Minnesota: Two Muslim women sentenced in terror funding case

The future of Minnesota

At least a dozen Muslims have been arrested or sentenced in just the last week. via 2 Minnesota women sentenced in Somali terror case – Yahoo! News.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group.

Amina Farah Ali, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 13 terrorism-related counts, and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 66, received a 10-year term on one terror-related count and two counts of lying to the FBI.

Ali insisted during her 3½-hour hearing in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis that she was only trying to help the poor in her war-torn homeland.

“Everything that I have done, I have done because I was trying to do good,” Ali said. “My intention was to alleviate the suffering of people.”

But prosecutors have said Ali and Hassan were part of a “deadly pipeline” that sent funds and fighters to al-Shabab. Authorities said they went door-to-door in the name of charity and held religious teleconferences to solicit donations, which they then routed to the fighters.

Defense attorneys painted the women as humanitarians who gave money to orphans and the poor, as well as to a group fighting to rid Somalia of foreign troops. At the time, Ethiopian troops brought into Somalia by its weak U.N.-backed government were viewed by many Somalis as invaders.

Ali’s attorney, Dan Scott, told the court Ali learned that she needed to work with those in power if her money was going to reach its destination.

“This was not a choice between good and evil. This was a choice between evils,” the lawyer said.

He added: “It’s not terrorism. She backed the wrong horse.”

Minnesota: Four More Muslims Jailed for Aiding Somali Jihad

via Four Jailed In US For Aiding Somalia’s Islamist Group.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday sentenced three men to three years in prison and handed down a 12-year prison term to a fourth for aiding in the recruitment of fighters for al-Shabaab, an outlawed Somali Islamist militant group.

Abdifatah Isse, Salah Ahmed and Ahmed Mahamud were each given three-year prison terms by Judge Michael Davis of the Minneapolis Federal Court after they pleaded guilty to providing material support to al-Shabab.

Isse and Ahmed had earlier admitted to traveling to Somalia in December 2007 for attending an al-Shabaab training camp. They spent a week at the camp, but left the East African state in the spring of 2008 after having second thoughts.

Mahamud, on the other hand, admitted that he had raised money for other recruits to travel to Somalia. Although he as well as Isse and Ahmed faced a maximum of 15 years in prison, prosecutors recommended lesser sentences for the trio due to their cooperation with investigators.

The fourth person sentenced on Tuesday in the same case was 28-year-old Omer Abdi Mohamed, who received a 12-year prison term. He had pleaded guilty in July 2011 to one count of conspiring to provide material support to co-conspirators who intended to murder, kidnap, or maim Ethiopian and Somali government troops.

“These defendants, by providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, broke both the law and the hearts of family members across the Twin Cities,” Todd Jones, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, said in a statement after the sentencing.

Al-Shabaab is Somalia’s most prominent and influential Islamist militant unit. The al-Qaeda aligned outfit has been branded as a terrorist organization by the United States and most of the international community. It is the military wing of the Islamist movement ousted by Ethiopia-backed Somali forces in 2006.

Your mainstream media will be reporting this any day now. Not.

Minnesota: Somali Muslims get 10- and 20-year sentences in terror case

Another episode of “Meet a Muslim Person” that doubles on the #MyJihad campaign. via Judge gives Somali men 10- and 20-year sentences in terror case | StarTribune.com.

Kamal Said Hassan will serve 10 years in prison for his role in the “Minnesota pipeline” that carried young men to Somali to fight in that country’s civil war.

U.S. Chief Judge Michael Davis issued the sentence Monday afternoon in federal court in Minneapolis. Hassan was facing up to 38 years in prison but federal prosecutors recommended that he serve no more than 10 to 12 years because of “extraordinary cooperation” with the investigation.

Hassan was one of the key witnesses who testified against Mahamud Said Omar last October. Omar was sentenced to 20 years.

Of the nine people to be sentenced this week, federal prosecutors have sought the longest prison terms for Omar, who helped arrange travel for Hassan and other young men.

Four people will be sentenced Tuesday and three more on Thursday.

Kamal Said Hassan: “I was a foot soldier”

Hassan pleaded guilty Aug. 12, 2009, to two terror-related counts, and in 2012 he testified against Mahamud Said Omar in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence.

In Omar’s trial Hassan testified that he left Minneapolis for Somalia in 2007. He went to a training camp where he learned to fight and was featured in a promotional video encouraging other Americans to join the fight.

In 2008 he said he and other Minnesotans were involved in an ambush of Ethiopian soldiers. After that, he said he fled Al-Shabab with the help of his family and the FBI.

In a memorandum filed last month, prosecutors said the long sentence was necessary to both deter Hassan from using violence “to bring about change in the governments of foreign countries” and to “send a message to the community at large that the United States does not tolerate such abhorrent criminal conduct.”

