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		<title>Evidence Shows Minnesota Somali Explosion that Killed 2 Linked to Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The United States is being overrun <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/the-ec-knows-why-doesnt-the-fbi/">by communities from terrorist countries</a>. Despite all the news reports about 5-year-olds ending up on No Fly Lists, Muslims with actual links to terrorism routinely travel back and forth.</p>
<p>Very little has changed since before 9/11. We&#8217;ve built up a large bureaucracy, but it&#8217;s still too bulky and unwieldy to use.</p>
<blockquote><p>On New Year’s Day 2014 a powerful explosion and fire occurred at 514 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis, in a predominantly Somali neighborhood of the city.</p>
<p>The building was gutted by the blaze. Two bodies were found in the rubble, and fourteen people were hospitalized, one of whom died later. Within 72 hours, the building had been pulled down into a heap of rubble by a backhoe.</p>
<p>Two days after the blast, before any real investigation occurred — which could never be conducted, anyway, with the potential crime scene destroyed — Greg Boosalis, the supervisory special agent with the FBI in Minneapolis, told the press that there was “no evidence of terrorist activity”.</p>
<p>For those who have been following the story of the Cedar-Riverside explosion, the name “Garad Nor” may ring a bell.</p>
<p>[Garad K. Nor] According to the MN Secretary of State website, Garad Nor is recorded as a “Registered Agent” of Wadani Properties, the company that owned and managed the apartments of the Cedar-Riverside building located at 510 and 512 Cedar Ave South that exploded and burned on January 1. In some reports, Garad Nor himself as listed as the owner.</p>
<p>According to the website of the Minnesota Secretary of State, Garad Nor is also the Chief Executive Officer of Dar Al Tawakul General LLC. Dar Al Tawakul General LLC is one of the companies listed in the indictment against the two Rochester citizens found guilty of money laundering for al-Shabaab.</p>
<p>Why did the European Commission list Garad K. Nor et al. as being associated with Islamic terrorists? As it happens, the EC was acting on a list drawn up by the United States Treasury the previous year, not long after 9/11.</p>
<p>Since being listed as a terrorism-associate by the U.S. Treasury and the European Commission, Garad K. Nor has managed to clear his name.</p>
<p>A press release issued in 2012 says the President and CEO of Tawakal Money Express successfully completed a four-day training workshop (teleconferenced from Somalia) for its staff and agents regarding procedures for complying with anti-money laundering regulations in the USA.</p></blockquote>
<p>Problem solved then, pay no attention to the explosions. The training workshop was completed. All is well. Pay no attention to the Little Mogadishus growing across the country.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/the-ec-knows-why-doesnt-the-fbi/">investigative report comes from Gates of Vienna </a>which is doing the job that the FBI won&#8217;t do.</p>
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		<title>Welcome to Black History Month 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please ignore the crime and violence.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/streetcrime.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218372" alt="streetcrime" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/streetcrime-450x333.png" width="315" height="233" /></a>Black History Month in Delaware began with all the usual suspects presenting all the usual indictments of racism. </span></p>
<p>If there was any mention of black mob violence or black on white crime, it was only in passing. Or only to represent the perpetrators as the real victims.</p>
<p>Teenagers, for example, who were kicked out of high school for violence and truancy, were said to be victims of uncaring counselors who threw them into a life of crime by suggesting they go to night school. There was a lot of that: More than 60 percent of black students in Wilmington, Delaware drop out of high school.</p>
<p>As for the real victims, black and white, of the school violence and behavior that disrupted their learning, there was not a word.</p>
<p>Nor did anyone mention how two of the panel members voted for a local city council resolution a few weeks before that declared Wilmington’s black criminals were the real victims: They were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by slavery.</p>
<p>Nor did anyone talk about how, just a few days before, a member of the Nation of Islam bearing a message from Louis Farrakhan, told a roomful of the top elected and political officials in the area, that anyone who talked about crime in Wilmington was doing the work of “the enemy.” And they were trying to discredit the re-election efforts of the city’s black mayor.</p>
<p>These meeting, like similar ones around the country &#8212; cry out for a bit of balance. So let’s take a broader &#8212; but more narrow &#8212; look at some recent events connected to the crime and the jobs that are so popular at so many Black History Month gatherings around the country.</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-on-86-year-old-near-mobile/">Let’s start in Chickasaw, Alabama</a>.</p>
<p>Carroll Jordan might be dead by the time you read this &#8212; a victim of black mob violence.</p>
<p>Jordan is an 86-year-old white man who kept his door unlocked so that his neighbors could check in on him.</p>
<p>Monday a week ago, one of his neighbors &#8212; a black woman &#8212; was doing just that around noon: But when she knocked, an unfamiliar face answered the door. She pushed her way in.</p>
<p>“I walked in and saw Mr. Jordan laying on the other side of his chair,” said the neighbor, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-on-86-year-old-near-mobile/">who did not want WKRG TV news to identify her.</a> “He was bloody in his face and he was gasping for air. I turned around to the young man and asked him ‘What have you done?’&#8221;</p>
<p>They did not stick around to answer. And now police are looking for “three teenage suspects &#8212; all black men around the ages of 18 and 19 years old,” said the WKRG TV news.</p>
<p>Black suspects are often not identified by race in local news reports &#8212; although race is almost always listed in police reports. Many news directors say just naming the race of the suspects does not add much to the description. So using it can only inflame racial tensions.</p>
<p>But in this case, the TV reporter identified the race of the suspects. And today, three of the alleged assailants are in custody.  Turns out, race was the only part of the description that was completely accurate: They were not all teenagers. And not all guys. But they were all back.</p>
<p>Police say Jordan was stabbed five or six times in the back. His face was swollen and cut as well from an extensive beating about the head. He is on and off a ventilator and WKRG say his family and friends are “hoping for the best but prepared for the worst.”</p>
<p>A few days later in Minneapolis &#8212; one day before the beginning of Black History Month &#8212; a 20-year-old black man was charged with the home invasion robbery and murder of a 69-year-old grandfather.  The alleged assailant’s girlfriend may have been outside. But she has not been charged.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-on-white-crime-in-minneapolis-another-home-invasion-murder/">Minneapolis Star-Tribune picks up the story</a>: “The stranger ran to the back door of Thomas Sonnenberg’s north <a href="http://www.startribune.com/topics/places/minneapolis.html">Minneapolis</a> house, screaming, &#8216;Let me in! Somebody’s going to kill me!&#8217;”</p>
<p>“Sonnenberg, a 69-year-old retired technician known as a Good Samaritan on his block, stepped outside, looked around and ushered the man inside, then was careful to lock the deadbolt.”</p>
<p>“At the stranger’s behest, he called 911. Moments later, Sonnenberg lay on the floor, with a bullet to the head, and the man he had sought to shelter from harm was attacking Sonnenberg’s 68-year-old wife.”</p>
<p>“Police arrived in time to interrupt the midday Friday assault in the small house in the 3700 block of Aldrich Avenue N., but they could do nothing for Sonnenberg, who died of the gunshot wound.”</p>
<p>Minneapolis is a center of frequent and intense black mob violence and black on white crime. Much of it documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence-ebook/dp/B00E8NCA7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1391538790&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=colin+flaherty">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It.</a></p>
<p>The violence is often centered downtown, but sometimes can be found at the nearby Mall of America and campus of the University of Minnesota. Often on video.</p>
<p>In the fall semester of 2013, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-change-the-word-change-the-thought/">crime on campus was so bad that thousands of students signed a petition asking for more police protection</a>. One month later in December, six groups of black students and faculty demanded that the University police stop identifying the race of the suspects in these crimes &#8212; which included robberies, assaults, and attempted kidnapping.</p>
<p>Virtually all the suspects in the crimes are black.</p>
<p>The black groups say identifying the race of the perpetrators is racist and makes the black students feel poorly about themselves. And that is more important than reducing crime. They really said that.</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota is a center of teaching of Critical Race Theory: White racism is everywhere. White racism is permanent.  A staple of the philosophy is that white people and black people commit crime in the same amount, but because of racism, black people are arrested more often.</p>
<p>But if white people are committing crimes in and around the University of Minnesota campus, so far campus police are keeping it under wraps. And the six different groups of black people have yet to document it.</p>
<p>Omar Neal, the former mayor of Tuskegee, Ala., says black crime and violence will exist as long as leaders ignore the real cause: “The displaced anger&#8221; of black males who have been relegated to the margins of society. <a href="http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/02/08/2942364/african-americans-in-the-chattahoochee.html">That is what he told the Ledger-Inquirer, anyway</a>.</p>
<p>In the end, the university did not comply with the groups’ request. But university officials assure everyone that the school is fully committed to diversity. And, uh, whatever.</p>
<p>In San Antonio, the night before the Minneapolis home invasion, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/victim-hears-get-white-boy-before-attack/">Cory Robinson woke up with a fractured skull after a black mob </a>beat him and yelled, “get the white boy” and “knockout.”</p>
<p>He will live. Police are still looking for the 6 to 10 black people responsible.</p>
<p>In Baltimore, just a few hours after Cory Robinson was almost killed by a black mob and still one day away from the official start of Black History Month, two black teenagers were arrested in the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-baltimore-home-invasion-and-murder/">stabbing and beating death and home invasion robbery of Kimberly Leto,</a> a white Baltimore restaurant worker.</p>
<p>They are 14 and 16 years old.</p>
<p>This was the second uber-violent crime in that neighborhood in a week: Shortly before murder of Leto, an editor at the Baltimore Sun <a href="http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/suspect-arrested-in-canton-assault-of-baltimore-sun-editor/-/10131532/24099372/-/jhpevdz/-/index.html">John Fogg, was attacked when he was getting </a>out of his car and heading for his house just a few blocks away.</p>
<p>His skull is fractured in six places. He lost 10 teeth. The black suspect, in custody, was recently arrested for two other assaults, but charges were dropped before the case came to trial.</p>
<p>The big break in the Leto murder came after finding a fingerprint from Alonzo Gorham-Ramos, the 16-year-old who was arrested for a burglary at the same house six months ago.</p>
<p>At his pre-trial hearing, Gorham-Ramos asked to be released without bail so that he could spend time with his daughter.</p>
<p>It is not as far-fetched of a request as it may seem. Last year, during a spike in black mob violence in Baltimore, the Governor suggested the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake start increasing police patrols. Rawlings-Blake curtly told the governor &#8212; who himself is a former mayor of Baltimore &#8212; that mass incarceration was not an effective crime fighting strategy.</p>
<p>That is why <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-baltimore-finds-a-new-way-to-attack-black-mob-violence/">arrests in Baltimore have gone from 100,000 per year to 50,000</a>, she said.</p>
