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Columbus Somali Muslim leader on OSU jihad attack: “The timing is not good”

Nov 29, 2016 11:18 am By Robert Spencer

When would the timing be right for a jihad attack, sir?

“We are black. We are Muslim. We are Somali. We are all the negative stigmas.”

Poor victim! Why is being Muslim a “negative stigma” at all? Could it have any connection to the nearly 30,000 jihad terror attacks that devout Muslims have committed around the world since 9/11? If Hassan ever wonders why being Muslim is a “negative stigma,” which is, of course, false in the first place, he should ask Abdul Artan, or Syed Rizwan Farouk, or Tashfeen Malik, or Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, or Mohammed Abdullah, or Omar Mateen, or Nidal Malik Hasan, or Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, or Faisal Shahzad, or Mohamed Mohamud.

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“Columbus Somali leader on attack: ‘The timing is not good,'” by Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, November 28, 2016:

COLUMBUS – Fifteen miles northeast of Ohio State University, where a Somali immigrant attemped a gruesome attack Monday, Omar Hassan grieved. And worried.

“The timing is not good,” Hassan, 54, said in reference to the country’s increasingly intensified anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim fears. “We are black. We are Muslim. We are Somali. We are all the negative stigmas.”

Hassan sat in the lobby of the Somali Community Association offices upstairs and around the back of a 1970s-era strip mall on Cleveland Avenue. He said the office is the first stop for people arriving from the east African nation who are seeking an apartment, a job lead or a decent school for the children.

In the past few years, the large Somali refugee community in central Ohio has come under increased scrutiny over concerns that ISIS sympathizers could be hiding there. Not so, said Hassan, who has been in the United States for 26 years and in Columbus for the past 17….

Hassan knows members of the suspect’s family. He spoke with them at 3 p.m. Monday.

“They said the U.S. officials came this morning and got his mother and siblings,” Hassan said….

Hassan said his community and many of its members live under a cloud of suspicion and scrutiny.

“America is not my enemy. America is my friend,” he said. “Anybody who sees my different is wrong. My Somali community loves America. We appreciate our country and the opportunity America gives us. We came here for a better life. We came here for an education. We came here to work. We came here to practice our religion.”…

“We do not have a spike in crime,” Hassan said. “But we are human beings. We might have a couple of bad actors, like any community does. Crime is everywhere. Criminals are everywhere. Punish the individual, not the entire community. We do not want to get a bad label because of an individual.”

He said a recent plot by white nationalists to damage a Kansas apartment complex and kill its Somali residents was greeted with “great, great appreciation” toward law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“We love the United States and we love Columbus,” Hassan said. “We vote. We pay taxes. We buy homes. We buy cars. We want to contribute to our country. We feel like Columbus is the perfect place to live.”

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 11:31 am

    The usual Muslim lying after every Muslim terror attack in the US. It is always :

    Oh he was such a nice and good person.
    He was not religious at all.
    We never saw any signs of radicalization.
    Don’t punish the whole community.
    We fear for or lives. and on, and on….

    None of the above ever happens yet these liars and hypocrites come out of woodwork and start crying about their persecution. They should go back any of Muslim countries they love so much and then they will find out what persecution is!!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 9:00 pm

      And don’t forget: our Muslim community is cowering in fear over the violence that Infidels are no doubt poised to do us, any minute now…

    • Gee says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 8:51 am

      Nothing says love so much as running down innocents and stabbing them over and over and over

    • Mahendra Singh says

      Dec 1, 2016 at 4:18 am

      They are just following their prophet’s example. No more, no less.

  2. Tangata says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Unfortunately Islam and Muslims are simply to dangerous for America or any country for that matter… While most Muslims desire peace and prosperity which is found in the West, nobody knows when a Muslim will turn into a terrorist, and follow their leaders into a Jihad to attack, murder, rape, destroy their generous hosts.
    What a Muslim can beneficially do for their host country, any other peoples from any other religious background can do equally well if not better, so what is the benefit of having Muslims in any country, when fundamental Islamic doctrine merely causes Muslims to be a problem and an event to their hosts?

    • Carolyne says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 5:38 pm

      While every Muslim certainly is not a terrorist, from my experience with Muslims–professional people, educated, productive—I believe that no matter how peaceful a Muslim may be they are secretly proud of
      these terrorist attacks. It makes them feel closer to Allah or something like that. It proves to them that Islam is superior in some way. You can take the man out of the Middle East, but you will never, ever take the middle East out of the man

  3. Adrian says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 11:38 am

    Here they come…

    First Tariq Nasheed’s Tweet:

    “So white officer Alan Horujko who shot and killed the Black Somali stabbing suspect in Ohio is being paraded as a hero. Thats interesting”

    https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/803361349933928450

    and a FaceBook condemnation of the White officer’s “racist” smile:

    Awilda Rasin “Thank you But did they have to have a pic of you smiling like it looks like you shot someone not your Race Smiling?? Why Not show how he is looking now being a protector and his Face now? Alan Thank you but it makes the picture frame when you first enlisted like you racist and I dont believe that. I Hope.”
    Like · Reply · 11 hrs · Edited

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 9:09 pm

      Repulsive, Adrian–but it hardly surprises me that this hero officer is being smeared.