They noted that while Hassan cooperated with the FBI, he lied to agents about some of his activities in initial interviews.

His defense attorneys, Manny Atwal and Andrew Mohring, argued in a pre-sentence brief that their client had only been “a foot soldier” rather than a leader, and he “has shown real real remorse for his actions by cooperating with the government.”

Mahamud Said Omar: ‘No evidence … I committed any crime’

Prosecutors want a 50-year sentence for Omar, who was convicted in October 2012 of five terror-related counts.

Three men who went to Somalia to fight testified that Omar arranged their travel. They said Omar flew to Somalia, visited an Al-Shabab safe house in early 2008 and provided cash for rifles. Prosecutors said Omar helped arrange travel for six more recruits in 2008 even after Shirwa Ahmed, of Minneapolis, blew himself up in a suicide attack in Somalia.

In November 2008 Omar sought asylum in the Netherlands, but was extradited. During closing arguments in his trial, he said, “No evidence proves that I committed any crime.”

Isn’t that always the case?

How about some deportation and banning any relatives from ever visiting the U.S.?

Congressman Keith Ellison Only Interested In Protecting Muslims

The first Muslim in Congress has a Muslims first (and only) agenda.

via Rep. Ellison Seems More Interested In Protecting Muslims Than U.S. – Investors.com.

By arguing that there’s no need to investigate the Muslim community, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison is going out on a very shaky limb. Almost nobody believes that anymore.

Not even multicultural lefties. Not after homegrown Muslim terrorists attacked hypertolerant Boston, a city that’s indulged the Muslim community, even after several Muslims hijacked and crashed two jets departing Logan Airport in 2001.

The Muslim marathon bombers appear to have gotten help from family and friends in the local Muslim community. The largest mosque in New England has fallen under suspicion. The Boston FBI field office is finally asking tough questions about religious motivation.

But as Congress’ first Muslim, Ellison insists law enforcement agents are wasting their time.

“I think it’s ineffective law enforcement to go after a particular community,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We don’t have enough law enforcement resources to just go after one community.”

Yes, better to spread themselves thin covering the Amish and Buddhist communities, which have exactly zero radicals on the terrorist watch list compared with more than half a million from the “Religion of Peace.”

Ellison suggests the FBI should be devoting resources to “right-wing terrorism,” which he and the president thought would be “the next big thing.”

Boston proved we’re still dealing with the same threat from the same community. Once again, we’re finding too many Muslims provide the sea in which the jihadists swim. Nothing’s changed since 9/11. Except now we have politicians like Ellison working with Islamist pressure groups like CAIR to constantly throw sand in the eyes of law enforcement so they can’t see the threat.

Their political reflex seems to protect Islam first, then Americans. But they are out of sync even with liberal Democrats, including:

• Ex-Rep. Barney Frank, who says he’s confused by Obama’s refusal to define Boston bombings as jihad;

• Democratic strategist Bob Beckel, who’s called for a halt to Muslim student visas;

• Newsweek media critic Howard Kurtz, who’s fed up with “too much sensitivity” on “Islamic jihad;” and,

• New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who asked: “What is going on in your community?”

Apparently, Ellison is too busy protecting his coreligionists to see what even his liberal friends see.

There’s a long list of evidence against Ellison, just search our archives and read this report – Keith Ellison for dummies.

Terror-linked Muslim group wants police to call off training on terror-linked Muslim group

The SC Times link seems to have disappeared from the web already. Did they realize they were pimping for a terror-linked Muslim organization who is in favor of sharia law in the U.S.? Still available via BARE NAKED ISLAM.

A CAIR-MN spokeswoman says the training seminar, a version of which was sharply criticized in 2011 when it was given to other Minnesota law-enforcement agencies, inaccurately conflates Somalis and Muslims with terrorism. The group also is critical of the former Ramsey County sheriff who’s leading the presentation.

Islamic and Somali organizations said That an upcoming educational seminar on Somalia organized by former Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher is anti-Muslim and anti-Somali and will lead to a rise in racial and religious profiling.

The seminar brochure says training will be provided on al-Shabaab, “an Islamic Extremist Organization,” and says that topics covered will include “Clans and Sub Clans,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Youth Gangs,” “Transition to America” and “Somali Culture.”

But Waite Park Police Chief Dave Bentrud says the event is simply a bid to better understand the local Somali population. Spokespersons for Waite Park police and Catholic Charities also say the training presentation was revised Monday to reflect concerns that the terror group al-Shabaab could be unfairly portrayed as being linked to Islam as a whole.

A flier for the training event lists al-Shabaab as an “Islamic Extremist” organization. Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based al-Qaeda affiliate, has been listed as a foreign terrorist organization since 2008, according to the U.S. State Department.

For more on Minnesota’s Somali problem see Refugee Resettlement Watch, our archives, and The missing Somali men.

