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Minnesota leads the U.S. in Muslims who have tried to join the Islamic State

Oct 1, 2015 9:57 am By Robert Spencer

And in response, the leader of the Global Somali Diaspora in Minneapolis is playing the victimhood card. More below.

Sadik Warfa

“Minnesota leads the nation in would-be ISIL terrorists from U.S., report finds,” by Paul McEnroe and Allison Sherry, Star Tribune, September 29, 2015:

Minnesota leads the nation in the number of people who have left or sought to leave the country to fight with terrorists aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria, according to a scathing congressional report that says the U.S. and western countries have failed to disrupt the flow of combatants to the Middle East.

Released Tuesday by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, the report specifically cites two Somali-American Minnesotans who joined or tried to join ISIL, highlighting its online recruiting success through peer-to-peer recruiting that relies on social media and sophisticated online messaging techniques.

Young fighters from at least 19 states have tried to join terrorists in Syria since the start of that country’s civil war in 2011. Minnesota recruits made up 26 percent of the sample of 58 cases reviewed by the committee’s bipartisan task force. California and New York had the second most recruits, with each state making up 12 percent, according to findings.

“This report is alarming and it’s really very worrisome,” said Sadik Warfa, deputy director of the Global Somali Diaspora based in Minneapolis.

And how is it alarming and worrisome to Sadik Warfa? Because he is opposed to jihad terror and ashamed of the role his community has had in it? Nope. Guess again:

“I worry about the stigma and the prospect of our community being marginalized.

Ah, yes. You’re not surprised, are you? Warfa, like virtually every other Muslim leader in the U.S. and Europe when confronted with the reality of jihad activity in his community, is playing the victim. The problem, as far as he is concerned, is not Muslims from Minnesota joining the Islamic State; it’s the “backlash” that is looming, but never quite arrives, against the Muslim community. This is, as always, an attempt to deflect attention away from the jihad activity and, by portraying Muslims as victims, make them the recipients of solicitude, rather than scrutiny, from government and law enforcement.

But in the end, it’s up to us as Somali-Americans to really change our image. And as Minnesotans, we need to be asking what can we do to put these kinds of people into our mainstream here instead of over there.”

Yes, that’s what we need: a large number of Islamic State-aligned jihadis in the American mainstream instead of in the Islamic State. What could possibly go wrong?

More than 250 Americans have attempted or succeeded in reaching Syria and Iraq to fight with terrorist groups, intelligence officials estimate. “We have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists,” the task force declared. “A handful of suspects were stopped in other countries, but it appears the majority — 85 percent — still managed to evade American law enforcement on its way to the conflict zone.”

The task force said it could identify only 28 cases in which federal authorities stopped suspects before they left for the Middle East. Eight of those involved Minnesotans who conspired since March 2014 to leave the U.S. for Syria but who were stopped by FBI agents. Those men, all Somali-Americans, are in custody. Three have pleaded guilty in recent weeks to conspiring to join ISIL….

At least four men with Minnesota roots have been killed fighting for ISIL. Intelligence officials say that overall, more than 20 Americans who joined the group have died.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United States Tagged With: Global Somali Diaspora, Minneapolis, minnesota, Sadik Warfa


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  1. Donald Joy says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 10:44 am

    A few years ago I was working as a security contractor hired to protect CIA facilities in the D.C. suburbs. One morning I was in a casual conversation with some bureaucrat who was arriving for work, and somehow the subject of Somali Muslim immigrants in the Minneapolis area came up. I expressed my concern that we are letting more and more jihadis/terrorists into our midst, and his attitude was “Well, they’ll assimilate to our society, they’ll send their kids to our schools, and they’ll just become Americans.” That’s what he actually said. BARF

    • Marken says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 11:21 am

      Years ago (and as far as I know presently but I haven’t checked in a few years) the University of Minnesota Extension website encouraged the new arrivals and Somali colonists not to assimilate, reminding them in bi-lingual text what is halal, the foods they should not eat, shocking then in light of people like Ali Hirsi, considering those transplants who may have wanted to leave Islam, to have this public funded organization and a portion of a naive community assist in sharia establishment.

      • Shane says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 10:31 am

        You provide evidence that liberals want to destroy our country by encouraging the million plus immigrants to the USA ever year to not assimilate, but to remain loyal to their former country and culture. These liberals are despicable traitors. Somali Muslims make the worst possible immigrants for the USA. Why do we take in these people?

        • Dr. Divinity says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 5:09 pm

          Destruction from within….INVASION OF THE FREEDOM SNATCHERS

    • mortimer says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 11:04 pm

      Cultural Marxists overestimate the power of their New Age Marxism to assimilate. They underestimate the power of Islam to radicalize.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 10:46 am

    There is growing concern up here about what effect this trend might have on cab service in the Twin Cities. The way to avert a decline in the availability of cabs and the quality of rides in them is to increase outlays on NGOs in Minnesota so that more Somali youths can become Moslem Leaders. Once they get the nice car and fine clothing (see photo above), they’ll no longer want to go over to the Horn or to the Levant and get involved in untoward activities like mass murder, torture, rape and sex slavery. That’s the strategy. Make the whole lot of them leaders. Could work.

    • Shane says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 10:34 am

      No, Islam is a religion of jihad and misogyny and good Muslims do their duty to rape infidel women and kill infidel men. The Nation of Islam is a good example of good Muslims who hate Whites, Jews, and America. The failure of Europe to assimilate the millions of Muslim immigrants should be a great example for America to learn from.
      The USA should take in no Muslim refugees.

  3. Angemon says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Can we hear from CAIR on this, seeing how they’ve tried to prevent the FBI from looking into islamic “radicalization”?

  4. Karen says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    “I worry about the stigma and the prospect of our community being marginalized.”

    Ah, but I was surprised by that statement! I’m not sure why; the boundaries of my astonishment have moved so much, I thought I had heard everything, but apparently not. Mr. Warfa has been well trained in the rhetoric of the Left! Good Job! Yes, let’s not worry about the traitors; let’s worry about someone who may raise an eyebrow in concern.

    If the Somali community is producing willing soldiers for ISIS, then perhaps the community’s image is tarnished with good cause.

  5. Arthur says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    I’m surprised they don’t just blame in on the Minnesota winter. I might have actually fallen for that!

  6. Jesus H. Christ says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    Muslims are only peaceful until they have superiority of numbers. Then they demand Sharia law. You will never find a Muslim to condemn these actions or any actions that are Quran approved.

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