sunni militants, although he did not identify the groups.
The U.S. Justice Department, the FBI and U.S. spy agencies recently assigned coordinators or special teams to monitor such travel, fearing that radicalized Americans may return and stage attacks at home.
The FBI inquiry grew out of an investigation opened in 2007 into possible terrorism links by people of Somali background who traveled from the same region to Somalia to fight with the al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab, or who raised money for it.
Another U.S. official said most Americans and many other foreigners who have gone to Syria to fight have joined one of two rival Sunni militant groups, the official al Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al Nusrah, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a former al Qaeda affiliate which lately has been denounced by al Qaeda leaders for excessive violence.
U.S. officials estimated that several dozen Americans have traveled to Syria to fight there. The U.S. government recently confirmed that a Florida man, Moner Mohammad Abu-salha, had become the first known American suicide bomber in Syria.
Security authorities in some European countries, including Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, say hundreds of their citizens have done likewise.
They never considered themselves to be “their citizens.” But security authorities don’t know that, or don’t want to face it.
Salah says
“..the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a former al Qaeda affiliate which lately has been denounced by al Qaeda leaders for excessive violence.”
How about denouncing *this* excessive violence?
On the orders of the prophet of Islam, a squad, with the leadership of Zayd, Muhammad’s adopted son, caught an old woman, Um Kerfa, undressed her, turned her upside down, and then tied each of her feet by a rope, the other end of which was tied to a camel. And they beat the camels…
The two camels ran in two opposite directions so she was split into two.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Whoa. Compared to *that*, those al-Qaeda dudes anally raping Amb. Chris Stevens as he lay dying doesn’t seem so bad.
Cindy says
These animals are sickening!!!! I hate to call them animals puts a smear on my animals who would never dream of anything so cruel. They are like snakes in the grass, dirty and rotten full of rot and venom. They spew evil!!!!! While they claim they are a religion of peace!!! There is no peace there only evil from them all. And the ones who don’t act it out read about it in the koran. It talks about killing folks that don’t agree with what they do or say!!
Shane says
Yes, that scene was in the anti-Muhammad video that so upset Muslims and liberals. Looks like that video got a few things right.
Shane says
Obviously, it was a mistake to allow these Muslim from immigrating into the USA. When will we wake up and realize that allowing Muslims to immigrate into Western nations is a slow way to commit suicide? Stop all Muslim immigration into the USA, or at least stop immigration from all Muslim countries, except for refugees from religious persecution.
Shane says
Obviously, it was a mistake to allow these Muslim to immigrate into the USA. When will we wake up and realize that allowing Muslims to immigrate into Western nations is a slow way to commit suicide? Stop all Muslim immigration into the USA, or at least stop immigration from all Muslim countries, except for refugees from religious persecution.
Peter Buckley says
“U.S. officials estimated that several dozen Americans have traveled to Syria to fight there. The U.S. government recently confirmed that a Florida man, Moner Mohammad Abu-salha, had become the first known American suicide bomber in Syria.”
Good. I hope he’s got his 72 virgins. I’m delighted he went. I have absolutely no problem with them going to Syria to do their jihad.
I just don’t want these clowns returning to the West. Is that too much to ask? Is it that difficult?
pdxnag says
They are “radicalized” before leaving. They get practical training and practice abroad, which they would then bring home.
Jay Boo says
These Somali-Americans should never be let back in; they have no loyalty to the US.
Furthermore, their fellow non-Somali Muslims in the US who walk around in a man-dress and wear long shaggy beards should be deported before they have a chance to build IED’s and wash their stinky feet in public bathrooms.
Filthy Islam is so uncouth.
Shane says
Obama won’t do that because it is an insult to Islam and he believes that it is his duty as President to defend Islam. Yes, he actually said that!
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s not the ones in long scraggly beards and man-dresses who are, perhaps, the most dangerous.
It’s the slick superficially-westernised ones in elegant suits with nicely-trimmed beards and oily smiles, whose mouths pour out flowery nothings. They are to be found on the “interfaith” circuit (gulling naive priests and rabbis) and lobbying businessmen and politicians, and spinning their webs in academe.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
To be honest, I feel a bit of hometown pride about these guys. Heck, they’re my cab drivers, but just on a sabbatical. Mormon kids go somewhere and preach, Moslem kids do what they gotta do.
I feel that pride with every pay check, which gives money for subsidized SBA loans and apartments, free healthcare, and even AFDC for wives 2-4, should the cab driver be lucky enough to achieve that, with the bonus being that Mormons get thrown into jail for bigamy, while host Infidel nations tacitly allow that for the Moslem Man.
They are of a higher caste, above us. Special. But they gotta pay the price, too, and go back to the homeland and spill some Christian blood. One wonders what will happen in Ethiopia, things are not as solid as they seem there, just like in Nigeria.
