Dozen Muslims from Twin Cities fighting with ISIS, teen girl recruited last week
Posted on September 3, 2014 by creeping
In between Muslim and media propaganda about disaffected youth with nothing better to do with their lives than go to foreign lands to wage jihad, we find out as recently as “a week ago” a Muslim girl left to wage jihad in Syria. Or service jihadis somewhere. via American Terror Pipeline: Nearly a Dozen From Twin Cities Gone to Fight in Syria – ABC News.
…top U.S. officials have previously said more than 100 Americans have joined the fighting in Syria – nearly a dozen of them from the Twin Cities alone, as two U.S. law enforcement officials told ABC News Thursday. And a community leader said at least one who left for Syria recently is a teenage girl.
…
Another community leader, Abdirazak Bihi, said, “As recently as a week ago, a young girl was recruited along some others, and was sent to Syria and called her family from Syria a couple days ago.”
“Yes, people are recruiting, there are recruiters here,” Bihi said.
It’s interesting that so-called Muslim leaders know recruiting is going on, they even know who has been recruited and left and when they contact home. Yet they won’t call out the imams and mosques where recruiting takes place. Maybe THEY are the problem.
But Noor acknowledges that that doesn’t explain why so many are specifically being recruited from his city, and says that one reason so much focus is on the Twin Cities is because there is a large “newly-arrived” immigrant community, with many Somalis and Middle Easterners, and because the community isn’t shy about reaching out for help when someone does disappear, possibly into battles a world away.
Another reason might be that the Congressman is a Muslim and comforts America’s enemies.
Loven said that al-Shabab’s previous success in recruiting Minnesotans may have shown the area’s disaffected youths to be particularly susceptible to the jihadist propaganda. Earlier this week, for instance, al-Shabab released a recruitment video online that specifically called for those living in Minnesota to come join their fight.
Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating the “leak” of nude celebrity photos and the real JV team, the State Department, Won’t Confirm If Passports of Americans Fighting With ISIS Have Been Revoked.
