In PJ Media today I show how the mainstream media is drawing all the wrong conclusions from the case of Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame:
The Obama administration, deeply invested in the theory that poverty and lack of economic opportunity cause terrorism, has established a federal program intended to help young Muslims feel less “alienated.” The administration awarded $400,000 in taxpayer-funded grants to organizations working with Somali Muslims in Minneapolis in hopes of keeping young Muslims in the area from joining the global jihad — as dozens from the area have already done.
There’s just one catch: this approach was doomed to fail on the drawing board. The sad story of Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame reveals why.
Marcus Pope of Youthprise, the organization overseeing distribution of this money, explains his take on the plight of Somali Muslims in Minneapolis:
[They face] formidable challenges, including a sense of alienation, a search for identity as new immigrants, unemployment and poverty that can open them to recruitment by extremist groups.
Warsame once agreed with Pope’s analysis. In a 2011 video, he encouraged his fellow young, Minneapolis-area Somali Muslims to grasp the American dream:
You guys are tomorrow. And all you have to have, to get anywhere you want, is determination.
Warsame seemed full of determination himself: although he grew up in the tough Minneapolis neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu, he didn’t seem alienated or overwhelmed by the challenges he faced. Warsame worked at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and was an active member of a group known as Poet Nation. In one rap that he posted online, he emphasized that he didn’t preach violence and lamented the violence in the poor areas of Minneapolis.
He appeared to have familial support; Warsame’s parents seemed just as determined as him to fight against the sinister forces operating in their area. In October 2015, his mother Deqa Hussen spoke sternly to Somali Muslim parents at a Minneapolis town hall meeting:
“I need you guys to wake up and to tell your child, ‘Who’s recruiting you?’ Ask what happened. … We have to stop the denial thing that we have, and we have to talk to our kids and work with the FBI.”
Two months later, Warsame was arrested for plotting to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State – and he admitted that he had been making plans for over a year. While his mother was fighting against jihad recruitment in Minneapolis. It had been years, though, since he himself had exhorted young Muslims in Minneapolis to be determined to overcome obstacles they encountered.
In a profile of Warsame, an AP writer struggles to understand how this could have happened. After all, Warsame is just the sort of young man that authorities who have placed all their hopes — and taxpayer money — in these programs to counter “extremism” would have pointed to as a success story:
Local leaders have launched a major effort to stop the flow by building up positive influences on the thousands of young Somalis in the area. And in many ways, Warsame seemed to embody the key points: hopeful attitude, engaged in the community, with strong family support.
Yet he still tried to join the Islamic State, after having been, he says, radicalized on the Internet. No one involved is stopping to ponder why the non-violent Islam that he supposedly learned in Minneapolis, and that he even preached, was not able to withstand the appeal of these supposed Internet “hijackers” of Islam.
No one ever ponders that question, and yet it is the central question in this case and all such cases.
In the incident’s wake, have officials chosen to analyze what was being taught at Warsame’s mosque? Have they chosen to conduct an honest, searching evaluation of how jihad recruiters use the texts and teachings of Islam to induce peaceful Muslims to join their ranks? Have they researched what might actually constitute an effective program to show young Muslims why they should reject al-Qaeda/ISIS-inspired violence?
No, community leaders in Minneapolis have decided that the lesson of Warsame’s arrest is that … they just need to start the youth sports and jobs programs that fail earlier in the young Muslims’ lives.
Farhio Khalif, whom AP identifies as “a leader of a community task force that is working with the U.S. attorney’s office on anti-recruitment strategies,” laments that in Warsame’s case, by the time he was a teenager “it was too late. He was already caught up.” Now, he said, officials must work hard to show even young children that “there is opportunity and there is hope in this community.”
But that’s simply not what happened to Warsame.
At his plea hearing, Warsame didn’t say anything about being driven to jihad by a lack of opportunity and hope. Instead, he explained that he had been listening to lectures by jihad leader Anwar al-Awlaki, and, according to AP, “came to believe his duty as a devout Muslim was to take up arms against non-Muslims.”