Jay Boo says
“wives 2-4?”
Is Minnesota already a Sharia compliant state?
eib says
Too little and too late.
They should have anticipated this type of movement five years go, or at the onset of the Syrian civil conflict.
The FBI has not earned my respect by its delay.
Angemon says
“They never considered themselves to be “their citizens.””
And that’s why i say authorities should let them go at the expenses of their nationality.
GWhizz says
During the cold war Communists would not be allowed to immigrate to the US because part of their belief was that the democratic capitalistic system should be overthrown with violence. The same hold true with political Islam. Every Muslim ‘s belief system requires them to replace the existing political system with a theocracy controlled by Muslim imams. These Imams will administer and rule according to Sharia law. Because of this belief system I believe we should expell all Muslims that are not legal citizens. If they are citizens look for ways to deport them.
What to you do when freedom of Religion becomes a sword aimed at your neck?
Rainman says
The Miniappple has become the ‘Londonistan’ of the USSA. I don’t mind if those men go to Syria. Just as long as we don’t let them back in. The epic mistake Bush and Obama made after 911 was failing to secure our borders.
Now, Al Qaida is bigger and stronger than ever by everyones account. And Obama has thrown the borders wide open to change the subject to immigration. Jee, I wonder how that’s going to end. Another 911, no way….
Rainman…..
Smart Guy says
It matters little to religious people what country they are suppposed to be a citizen of. A Jehovah’s Witness will never become an American Citizen they refuse to recite the “Pledge of Allegience” or salute the flag, but at least they are being honest about it. On the other hand a Moslem is permitted to engage in the worthlessness of saluting a flag they will never be loyal to, which only goes to show you that liberals have no brains. The early Christians were forbidden to salute the Roman Empire on pain of excommunication.
A Nation that has abandoned military wisdom such as America is doomed.
In nature animals fight over territory, we do the same. Only people who believe they have the birthright to be Americans will fight for America and be loyal to America. The “Truman doctrine” that we have to fight for other people’s freedom in order to protect our own was the policy of Napoleon and Washington preached against such a policy in his farewell address. We fought for the freedom of Iraq and now look at what has happened.
The “Prime Directive” of evolution is neither help others in their evolution nor prohibit others in their evolution. “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions” Karl Marx.
Democracy comes from Protestantism, the belief that man is made in the likeness and image of God and therefore capable of self governance. But not all protestants have that belief system, some such as Jehovah’s Witnesses are still waiting for the imaginary God’s Kingdom. Moslems believe in a “Theocracy” and a theocracy is a dictatorship whereby self rule is opposed in favor of rule by Islamic preachers, a pyamid system. Trying to force non christians to embrace self rule is a mistake, the “Truman Doctrine” has bankrupted America.
Why is it so hard for people to accept the reality, you get the government that you deserve. If you are stupid enough to believe in lies then you will get a liar for your president.
gravenimage says
The idea that the peaceful Jehovah’s Witnesses represent the same sort of threat that violent Mohammedans do is just witless.
PRCS says
Ya know,
I haven’t seen Keith Ellison around in a while.
rabrooks says
SO what’s the big deal? They fight for another flag, shred the passport, and stay under the flag you choose!
How’s the song go……”keep on knockin’, but you can’t come in”.
gravenimage says
Minneapolis FBI investigating Muslims joining jihad groups in Syria, including ISIS
………………………..
In other words, when ISIS brags that they’re going after Americans and other Westerners, we have to realize that they *are already here*.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “The U.S. Justice Department, the FBI and U.S. spy agencies recently assigned coordinators or special teams to monitor such travel, fearing that radicalized Americans may return and stage attacks at home.”
“radicalised Americans” = “orthodox jihad-minded mohammedans who happen to possess American passports”.
Again –
“U.S. officials estimated that several dozen Americans have traveled to Syria to fight there. The U.S. government recently confirmed that a Florida man, Moner Mohammad Abu-salha, had become the first known American suicide bomber in Syria.”
For “Americans” read “American-passport-holding Mohammedans”.
For “Florida man” read “temporarily-Florida-resident Mohammedan”.
For “American suicide-bomber” read “American-passport-holding suicide bomber”.
Look on the bright side; that’s *one*, at least, who won’t be coming back. The USA is well rid of him.
if the authorities had any sense, all over the Western world, they would a/ do nothing whatever to stop these murder-minded thugs from waltzing off to leap feetfirst into the jihad bloodbath in Syria
but
they would then b/ take measures to prevent them from getting back in (assuming that they don’t get killed in Syria).
And a further measure would be to put a flat ban on all further entry of identifiable/ known Muslims, from anywhere, into any majority-non-Muslim country.
That would mean, incidentally, that a mohammedan holding a British passport would not be able to enter the USA or Australia…and vice versa.