<p>David Simon, liberal icon and creator of the Baltimore-based TV show The Wire, said <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-more-and-more-and-more-in-baltimore/">last year in his book that black juries in Baltimore and elsewhere are reluctant to convict black criminals</a>. They call it racial jury nullification and it happens all over the country.</p>
<p>So while Mayor Rawlings-Blake and others say black people are victims of an unfair criminal justice system that has led to such a disproportionate number of black people behind bars, others point to the advantages black criminals are carrying into Black History Month 2014:</p>
<p>1) Black people in black neighborhoods are reluctant to report crime. Some out of fear of retaliation. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/msnbc-dont-expose-muslim-atrocities/%23t1J6Myx7LkuFtrEa.99">Others, like MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry,</a> out of fear of the real criminals: the police.</p>
<p>“We have an under-reporting of rape and domestic violence in African American communities,” she said on her show, “because we know the violence enacted on black men by police, so we often don’t call. Right?”</p>
<p>2) Now cities like Baltimore and New York have made it a policy to arrest fewer people.</p>
<p>3) And if someone does call, and if someone is arrested, black juries are more reluctant to convict.</p>
<p>In the first week of Black History Month, Tracey Helvorsen set Baltimore abuzz with an article about crime, and how people in her white neighborhood live in constant fear. Critics at dozens of news sites around the town excoriated her article as an example of white privilege: Only white people think they are entitled to live in a safe neighborhood.</p>
<p>Indianapolis started Black History Month with <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-in-indianapolis-2/">large-scale black mob violence downtown during the first two weekends of the month</a>. In the latest episode, hundreds of people were fighting and three officers were injured.</p>
<p>Indianapolis – especially downtown – is the scene of frequent and intense black mob violence – including dozens of episodes from the annual Black Expo, the largest gathering of its kind in America.</p>
<p>There are examples from Austin, Norfolk, College Park (Pennsylvania), and other spots. But let’s get to the one area that many people still say is causing this violence and mayhem: Jobs.</p>
<p>If there is one thing that solves crime &#8212; everyone at the Black History Forum agreed &#8212; it is jobs.</p>
<p>So you might think that many people in Wilmington &#8212; a predominantly black city of 70,000 that is regularly mentioned as one of the most dangerous in America &#8212; would welcome a new company that wanted to spend $250 million to privatize the Port of Wilmington.</p>
<p>Not so. Black city officials and black labor union leaders killed the deal last year after convincing people that the plans for a new port would somehow jeopardize jobs. There was not a word about that from the podium.</p>
<p>But they were in unanimous agreement that the government did need to offer more programs and more free stuff.</p>
<p>Also on the job front, in <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-people-dont-like-trader-joes/">Portland, Oregon, they kicked off their celebration of Black History Month</a> by kicking a major grocery store chain out of a black neighborhood this week.</p>
<p>City officials had been working with Trader Joe’s for more than a year to convince the grocery store to invest $8 million in a “historically African-American neighborhood.” A high crime neighborhood. The kind of place that First Lady Michelle Obama calls a “food desert” because large grocery stories will not open there.</p>
<p>But Trader Joe’s pulled out, said the Associated Press, after the Portland African American Leadership Forum said it would &#8220;<a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-people-dont-like-trader-joes/">Remain opposed to any development in N/NE Portland that does not primarily benefit the Black community.</a>&#8221; It said the grocery-store development would &#8220;increase the desirability of the neighborhood,&#8221; for &#8220;non-oppressed populations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Translation: White women love Trader Joe’s.</p>
<p>Members of the black group said they would rather have other kinds of free stuff.  And whoever builds whatever goes in the former Trader Joe’s site should be forced to sign a contract making sure black people get preferential treatment for the building and operating of it.</p>
<p>This is hardly unique to Portland. The San Francisco Chronicle recently published the news about troublesome white people in Oakland who wanted to move into a black neighborhood and start a business or fix up a house or even plant a garden.</p>
<p>The headline says it all: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Fear-white-influx-will-erase-West-Oakland-history-4874291.php">“Fear white influx will erase West Oakland history.”</a></p>
<blockquote><p>“It hurts. I’m not going to say I’m content with this,&#8221; said <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/oakland-misses-violence-and-chaos/%23ks8X1zAFXqduCbgU.99">Leander Muhammed,</a> 34, a third-generation West Oakland resident who runs after-school and sports programs for kids in the neighborhood. &#8220;Suddenly there’s nonprofits and community gardens on every corner. Community gardens? I don’t get it – my granny was planting collards and tomatoes here for decades. It all seems crazy to me.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Or as the Washington Post puts it: White people moving into a black neighborhood means that “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gentrification-in-black-and-white/2012/01/26/gIQA2qmqnQ_story.html">a historically disadvantaged people has been disadvantaged once again.</a>” Dr. Cornel West calls it the “New Jim Crow.”</p>
<p>A version of the story of how white people are ruining black neighborhoods has appeared in every major paper in the country. They call it gentrification.</p>
<p>Out in Wisconsin, public school officials are promoting a conference next month to “attract teachers, university faculty, activists and high school and college students&#8221; to “dismantle this system of white supremacy, white privilege and oppression.”</p>
<p>Organizers of the <a href="http://watchdog.org/127776/white-tax-wisconsin/">White Privilege Conference are expecting 2000</a> people at the four-day event, which is in its 15<sup>th</sup> year of exposing “white supremacy and white privilege.”</p>
<p>Back at the Black History Forum in Delaware, U.S. Senator Chris Coons concluded his remarks by asking the mixed race audience to pray for Republicans because they are trying to take away the right to vote from black people.</p>
<p>Everyone agreed to do so.</p>
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		<title>Mohammed in Top 100 Boy Names in Minnesota</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farah Mohamed Beledi became the second Minnesotan suicide bomber in Somalia, when he tried to detonate himself at a government checkpoint.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/04/mohammad-one-of-most-popular-boy-names.html">Nothing to worry about</a>, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mohamed has made the list of most popular baby boy names in Minnesota, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA).</p>
<p>Mohamed was the 98th most popular boy&#8217;s name in 2011 in the state. The SSA says Minnesota parents named 73 boys after the founder of Islam in that year.</p>
<p>This is the first time the name has appeared on the list the SSA releases each year.</p>
<p>There are 317 people who practice Islam per 100,000 in Minnesota, according to a 2010 study by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). That means the state has the 18th largest Muslim population in the United States and the District of Columbia, behind nearby Illinois (first) and Michigan (sixth).</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/mohammed-in-top-100-boy-names-in-minnesota/20110607_farah-mohamed-beledi_33/" rel="attachment wp-att-185602"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-185602" title="20110607_farah-mohamed-beledi_33" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20110607_farah-mohamed-beledi_33.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>Here are some Great Minnesotan Mohammeds who are already making a difference.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Minneapolis man accused of helping send young men through a terrorist pipeline from Minnesota to Somalia was convicted Thursday on all five terrorism-related charges he faced, including one that could land him in prison for life. The man, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/minnesota-man-convicted-of-aiding-terror-in-somalia.html?_r=0">Mahamud Said Omar, </a>46, a mosque janitor, was the first man to stand trial in the government’s investigation into what it says was the recruitment of more than 20 men who have left Minnesota since 2007 to join al-Shabab, a United States-designated terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>The FBI said that in the recent case, two young Minnesota men, 19-year-old <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/americans-slip-minnesota-somali-terror-group-fbi/story?id=17609306#.UWhbXLW7N8E">Mohamed Osman </a>and 20-year-old Omar Ali Farah, left their homes for their trek to Somalia in mid-July.</p>
<p>Mohammed Abdullah Warsame is a jihadist who received military training in al-Qaida camps, dined with bin Laden and went to the Taliban&#8217;s front line. As part of the plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, Warsame agreed to be deported to Canada after serving his sentence.</p>
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<p>Khalid Mohamud Abshir. Authorities say Abshir, who worked at a car-rental company, helped persuade four other Twin Cities men to fight in Somalia from September 2007 to January 2008. He left for Somalia in December 2007 and is still believed to be at large in Somalia.</p>
<p>Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan. Known to his friends as &#8220;Miski,&#8221; in August 2008 the Roosevelt High School student left Minneapolis for Somalia at 17. He was indicted on terrorism charges in August 2009. He is still believed to be at large.</p>
<p>Farah Mohamed Beledi. Estranged from his family, the St. Paul man ran with a street gang and stabbed another man at a soccer game. He started to turn his life around after he was released from prison in 2008. He left for Somalia in October 2009, with Faarax and Isse. Beledi became the second Minnesotan suicide bomber in Somalia, when he tried to detonate himself at a government checkpoint in May 2011. He was shot to death before he could deploy his bombs.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Muslim Somalis Attack African-American Students in Minnesota High School</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bringing huge numbers of Muslim Somalis into the United States and depositing them in places like Minnesota may rank as the one of the worst policies of the last three years and the growing violence is only the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>A sensible rule of thumb on immigration policy should be that if a country is a fundamentally violent and broken place, then importing large numbers of its inhabitants <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/02/minniapolis-multicultural-food-fight.html">will only spread that violence to the United States</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A number of police cars responded to Minneapolis South High School Thursday after an alleged food fight escalated into a melee involving 200 to 300 students.</p>
<p>Sgt. William Palmer, of the Minneapolis Police Department, said no weapons were involved in the incident. However, four people were taken to the hospital following the melee. Police were pelted by thrown objects as they rushed to break up the brawl.</p>
<p>Twelve people complained that they had been sprayed with mace. Police at the scene said they had to use chemical agent to get the crowd under control as they were being pelted with objects as they tried to break things up.</p>
<p>One student, Abdi Sheikh, said he saw hundreds of students fighting in what appeared to be a racial incident.</p>
<p>“A big riot,” he said. “It was all types of races.”</p>
<p>Another student, Symone Glasker, said that an initial fight happened during the school’s first lunch period. By the time the third lunch period started, all the hype from the initial fight caused tensions to boil over.</p>
<p>She said the fights were over pride.</p>
<p>“I know it’s a pride thing between Muslims and black people,” she said. “They want their pride back for something. I don’t know.”</p>
<p>She also said “boys were hitting girls” and that some people were lying on the floor, with their hands over their heads, in surrender.</p>
<p>The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali  Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.