  4. john spielman says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    `trace the emails and Facebook postings of his jihadist ranting’s and arrest those who were sent these tirades for not reporting him to police

  5. PRCS says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    It’s not about where you came from.

    It’s not about your race.

    It’s about what your “complete way of life” teaches you–and every other Muslim–about the rest of us.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      Well said, PRCS.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 9:11 pm

      +1

  6. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    “… a couple of bad actors, like any community…”

    Sounding like a Democrat, an SPLC spokesman, a social justice ranter.
    His use of the word ‘community’ is offending my sensibilities: where do I go to complain?

  7. Angemon says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    “We are black. We are Muslim. We are Somali. We are all the negative stigmas.”

    You say that but you’re male, able-bodied, straight and cisgendered. There are people above you in the oppression scale.

    We do not have a spike in crime,” Hassan said. “But we are human beings. We might have a couple of bad actors, like any community does. Crime is everywhere. Criminals are everywhere. Punish the individual, not the entire community. We do not want to get a bad label because of an individual.

    It is true that crime is a cross-cultural phenomenon. The thing is, an Italian car thief and a Chinese pickpocketer have no relationship per se while all jihadis worldwide – not one or two, or the majority, ALL – share one common trait: their religion.

    • Susette says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      Yes, can you imagine if the Mafia had committed violence based on Catholic teachings???? I’m sure the Catholic Church would have been condemned by the US government.

  8. Crusades Were Right! says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    “We came here for a better life”
    Understandable – your country of origin is a hell-hole, for some reason. I wonder what it could be?

    “We came here for an education”
    Learning is good! One major religion takes a very dim view of learning, though. Can you guess which one, Mr Hassan?

    “We came here to work”
    So you won’t be making any “jizya” demands on the kaffirs then? At least not yet, eh?

    “We came here to practice our religion”
    Oh dear! I think I see a problem!

  9. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    “We love the United States and we love Columbus,” Hassan said. “We vote. We pay taxes. We buy homes. We buy cars. We want to contribute to our country. We commit Jihad. We feel like Columbus is the perfect place to live.”

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 9:13 pm

      Spot on.

  10. Stan Lee says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    To begin with, “the timing” was not ever good to import almost 100,000 Somalis since 9/11!
    If the Muslim problems are “intensified,” such a condition has been exacerbated by the Muslims and their lunacy driven by the directions from their book. They do not represent America, they face Mecca supposedly five times per day and assure Mecca of their total allegiance.
    Our flag, nor our Constitution, nor our laws, which are observed by all true Americans. receive “lip service” only from Islam, with rare exception. That is in order to have the rest of America believe Muslim entry to the USA was for the good of the U.S.A., which is a gross distortion and lie.

    • Lex Mcguire says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 2:56 pm

      Arizona’s new law gives police officers more authority to demand identification from people they suspect of being illegal immigrants. Ruben Castilla Herrera is heading to Arizona to fight the new law and hopes that more Ohio politicians follow Coleman’s lead.

      Your City fights for immigrants and is a sanctuary city IF a city wants immigrants then it must be ready to pay the cost.

  11. Champ says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 2:44 pm

    When would the timing be right for a jihad attack, sir?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Indeed! …and he’s just as evil as the perp wielding that knife!

  12. somehistory says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    They always complain that family members of the terrorist have been *taken in* or *questioned* or interviewed. But this is standard for any family of a criminal.

    If a guy jumps off a building ledge or roof, the authorities will question his family and friends to see why they think he might have done it.
    If a bank robber is killed while escaping, or if he escapes capture, his family and friends will be questioned to see what they knew about it, to see if they helped in any way.
    If a guy kills his wife or girlfriend, his family and friends will be questioned to find out if they knew anything about what he planned..
    And everyone understands this. People don’t come out whining about it as though it is persecution.

    If a terrorist commits an act of terror and kills a bunch of people, or attempts to kill, his family and friends are the logical ones to question…to see if they knew, agreed, helped, conspired and planned it with him, or are planning something of their own.

    But, for moslims, it’s time for a pity party when a moslim attempts murder or commits murder and his parents or siblings or wife is taken in to be questioned…oh, my. What a horror.

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    Columbus Somali Muslim leader on OSU jihad attack: “The timing is not good”
    ……………………………

    When whoud he have preferred to see his coreligionist slaughtering Infidels?

