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Minnesota groups seek money for job training, soccer programs to keep youths from joining jihad

Feb 3, 2016 10:31 am By Robert Spencer

This entire funding initiative and programs such as Building Community Resilience are based on the proposition that poverty and alienation, not Islamic doctrine, cause jihad terrorism, and thus the solution to jihad terrorism is to provide education, job opportunities, and outlets for prospective jihadis’ youthful energy: soccer programs and the like. The entire initiative is founded upon the idea that jihad terror has nothing to do with Islam, and ignores the fact that jihad in Islam is the greatest thing one can do: to fight and die in the cause of Allah is superior to all other endeavors. So they are expecting young Muslims to give up a chance to be a warrior for Allah, a part of what they see as the greatest cause in the world, for a chance to get a job at Walmart and a be part of a soccer team. In other words, these initiatives are predicated on the assumption that human beings have no soul: they ignore the fact that — however wrongly and evilly — jihad gives the jihadis’ lives meaning and situates them in the cosmos. Only something of similar gravitas can serve as a counterweight, not all the trivia these programs are offering.

Also, there are numerous examples of Muslims who were well educated, had a good job, and even a spot on the soccer team roster, who still read the Qur’an and determined that they had a responsibility to wage war against Infidels. The enterprising Australian convert to Islam Jake Belardi even founded an organization called Soccer for Hope, to get soccer balls to disadvantaged kickers in Uganda. He nonetheless turned to jihad. Unless these organizations are going to convince young Muslims that the Qur’an’s numerous exhortations to jihad are not to be followed, they are doomed to failure.

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“Minnesota groups seek money to keep youths from extremism,” by Amy Forliti, Associated Press, January 30, 2016:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A community advocate who spends his days helping Somali families and a youth soccer coach who works to keep kids off the street are among the people lining up for a crack at federal and private funds aimed at stopping terror recruiting.

Friday was the deadline for applicants to request roughly $400,000 in money being administered by a nonprofit entity as part of Minnesota’s efforts to stamp out violent extremism. The program is part of a three-city pilot project, which includes Boston and Los Angeles, launched more than a year ago by the Obama administration.

Minneapolis’ program, called Building Community Resilience, focuses on the state’s large Somali community, which has been fertile ground for terrorism recruiters. More than 22 men have left the state since 2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia, and roughly a dozen people have left in recent years to join militants in Syria….

Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said he’s excited about the program’s progress and he’s trying to get additional funding, both federal and private. He pointed to a bill Obama signed into law in December that includes $50 million for efforts that combat terrorism as a possible source. Luger noted that $10 million of that appropriation is specifically for states’ efforts to prevent violent extremism, though it’s not yet known how much of that money will flow to Minnesota.

Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, is among those who requested money. On any given day, a half-dozen or more community members are lined up outside Noor’s office, seeking help for legal troubles, jobs or for housing issues. This week, one mother came to him about a teenage son on the verge of getting kicked out of school. In those situations, Noor works with parents, schools and teens to stop bad situations from getting worse.

Noor said he is proposing “a community transformation” that will include education, mentoring and job training. While he knows the money available won’t cover all the community’s needs, he said he hopes it will lead to efforts that the community can sustain.

“The bottom line is, we are going to try to come up with a comprehensive program that addresses the youth and links them to the community, links them to their times, links them to their neighborhood,” he said. Any money would likely go toward hiring qualified mentors and counselors who can connect with youth, he said….

Ahmed Ismail, who coaches youth soccer, applied. His program, the West Bank Athletic Club, runs soccer programs, after-school programs and mentoring to keep youth busy and off the street. He currently has 90 young people, ages 5 to 18, playing soccer, but more than 200 are on a waiting list. Any grant money would go toward facilities, uniforms and staff, said Ismail, who volunteers his time as coach.

“I’m not playing cops and heroes,” he said. “I’m just doing it to save my community. … All I care about is to help those kids to achieve their goals, to be successful, to become a good citizen.”

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  1. concerned canadian says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:34 am

    Start by teaching them how to shower cos holy cow ,
    it can get nasty following them in the mall

  2. Angemon says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:38 am

    A community advocate who spends his days helping Somali families and a youth soccer coach who works to keep kids off the street are among the people lining up for a crack at federal and private funds aimed at stopping terror recruiting.

    Unless they’re playing soccer with human heads, I doubt the potential jihadis will be interested…

    • miriamrove says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 11:27 am

      there are hundreds of millions of poor non muslims out there for example the entire country of Zimbabwe where they are running out of zeros to put on their currency. Do anyone of them go out there and blow people up? Muslims are pathetic to say the least. m

      • sidney penny says

        Feb 3, 2016 at 6:01 pm

        Haiti-another example.