Would a young Muslim who became convinced on Islamic theological grounds that he had a duty to take up arms against non-Muslims be compelled to lay down those arms for a spot on a youth basketball team, or a job at Walmart?
The real lesson of Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame is not that the youth basketball recruiters need to start even earlier, but that the $400,000 that has already been spent on these programs in Minneapolis, and all the good money that authorities are going to throw after that bad, is wasted….
Read the rest here.

Abu Nudnik says
Of course Obama is heavily invested in the idea that an unequal “distribution” of income is responsible for all ills. It’s the only card a Communist has.
Pere LaChaise says
You are an idiot if you think the president who enabled the banksters to rip off the middle class without a single indictment is a communist. Get a life.
But getting back to the subject at hand, once upon a time these Somalis would not have been allowed to continue benighted by their poverty inducing islamic ideology, but would have been proselytized by Protestestant missionaries whose goal was to ‘make them Americans’ theologically. It might have worked in this case. Moslems are the sinlge immigrant group least able to assimilate to any new society, for the simple reason that Islam is a closed homeostatic system designed to do just that. If we don’t break up Moslem communities through conversion, they will break up our society. Islam is a cancer.
Jerry says
Would a young Muslim who became convinced on Islamic theological grounds that he had a duty to take up arms against non-Muslims be compelled to lay down those arms for a spot on a youth basketball team, or a job at Walmart?
And that’s a compelling point. We know people of all ages and faiths are inspired to act with great courage and sacrifice for their faith. Of course that can be a good thing, that people are moved to serve humanity out of religious duty or spiritual commitment. Unfortunately in islam being a “good” muslim is quite different from a good Christian or Jew. Islam’s god actually teaches and encourages his flock to discriminate against and even murder those who seek a different spiritual path. The koran is littered with hateful verses that command the faithful to war against or kill unbelievers and infidels:
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah…”
“…strive hard [Jihad] against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them…”
“Be not fainthearted then; and invite not the infidels to peace when ye have the upper hand…”
“…the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them.”
“Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.”
“…slay the idolaters wherever you find them…”
When you have a major religion teaching this kind of ravenous hate to 1.5 billion muslims you know there’s going to be problems. And that’s why Minneapolis is becoming a main source of jihad killers, because of islam’s powerful theological influence on the large muslim population. It concerns me to know my home state is becoming a safe haven for terrorists and islamic fascism.
Muslims cannot continue to disrespect our legitimate concerns over islam’s incitement to violence and their extreme cultural dissimilitude with flimsy accusations of “islamophobia.” They are responsible for the anger and hatred they are experiencing from non-muslims. They need to look at themselves and discover why the world is turning against them. Is it because non-muslims are rotten people that can’t accept dark skin or religious diversity? Or is it because the islamic faith is teaching murder and prejudice to muslims who are eager to act on those commands against innocent people for the sake of brutality and control? We know the correct answer to that and so do they. The only difference, they refuse to acknowledge its truth.
sham says
DEAR BROTHER DON’T BELIEVE THE MYHT 100000 TIMES OF LIE BECOME A TRUTH…….
Jihad declare only the people who broken the agreement/mischief land/terrorism/injustice
22:39. Permission to fight is given to those (i.e. believers against disbelievers), who are fighting them, (and) because they (believers) have been wronged, and surely, Allâh is Able to give them (believers) victory
8: 56. They are those with whom you made a covenant, but they break their covenant every time and they do not fear Allâh.
57. So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.
58. If you (O Muhammad SAW) fear treachery from any people throw back (their covenant) to them (so as to be) on equal terms (that there will be no more covenant between you and them). Certainly Allâh likes not the treacherous.
59. And let not those who disbelieve think that they can outstrip (escape from the punishment). Verily, they will never be able to save themselves (from Allâh’s Punishment).
60: 9. It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religion, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them. And whosoever will befriend them, then such are the Zâlimûn (wrong-doers those who disobey Allah).
42: 42. The way (of blame) is only against those who oppress men and wrongly rebel in the earth, for such there will be a painful torment.