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<p>The Somalis are African, not African-Americans, and as Muslims they are taught to think of Christians as an inferior species.</p>
<p>Naturally the idiots in charge of the Minneapolis school system praised the school&#8217;s diversity in response to a diverse riot.</p>
<blockquote><p>Stan Alleyne, the Minneapolis Public Schools chief of communications, gave a statement, saying South High is a school that continually makes the district proud.</p>
<p>“South is a very diverse high school,” Alleyne said. “It is a microcosm of the city. Students function together at a high level every day. That is the strength of this school. Our students live diversity every day.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes and some days they live diversity more than others. Eventually diversity will kill many of them. Given time, a form of diversity that involves importing large numbers of immigrants from violent and bigoted societies will kill us all.</p>
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<p>Exit quote: &#8220;Why do these Somalis think they&#8217;re hard, they don&#8217;t run S&#8211;t.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Santorum Sweep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The contest for the Republican presidential nomination has, yet again, taken a surprising turn. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won the caucuses in Missouri and Minnesota yesterday and topped the night off with a come-from-behind surprise victory in Colorado.</p>
<p>Mitt Romney lost Missouri in 2008 and did not make a play for the caucus, which isn’t awarding any delegates. Newt Gingrich failed to make it onto the ballot, leaving Rick Santorum and Ron Paul to battle it out. Santorum prevailed, winning Missouri with 55% of the vote. Romney came in second with 25%. Ron Paul finished with 12%. This was not a surprising victory, as Santorum was leading in the polls there.</p>
<p>The media assumed that Romney would win Colorado and focused on Minnesota. Romney won the state by 19% in 2008, but the polls showed Santorum with a comfortable lead as the caucus took place. At the time of this article’s publication, Santorum was shown winning Minnesota with 45%. Ron Paul is in second with 27%, Romney has 17% and Gingrich has 11%. If these totals hold, this will mean that Santorum rose from a 2-point <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/february_gop_caucuses_primaries.html">lead</a> on February 4 in Public Policy Polling’s survey to a 9-point lead on February 6 and ultimately won by a whopping 18%.</p>
<p>The media thought Santorum’s landslide victory in Minnesota would be the story of the night, but they were wrong. Romney won Colorado in 2008 by 42%. The polls consistently showed him with double-digit leads. The last poll had him <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/february_gop_caucuses_primaries.html">ahead</a> by 10%. Amazingly, Santorum pulled off an upset and won a solid victory in Colorado. With 99% of districts reporting, Santorum had attained 40% of the vote, while Romney had 35%, Gingrich had 13% and Paul had 12%. This is a remarkable feat for a candidate who was dismissed as he languished in the low single digits for the majority of the campaign.</p>
<p>Santorum gave his victory speech after the results in Missouri and Minnesota were announced. He likely didn’t think he’d win Colorado at that point. Trumpeting his electability, Santorum proudly said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t stand here to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama.”</p>
<p>He made the case that last night’s contests were the most reflective of what the general election campaign will look like. Mitt Romney was unable to overwhelm his opponents with immense finances and superior organization, Santorum argued. He made the point that President Obama’s organization and fundraising will outmatch his Republican opponent, and so Romney will not be able to count on those advantages to win. Santorum argued that the only way Obama could be beaten is if a sharp contrast is drawn and that he is the best candidate to do that.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Left adds new weaponry to its call "for peace."]]></description>
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<p>Leftist church prelates in the United States continue to rally on behalf of the <a href="http://www.oikoumene.org/gr/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html">Kairos Palestinian Document </a>of 2009. The document was crafted by Palestinian Christians bemoaning the <em>Nakba</em> (“catastrophe”) of Israel&#8217;s founding and condemning the West for not recognizing Hamas. At the same time, the document calls Israel&#8217;s so-called occupation a &#8220;sin against God&#8221; and urges partial divestment against the country.</p>
<p>Recent enthusiasts for the Kairos Palestinian Document (aka &#8220;Kairos&#8221;) include the heads of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), who together represent about 2 million U.S. church members. The Episcopal Church&#8217;s Peace Fellowship has also praised Kairos while some U.S. rabbis understandably condemn it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Palestinian Christian leadership have taken the bold step of declaring this a <em>K</em><em>airos </em>moment, a designation not of chronological time, but of opportunity ripe for momentous action, and a moment that can be lost if the opportunity is not seized,&#8221; rejoiced UCC and Disciples officials, including UCC President Geoffrey Black and Disciples President, Sharon Watkins. They gleefully compared the Kairos Palestinian Document to other ostensibly similar demands for social justice made in apartheid South Africa, Central America, and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Church prelates Black and Watkins hailed the Palestinian document as &#8220;powerful&#8221; and aptly responsive to the &#8220;painful reality of more than 40 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.&#8221;  The UCC and Disciples chiefs declared their full concurrence with the Kairos Document’s supposed affirmation of &#8220;non-violence&#8221; and rejection of  &#8220;extremism.&#8221;  Of course, the &#8220;extremism&#8221; which concerns Kairos the most is Christian and Jewish, not Islamic.  Black and Watkins celebrated Kairos&#8217; call for Palestinian Christians to &#8220;resist evils, including, in their case, the occupation of Palestinian lands.&#8221;  They also urged, with Kairos, a boycott of &#8220;products that are produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank,&#8221; which is essentially an incremental step towards the full anti-Israel divestment that hardcore religious leftists prefer, despite political defeats in recent years.</p>
<p>One such defeat was the Episcopal Church&#8217;s rejection of anti-Israel divestment.  But officials of the denomination&#8217;s unofficial but influential Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) voted in early May to support divestment and the Palestinian Kairos proclamation.  The EPF, which includes Episcopal Minnesota Bishop Jim Jelinek, backed &#8220;an economic and commercial boycott of products linked to oppression of Palestinian people and occupation of their land.&#8221; Interestingly, EPF was founded in the 1930s to oppose military resistance to Hitlerism. (Read my associate Jeff Walton&#8217;s article <a href="http://www.theird.org/Page.aspx?pid=1485">here.</a></p>
<p>“Economic sanctions can inspire a more useful dialogue and negotiation towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” intoned the supposedly peace-minded Episcopalians.  &#8220;Respect for the dignity of every human being, alongside a vision to put aside the violence of terrorism, oppression and military force is key to moving negotiations forward for a lasting peace for all involved.”</p>
<p>Not all EPF members agreed with the group’s latest anti-Israel push. Washington, D.C. Episcopal Bishop John Bryson Chane, who has himself helped host Iranian ayatollahs at the National Cathedral, still found EPF&#8217;s call for divestment too &#8220;flawed and dangerously unhelpful at this particular time in history.&#8221; He also told Episcopal News Service that sanctions would &#8220;further hurt the critical development of the economy of Palestine and increase the marginalization of the Palestinian people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) recognized that Kairos&#8217; appeals to peace and impartiality are superficial covers for intensified anti-Israel campaigns. In their response to Kairos last month, the rabbis observed that Kairos &#8220;claims that leading Israel into isolation is the only way there can be a peaceful solution in the Holy Land.&#8221;  And while Kairos professes both to condemn Palestinian &#8220;terrorist bombing&#8221; and Israeli &#8220;economic and military violence&#8221; against Palestinians, its recommendations predictably demand action only against Israel.</p>
<p>Showing more perceptiveness than church leftists who claim they support Israel, the rabbis noted that Kairos &#8220;consistently objects to &#8216;the Occupation,&#8217; without making clear that it is referring exclusively to lands occupied by Israel and in dispute since the Six-Day War of 1967.&#8221;  The rabbis warily but logically observed that Kairos implicitly is &#8220;rejecting the very notion of a Jewish State.&#8221;</p>
<p>The astute rabbis also noticed that Kairos claims to reject violence but still offers &#8220;respect&#8221; and “high esteem for those who have given their life for our nation,” which seems to praise Palestinian suicide bombers. The rabbis likewise observed that Kairos carefully puts Palestinian terrorism in quotation marks.</p>
<p>Admitting that Kairos was endorsed by relatively few Palestinian Christians, the rabbis accurately observed that it has significantly gained high profile endorsements from mainline Protestant elites in the U.S.  The &#8220;acceptance and endorsement of this document by certain other individuals and church groups with which we have enjoyed harmonious interfaith relations has been surprising, disturbing and profoundly disappointing,&#8221; the rabbis declared.  They also warned that &#8220;CCAR would require serious reflection before continuing our common cause with any Church body or organization that endorses or continues to endorse <em>Kairos.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>The Religious Left in the U.S. does not care much for Israel&#8217;s survival but is generally concerned with the value of cordial interfaith relations with Jewish groups in the U.S.  Partly for this reason, anti-Israel divestment campaigns have met defeat in all major U.S. liberal-led denominations. Maybe the CCAR will help to caution the Religious Left away from its casual endorsement of often very raw anti-Israel rhetoric disguised as appeals for peace and mutual co-existence.</p>
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		<title>Joel Rogers: Original Mastermind of the &#8220;Green Economy&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1992, Joel Rogers co-founded the New Party, a Marxist coalition that endorsed and helped elect left-wing political candidates; one of its most noteworthy members in the mid-1990s was Barack Obama. After the New Party closed its doors in 1997, it was reinvented the following year by Joel Rogers’ partner, Daniel Cantor, as the Working Families Party, which became a powerful front group for ACORN. Rogers has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In 1992, Joel Rogers co-founded the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434">New Party</a>, a Marxist coalition that endorsed and helped elect left-wing political candidates; one of its most noteworthy <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021724.php">members</a> in the mid-1990s was Barack Obama. After the New Party closed its doors in 1997, it was reinvented the following year by Joel Rogers’ partner, Daniel Cantor, as the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965">Working Families Party</a>, which became a powerful front group for <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968">ACORN</a>.</p>
<p>Rogers has been lauded by <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406">Van Jones</a>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">President Obama</a>’s disgraced “green czar” and now a member of the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709">Center for American Progress</a>. Jones <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84fGcs-byQ">has praised</a> Rogers’ “extraordinary set of achievements,” including the creation of “an economic model” that is “now reflected in the White House”; a “new politics” &#8212; based upon the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434">New Party</a> and the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965">Working Families Party</a> &#8212; that represent “the basic framework for what just took over the White House [when Obama was elected]”; and “a new energy paradigm” as outlined by the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7490">Apollo Alliance</a>, an organization Rogers helped create, and on whose board Van Jones sat.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truther-philosopher David Ray Griffin aims to mainstream the "9-11 Truth Movement"]]></description>
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<p>Infamous 9-11 conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin, whose books insist the Bush Administration and not al Qaeda blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is launching a speaking tour this week to help merge the “9-11 Truth Movement” with “more traditional Peace and Anti-War groups” against the “illegal and immoral war” in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The tour also presages Griffin’s next book, <em>Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee&#8217;s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory</em>. This volume will make much hay over an Obama White House official’s article in 2008 as a Harvard law professor, suggesting that the government actively rebut conspiracy theories by networking on social websites.</p>