        Not too many poor jobless non muslims Haitians killing people around the world or in America.

  3. Raymond Hietapakka says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:42 am

    Soccer…what a pathetic joke. More basketball hoops, too….

  4. Mo says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:43 am

    The sad part is I bet some of these do-gooders really, sincerely believe this will help. They think this way because there are two (well, at least two) major myths ingrained in Western cultures:

    – Religions are more or less the same

    – Terrorism (also crime/violence in general) is caused by poverty, lack of education, lack of opportunities

    Until we deal with these root issues, we will continue to see silly, pointless exercises like this.

    The million dollar question, of course, is how?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 11:31 am

      Each can do something to bring the information to others, preferably those in some position of influence. Lending a copy of “Reliance of the Traveller”, with a list of passages to see, is informative and persuasive. It is something many can do.

  5. Bob Horacek says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Enlist them all into Habitat for Humanity or the Peace Corps. Give them shovels and let them dig water lines to bring clean water to third world countries. Let them understand that being an American means giving back to the world.

  6. Peter Hyatt says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:59 am

    Please don’t harm us; here is money.

    Europe has affirmed the supremacy of the Islamic male and teaches a hitler salute to stop rape!

    http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-supremacy-of-islamic-male.html

    Peter Hyatt

  7. SuperSwede says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 11:15 am

    Muslim organizations play this card all the time in Europe: give us your tax money or else kids from our community will become terrorists. Now that’s an offer our politicians can’t refuse.

    It rarely works and often seems like just a way of supporting the leaders. The same name and same organizations keep coming up, asking for money.

    If the community truly wanted to stop their kids from becoming radicalized, they could donate the money themselves.

  8. Westman says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 11:18 am

    Let’s think about this for a moment. We are told by politicians and CAIR: Allah-shouting terrorists have nothing to do with Islam; being underprivileged is the actual cause. With this logic, unbelievers should be streaming out of the ghettos and barrios of the world to fight for a future Jannah under ISIS. They aren’t. Yet, this Minnesota program is tailored for Muslim youth.

    The inescapable logical message is: some Minnesota groups think terrorism has something to do with Islam and actually want to take action.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Leftarded politicians haven’t read any of Islam’s foundational, source texts, and yet, they present themselves as EXPERTS on Islam. How can that be? In what way does a LACUNA of knowledge make a person an EXPERT?

      The Leftards are preposterous, amoral con artists with no concern for facts or critical thought.

  9. Don McKellar says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 11:26 am

    As an atheist I have to say that there is an interesting comparison to be made:

    A poor person without opportunities and feeling despair turns to religion as there appears no rational way out of their predicament.

    The person turns to Christianity — and they find fellowship and a positive outlook. And, quite often it seems, somebody they meet gets them a job.

    The person turns to Islam — and they find fellowship that turns them to hate and violence, blaming others for their predicament, and they start dreaming of jihad.

    It’s a pattern that plays out time and time again.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 4, 2016 at 9:03 pm

      Sssshhhh, you’re not supposed to say that! If the atheist police hears you saying something other than “Christianity is just as bad as those guys who hijacked islam” they’re going after you like they’re going after Bill Maher:

  10. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Spend the money to pay them to leave.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 11:37 am

      No country wants Muslim immigrants. No MUSLIM country wants Muslim immigrants.

  11. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    They want to live and the West, reap the social service benefits without labor and then destroy the West through jihad and discriminatory Sharia.

    Muslims are totally irrational and incoherent about their beliefs which are based on dualism. Islam means holding a set of mutually exclusive ideas and calling it ‘a religion’, rather than delusion, absurdity and irrationality.

  12. Shmooviyet says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Ahmed Ismail wants to save HIS community. Your community RUINED this community, Ahmed.

    The West Bank is nothing like it once was. Ahmed and his fellow leftist ‘DFL’ leaders leave out the fact that it’s the influx and overrunning of migrants, with ZERO interest in assimilation, who’ve run down this historic and once-thriving section of the Twin Cities. Businesses which were landmark spots have gone forever. My husband now dreads a job assignment in this area.

    I don’t believe the majority thinks this is part of any effective solution. They lie and claim that dollars for sports programs (how 1980s) are going to save this ‘community’. There are too many members who don’t give a rat’s behind for the “community”, whatever that done-to-death word means anymore. It’s happening everywhere, and it’s what the leftist pols will continue to cause: it doesn’t affect them, they never see it for themselves and it would make no difference if they did. Too much $$$ being made.