9: 12. But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and attack your religion with disapproval and criticism then fight (you) the leaders of disbelief (chiefs of Quraish – pagans of Makah) – for surely their oaths are nothing to them – so that they may stop (evil actions).
9:13. Will you not fight a people who have violated their oaths (pagans of Makah) and intended to expel the Messenger, while they did attack you first? Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him, if you are believers.
4: 75. And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and rise for us from You one who will protect, and rise for us from You one who will help.”
5: 33. The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.
Killing innocent people prohibited:
49: 6. O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done.
17:33. and do not kill anyone which Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause. And whoever is killed (intentionally with hostility and oppression and not by mistake), We have given his heir the authority [(to demand Qisâs, Law of Equality in punishment or to forgive, or to take Diya (blood money)]. But let him not exceed limits in the matter of taking life (i.e he should not kill except the killer only). Verily, he is helped (by the Islamic law).
Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.3.10
Do not kill women or children or an aged, weak person,Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees.Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty,
Dawud :: Book 14 : Hadith 2763
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Faith prevented assassination. A believer should not assassinate.
Dawud :: Book 35 : Hadith 4244
Narrated Sa’d ibn AbuWaqqas:
I asked: Apostle of Allah! tell me if someone enters my house and extends his hands to kill me (what should I do?) The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) replied: Be like the two sons of Adam. The narrator Yazid (ibn Khalid) then recited the verse: “If thou dost stretch they hand against me to slay me.”
dajjal says
9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
9:123. O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allâh is with those who are the Al-Muttaqûn (the pious – see V.2:2).
Who: disbelievers. Why: ‘cuz they do not believe. Terminal conditions: subjugation & extortion.
No broken treaty. No treachery. No aggression. Just disbelief.
Codified in Reliance O9.8. The caliph makes war on Jews….. until….
Details and links here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/212631107/Jihad-Defined-and-Exemplified-pUpdated
O9.8: The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he hasfirst invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited themto enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in theirancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay thenon-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,”Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah
Jihad Is Exclusively Defensive
and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of thosewho have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and arehumbled” (Koran9.29),
the time and place for which is before the final descent of Jesus (upon whom be peace). After his finalcoming, nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective untilJesus’ descent (upon him and our Prophet be peace), which is the divinely revealed law of Muhammad.The coming of Jesus does not entail a separate divinely revealed law, for he will rule by the law of Muhammad. As for the Prophet’s saying (Allah bless him and give him peace),”I am the last, there will be no prophet after me,”this does not contradict the final coming of Jesus (upon whom be peace), since he will not rule accordingto the Evangel, but as a follower of our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) ).
http://www.shariahthethreat.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/reliance_of_the_traveller.pdf#page=620
http://www.crusadersarmory.co.cc/RelianceO9-8.htmlWhat does the caliph do? Is it on special occasions or a regular agenda item? The answer is found inO9.1, close to the end.O9.1: The Obligatory Character of JihadJihad is a communal obligation (def: c3.2). When enough people perform it to successfully accomplishit, it is no longer obligatory upon others (O: the evidence for which is the Prophet’s saying (Allah blesshim and give him peace),”He who provides the equipment for a soldier in jihad has himself performed jihad,”and Allah Most High having said:”Those of the believers who are unhurt but sit behind are not equal to those who fight in Allah’s pathwith their property and lives. Allah has preferred those who fight with their property and lives a wholedegree above those who sit behind. And to each, Allah has promised great good” (Koran4:95).If none of those concerned perform jihad, and it does not happen at all, then everyone who is aware thatit is obligatory is guilty of sin, if there was a possibility of having performed it. In the time of theProphet (Allah bless him and give him peace) jihad was a communal obligation after his emigration(hijra) to Medina. As for subsequent times,
there are two possible states in respect to non-Muslims.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/101110757/Jihad
Do not try to sell your shit here!!!
Angemon says
sham posted:
“DEAR BROTHER DON’T BELIEVE THE MYHT 100000 TIMES OF LIE BECOME A TRUTH…….”
Awright bruvver! Yee’re preachin’ ter da choir: I doubt anyone here believes that islam is a religion of peace.