<p>Griffin is a philosopher emeritus at the United Methodist Church’s Claremont Seminary in California and espouses “process theology,” which asserts that God is constantly evolving.  His Center for Process Studies is located at Claremont.  Process theology also posits that history has no destination and that good and evil, often manifest through endless conspiracies transcending generations, are perpetually in conflict, since even God lacks full authority.</p>
<p>Prodigiously, Griffin has been churning out 9-11 conspiracy books since 2004, asserting that U.S. agencies contrived a false flag terrorist attack through controlled demolitions.  His first conspiracy potboiler was <em>The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11</em>. Griffin believes that U.S. history is primarily a long catalogue of conspiracies across two centuries to facilitate American imperialism and aggression.   Griffin faults the United States for killing hundreds of millions of people globally through its economic, military and environmental crimes, making the U.S. more murderous than the old Soviet Empire or the Third Reich.</p>
<p>It’s a heavy burden for Griffin to reveal the largely hidden truth about an endlessly genocidal America, when the cover-up, involving hundreds of thousands of conspirators across many generations has been so successful.  But Griffin, a distinguished looking white haired man with a calm and measured demeanor in his public appearances, is persevering with his prolific writing and frequent speeches.  His latest speaking tour starts April 23 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and will take him to 14 other American and Canadian universities, churches and community centers, where eager truth seekers will gather for Griffin to unwrap the long hidden truth.</p>
<p>“The physical evidence is so strong for the destruction of the World Trade Center by explosives that we’re really on level of truth now not conjecture,” Griffin calmly reported on a recent English language Russian cable network, citing “massive evidence compiled by scientists, architects and engineers.”  There is simply “no other possibility” but “massive scientific fraud,” he declared.  Of the innumerable conspirators, he surmised:  “They lied and they lied and they lied.”</p>
<p>Why did the Bush Administration stage 9-11?  Griffin carefully explained to his Russian cable broadcast interviewer:  “It’s an extreme example of something imperialistic governments have done for a very long time,” i.e. “false flag operations.”  He expounded: “You attack your own people, you blame another country that you already have reasons to attack. Hitler did this in Poland.  Japan did it in Manchuria.  Our government did it planting evidence that these attacks were carried out by members of al Qaeda.”</p>
<p>In a conference call earlier this year, Griffin explained he favors the end of nation states in favor of “global democracy.”  Under this new international regime, “We could get rid of war.  We don’t have money for health care or ecological crisis.  Take money out of the system and militarism out of the system.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, until “global democracy” is attained, Griffin must crusade against the “propaganda machine that we call the Pentagon and mainstream media,” which is “so powerful and so influential particularly on people who haven’t had the kind of education that armors them against this.”   His obstacle is that a “large percentage of people…are so brainwashed that they cannot see the obvious.”</p>
<p>This week, in a 4600 word dissertation on www.911truth.org, Griffin verbosely responded to my own Institute on Religion and Democracy’s critique of him.  “Was the Bush administration too moral?” he sarcastically asked of our doubts that Bush appointees and law enforcement blew up the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  As evidence of the “Bush-Cheney White House” depravity, Griffin cited “lies” about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and about air quality at the post-11 World Trade Center site.</p>
<p>He triumphantly queried: &#8220;Given these facts, why would the IRD consider it self-evident that the Bush administration could not have orchestrated 9/11?&#8221;</p>
<p>As proof of his own scholarly legitimacy, Griffin heralded ostensible endorsements from former Minnesota Governor and wrestler Jesse Ventura, some of the &#8220;Jersey Girls’ 9-11 widows,&#8221; and one member of the Japanese senate.  Griffin asked rhetorically: &#8220;Does IRD believe that such people endorse silly books?&#8221;</p>
<p>In contrast with IRD’s “business of issuing propaganda,” Griffin celebrated that the “9/11 Truth Movement, by contrast, [has] provided evidence &#8212; an enormous amount of evidence, in fact &#8212; showing that the official conspiracy theory [that al Qaeda did it] is simply not believable.”   Indeed, “the weight of expert opinion &#8212; among people in the relevant professions who have examined the evidence and are not dependent upon the government for their livelihood &#8212; is almost entirely on the side of the 9/11 Truth Movement.”</p>
<p>What a lonely battle it must be for Griffin and other 9-11 conspiracy theorists to champion their dark “truth” of fathomless duplicity against a “brainwashed” world enslaved by Pentagon propaganda.  Maybe a deity more powerful than Griffin’s brand of process theology permits will extend him grace and remind him that even evil has its limits.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get a grip, Mr. Clinton.
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<p>Bill Clinton wants the GOP, conservatives, and especially the tea party people to cool their rhetoric against President Obama and the Democrats because, he believes, it could lead to violence.</p>
<p>“There can be real consequences when what you say animates people who do things you would never do,” Mr. Clinton told the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/politics/16clinton.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">New York Times</a>. “Because of the Internet, there is this vast echo chamber and our advocacy reaches into corners that never would have been possible before,” he said. Mr. Clinton added that demonizing government and those who serve in it can have tragic consequences, as evidenced by the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 where he insists the executed Timothy McVeigh was influenced by anti-government rhetoric.</p>
<p>Specifically, Clinton took Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann to task for using the phrase &#8220;gangster government&#8221; to describe the Obama administration. “They are not gangsters. They were elected. They are not doing anything they were not elected to do,” the former president said.</p>
<p>Mr. Clinton&#8217;s concern for the quality of our nation&#8217;s political discourse is touching, if not a little curious. Apparently, the avalanche of hate, violent rhetoric, and invective against President Bush for 8 years didn&#8217;t pose much of a danger in his mind. Otherwise, he would have said something, right?</p>
<p>During the Bush years, major figures on the left referred to the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Rush-Limbaugh-Chris-Matthews-and-the-regime-question-89848762.html">&#8220;Bush regime&#8221;</a> as <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/15/olbermann-invokes-fascism-liar-bush-using-terrorism">&#8220;fascist,&#8221;</a> while insisting that the president was trying to set up <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article4836535.ece">a dictatorship.</a> Mr. Bush was regularly hung in effigy at protest rallies, and something of an &#8220;<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2006/08/31/assassination-chic/">assassination chic</a>&#8221; arose where the killing of the president became a parlor game for some of the president&#8217;s more hip critics.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t recall Mr. Clinton &#8212; or anyone else on the left for that matter &#8212; raising the specter of political violence as a result of that fantastically exaggerated, hateful rhetoric. Few, if any in the mainstream media raised an alarm that such unscrewed looniness would incite or enable some left wing kook to act out his violent impulses. Not even as the left <em>en mass</em> were screaming about Bush <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/why-did-bush-ruin-the-country-1.php">&#8220;destroying the country&#8221;</a> did we hear a peep from the former president about &#8220;demonization&#8221; of Bush by his liberal allies.</p>
<p>The point being, Mr. Clinton is engaging in an effort to silence and delegitimize critics of President Obama by hinting at violence that hasn&#8217;t occurred yet. He is, in effect, setting the stage for a massive backlash against the right and tea partiers if, God forbid, some nutcase were to listen to the voices in his head telling him to kill people and act on those impulses. If this were to occur, we would once again be treated to the entire left playing amateur psychologist and trying to guess the insane person’s “motivations.” The fact that most crazed gunmen don’t need any outside stimuli to perpetrate their crimes is beside the point. Even the idea that the fringe right character plotting mayhem cares what some internet blogger has to say about Obama gains currency when the left engages in its politically motivated hunt for blame.</p>
<p>It is not the first time Bill Clinton has raised the specter of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; causing violence. He performed a similar fete of rhetorical legerdemain in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, hinting broadly that conservative talk radio was to blame for that horrific attack.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/How-Clinton-exploited-Oklahoma-City-for-political-gain-91267829.html">Byron York</a> reminds us that there was method in Clinton&#8217;s madness; a cynical attempt to connect the GOP and Timothy McVeigh:</p>
<blockquote><p>In addition to seeing a criminal act and human loss, Clinton and Morris saw opportunity. If the White House could tie Gingrich, congressional Republicans and conservative voices like Rush Limbaugh to the attack, then Clinton might gain the edge in the fight against the GOP.</p>
<p>[Dick]Morris began polling about Oklahoma City almost immediately after the bombing. On April 23, four days after the attack, Clinton appeared to point the finger straight at his political opponents during a speech in Minneapolis. &#8220;We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In his book<em> Behind the Oval Office</em>, Morris relates the strategy employed by President Clinton &#8212; an elegant, brilliant, subtle, and wholly dishonest plan to deliberately forge a false link from the bombing to the admittedly overheated rhetoric being used by talk radio hosts. Both then and now, Clinton is arguing that hyperbole and exaggeration borders on criminal incitement to violence &#8212; at least when conservatives are at fault.</p>
<p>The question he raises is not without precedent. When the Warren Commission was investigating the Kennedy Assassination, there was a debate over how much blame should be assessed the city of Dallas. William Manchester in his seminal work on the assassination <em>Death of a President</em> writes of the unhinged nature of right wing fanaticism that had been let loose in that city in the months leading up to JFK&#8217;s death. Open talk of killing the president, as well as a palpable atmosphere of hate in Dallas caused several Texans in the administration to warn Mr. Kennedy to avoid the city. Just weeks prior to Kennedy&#8217;s visit, Adlai Stevenson experienced a fright when he was physically assaulted after a speech.</p>
<p>The Commission&#8217;s problem; did all this right wing hate have an effect on Lee Harvey Oswald? Oswald, a self described Marxist, had a superficial understanding of the term, embracing it because it made the desperate loner stand out in a crowd. Might the white hot rhetoric employed by the Birchers, the Kluxers, the segregationists, and the southern revanchists have enabled Oswald in some way?</p>
<p>In the end, the Commission took the safe, politically expedient way out and barely mentioned the climate of hate and loathing for Kennedy in Dallas. But there is a world of difference between the kind of violent rhetoric employed by the right in Dallas prior to the assassination and the sometimes angry speech used by talk radio hosts and tea partiers directed at President Obama and the Democrats.</p>
<p>In fact, there is no comparison at all. Where a case can be made that the <em>Dallas News </em>placing a mug shot of the president on their front page the day of his visit with the caption, &#8220;Wanted for Treason&#8221; is beyond the pale of decency, referring to Obama as a &#8220;gangster&#8221; hardly rises to the level of incitement. It may by inaccurate and over the top, but the last I looked, nobody has gone off half cocked because a conservative compared the president to Al Capone.</p>
<p>The real wackos who might be galvanized into action and actually try to hurt someone or blow something up look upon the Limbaugh&#8217;s of the world and the tea partiers with contempt. They, like McVeigh, see them as weaklings without the courage of their convictions. The violent fringe on both sides have abandoned democratic norms and see those who protest as part of the problem. It does not seem rational to believe that anything the protestors say matters a whit to those who would perpetrate violent acts to make their statement against government. To do so ascribes rational thinking to irrational people.</p>