    Here’s more whitewash of Jihad from Omar Hassan, from just a few months ago:

    “Ohio Man Indicted on Terror Charges”

    American accused of training with al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, planning attack in U.S.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/ohio-man-indicted-on-terror-charges-1429204856

    More:

    “America is not my enemy. America is my friend,” he said. “Anybody who sees my different is wrong. My Somali community loves America…
    ……………………………

    And yet, Abdul Artan had a strange way of showing that “love”…

  14. Mindy Robinson says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 1:45 am

    islam is evil and has taught muslims it’s evil. We see it every day around the world. It isn’t the person who is the threat it’s islam and it must be treated like the cult it is and outlawed.

  15. That's PRESIDENT Trump to you! says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 10:16 am

    Pack your bags, jihadi trash! President Trump is going to put a serious dent in your plans to destroy America by pretending to be a peaceful, contributing moslem member of America.

  16. Atheist Kaffur says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    The community is under a cloud of suspicion wow!~ what a shock. Stop killing people for theological reasons. Why don’t you teach integration instead. Stop being victims of jihad theology. I guess that is what you want anyway, So which one is it. Victim or perpetrator????

  17. Eric Jones says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 12:40 am

    What would have been a better time Mr. Hassan, right before tea? Note that Mr. Hassan has not condemed the jihadi attack at all. O Obama just leave!

    Eric

  18. firefox says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 3:01 am

    The closet Muslim and globalist Obama truly screwed America. There is an eternal irreconcilable fundamental spiritual divide between Islam and the West – Islam abhors freedom and especially the West’s version of it. Freedom to a Muslim is total submission to Allah (who is “greater”), and not God. Islam sees the infidel (us all) as its ETERNAL spiritual enemy. That is UNCHANGEABLE as is the Islamic notion of a first class ride to Islam heaven by a martyr dying in the act of terrorism while killing infidels (us). Note that there is NEVER EVER a show of compassion, empathy, or condolence to the infidel victim or their family – NEVER! EVER! Islam has ZERO empathy and only scorn for the infidel (us); the supremacy of Islam demands it be so. Islam will never assimilate because it is commanded so by Mohammed. So in wanting to practice their religion here, what they are doing is simply invading. Sure, they quote nice sounding platitudes but they are here supporting Islam FIRST. What good then results for America? …to strengthen America? What good is it to have the enemy growing in your midst and in your government? …and in isolated pockets? …on your dollar? Liberals keep spouting the bullshit mantra of “Diversity is our Strength”. BULLSHIT!! There is only strength in assimilation and an America First Constitutional Patriotism – all else is folly and suicide. What benefit resulted in Europe? It’s here now too: the no-go zones, Muslim only enclaves, sanctuary cities, the foothold of the Muslim Brotherhood in government all needs to be undone and the only way it can begin is to BAN SHARIA LAW as anti-Constitutional (it is) and ban all special Islamic religious consolations as illegal due to the separation of church and state (because that is so too). Your religion calls you to pray, well do it like everyone else at home and on your own time. Need to pray 5 times? So then 2x in the morning before work and 3x at night after work. Everybody else does it – so can Muslims. There are no prescribed prayer times in the koran. This is the free world. NOBODY GETS SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR RELIGION. And if this never happens, there will come breaking points and civil war. And in the meantime the terrorist acts by nice Muslim boys who surprisingly turned radical (I mean pious) will continue and escalate. Islam is a scourge to all of mankind!! Many through time warned of its danger and Churchill did again during WW2. We all seem to have forgotten. The younger ones were never taught that truth. And liberals just don’t care. #1 is to BAN SHARIA LAW in the West!! And stop all immigration for 10 years. That is the start. In the meantime I WILL NEVER TRUST A MUSLIM because of Islamo-reality and because Muslims in the West have shown repeatedly that they have ZERO interest in doing anything about *Radical Islamic Terrorist Attacks against us (*suddenly pious Muslims carrying out Mohammed’s religious command to kill infidels) – ZERO interest. ZERO!! Their only interest is in further establishing their communities, their power base, and entrenching Sharia Law deeper and deeper as they grow. WAKE UP TO THIS EVIL THREAT DETERMINED TO ROB US OF OUR FREEDOM!! There is now finally a chance to restore the Constitution in the Republic and clean up this mess. The free world and all its free “People” desperately need America restored to the bastion of freedom and strength it once was if we are to fight back this scourge that was allowed to invade us here and abroad!! Support Trump with all you got so he can Drain the Swamp. Push your representatives to guard the Constitution and rebuild America’s strength. Without America, freedom and liberty will die everywhere!! We must do this for our kids and to honor those that died for our freedom. We cannot let anyone take that from us. It is our duty to pass it on!!!

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