‘Minnesota Men’ Hate U.S., Yearn to Wage Jihad And die as Islamic martyrs. by Lloyd Billingsley
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/minnesota-men-hate-u-s-yearn-to-wage-jihad/
Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan was arrested on February 27 and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As the Department of Justice explains:
Hassan attempted to travel from Minnesota to Somalia to join ISIS on two occasions, neither of which were successful. Hassan attempted to disguise the purpose of his travel as visiting family despite having none in Somalia and was traveling with his birth certificate, naturalization certificate, and high school diploma. The FBI’s investigation established that Hassan publicly supported ISIS on social media through multiple posts and communicated with a Facebook account for the Manjaniq Media Center, which encouraged individuals to travel to join ISIS and touts itself as a media organization of the Islamic Caliphate.
As the investigation revealed:
Hassan praised Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the perpetrator of the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 1. On Feb. 21, Hassan also posted a video of himself driving while holding a small ISIS flag inside the vehicle, as well as another video of himself driving with an open knife on his lap. On Feb. 26, FBI observed Hassan driving while again holding the ISIS flag.
Compare the account of ABC news, which calls Hassan a “Minnesota man” who “allegedly expressed admiration for the truck attack in New Orleans.” The Minnesota truck attack admirer was not alone in his enthusiasm for the Islamic State. As the Associated Press noted, Abelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, was “among several Minnesotans suspected of leaving the U.S. to join the Islamic State group,” their names available at this link.
Al-Madioum joined the Islamic State because he wanted to “help Muslims” he believed were being slaughtered by the Bashar Assad regime. IS recruiters persuaded him “to test his faith and become a real Muslim.” This Islamic State hook-up was not a new development.
As attorney Scott Johnson noted in 2016, “Somali-Minnesotans” Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar, were part of a larger group of “Somali-American men” who sought to leave the United States to join the Islamic State. Johnson attended their trial and observed:
They are all young first- or second-generation Somali-Americans who freely took advantage of educational and employment opportunities in the Twin Cities. . . They had social lives centered on local mosques. They supplemented their education with Islamic studies. They are ungrateful for the good lives and conventional opportunities afforded them in Minnesota. They are all observant Muslims. They wanted to live under the caliphate declared by ISIL. They yearned to wage jihad and to die as Islamic martyrs. They hate the U.S.
The defendants moved into and out of the workforce at will. One worked briefly as a security guard. The informant worked on the tarmac at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport de-icing planes, along with co-conspirator Warsame. At one time, all three defendants also worked at a local UPS facility in a leafy suburb of St. Paul, where they enjoyed watching ISIL videos during their breaks.
The defendants expressed their desire to join ISIL, their regret over the failure of their previous efforts to make it out of the U.S., their commitment to wage jihad against nonbelievers and their ardent wish to die as martyrs. They expressed their contempt for the U.S. They thrilled to the videos of ISIL butchery in the name of Allah. They talked about their communications with their friends who had made it to ISIL in Syria.
And so on. Speaking of people who hate the United States, consider Somali-born Muslim Ilhan Omar. On September 11, 2001, she famously said, “some people did something,” but there’s more to her. Omar has described Israel as an “apartheid state” and tweeted “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel.” Another basic problem has managed to escape notice.
In “The Curious Case of Ilhan Oman,” Scott Johnson noted, “the fact that she is not legally married to the man she advertises as the husband and the father of her three children. In fact, she is legally married to another man—who may be her brother.” The reporter Preya Samsundar found information suggesting that legal husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi “is indeed her brother.”
Ilan Omar refused to be interviewed on the subject and her campaign manager called the inquiry “an attempt to discredit her candidacy.” If she did enter the United States on false pretenses, which include marriage fraud, that could be grounds for deportation. The Trump administration might look into it. Meanwhile, to be fair, not all Somalis left Minnesota to fight for the Islamic State.
Somali-born Muslim Mohamed Noor stayed in Minnesota and joined the Minneapolis police force. On July 15, 2017, Justine Ruszczyk Damond called 911 to report a rape. When Noor arrived on the scene, he shot the woman dead. The Somali-Minnesotan was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison. Mohammed Noor was released from custody in June, 2022. The Minnesota man has remained quiet about that truck attack in New Orleans.
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