<p>The motivations of the far right fringe are not gleaned from mainstream sources. Timothy McVeigh received <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Motivations_for_the_bombing">his inspiration</a> from <em>The Turner Diaries</em>, and other far right, fringe literature. To posit the idea that right wing fanatical kooks scour the internet for motivation to commit violent acts, or even thinking that they might accidentally come across some unhinged rant by a right wing blogger that will set them off, is not supported by what we know of potential domestic terrorists. Thus, Bill Clinton&#8217;s warnings can be seen as nothing more than an attempt to silence critics, and to delegitimize their criticisms in the eyes of the public.</p>
<p>Certainly, using reason and logic in political discourse is always preferable to hyperbole and angry rhetoric. But to hint that passionate speech, even if it is irrational or over heated in its description of the opposition, will lead to violence is an insidious attempt to shut off debate and get people to shut up.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t work when Clinton tried it in 1994. And it won&#8217;t work now.</p>
<p><em>Rick Moran is Blog Editor of </em><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/"><em>The American Thinker</em></a><em>,and Chicago Editor for </em><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/"><em>Pajamas Media</em></a><em>. His personal blog is </em><a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/"><em>Right Wing Nuthouse.</em></a><em> </em></p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst with a Ph.D. in romance and semitic languages, specializing in Aljamía and Old Spanish in Arabic script. She is an expert on the Minnesota Somali diaspora and a graduate of the Human Terrain System program at Leavenworth  Kansas. Her new book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Banality-Suicide-Terrorism-Psychology-Islamic/dp/1597975044" target="_blank"><em>The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing.</em></a></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Nancy Kobrin, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your book. Tell us about its significance and what makes it different from all other books on suicide terrorism to date.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>Thank you so much Jamie. I must say how indebted I am to you and the entire staff at Frongpagemag.com because you provided the opportunity and invaluable space to discuss and debate my theory for the suicide attack with other colleagues. If it hadn’t been here at Frontpage, I wonder if this book would have ever been written. My thanks and gratitude to you all.</p>
<p>This is a psychological study and its significance is that it is the first to address early childhood development and its crucial role that it plays in suicide terrorism with regard to the psychology of extremism and gender – specifically with the emphasis on the devalued female in Arab Muslim shame honor cultures which have developed suicide terrorism. This is not to blame the female or the mother but to understand the power and control of her and its devastating consequences.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge and to date, I know of no other book or theory, which has made the link between the horrific abuse of the female and its ramifications with regard to murder-suicide, her split-off body parts and the alleged honor killing. I hasten to add that we are only at the beginning of understanding the phenomenon and we are in the model T stage of integrating a more in-depth or shall we say psychodynamic approach to the knowledge that we have about terrorism.</p>
<p>Because I understand non-verbal communication and ninety-five percent of what we communicate is nonverbal, the focus of the book is primarily on the nonverbal predatory behavior of these terrorists by looking at the imagery.</p>
<p>It is understandable that we tend to stress the terrible nature of the incitement of the ideologies of Jihad and violence, which are indeed extremely important. However, by over focusing on its “verbiage”, this tends to obscure an already confusing and terrorizing picture. The ideologies act like a girdle, which harnesses the pre-existing rage of a fragile abused child grown into a “time-bomb” of a personality. I’ll give an example later in the interview when I address the issue of the female suicide bomber, how we can easily miss a “hidden communication” in this terrorism, precisely because it is so deeply terrorizing.</p>
<p>This is why people are always mystified by the “nice guy or gal jihadi next door.” The mask of “peace” is so well developed, giving perfect cover for a rageful personality. It hides the embroiled rage and it is so terrorizing that “We just don’t want to go there. . .” This is also why Islam can present itself as a religion of peace when it is a religion of <em>two pieces</em> – Jihad and Peace – two sides of a coin. If we are going to be effective in filleting the phenomenon of Islamic suicide terrorism, it is imperative that the imagery be taken into consideration and factored in with the ideologies. When read together, then other questions can be raised concerning the psychological function of religious and cultural practices.</p>
<p>How did I come to this realization? I recall the first psychiatric child patient that I ever had to interview. It was on a locked ward and I was tasked to establish a rapport with a five year old boy who was hospitalized for setting fires &#8212; immolation.  I was told to talk with him and engage him through a game of checkers. No sooner did we sit down that he had his foot on top of mine under the table. I said to myself – OMG, alpha male dominance. I realized that he was absolutely terrified of me.</p>
<p>Terror is not to be equated with fear. It is nameless dread, non-verbal which encapsulates a complete sense of utter vulnerability, tantamount to death<em>. </em></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> It took very long to get the book into print. How come?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin:</strong> You know, I didn&#8217;t quite understand it at first myself but it turned out to be a valuable experience and it taught me a lot about terror. It was a humbling experience.</p>
<p>In January of 2002 I took a month sabbatical in Jerusalem. Suicide bombings became an every day occurrence. Lots of suicide bombings were going on. It was there when I came across the image of Shakespeare’s Othello who commits murder-suicide that I grasped the violent simplicity of Islamic suicide terrorism. Let us recall that Othello was a North African, a Moor and military man who married Desdemona the daughter of an Italian senator. He murders her and then commits suicide. Islamic suicide terrorism grounds itself in this kind of death though it is a hybrid of murder-suicide, serial killing by the suicide bomber proxy and a jihadi honor killing. But this is territory that few want to explore.</p>
<p>The book was sketched out in 2002. Bottom line – it was at two different publishing houses before it wound up at Potomac. I believe the two other presses were too “freaked out” to publish it because of the function of terror, especially the terror of retaliation, being targeted. Again, people have a very poor understanding of terror. The terrors run so deep that we tend to be dissociated from them. Most of us live in denial, busy with our daily lives. It is too terrifying to recognize the impending death threat of power and control, so we disengage. It is also too terrifying to tap into this primitive unexplored territory (i.e., the unconscious motivations behind terrorism).</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What is your background? What influenced you to come up with your ideas about suicide terrorism?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong> I have always followed my passion and my studies evolved. I did a doctorate in comparative literature, romance and semitic languages. I am dyslexic so I came to be fascinated with verbal and nonverbal language very early.</p>
<p>While writing my dissertation, I wound up on a training analyst’s couch; this is when it all came to life. I discovered a new world in depth but fascinating in its valuing the simplicity of explanation. I found the analytic experience extremely helpful and interesting.  I became very interested in trauma.</p>
<p>I was following all the research coming out of Israel concerning the victims of terrorism and it dawned on me that I needed to understand the mind of the perpetrator. So I started studying this on my own after the truck bombs went off in Lebanon in the early 1980s. I then realized that it had to be looked at functionally &#8211; victim-perpetrator together as a kind of unhealthy bonding. The terrorists do not have a sense of intimacy &#8212; they bond by maintaining a connection to those they murder and over whom they take control.</p>
<p>The summer before 9/11 Dr. Joan Lachkar invited me to participate in a seminar on suicide terrorism in Los Angeles. She wrote a very important dissertation on the narratives/fantasies in the Bible and the Quran. I also had some questions, which I sent to the Interdisciplinary  Center in Counter Terrorism in Tel Aviv and the Israeli who identified Osama Bin Laden wrote me back. This fellow informally mentored me and inspired me to study the history of terrorism. He does not necessarily agree with my theory but I remain deeply indebted to him. He has practical knowledge of the “Matzav” = the situation that is unparalleled and unequalled.</p>
<p>While I was schlepping back and forth to Israel, I realized that the jihad was going on in Minnesota. We have the largest population outside of Mogadishu of Somalis in the world. I familiarized myself well with the peoples, the cultures and af-Somali, the language. I am a very practical person. I went into the community as well as the county jail and did prison interviews. So I have hands on experience right in my own back yard. I want to stress that the major of Somalis are law abiding good people who want to put food on the table, clothe their children and send them to school. However, there is an element that seeks jihad.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Talk some more about Arab culture and its views of mothers.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>In Arab Muslim culture you are never ever permitted to separate from your mother, ever. This means that you are glued to her and she is more important than your wife. It means that you are not permitted to establish your own sense of self, i.e. separate from her. Your wife is ultimately devalued and the upshot is that you harbor unbelievable, disavowed rage toward your mother, in essence one has no real effective father – the father is too busy with his other wives and women.</p>
<p>This creates tremendous ambivalence, on the one hand to want to bond with mother (ummi) and on the other hand at the same time remaining terrified of her, resulting in a confusing sense of identity. Perhaps this is why Muslims struggle so and are always fighting to prove their identity.  Proving their existence becomes a more pervasive force than life itself. “I’d rather die by blowing myself up than looe my identity as a Muslim brother.”</p>
<p>Counter terrorist experts are often taught that Arabs need very strong fathers because the father is absent and that is what they respond to. However, this is <em>merely the symptom of the problem</em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>– that the devalued female has been internalized by them and they can not relate to the female. They, the males, are terrorized by her and her body. The mother is larger than life, almost in a category un-to-herself. This is where the bitter paradox comes in as much as males can idealize the female, they can also feel enormously terrorized by the female body.</p>
<p>The end result of these tragic forces leave these males very confused. If we could put them on the couch we might suggest they are in desperate need of sex education. The males are not only confused, they suffer from severe deprivation ending up depriving themselves of very basic human needs. The irony is that they shame/blame everyone for depriving them but ultimately they are the real “deprivers.” So instead of love for the mother/female, the replacement becomes the destruction of her. In psychodynamic terms this is known as primitive envy. In essence the very love that is required to maintain healthy love bonds, is the very thing that makes them feel powerless and impotent so they must defend against this by becoming killers and murderers. We however pay the price. Sometimes I think of myself as the Dr. Ruth of counter-terrorism. I kid you not.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your position on Islam?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>I take the same position as my colleague Ibn Warraq – I believe that there are millions upon millions of moderate Muslims but Islam itself is not moderate, especially those who identify with Sharia law.</p>
<p>Having said that – I endorse Tawfik Hamid’s position that the ummah, the world-wide Muslim community unwittingly <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and</span> wittingly engages in passive terrorism. All too often they can too easily hide behind the mask of peace and let the jihadis do the dirty work.</p>
