No one would have dreamed of trying to determine whether Ahmed should really have been fueling passenger jets. That would have been “Islamophobic.” This report is attributing Ahmed’s turn to jihad to his unemployment and child support responsibilities. But lots of people are unemployed and have to pay child support, and don’t go wage jihad with the Islamic State.
“Facing child support, Minneapolis man joins the jihad,” Associated Press, May 20, 2015:
MINNEAPOLIS — Abdifatah Ahmed struggled for years to make ends meet.
After losing his $15-an-hour job fueling airliners in Minneapolis, the Somali-American father of nine survived on low-wage jobs and public assistance. He complained about working hard, but never having enough money. His circumstances worsened when he was ordered to pay more than $700 a month to support three of his children — including one less than a year old.
Months later, he surfaced in Syria, where he went to fight for the Islamic State.
“I think since he lost his job, he was maybe never normal after that,” sister Muna Ahmed told the AP last fall.
“It’s unbelievable,” his friend, Farhan Hussein, said recently. “Where did this disease come from?”
Hussein said his friend seemed confused about life, and sometimes felt stressed out by the women with whom he had children: Minnesota court papers show at times he was paying child support to two ex-wives for five of his kids, as well as support for a sixth whose mother is not identified. He wasn’t the type to go to mosque or pray every day — instead, he went clubbing and even drank alcohol, Hussein said.
When he felt troubled, Ahmed might turn to his religion for a week or so at a time. But once the blues passed, he would be back to his old self — flirting with women, dressing sharply, listening to rap music, shooting hoops and lifting weights at a local gym, Hussein said.
He dipped sporadically into political discussions, speaking about the Palestinians, the civil war in Libya and conditions in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia where many Somalis live. But the continued atrocities against Syrian civilians committed by the Assad regime apparently made a deeper impression.
On Dec. 3, 2013, a post on his Facebook account showed pictures of mutilated kids: “Look what is happening in syria. Where is the UN when u need them. This is worse than libya you get it?”
A month later, it appears, Ahmed was in Syria himself.
“A muslim has to stand up for was right. … I give up this worldly life for allah and to save the ummah (community of believers) if that makes terrorist am happy with it,” he wrote in a Jan. 3, 2014 post.
Another post that same day contains a photo of him holding a rifle in one hand, and a book that may be the Quran in the other.
Alarmed, Hussein messaged Ahmed, urging him to come home. After ignoring his friend for months, Ahmed replied that “we’ve got to fight” for the caliphate.
Ahmed’s last Facebook posts, including one that says “having fun in jihad,” are dated last July 25….
Family and friends interviewed by the AP said they don’t know what motivated Ahmed to go to Syria. Hussein said he may have been trying to escape financial troubles and the stress of being pulled in different directions by the women in his life.
“That’s the only thing I could think of that would (mess) his life up, and make him lose his hope,” Hussein said.
He added: “He was looking for paradise.”
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
Ahmed was killed waging jihad last fall.
Debbie says
And he’s leaving the good people of Minnesota the tab for raising his nine children and three, four — who know how many — baby mamas.
Cecilia Ellis says
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison (D), who is Muslim, probably could have requested that his local mosque set aside some of the collected Zakat money to actually assist Ahmed. Of course, that would mean that the coffers designated for distribution to terrorist-front organizations would diminish . . .
sara pratt says
Six mothers. He spent his life jumping off a cliff and now we have to clean up the mess.
Celtic says
Typical profile for a Jihadi: A loser in life, a nobody – and then having the delusion that God would need him to go killing some infidels.
Marco says
He hoped to be martyred so he could go to that islamic brothel in the sky and screw non stop, while floating on a river of sweet wine, without having to worry about responsibility. That’s how they talked him into going. Mystery solved.
Brian says
An Islamofascist working with/on planes? hmmmmmmm
miriamrove says
Dumb ass! 2 wives and 9 children and he complains that he does not have any money. m
cs says
He doesn’t know the meaning of Cause and Effect, but of course, it is our fault.
gravenimage says
Minneapolis airplane fueler joins Islamic State
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Sure—what could be safer than having Jihadists *fueling your airplanes*? sarc/off
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“Facing child support, Minneapolis man joins the jihad”
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Ah—right. Most of these deadbeats just move out of state and hope authorities don’t catch up to them, as they usually don’t. Not excusing this behavior, but pretending someone has to *move to the Islamic State* to get out of child support payments is simply ludicrous.
