Of course. It is much more important to avoid appearing “racist” and “Islamophobic” than to do anything to keep people from being murdered in jihad massacres. If any of these City Council members or opponents of the immigration moratorium had gone to St. Cloud’s Crossroads Center mall on September 17, 2016, they might have run into a Muslim migrant from Somalia named Dahir Adan, who stabbed 10 mall shoppers with kitchen knives after asking some if they were Muslim.
He was, by the way, screaming “Allahu akbar” during this stabbing spree. Remember, Hamas-linked CAIR’s Zainab Chaudry has this advice for you: “So the next time you hear Allahu Akbar — whether it’s in a media report, on an airplane, or in a shopping mall, remember that the phrase used by millions of Muslims and Christians daily to praise God regardless of their circumstances, can never be justified for use when harming His creation.”
I do hope that Dahir Adan’s stabbing victims, as their lifeblood poured out of their bodies, remembered that, and congratulated themselves on their commitment to diversity.
Meanwhile, the St. Cloud City Council’s message to Islamic jihadists is this: Please, come stab more of us.
“St. Cloud rejects resolution calling for moratorium on immigration,” by Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, November 7, 2017 (thanks to J.):
ST. CLOUD – Amid mounting national scrutiny of federal resettlement programs, the St. Cloud City Council on Monday soundly rejected a proposal by one of its members to recommend a moratorium on refugee resettlement here.
Council Member Jeff Johnson said that his measure wasn’t intended to permanently ban refugee resettlement, but rather, temporarily stop it in 2018 until the city gets details on its cost to taxpayers. “The overall quality of life” for residents will continue to be “adversely impaired by excessive demands on local resources” by those who are resettling in the city, he stated in the resolution that he presented to the council.
After hearing from supporters and opponents, the council voted down Johnson’s measure 6-1.
The City Hall meeting drew more than 300 residents, some carrying American flags while others held signs that read “All Are Welcome” — reflecting the growing and often tense debate in this city of 67,000 residents over the resettlement issue.
Earlier this summer, dozens of residents delivered a petition to the council demanding that it limit or control resettlement. But just two weeks ago, shortly after Johnson’s proposed measure was e-mailed to his colleagues, the council did just the opposite, approving by a 5-1 vote a resolution by Council Member Jeff Goerger that stated St. Cloud is a welcoming community. Johnson cast the lone dissenting vote then. On Monday, the council reaffirmed Goerger’s resolution, with Johnson casting the lone opposing vote.
Natalie Ringsmuth, executive director of #UniteCloud, a nonprofit that promotes tolerance in central Minnesota, said the vote, while symbolic, was a pivotal moment in helping St. Cloud shed a long-held reputation for being a racist, unwelcoming area.
“St. Cloud is basically stepping out and saying ‘This is who we are — we are a welcoming community,’ ” she said. “People can point to this and say St. Cloud is moving in the right direction. They can’t say we’re bigots and racists anymore. We’re not ‘White Cloud.’ ”
East African refugees — mostly Somali — first started moving to this Mississippi River city about seven years ago. Since then, Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the only organization that oversees refugee resettlement in St. Cloud, has helped move an average of 189 refugees a year — a total of 1,512 — to the city. The organization expects to resettle another 225 refugees here in 2018.
That’s helped to make St. Cloud not only bigger, but more diverse.
Of the more than 59,000 residents in the city in 2010, 92 percent were white. By 2015, the city had grown to 66,000 residents, 84 percent of whom were white, according to U.S. Census data American Fact Finder.
But the rapidly changing face of the community has been unsettling for some. Anti-Muslim events here have drawn crowds, mirroring rising anti-Muslim sentiment nationally. When a 20-year-old Somali refugee stabbed and wounded 10 people at a local mall in 2016, some feared that Muslims might be targeted in retaliation.
Instead, community leaders hosted unity rallies and posted signs across neighborhoods welcoming refugees and people of different faiths.
But in August, a group of residents calling themselves “St. Cloud Citizens for Transparency” presented a petition to the City Council with nearly 300 signatures from people in Minnesota and 11 other states, asking the council to control refugee resettlement. The petition was led in part by Kathleen Virnig, a St. Cloud resident, who said in an interview that residents just want the city to have a say in how many refugees are resettled and know how much it will cost.
“I have no hatred for some of these people, it’s the religious differences about their way of life,” Virnig said.
Helena Halverson, who has lived in St. Cloud since 1977, added in an interview that a moratorium would put “a pause” on refugee resettlement as the city gets more data.
“I do not like a label that I’m racist or Islamophobic,” she said before Monday’s meeting. “I do like justice and fairness and I do like transparency.”…
mortimer says
Do any of these gullible Pollyannas know about the Islamic doctrine of AL WALAA WAL BARAA? Likely not even one of these uninformed virtue-signallers know anything about what Muslims REALLY THINK.
ISLAM HAS A DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Islamic Apartheid, Shunning
Al Bughoud = Hatred of Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ or ‘Al Mu’adaat’ (hatred) which is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love of Muslims). It is:
– To Hate
– To keep distance from
– To be enemy to
– To desert
– To decline to help
– To disrespect
– To put down
– Not to ally with
– Not to support
Allah ordered Muslims to have Baraa (to be cleansed) from the kufaar and from kufr and shirk.
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
mortimer says
Before the 2016 election Donald Trump perceptively asked, “WHERE IS ALL THE HATE COMING FROM?” The plain answer to his pertinent question is “THE HATE COMES FROM AL WALAA WAL BARAA, an ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE of Islam incumbent upon ALL Muslims.”