<p>This is <em>not</em> acceptable and they need to be called on it.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Revenge and deprivation in and of themselves clearly does not explain female suicide bombers as in the recent bombings in Moscow. Tell us your views on why.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>Actually it is quite simple and bizarrely clever – this kind of terrorism and rage is about the prenatal mother. The male terrorists make a concrete image of the prenatal mother &#8212; the female suicide bomber who is repeatedly described by the media as if she were pregnant, symbolized by hiding the bombs under her clothing. This is a good example of a not so hidden communication per se but one that is readily missed if a person does not know well his or her own terrors from our first years of life. In some instances the female suicide bomber has actually been pregnant and in other instances, faux pregnant bellies have been made for the female suicide bomber to hide the bombs. It is a “two-fer” for the male terrorists – they get to kill off their own females while at the same time murdering us.</p>
<p>The prenatal mother is the essence of dependency needs. It is the time in life when everything is taken care of for us. While it might not be perfect, nonetheless it is a time of encapsulation where the majority of one’s needs and vulnerabilities are taken care of. Yet after the female being devalued for centuries, the female suicide bomber can find honor and respect within the twisted psychology of the male dominated terrorist group.</p>
<p>Yes, it can be reported by the media and the foiled female suicide bombers can say that they were “seeking revenge” but the complexity of the early life history of these devalued and abused females make them ripe to be brain washed which harnesses their own unconscious rage about having been manipulated and abused to turn this outward by murdering others. It is uncontrollable unleashed rage, which exceeds murder itself because body parts are created in the process as in serial killing. Simply stated it is a way of maintaining a bond with the mother of pain – a part objection connection – her dismembered body parts which are now the body parts of the targeted innocent victims.</p>
<p>The female suicide bomber merely internalizes the male rage of the female as self-hatred. She becomes victim-victimizer as my colleague Dr. Anat Berko has named her. The female suicide bomber is the most expandable of the terrorist chain. The Islamic female suicide bomber image is in stark contrast to Christianity where the prenatal mother, Mary and her post-partem motherhood with Jesus, are sacred images, venerated and cherished.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What can we do to fight to this pathology and enemy we face?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin:</strong> We must invest in the little Muslim girl. We must help all those who live under a death threat. For brevity here I refer your readers to the last chapter of my book where I make a series of suggestions.</p>
<p>In addition to this I have recently also started to work on a conceptual dictionary of this peculiar language of the terrorists, which I call Desperanto. I hope to map out images, use of objects by terrorists and their tough talk, using open sources from journalism, etc. to show other primitive  nonverbal and verbal communications in this vein, in order to help counter terrorist experts expand their understanding should they so desire. I believe that these communications can be extracted from what we know about terrorism and from it, a language can be built which in turn can be hooked up with the ideologies. I parallel this understanding of communication to an abused child in play therapy. If a child took a car and rammed it repeatedly into the back of a truck, we would wonder if he or she had been anally raped. While it is not exactly the same and we do not have terrorists in therapy nor am I advocating that, we should still try to map out the nonverbal communications in a more systematic manner. My hunch is too that the people who work in biometrics have a good sense of this body language but alas, I have not had the opportunity to work with them. This would help us make better interventions, earlier as well as better profiling. The reason why it is so difficult to profile is that the psychopathology is very early developmentally and it takes us outside our comfort zone.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Nancy Kobrin, thank you for joining us. This is all fascinating, original and frightening stuff. Hope to talk to you again soon.</p>
<p>I encourage all our readers to order Dr. Kobrin&#8217;s new book:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Banality-Suicide-Terrorism-Psychology-Islamic/dp/1597975044" target="_blank"><em> The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing.</em></a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can we prevent Senate Democrats from forcing through ObamaCare against the will of the American people? ]]></description>
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<p>There is a story about legendary chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzowitsch, who detested cigar smoke. In the great New York tournament of 1927 his opponent Milan Vidmar took out his cigar case and began to fiddle with it. Nimzowitsch became agitated and complained to the tournament director. But he is not smoking, the director replied. “He is threatening to!” shouted the distraught Nimzowitsch. Vidmar got the better of Nimzowitsch in New York. The threat was enough.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>The GOP could learn a valuable lesson from Dr. Vidmar and protect the country from a disaster in the making. If the Senate Democrats force passage of ObamaCare through “reconciliation,” what will individual Democrat Senators have done? First, they will have ignored the clear and consistent message of the American people in poll after poll. In some states those who oppose the bill outnumber those in favor by 20 points or more. Second, they will have taken the unprecedented step of passing major social legislation without bipartisan support—in fact without a single opposition party vote. Third, they will have violated Senate rules which allow only a limited and technical role for reconciliation, not a use that to all intents and purposes abolishes the Senate’s 60 vote rule for substantive policy issues.</p>
<p>It is reasonable to conclude that this represents a series of morally indefensible actions on the part of the Senators involved. On the first point, they have treated the opinion of the people who elected them with contempt. On the second point, they have acted irresponsibly. On the third point they have cheated when the stakes were so huge that faithful adherence to the rules was essential. Take the three points together, and you have despicable behavior, behavior unworthy of a U.S. Senator.</p>
<p>Elected representatives have been recalled for much less than this. California’s Governor Gray Davis was recalled simply for failing to halt runaway legislative spending, and that doesn’t come close to the immorality of jamming through legislation of massive national import with parliamentary tricks and ruthless partisanship over the strong objection of the American people. Recalls are as a rule both difficult and dangerous. They easily create a backlash in favor of the incumbent as the electorate becomes irritated with a process that seems to question its judgment in having elected the individual in the first place. In 1967, the attempt to recall Frank Church probably strengthened his position for reelection, which he won by a large margin. But given the mood of the country with respect to ObamaCare, that danger is now minimal.</p>
<p>What of the difficulty of the process? The answer to this is that there are severe limits to what can be done, but that there are nonetheless some real opportunities. Only eighteen states provide for recall of U.S. Senators: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. (The question whether state recall statutes are legally enforceable for federal offices is not completely clear, but I’ll return to that in a moment.) That is 18 states, so a total of 36 senators are potentially subject to recall. Of these, 11 are at the moment Republicans, which leaves us with 25. A recall would be pointless for 7 of those, because they are up for reelection this year. Among the remaining 18, only Kent Conrad has said that “Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform.” We are thus left with 17 senators in 12 states: Alaska’s Begich; California’s Feinstein; Colorado’s Udall; Louisiana’s Landrieu; Michigan’s Levin and Stabenow; Minnesota’s Franken and Klobuchar; Montana’s Baucus and Tester; New   Jersey’s Lautenberg and Menendez; Oregon’s Merkley; Rhode   Island’s Reed and Whitehouse; Washington’s Cantwell; Wisconsin’s Kohl.</p>
<p>All but four of these are states carried by Gore, Kerry and Obama. Anything is possible in a climate in which a Republican took Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but it would certainly be hard to get a blue state to recall a Democrat. However, the chances are quite good in the three states carried by both George W Bush and McCain: Alaska, Louisiana and Montana. And then there is Colorado, which Bush carried twice.</p>
<p>If we look at the mood in these four states, it’s clear that their five Democratic Senators are all vulnerable. In Alaska, Mark Begich’s approval rating has fallen to 35% according to a recent Public Policy Polling poll. In Colorado, Mark Udall’s approval numbers had dropped into minus territory already by April of 2009, and that was a time when Obama’s numbers were still high. But when you add to this the fact that Obama’s current polling in Colorado is worse than his national average, that the incumbent Senate Democrat up for reelection this year is now behind by 14 points, and that in an especially ominous poll Coloradans say they trust the judgment of the American people more than their political leaders by 74 to 11 percent, this looks to be fertile ground for a recall. In Louisiana Mary Landrieu’s polls plummeted following the Louisiana purchase, and the state’s incumbent Republican Senator is 24 points up in his reelection campaign this year. In Montana, a recent poll showed a huge margin against ObamaCare (74 to 26) and Max Baucus’ approval rating instantly dropped 20 points to 44% because of his role in promoting it. If Baucus or Jon Tester vote for ObamaCare by reconciliation in this climate of opinion in their state they can expect a firestorm.</p>
<p>But states vary in the difficulty of mounting a recall: some make it easy, while in others the hurdles are almost impossible to overcome. Fortunately, Alaska, Colorado and Montana are among the easiest. In Alaska and Colorado, the number of signatures needed to qualify a recall petition is 25% of the vote received in the last election by the person to be recalled. That means roughly 38,000 signatures for Begich and 50,000 for Udall—easily doable. In Louisiana and Montana the number is a percentage of the total eligible voters (not those who actually voted) in the last election. In Louisiana, that percentage is one third, which means 800,000 signatures, and that would be hard to do. But in Montana the percentage is a mere 10%, so it would take only 75,000 to recall Tester or Baucus, and that is feasible. Recall efforts would create the kind of national attention that would generate more than enough money to finance the collecting of signatures.</p>
<p>To be sure, there are many ways in which recall drives can fail. There is a school of legal thought which holds that a recall interferes with the federally determined term of six years, and is thus unconstitutional. I don’t find this convincing, but some people I respect do. The least we can say is that it is not clear what the U.S. Supreme Court would do. The outcome could well be that U.S. Senators can’t be recalled after all—we simply don’t know. But back to Dr Vidmar: just take out the cigar case and fiddle with it, and see what happens. The threat is a powerful one. If tomorrow the state Republican chairs in these four states were to announce that any vote for ObamaCare by reconciliation would trigger a drive to recall the Senator who cast it, these five would have to decide whether they wanted to take the risk.</p>
<p>At the very least, the recall drive would be embarrassing to them, and would provide a forum in which the full extent of their betrayal of their constituents, of responsible government, and of Senate rules and traditions could be spelled out, discussed, publicized, denounced. And in the worst case scenario, the Supreme Court might decide that those state statutes are not in fact unconstitutional. It might hold, say, that the six year term only specifies a limit; after all, Scott Brown was not elected to a six year term, and nobody thinks that unconstitutional. Or it may hold that a recall from a six year term is an action that cancels the term completely, and does not change the definition of a full term. My hunch is that that is what the court would do, because it makes the most sense. But we just don’t know—and the point is that the Senators can’t know either. We can be sure that they don’t really want to cast this vote. The announcement that they will face a recall effort could easily be enough to tip them over the edge. Go to it, Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, and Montana.</p>