Also, few broke deadbeats would have the wherewithal to swing airfare halfway ’round the world. Most of them would be lucky to manage gas money to Nevada…
Which makes one wonder, of course, if he didn’t have a little help from fellow Jihadists.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Abdifatah Ahmed struggled for years to make ends meet.
After losing his $15-an-hour job fueling airliners in Minneapolis, the Somali-American father of nine survived on low-wage jobs and public assistance. He complained about working hard, but never having enough money. His circumstances worsened when he was ordered to pay more than $700 a month to support three of his children — including one less than a year old.
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I wonder why he lost his job with the airport? It won’t make you rich, but most people would do pretty well with a $15-an-hour job.
Also, look at his whining—as though anyone made his go out and father *nine children* by several different women. But then, this too is standard Islam.
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Months later, he surfaced in Syria, where he went to fight for the Islamic State.
“I think since he lost his job, he was maybe never normal after that,” sister Muna Ahmed told the AP last fall.
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Funny that Infidels who lose their jobs don’t run off to wage violent Jihad…
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“It’s unbelievable,” his friend, Farhan Hussein, said recently. “Where did this disease come from?”
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Gee—I dunno. Might it be…Islam? Just a thought…
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Hussein said his friend seemed confused about life, and sometimes felt stressed out by the women with whom he had children: Minnesota court papers show at times he was paying child support to two ex-wives for five of his kids, as well as support for a sixth whose mother is not identified…
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Those b*tches be doggin’ a brothah. It’s enough to make a good man turn to violent Jihad…
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He wasn’t the type to go to mosque or pray every day — instead, he went clubbing and even drank alcohol, Hussein said.
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The usual—we’re supposed to believe that this isn’t really about Islam just because this fine fellow indulged in a few Western-style excesses. As though drinking and clubbing could be taken as some sort of actual commitment to Enlightenment values…
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When he felt troubled, Ahmed might turn to his religion for a week or so at a time. But once the blues passed, he would be back to his old self — flirting with women, dressing sharply, listening to rap music, shooting hoops and lifting weights at a local gym, Hussein said.
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Yeah—but then he got serious about his creed, and it’s not benignant as it would be with a Jew or a Christian newly dedicated to his faith…
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He dipped sporadically into political discussions, speaking about the Palestinians, the civil war in Libya and conditions in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia where many Somalis live. But the continued atrocities against Syrian civilians committed by the Assad regime apparently made a deeper impression.
On Dec. 3, 2013, a post on his Facebook account showed pictures of mutilated kids: “Look what is happening in syria. Where is the UN when u need them. This is worse than libya you get it?”
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So which is it? A concern for children, or just a desire to avoid child support payments for his own children? As is so common, this article just keeps lining up excuses for this POS.
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A month later, it appears, Ahmed was in Syria himself.
“A muslim has to stand up for was right. … I give up this worldly life for allah and to save the ummah (community of believers) if that makes terrorist am happy with it,” he wrote in a Jan. 3, 2014 post.
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Well, of course he is. So are all Jihadists.
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Another post that same day contains a photo of him holding a rifle in one hand, and a book that may be the Quran in the other.
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Absolutely mainstream Islam—a slight update to the Qur’an and the Sword, which have been the mainstays of Islam since the days of the “Prophet”. I’ve seen scores of these pictures.
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Alarmed, Hussein messaged Ahmed, urging him to come home. After ignoring his friend for months, Ahmed replied that “we’ve got to fight” for the caliphate.
Ahmed’s last Facebook posts, including one that says “having fun in jihad,” are dated last July 25….
Family and friends interviewed by the AP said they don’t know what motivated Ahmed to go to Syria. Hussein said he may have been trying to escape financial troubles and the stress of being pulled in different directions by the women in his life.
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When Muslims are in doubt, they can always blame women for anything that goes wrong. Well, and the filthy Infidels, of course…
Taqiyya doesn’t allow them to admit that sonny boy was—as he explicitly said—fighting for the Caliphate.
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“That’s the only thing I could think of that would (mess) his life up, and make him lose his hope,” Hussein said.
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Everything was going fine until those bad wimmens expected him to help raise his kids—and until the Infidel courts backed them up.