    • Shmoovie says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 12:55 pm

      Apologies: the former RepubliCrat governor Puh-lenty had much to do with this as well.

  13. Charli Main says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    There are legions of do- gooding, bleeding heart, ” ´uman rights” types in the ” West ” all desperate to show their ” úmanity” by welcoming all those tragic, suffering Muslim “refugees”. with flowers and teddy bears.
    Its impossible to educate these people to the dangers of Islamic colonisation and that helping Muslims is akin to trying to help a rabid dog.

  14. pongidae rex says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    Where do you get the money to increase services to groups who engage in terrorism? You divert the money from services to groups who DO NOT engage in terrorism. The West has gone mad.

  15. Dan says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 1:31 pm

    And how the H are any “programs” going to stop a kid from joining jihad when Mommy and Daddy support it?

    ANY program, or funding of any kind, is just like a gun.

    It can be for good, or it can be used for bad.

    It all depends on the handler’s intention.

  16. Mike says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    A ridiculous conclusion with no evidence based on fact and just wishful thinking by the proponents of this dumb idea. Whilst I’m all for funding community projects to keep kids out of trouble unless these Muslim kids integrate with other non-Muslim kids, there’s no chance the Islamic culture can be countered with a more enlightened culture. Those two Muslims who attempted to firebomb Glasgow Airport in Scotland some years ago by crashing a SUV soaked in gas were hardly deprived outcasts, in fact they were educated to degree level and Jordanian doctors. That didn’t stop them trying to kill people.

  17. Wellington says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    In effect, a form of jizya since it will not be appreciated but expected from the kuffaar.

  18. celticwarriorcanada says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 5:30 pm

    For years The Liberal Fascist Party in Canada took the same Approach with Indian Bands ! Throw money at The Reservations ! They built them Hockey Arenas , Gymnasiums Etc . We saw how effective these Projects were a few weeks ago , when a Spoilt , young native Boy , probably suffering from Affluenca , decided to Pass his time away shooting students and teachers at a School in La Loche Manitoba . Of course it will be Everyone elses Fault , Except his own ! I’m waiting some day for the two to become a tag team , against The Evil White Christian Zionist Establishment . Native Pride Joined with Muslim Pride , Financed and Supported by Gay Pride !

  19. sidney penny says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    As usual the two opening comments paragraphs are super as is the last sentence of the second paragraph.

    “Unless these organizations are going to convince young Muslims that the Qur’an’s numerous exhortations to jihad are not to be followed, they are doomed to failure.”

    The question for everyone,you and other infidels and more importantly Muslims themselves is how do you do that?

    What is the answer???

    What do other Muslims and non Muslims to.do, to Muslims that do not accept that that the Qur’an’s numerous exhortations to jihad are not to be followed,

    I suppose the answer is in two parts, one from Muslims and one from Infidels.

    Is there going to be some consequences,some punishment???

  20. sidney penny says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    Hands up how many Islamic countries want Syrians Muslim refugees?

    How many?

    None?

    Turkey and Jordan did not put their hands up,they did not have a choice.

  21. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    Minnesota groups seek money for job training, soccer programs to keep youths from joining jihad

    Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, is among those who requested money.
    ……………………….

    Of course he is. More Jizya.

    “The bottom line is, we are going to try to come up with a comprehensive program that addresses the youth and links them to the community, links them to their times, links them to their neighborhood,” he said.
    ……………………….

    Actually, going on violent Jihad perfectly links these “youth” to the Ummah and the times we live in, with its global Islamizing.

    This is especially grotesque:

    “Clinton to cite Minnesota as model for combatting homegrown terrorism”

    http://blogs.twincities.com/politics/2015/12/15/clinton-to-cite-minnesota-as-model-for-combatting-homegrown-terrorism/

    Never mind that the Somali “community” in Minnesota is one of the most notorious in the country for breeding violent Jihadists.

    Here’s the actual truth:

    “Anti-terror efforts divide Twin Cities Muslims”

    http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/18/anti-extremism

    Many Muslim leaders there are not even pretending that they don’t support Jihad–instead, they oppose any attempts, not matter how limp-wristed, to oppose it.

  22. X@mailinator.com says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    Getting something for nothing, rarely breeds better character in people. Free handouts to foreigners, DENIED.

  23. Pete says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 8:28 am

    waste of taxpyer money for these parasites, who dont want to work yet want to blow non muslims. nothing will change, they will use the money for jihad.

  24. Herman says

    Feb 5, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    “Minnesota groups”? Who are these groups?
    Because: never ever trust a mozlim!

  25. Mark says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:03 am

    Yet another example of non muslims being suckered into funding their own demise.

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