<p><em>John Ellis is President of the California Association of Scholars, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Franken is a U.S. Senator representing Minnesota. His 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman was hotly contested and extremely close. It was also marred by what journalist Matthew Vadum called &#8220;appalling irregularities that characterized both the initial and subsequent vote-counting.&#8221; The morning after the election, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. But Franken refused to concede, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Al Franken is a U.S. Senator representing Minnesota. His 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman was hotly contested and extremely close. It was also marred by what journalist Matthew Vadum called &#8220;<a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/14/fighting-frankenstein/print">appalling irregularities</a> that characterized both the initial and subsequent vote-counting.&#8221; The morning after the election, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. But Franken refused to concede, and the thin margin triggered an automatic recount. As <a href="http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968">ACORN</a>-aligned Secretary of State Mark Ritchie presided over the recount process, Coleman&#8217;s lead gradually vanished due to a host of mysterious, newly discovered votes that almost invariably benefited Franken. A detailed account of these developments can found <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/14/fighting-frankenstein/print">here</a>. By the time the recount (and a court challenge by Coleman) had ended in April 2009, Franken held <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_el_se/us_minnesota_senate">a 312-vote lead</a>. On June 30, 2009, after the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit, Coleman officially conceded and Franken was declared the victor.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2361">To view Al Franken&#8217;s full profile, click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s premier medical journal, Lancet, gives Palestinian wife-beaters a loving pass. ]]></description>
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<p>It’s official. Britain’s premier medical journal <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/"><em>Lancet</em></a> has been completely Palestinianized. It no longer bears any relationship to the first-rate scientific journal it once was. Perhaps <em>Lancet</em> is no longer a standard-bearer but has become a follower in the global movement in which standards have plunged, biases have soared, and Big Lies now pass for top-of-the-line academic, scientific work.</p>
<p>The post-colonial academy is itself thoroughly colonized by the false and dangerous ideas of Edward Said (please read my dear friend Ibn Warraq’s most excellent book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Defending-West-Critique-Edward-Orientalism/dp/1591024846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264364734&amp;sr=8-1">Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism</a></em>). However, I once believed that Said’s paranoid perspective had primarily infected and indoctrinated only the social sciences, humanities, and Middle East Studies. We now see his malign influence at work in a new article, just out today, by professors who work at the Department of Medicine at Harvard University; the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at Minnesota University’s School of Public Health; The Boston University School of Medicine; the School of Nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; and at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.</p>
<p>Their <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961827-4/abstract">study</a> is titled: “Association between exposure to political violence and intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study.” And yes, they have found that Palestinian husbands are more violent towards Palestinian wives as a function of the Israeli “occupation”—and that the violence increases significantly when the husbands are “directly” as opposed to “indirectly” exposed to political violence.</p>
<p>I believe that Arab and Muslim men, including Palestinian men, are indeed violent towards Arab and Muslim women. I also believe that war-related stress, including poverty, usually increases “intimate partner violence,” aka male domestic violence. But beyond that, how does one evaluate this study?</p>
<p>First, let’s follow the money. This study was funded by the Palestinian National Authority as well as by the Core Funding Group at the University of Minnesota. The Palestinian Authority is not a disinterested party. But even worse: The data was collected by the Palestinian Central Bureau. These are the people who told the world that Israeli soldiers shot young Mohammed al-Dura, committed a massacre in Jenin, and purposely attacked Palestinian civilians (who just happened to be jihadists dressed in civilian clothing or hostage-civilians behind whom the jihadists hid).</p>
<p>Second, let’s note that the study has a political goal which trumps any objective academic or feminist goal. (These researchers claim to have a “feminist” perspective). In my view, this study wishes to present Palestinian men as victims, even when those men are battering their wives. And, it wishes to present Palestinian cultural barbarism, which includes severe child abuse, as also related to the alleged Israeli occupation.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 witnessed a frightening spike in homegrown terrorist activity.]]></description>
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<p>If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed. According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580173,00.html">experienced</a> 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11. One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration began its term by refusing to include terms like “radical Islam” as part of its lexicon. The Global War on Terrorism was alternatively <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html">called</a> an “overseas contingency operation” or “a <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/The_artist_formerly_known_as_GWOT.html">campaign</a> against extremists who wish to do us harm.”</p>
<p>The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509597,00.html">described</a> terrorism as a “man-caused disaster. When asked about not even mentioning the word “terrorism” in her first address to Congress, she said, “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear towards a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”</p>
<p>The homegrown terrorist activity this year has startled the Obama Administration, which now is forced to privately <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-us-radicalization7-2009dec07,0,3941551.story?track=rss">conclude</a> that the radicalization of American-Muslims is increasing.</p>
<p>In today’s 30-second news culture, shocking incidents such as these quickly fade away as the topic of coverage as other news develops. A summary of some of the biggest incidents this year is needed for the American people to understand how much activity took place:</p>
<p>* In May, authorities broke up a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">plot</a> by four prison converts to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and fire Stinger missiles at aircraft flying around the Air National Guard base in Newburgh,  New York.</p>
<p>* On June 1, a Muslim convert <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">shot</a> up a military recruiting center in Arkansas, killing one soldier and wounding another. The attacker, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was previously jailed in Yemen for traveling on a fraudulent Somali passport. Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35094">reported</a> that a “well-placed source” informed him that he had gone to Yemen to try to study under a radical cleric named Yahya Hajoori.</p>
<p>* In July, seven Muslims were <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/28/nation/na-terrorism-arrests28">arrested</a> in North Carolina for training with high-powered weapons in preparation to join a jihad overseas. The leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, had previously trained in guerilla camps in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and enlisted his two sons in his plans.</p>
<p>* In September, FBI and local law enforcement <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555340,00.html">raided</a> two apartments owned by Afghans in New York after the occupants were visited by Najibullah Zazi, a suspected terrorist who had traveled to an Al-Qaeda training camp last year. Nine backpacks and cell phones were confiscated, and Zazi was found to have purchased chemicals similar to those used in the 2005 London subway bombings, causing concern that the suspects were planning an attack styled after that operation.</p>
<p>* Also in September, FBI sting operations led to the arrest of two desiring to carry out acts of terror. A Jordanian named Michael Finton, an admirer of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28springfield.html">arrested</a> for planning to set off car bombs outside of a courthouse in Illinois and a skyscraper in Texas. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/texas.terror.arrest/index.html">arrested</a> in Texas after trying to detonate a decoy car bomb underneath an office tower.</p>
<p>* In October, the FBI tried to arrest a radical imam in Detroit connected to a range of criminal activity. When they arrived at a warehouse to get Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, he <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125677249132814537.html">responded</a> with gunfire, killing one of the FBI’s dogs before he was shot and killed. Six of his associates were arrested. In the same month, Tarek Mehanna was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22terror.html">arrested</a> in Boston for planning to attack a shopping mall and assassinate two public officials.</p>
<p>* The next month, Nidal Malik Hassan carried out the horrific shooting at Fort Hood, killing 13 people. He is now known to have previously expressed his support for suicide bombers and to have communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen who has acted as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and praised Hassan’s shooting. <em>To this day, President Obama and senior officials have not publicly described the incident as terrorism.</em></p>
<p>* Most recently, five Americans were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/10/world/main5959772.shtml?tag=stack">arrested</a> in Pakistan on their way to link up with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They were arrested at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group, who is the uncle to one of the suspects.</p>
<p>These are only some of the major incidents related to radical Islamic activity in the U.S. that occurred this year. A total of 14 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have been <a href="../2009/12/07/the-threat-at-home-by-ryan-mauro/">indicted</a> for helping to recruit fellow members of their community to join the Al-Shabaab terrorist group fighting for control of Somalia. The case of <a href="http://www.rifqabary.com/">Rifqa Bary</a> received considerable attention, as did the honor <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2009/11/02/20091102noor1102-CR-CP.html">killing</a> in Arizona of a daughter by her father for being “too Westernized.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.christianaction.org/">Christian Action Network</a>, where I serve as a national security researcher, released the “Homegrown Jihad” documentary in February about the isolated communities in the U.S. run by a radical Islamic group used as paramilitary training and recruitment centers. A new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebg6AFylios">tape</a> provided to me as part of CAN’s investigation into the group called “Muslims of the Americas” shows female recruits of the organization receiving such training at their headquarters in New York called “Islamberg.”</p>
<p>The media is failing to compile all these events and see the frightening increase that the Obama Administration is now admitting exists. When the problem is mentioned, the ideological component is not discussed or is misunderstood. On December 12, Kimberly Dozier <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/14/cbs-anti-muslim-propaganda-blame-u-s-homegrown-terrorism">reported</a> on the Obama Administration’s realization regarding the problem on CBS Evening News, but attributed the rise in homegrown terrorism to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they were “portrayed by the militants as America’s war on Islam.”</p>
<p>Dozier also said that “Muslim community leaders here say young people are also being driven to extremes by post-9/11 anti-Muslim propaganda” and cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations as saying that civil rights complaints by Muslims have increased by ten percent in 2009, attempting to draw a connection between bigotry against Muslims and homegrown terrorism. If Dozier had done her research on her source, she would have found that the view of the War on Terror as a war on Islam that she says is causing the increase in homegrown terrorism is actually <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/632/cair-portrays-war-on-terrorism-as-malicious-war-on-islam">promoted</a> by CAIR.</p>
<p>2009 should put to rest the idea that any homegrown terrorist plot is an isolated incident. The participants in these plots might not be operationally connected, but a political-religious ideology binds them together. The fight for the home front continues into 2010.</p>
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<p>How low can they go?</p>
<p>The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance &#8220;holocaust in America&#8221; (Fla. Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson), lambasted conservative health care town hall protesters as &#8220;political terrorists&#8221; (Indiana Democratic Rep. Baron Hill), sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman&#8217;s private residence, and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama&#8217;s fuzzy math savings claims (California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn&#8217;t be worth wasting the urine.&#8221;) Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leading them deeper into demagogic mire.</p>