Leftards are willing to let YOU die so that they can do more VIRTUE-SIGNALLING, PEACOCKING and HIDING FROM THE REALITY that Islam actually has a compulsory doctrine of hatred directed against the dirty kafirs called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
A companion of Mohammed’s named Abu Darda said, ‘We smile at some people, while our hearts despise them.’
Muslims may never be true friends with dirty kafirs, but only PRETEND to befriend them so the Muslim may draw a benefit from the insincere relationship with the kafir.
Meanwhile, the kafir is completely duped to think the Muslim is genuinely a friend, when Islam requires him to be insincere.
Pet Charles says
You mean the city could not recruit Black Americans if it wanted racial diversity? It had to get Somalis or “East Africans” as is the new euphemism.
Shmoovie says
Not diverse enough.
Leftists in MN grew weary of non-muslim Africans and Caribs years ago. Most were too eager to get degrees, and/or assimilate into American life.
Shmoovie says
How typical of Star-Trib to use “anti-Muslim”; here it’s twice in one sentence.
Ms. Halverson should not only “not like” being labelled a racist or islamophobe, she should resent like hell being branded as such by the All Are Welcomes and Lutheran $ocial $ervices.
“They can’t say we’re bigots and racists anymore.”
Isn’t that what it boils down to– the leftists in the metro to the south won’t be able to call ‘xenophobic’ because Cloud has a ‘community’ of its very own! All cultures being equal, any concern a Ms Halverson might have is simple bigotry and phobia. Regardless of present or future economic issues, failed assimilation etc, those who dare to question will be tarred & feathered.
Keys says
Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
Dhimmi fathers, they would do it.
carol says
And here’s more of this insulting effort to conflate:
Hamas-linked CAIR’s Zainab Chaudry has this advice for you: “So the next time you hear Allahu Akbar — whether it’s in a media report, on an airplane, or in a shopping mall, remember that the phrase used by millions of Muslims and Christians daily to praise God regardless of their circumstances, can never be justified for use when harming His creation.”
This MB tool implies we worship the same God by suggesting we use Allahu Akbar (or something else – “How Great Thou Art” for instance?) in worship of the SAME “god”??!! CONFLATION at full force lately and it’s nothing short of absurd. Another appeal to the irrational in order to shroud and distract from the ugly, perpetual advance of Islam’s dark side into perhaps the most advanced civilization the world has ever achieved.
Even a “quick study” leads to the conclusion that vague protestations count for nothing in Islam – only specific condemnations of acts and individuals might carry possible authenticity – but when such are delivered to a vague, meandering set of clerics and schools it all manages mysteriously to get “lost in the wash” (or the protestor himself gets “lost in the wash”). Islam is CARVED IN STONE and does “not suffer fools gladly”. Don’t hold your breath waiting for reforms. Endless discussion is another matter – a favourite hobby to hypnotically hold one’s attention
ISLAM = SHARIA and “religion” (filtered at that) is in truth the STEALTH COATING. When will Westerners who indulge in wishful thinking and pacification face the truth and stop taking hostile outsiders and their so-called “god” at FACE VALUE? This insults our collective intelligence and humanity will undoubtedly pay a VERY high price for it.
Consider WELL (if you’re not a fool) what Robert Spencer tells us about SHARIA (5:49 to 13:33):
“There’s nothing Good in Islam” Robert spencer DESTROYS Islam & Sharia Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGNXuI1ur4M
thomas says
The city officials should be fiduciaries for the public.
It is irrational to provide any public program without knowing the costs to be incurred.
The city appears to be OK with unlimited amount of migrants that would result in a massive increase of taxes.
Furthermore, it is possible that sometime there will be more migrants than natives in this city. Look at what happened to Lebanon.
gravenimage says
A massive increase in taxes is the least of it–as the Jihad stabbing victims learned all too well.
Voytek Gagalka says
Are they willing to spend their own money for that “resettlement” (their own, i.e., without resorting to any extortion from other taxpayers who would not wish to participate in their “heartily compassion”)? Can they say “no” without incurring administrative sanction, and perhaps going to a jail, for refusal?
Tim says
I think the fear of looking islamophobic scares the council members.
gravenimage says
And the sick thing is that it scares them more than having the people they are tasked with safeguarding being murdered.
brane pilot says
People used to signal their virtue by going to church.
Now they elect fruitcakes into office and scream down anyone who is not similarly engaged..
Going to church is a better idea.
carol says
And what’s with the “apple core in a heart” sign? It reminds you of nothing so much as THE BIG APPLE and a World Trade Center toppling down. The Left are drinking Kool-Aid.
Creole Gumbo says
Notice that they are all wearing blue. The same thing happened here in Ann Arbor when it was proposed to the Board of Commissioners to declare this a sanctuary city. A meeting was to be held at 6:30 PM. I arrived at 5:30 to find ALL of the available seats taken by people wearing green (in support of SC). All those who opposed this were all relegated to sit in the hallways wearing different colors of garments. We therefore had no visual presence. If you were a board member you would think that the overwhelming majority of citizens wanted this as they pronounced that wearing green was a symbol of support.
These people are organized and until we get organized too they will continue to sway opinions because most people do not want to hold minority views.
gravenimage says
St. Cloud, Minnesota, site of jihad attack by Muslim migrant, rejects immigration moratorium
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More suicidal insanity.