“Jihad declare only the people who broken the agreement/mischief land/terrorism/injustice ”
quran, 9:28-31
O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship after this their year. If ye fear poverty (from the loss of their merchandise) Allah shall preserve you of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise.
Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.
And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they!
They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah. There is no Allah save Him. Be He Glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!
9:28 tells muslims to not let non-muslims enter the shrine in Mecca. Now, pilgrimage accounted for a large chunk of the wealth produced in Mecca, so it’s understandable that the Meccans did not take those news lightly. But muhammad assured the Meccans that they would be rewarded with an alternative source of income. Which spource was that? Enter 9:29 – fight Jews and Christians until they convert or pay the jizyiah, a heavy tax that only non-muslims had to pay. This, however, was not well received. After all, didn’t muhammad declared that Jews and Christians were also followers of the one god he claimed to be a prophet of? That’s where 9:30-31 comes into play. According to those two verses, the Jews and Christians were no longer monotheists, so attacking them on the grounds of their religion was halal.
“Killing innocent people prohibited:”
Define “innocent”. Is a non-muslimm, someone who refuses to acknowledge muhammad as a prophet, an innocent person? How about civilians in the US, who pay their taxes and fund the American army that fought muslims in the Middle East? Are they innocents?
Angemon says
Let me guess: CAIR and SPLC declared Deqa Hussen to be a bigoted islamophobe.
dajjal says
Its Islam, stupid! Not poverty, oppression, repression, suppression, ignorance, illiteracy or disease. Its enslavement by a demon who demands world conquest and great slaughter as the price of avoiding the fire and entering his celestial orgy.
Go to the internet archive, download “The Book Of Jihad” and get a clue. Then load up the wannabe mujahideen onto a C140 and drop them over Raqqa without parachutes. Send their parents, siblings, aunts and uncles back to Somalia.
No Muslims, no terrorism. Get it?
sham says
DAJJAL PROVE U’R CLAIM WITH VALID EVIDENCE FROM THE SCRIPTURES ,BLINDLY BLAMING ISLAM NOT MAKE ANY SENSE………
ONE EXAMPLE: oppression
7: 33. Say, “My Lord has only forbidden immoralities – what is apparent
of them and what is concealed – and sin, and oppression
Without right, and that you associate with Allah that for which
He has not sent down authority, and that you say about Allah that which you do not know.”
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6246
Abu Dharr reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: My servants, I have made oppression unlawful for Me and unlawful for you, so do not commit oppression against one another. My servants, all of you are liable to err except one whom I guide on the right path, so seek right guidance from Me so that I should direct you to the right path………
Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 43 :: Hadith 629
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Whoever has oppressed another person concerning his reputation or anything else, he should beg him to forgive him before the Day of Resurrection when there will be no money (to compensate for wrong deeds), but if he has good deeds, those good deeds will be taken from him according to his oppression which he has done, and if he has no good deeds, the sins of the oppressed person will be loaded on him.”
Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 43 :: Hadith 627
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
The Prophet said, “Oppression will be a darkness on the Day of Resurrection.”
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6246
Abu Dharr reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: My servants, I have made oppression unlawful for Me and unlawful for you, so do not commit oppression against one another. My servants, all of you are liable to err except one whom I guide on the right path, so seek right guidance from Me so that I should direct you to the right path…………
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6254
(the Holy Prophet) said: Well, a person should help his brother whether he is an oppressor or an oppressed. If he is the oppressor he should prevent him from doing it, for that is his help; and if he is the oppressed he should be helped (against oppression).
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6247 ,6248, 6249
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Be on your guard against committing oppression, for oppression is a darkness on the Day of Resurrection, and be on your guard against petty mindedness for petty mindedness destroyed those who were before you, as it incited them to shed blood and make lawful what was unlawful for them.
dajjal says
Yer Profit dictated and dispatched extortion letters. One of them is in Bukhari. A handful are in The Sealed Nectar, also compiled into a short book. About 30 of them are in the letters & treaties section of al-quraan.net. A trove of them are in the first two volumes of Ibn Sa’d, translated by a Dutch Muslim and uploaded to the internet archive. Read’em and apostatize if you have a soul.