<p>This week, Reid pummeled opponents with the worn-out race card. Following in the mucky footsteps of former President Jimmy Carter (who blamed GOP Rep. Joe Wilson&#8217;s objections to Obama&#8217;s policy deceptions on a &#8220;racism inclination&#8221;) and Jesse Jackson (&#8220;You can&#8217;t vote against health care and call yourself a black man&#8221;), Reid likened Republicans who object to socialized medicine to slave masters, enemies of women&#8217;s suffrage and Bull Connor.</p>
<p>Reid&#8217;s rhetorical aim was worse than the unhinged Minnesota protester who threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin during a book signing and hit a police officer instead. Splat.</p>
<p>Mustering up as much indignation as his taut face could exhibit, Reid lectured those standing in the way of Demcare: &#8220;When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, &#8216;Slow down. It&#8217;s too early. Things aren&#8217;t bad enough.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted, &#8216;Slow down. There will be a better day to do that. Today isn&#8217;t quite right.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democratic Party that battled to preserve it. It was then-Democrat Strom Thurmond who led the civil rights filibuster that Reid tried to lay on Republicans. And it&#8217;s the Democratic Party, not the GOP, that boasts ex-Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd among its senior leaders. But don&#8217;t confuse Reid with history while he&#8217;s chasing Republicans around with his &#8220;RAAAACISM!&#8221; stamp.</p>
<p>The more the American public learns about the choice-limiting, debt-exploding, bureaucracy-multiplying health care takeover, the more opposition increases. And the more unhinged the Democratic majority and its supporters get.</p>
<p>There is now a $200,000 &#8220;bounty&#8221; on the head of U.S Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue.</p>
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<p>Left-wing activist website &#8220;Velvet Revolution&#8221; published a want ad this week with Donohue&#8217;s picture on it, soliciting information leading to &#8220;the arrest and conviction&#8221; of the business leader for &#8220;opposing progressive initiatives.&#8221; The witch-hunt is targeting Donohue for his outspoken criticism of the costs and impact of the Dems&#8217; health care legislation on small businesses across the country.</p>
<p>Such reckless propaganda accusing opponents of &#8220;criminality&#8221; isn&#8217;t limited to nutroots publications. In the august pages of The New York Times last week, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof titled his universal care manifesto, &#8220;Are We Going To Let John Die?&#8221; Kristof elevated unemployed Oregon sawmill worker John Brodniak, 23, as the Demcare poster child. Reportedly diagnosed as having a cavernous hemangioma, a neurological condition, Kristof bemoaned: &#8220;Without insurance, John has been unable to get surgery or even help managing the pain.&#8221;</p>
<p>An emergency room asked Brodniak not to return without insurance, Kristof claims (a practice that is prohibited by federal law). No doctor would treat him, Kristof reported (get your grain of salt ready). Isn&#8217;t it &#8220;monstrous,&#8221; Kristof concludes (hanky alert), &#8220;for politicians to avert their eyes, make excuses and deny coverage to innumerable Americans just like John?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ready for the punch line? Brodniak not only has coverage through Oregon&#8217;s Medicaid program, but has also been a patient at the prestigious Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a safety-net institution that accepts all Medicaid patients) for the past three weeks — a fact Kristof either deliberately ignored and suppressed from readers or didn&#8217;t bother to find out before publishing his screed.</p>
<p>In other words, Brodniak was already being treated and cared for by a top-notch neurologist under our existing health care system when Kristof came along to scream at Congress for letting him die.</p>
<p>Kristof&#8217;s tale follows on the heels of at least two dubious horror stories disseminated by President Obama. In September, Obama told of Illinois cancer patient Otto Raddatz, who supposedly died after he was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn&#8217;t known about. The truth? He got the treatment he needed in 2005 and died just this year.</p>
<p>In another case, Obama claimed, a woman with breast cancer lost her insurance because &#8220;she forgot to declare a case of acne.&#8221; In fact, she failed to disclose a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately, but her insurance was restored anyway after intense public lobbying.</p>
<p>But why bother with troublesome facts? In the insatiable pursuit of government control, truth and rationality are the first casualties.</p>
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		<title>The Threat at Home &#8211; by Ryan Mauro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing trend among Somali immigrants in the West.]]></description>
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<p>As the United States turns its attention to security threats abroad, the disturbing trend of extremism in America’s Somali communities is a reminder that there are also real and present dangers at home.</p>
<p>A growing body of evidence suggests that Somali communities in the Unites States have become fertile ground for terrorist groups to recruit and implant operatives. On November 23, the federal government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/23/us/AP-US-Missing-Somalis.html">announced</a> eight more indictments of Somali-Americans in Minnesota on charges of recruiting members of their community to join the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia. This brings to 14 the number of Somalis from Minnesota who have been indicted for helping the Al-Qaeda-linked group.</p>
<p>Of the eight indicted, only one has been arrested; the rest are currently outside of the United States. Four of those previously arrested have pled guilty and two have been released while they wait to be tried. The government believes that about 20 Somali-Americans have left the state to join al-Shabaab’s jihad in Somalia, at least three of whom have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575850,00.html">died</a> since departing. One, Shirwa Ahmed, died when he became the first American suicide bomber.</p>
<p>Several of those indicted attended the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, as did many of those who were recruited. The mosque released a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529796,00.html">statement</a> in March saying that “Abubakar Center didn’t recruit, finance, or otherwise facilitate in any way, shape, or form the travel of those youth.”</p>
<p>Somali gangs are also becoming an issue in Minnesota. Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer, said in 2007 that there 400-500 members of his community were involved in gangs. <em>The Associated Press</em> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/-muslim-gangs-get-foothold-in-minnesota-.html">reported</a> in July that</p>
<blockquote><p>“Despite anger and despair over the killings in Minnesota’s Somali community—the nation’s largest—police and prosecutors have struggled to catch and try the killers. Few witnesses have stepped forward because of a fear of reprisal and deep-rooted distrust of authority.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The concern over extremist elements in the Somali community is not limited to Minnesota. The FBI is <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&amp;pageId=98997">worried</a> about the community of 6,000 living in the Washington D.C. area. The Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573050,00.html">attended</a> by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter, has many Somali attendees. The former imam of the mosque has acted as an Al-Qaeda recruiter and may be part of the group’s <a href="http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/awlakishebab1208.pdf">efforts</a> to help al-Shabaab. The FBI’s investigation into disappearing Somalis who may have joined the terrorist group <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html">includes</a> Seattle, Columbus, Cicinnati, Boston and San Diego.</p>
<p>Brian Moseley, a reporter for the <em>Shelbyville Times-Gazette</em>, won an award for documenting of the inability of Somali immigrants in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to assimilate, causing a culture clash in the town. Moseley <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/15124/sec_id/15124">described</a> how law enforcement and fire department personnel had described to him how the immigrants were hostile to them, and how police officers were often reluctant to patrol areas where they live when it is dark. I also broke a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=97946">story</a> in May about how counter-terrorism expert Dave Gaubatz and his researchers had found extremist material at a mostly Somali mosque in Nashville. Gaubatz and his team collected evidence of child abuse and accused the Department of Child Services of failing to act.</p>
<p>A similar clash was caught on tape when on June 27, 2009 a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfW9inRkTpU">video</a> was uploaded to YouTube showing about 15 Somali youth harassing and throwing rocks at a homosexual man leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Terrorism researcher Patrick Poole <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/homeland_security_snoozes_whil/">wrote</a> in November 2007 that an organization tied to radical Islamic militants in Somalia was holding conferences in Falls Church and Minneapolis, where those attending were instructed on how to send money overseas without being detected. Poole <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33399">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…there exists an active recruiting and transportation network in the U.S., including Minneapolis, for Somali-run terrorist training camps, many of which have recently reopened. In many instances, these same Somali leaders purporting ignorance and innocence for the local media are not only aware of these recruiting operations, but have actively participated in them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Shabaab’s ranks have been swelled by the addition of non-Somalis. The president of Somalia’s government has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/fbi-director-al-qaeda-linked-somali-group-attack/">said</a> that up to 1,100 foreign terrorists have joined the group, which now is operating training camps in the East African country. The terrorist group has a wide international network and its training of foreign operatives means it has sympathizers willing to act in the West.</p>
<p>One Somali-American from Minneapolis was <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/somali/news/news-makers-in-english/Somali-Man-Arrested-in-the-Netherlands-on-Terrorism-Charges-69769692.html">arrested</a> in November in the Netherlands for financing the transportation of American recruits to Somalia. Up to five Somalis living in Canada <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2230011">disappeared</a> in November as well and are believed to have traveled together to their homeland via Kenya. Previously, a Toronto-based businessman was killed in 2008 after he joined Somali terrorists fighting Ethiopian troops who had invaded the country to stop extremists from coming to power. British intelligence has <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece">said</a> that dozens of people have gone to Somalia and received terrorist training and returned to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab has taken large control over large swaths of territory, including parts of Mogadishu, potentially allowed Al-Qaeda to replicate the safe harbor and reverse some of its most major losses since the war in Afghanistan began. Already, Somalia is being used as a base to export terrorism. Saudi Arabia has <a href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/22531.htm">captured</a> Somalis that were helping the extremist Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and were planning attacks in the Kingdom.</p>
<p>Of course, not all Somalis are sympathizers with extremism. There has been outrage in the Somali community over these developments. On June 11, Somali-Americans in Minneapolis <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/47883727.html?elr=KArksUUUU">protested</a> the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which they accused of encouraging members of their community not to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The <a href="http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/">Terror-Free Somalia Foundation</a>, which closely tracks events related to al-Shabaab, is led by Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali-American activist.</p>
<p>The failure to integrate these Somali immigrants into American society is causing strife and has proved to be an asset to al-Shabaab. The majority of the immigrants oppose such extremism. But it doesn’t take many sympathizers to create a network of support for terrorists. The current focus of al-Shabaab is Somalia, but when the day comes that they change their focus to the U.S., they will have American recruits ready for action.</p>
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