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He added: “He was looking for paradise.”
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
Ahmed was killed waging jihad last fall.
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He gave up opportunity in the free West for death on the field of Jihad. And there are many more like him…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Sure—what could be safer than having Jihadists *fueling your airplanes*? sarc/off
Well, I’d go with having the MSP Int’ Airport exclusively use Moslimas to clean planes is probably safer. The cleaners operate freely once inside the airport grounds, with no security between planes. It’d be possible to carry on a small explosive with an altitude sensitive trigger and place it beneath a seat of in an overhead bin. The safe part is that they are not supervised by Infidels, and of necessity work in places without clear lines of sight to monitor them. Getting such a device onto an aircraft is also fairly safe, given the baggy clothes they wear, and hey, what Infidel in his right mind who values his job is gonna frisk a Moslima? No, the Moslimas are employed on the honor system. And the proof that they’re safe is no plane as yet blown up.
And thank god we have Moslems here. There is no way an Infidel would be willing to fuel planes, clean them, or drive a cab. That’s why, before the Catholic League and the Lutheran Brotherhood brought in tens of thousands of them, Minnesota was a weird place that had no taxis and where filthy airplanes sat on the tarmac for decades for lack of fuel to fly them. Problem solved, planes are clean.
I wonder if Rep Keith Ellison D-MN flies much?
EYESOPEN says
graven said:
“It’s unbelievable,” his friend, Farhan Hussein, said recently. “Where did this disease come from?”
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Gee—I dunno. Might it be…Islam? Just a thought…
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Hussein said his friend seemed confused about life, and sometimes felt stressed out by the women with whom he had children: Minnesota court papers show at times he was paying child support to two ex-wives for five of his kids, as well as support for a sixth whose mother is not identified…
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Those b*tches be doggin’ a brothah. It’s enough to make a good man turn to violent Jihad…
It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking my tea when I read this graven. It would have wound up all over my keyboard! Love your humor!
Dan says
Excuse me but,
Islam may say that that kind of behavior is going make life lousy but what honest religion doesn’t?
Going this route though, this bozo would have benefited as much by going to the Church of the Crypts and Bloods.
traci94 says
Wow, that’s such a comfort to know someone like him was fueling airplanes.
Sam says
Another hijacker of the religion of peace. Hope people will not condemn “peace loving true Moslems”. Such a terrible time these Moslems go through all ever the world because of these few ” hijackers” of this wonderful religion.
Why do these Moslems keep on hijacking the ‘true” Islam? Does anyone know?
No Fear says
I must ask my father, who never paid a cent in child support for ten years, why he didn’t join ISIS.
marco says
who the hell has 9 children with out considering how you can support them except mangy muslims? Now we have to foot the bill to raise the kids who will murder ours! How I HATE islam!
EYESOPEN says
Right you are, Marco…
Mirren10 says
”Ahmed was killed waging jihad last fall.”
Good.
abad says
Has 9 kids, is on welfare, immigrant from Somalia…we really do need to shut the borders. These are undesirables.
Angemon says
It is my layman’s opinion that having to pay child support was NOT what made him join the jihad in Syria. Then again what do I know? I just believe that when islamic terrorists quote islamic sources to justify their actions they mean it – they’re killing people because they believe killing people will ensure them a place in their afterlife tavern/brothel.
If only someone were to invent some sort of birth control method… Let me guess: there are birth control methods but there’s a conspiracy made by DA JOOOOOSSSSS to prevent muslims from acquiring them, thus forcing them to pay child support and, as a consequence, dying while fighting abroad /sarc. off…
And when he decided to take his religion more seriously, he somehow thought it was a good idea to go wage jihad in Syria. Not sure what’s so hard to understand about that.
Let me guess: he didn’t condemn the rocket attacks against Israel or killing of Israeli civilians..
Notice that he was of Somali ancestry. Not Syrian, Somali. And notice that the people fighting against Assad committed more and worse atrocities. Undoubtedly, if Assad were fighting to impose a modern day caliphate, Ahmed would have and joined Assad’s forces instead.
A muslim has to stand up for was right.
Unless that involves paying child support or wearing a condom…
Many people have financial issues and women issues. Only muslims deal with it by means of jihad.
In any case, this is another loser who won’t be going jihadi on a kosher market. One down, millions to go.