In Al-Mizan, the Shi’ia exegesis, look up 2.190; the same section covers 8.39 & 9.29. If memory serves, its in the third volume. Compare that to Reliance O9.8 & 9.9. Refer to Sahih Bukhari 1.8.387 & 4.53.386 In Islamic law, turn to the Jihad chapter of Risala, Al-Sayir beginning with Hedaya 2.140 and page 18 of The Book Of Jihad.
Re-read the letter to the Jews of Khaibar and the account of the attack in Bukhari. Compare that to the letter to the rulers of Aquaba.
For the most relevant quotes and links, see:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/101110757/Jihad
https://www.scribd.com/doc/208692157/Islamic-Conquest-and-Extortion
https://www.scribd.com/doc/210934362/Jihad-Defined-and-Exemplified
https://www.scribd.com/doc/227418623/Islam-s-Mercenary-Mission-Updated
In Ibn Sa’d, Moe is quoted as saying he was raised for Jihad, not for tillage. Bukhari has him saying his provision was placed under the shade of his spear. Fath al-Bari confirms the obvious prima facie meaning of that declaration.
In the Mercenary Mission, pay close attention to 8.1, 41 & 67 in the light of his provision being garnered with his spear. ibn Ishaq reveals that, at Badar, Moe prayed for the caravan “as a prey”. And before every ghazwat, he prayed to the “lord of the devils” for “the good of this town and all that is in it”. Read that in the light of 8.67: “the good of this world” meaning ransom $.
In the second volume of Hedaya, read pages 140, 141, 144, 145, 212 & 216, they have clues for you. 144 & 145 expose the ostensible and real purposes of Jihad. Repeat until it sinks in. Islam is an Arab Mafia dressed in a veil of fabulistic faith that serves as a troop motivator and camouflage. .
mortimer says
Radical Islamic chic is prevalent among Muslim youth and it’s easy to spot, but teachers, police and social workers have all been instructed NOT TO SEE THE JIHAD that is right before their eyes. They could lose their jobs for spotting the jihad. Then the elites would have to do something to STOP the jihad that might just look like ‘racism’ to a cultural Marxist Alinskyite.
mortimer says
The ‘grievance theory’ of cultural Marxists is a combo of racism, colonialism and poverty that think explains Islam. It does not. Islam explains itself.
The explanation of Islam is that certain subhumans called kafirs think Mohammed is not a prophet. The kafirs should be enslaved to Islam and killed if they do not convert.
That is the only ‘grievance’ of Islam.
It’s so fantastic that Western elites refuse to accept it can be true, but they have not read the foundational Islamic source texts, so they know nothing about Islam except what they guess and speculate.
Western elites present themselves preposterously as experts on Islam without doing the basic reading list of hadiths, Sira, Koran, canonical commentaries and manuals of Sharia law.
They are making policy based on a gaping LACUNA OF IGNORANCE about Islam.
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
Islam is never going to allow mu-slimes to assimilate into modern society. In 1400 years we have been striving for justice, equality and rights….with islam there is none of that….justice? Get accused of witchcraft and get your head sliced off in a public square…no court, no defense. Equality….pigs arse.
Geoffrey Cooper says
The ‘dead eyes’ are never hard to spot and are one of the first and most eloquent symptoms of the virulent and highly communicable psychotic mental illness that is Islam.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
A local TV station up here in Mpls ran a full segment piece two nights ago on the threat of Islamophobia to our Moslems. The clincher was a woman in a hijab telling of how she was in a bar restaurant and a drunk came over and punched her in the face for speaking Swahili. No mention was made of whether she reported the felon assault on her to the police, and why he wasn’t arrested. But whatever, the point is that she’s living in fear for her life.
paul says
ISIS does not like Somalis. These are considered low class muslims. This one currently enjoys Dayton’s police protection from islamophobia, and the working police are relegated to protecting these super predators, as Hillary calls them.
Maybe if things go wrong there, MN Gov Dayton can airlift him back to MN at taxpayer expense. There is always one more crime that he can commit. Welfare fraud!