Jaladhi says
All these Muslims deserve to go to Saudi Arabia and/or other rich ME countries where the government could help them lead a life of a lazy bum! So ship’em!! But Muslim countries rather give money to jihadis for creating mayhem around the world than help this poor bum or the likes of him!! LOL..
Jaladhi says
So how come Minneapolis has become a hub of jihadis?? Anything to do with all the Somalis sheltered here?
Oliver says
IF he was killed last fall, why is this out now? And, as noted elsewhere, GOOD –GOOD RIDDANCE.
now if 100,000 more Muslims would go and get killed- the world would be better off. NOT SARCASM.
And, if 100,000 or so Muslims were killed weekly, even better.
just my views.
celtic warriarcanada says
I was absolutely RAPED AND SODOMIZED by the MAINTENANCE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM in CANADA ! Trust me , I was forced to PAY far BEYOND what i was ABLE . They did every nasty thing to me that they could . This was during the LIBERAL DICTATORSHIP here in Canada. SO what did i do ? JOIN THE JIHAD? NO! IT actually got better with the Harper CONSERVATIVES AND M.E.P. actually worked with me . Occasionally they still harass me. But not that often . May be I should use this as an excuse to go to Syria and join a Christian Militia AND HELP PUT DOWN THE RABID DOGS ! BUT I WOULD BE AFRAID THAT IF I GOT MY HANDS OF A LIVE ISIS FIGHTER I WOULD NOT ACT VERY CHRISTIAN . BESIDES THERE IS LOTS OF THE LITTLE GIRLS HEAR AT HOME . P.S : PROUD TO BE A CRUSADER !
dlbrand says
Dear gussey!
The dog bark at strangers, the skunk sprays its potential attackers, the Muslim lives guided by the Qur’an and the Sunnah of their so-called “prophet”; as stated, dear gussey, what is happening in our world!!!???
Joe says
For decades there has been systematic instiuttionl diiscrimination against gays entering ountries like the UK, and embaroes on gays giving blood donations. These are not people who are hiv-postivie. They are excluded on the basis that an official thinks they are gay.
Where’s the outcry? If this embargo had been on muslims giving blood, you can imagine the soft jihad talking-heads going on about “innocent muslims”, “victims”, islamophobia, etc.
The kind of discrimination used to protect the blood supply gets instituted without a murmur. But anything that can be used to bleat victimhoom on the parts of muslims ends up being a roaring success for thm.
It is only by pointing out such discrepancies that one can easily undermine the arguments of those Quislings who bleat for islam.
sabboleh says
Yeah. He wouldn’t need to run away if he wasn’t knocking up women and then forced to pay support for the kids.
Lioness says
Nine children. Hmmm…all will grow up to be jihadis in America. The future looks rosy.
John Boston says
We have to get rid of this stigma, “Islamophobia”. It is supposed to mean an irrational fear/ hatred of Islam. Well, I do hate Islam. I hate it for 9/11, for attacks in the UK and in Spain and in France, and every other terrorist attack including the one recently in Garland, TX.
It is very rational to fear and/or hate a dangerous ideology like Islam. I do not hate Muslims, but I do hate Islam. Islam is a virus; Muslims are its carriers. So I admit it, I am an Islamophobe, and I am not afraid of being called that.
In fact, I am having a T-shirt made with the words “ISLAMOPHOBIA A Word Used To Silence The Truth” on the front. I hope it will spark some people to think, or possibly even start a conversation about the lies of people like Pres. Obama (“Islam is a religion of peace”, etc.) versus the truth about Islamofascism.
tamimisledus says
As you yourself point out, muslims are the only means by which islam is spread. muslims are morally and intellectually defective human beings who chose to follow islam as islam gives them divine authority to crush all non-muslims and deprive non-muslims of their essential freedoms. What is not to hate about muslims?
Buzz says
Just another constituent of rep.keith ellison (m) 5th. district MN.keith’s district seems to be leading the pack with most jihadis to syria. Lets hope keith goes with the next several somalis to syria? sharia keith takes his oathe of office on the quran.
I.A.A.M. says
I totally agree with Marco. I work for the school system and encountered a Muslim student who did not like the fact the the USA in a nation who’s constitution is based on Christian – Judau principles. I told the kid to go back to the hell hole he came from if he did not like our culture here in the U.S.