Minneapolis High School Locked Down After Somali Muslims & Blacks Brawl (updated with video)

Obama’s America. Silence from just about everywhere. via Minneapolis South High On Lockdown After Large Fight « CBS Minnesota.

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.

The school posted a note on its website stating the high school was placed on a precautionary code yellow lockdown due to “a food fight that escalated into a physical fight.”

Sgt. William Palmer, of the Minneapolis Police Department, said no weapons were involved in the incidents. However, four people were taken to the hospital following the melee.

Twelve people complained that they had been sprayed with mace. Police at the scene said they had to use chemical agent to get crowd under control as they were being pelted with objects as they tried to break things up.

The main incident occurred during the third period lunch, around 12:45 p.m. and lasted about 15 minutes. Staff members responded to the incident and followed security procedures, according to the school.

One student, Abdi Sheikh, said he saw hundreds of students fighting in what appeared to be a racial incident.

“A big riot,” he said. “All types of races.”

Sheikh said about 20 police rushed into the school shortly after.

Another student said an initial fight happened during the school’s first lunch period. By the time the third lunch period started, all the hype from the first fight caused tensions to boil over.

“My lunch was third lunch,” she said. “There was fight after fight after fight. People couldn’t breathe. It was very scary.”

She said the fights were over pride.

“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.”

Odd. Most of the Muslims in Minnesota are black Somali’s and black leaders overwhelmingly promote Islam. Where will black convert to Islam Keith Ellison come down on this?

There was video but Youtube yanked it. Videos back:

And

Related:

• Somali Muslims “out for blood” at Minnesota high school

• Somali’s Causing Tension in Rochester, Minn. Schools

• Immigrant Mom Says Somali Muslims fueling gang violence

St. Paul cop apologizes…for dressing as Muslim woman for Halloween

Kindergarten Nation. We’ve become a nation of whiny ass babies where protected classes can’t be made fun of in any way. h/t kaba

Pig in a blanket?

via St. Paul cop apologizes for photo of him dressed as Muslim woman | StarTribune.com.

A St. Paul police K-9 officer issued an apology Tuesday for dressing in a hijab for Halloween and posing for a picture that exploded on the Internet in the Twin Cities’ Somali and Muslim communities this past weekend.

“I apologize to anyone who may have been offended by the recently publicized photo which showed me at a private Halloween party on my personal time,” said officer Robert Buth. “I sincerely regret that the image, which was never intended to become public, may have been viewed to be insensitive to the Muslim community.”

The picture was posted on Twitter about 10 weeks ago, and resurfaced Sunday night. Local Somali and Muslim community members began discussing the image online and brought it to the attention of the police department’s Twitter account.

Police Chief Thomas Smith opened an investigation Monday, and issued a statement saying that he expected all officers to respect diversity.

Smith is expected to issue another statement Tuesday regarding Buth’s apology.

Community members and activists said the image was insulting because it mocked Muslim and Somali culture, and because it appeared as though Buth went to great lengths to stereotype Somali women who work at Target stores.

In the picture, Buth is wearing a red jilbaab, an especially concealing and conservative type of hijab, has a cell phone tucked between his face and the garment and sports a Target name tag with a very common Somali name.

Target Corp. spokeswoman Molly Snyder has said that the officer has provided off-duty security at a local Target store.

Buth has worked for the department since 1999. He  received an oral reprimand in 2000 for an accident, and was suspended for one day in 2003 for excessive force. He has 14 thank-you letters and letters of recognition in his personnel file, and received a medal of merit in 2005.

“I am proud to be a Saint Paul police officer,” Buth wrote in his apology. “I have enjoyed working with all of our diverse communities and look forward to working to repairing any damage which may have been caused.”

 Tattletale Nation too, lead by whiny ass “journalists”:

Mukhtar Ibrahim, a journalist in Washington, D.C., had directed a tweet at the St. Paul Police Twitter account over the weekend, asking about the photo.

Voter intimidation and fraud, politician’s frequenting underage Dominican hookers, Muslim congressman accepting hajj trips paid by Muslim Brotherhood groups and lying about it – no tips for cops. But dress as a Muslim for Halloween at a private party and it’s major news requiring an investigation and formal apology.

Maybe Mukhtar Ibrahim could help cops find out who is recruiting young Muslims in Minnesota to join al Shabaab and wage jihad. Maybe he could find out who the dozen young Muslims in this video are who harass innocent Minnesotan’s walking home. Or the Somali Muslim gangs who videotape attacks on infidels in Minnesota. But don’t hold your breath.

Minneapolis, Columbus cops and firefighters seek to hire Somalis

Equal opportunity? Not so  much. h/t RRW

via Minneapolis, Columbus seek to hire Somalis in public safety | The Columbus Dispatch.

About 35 young men showed up at a meeting in Minneapolis last week to find out how to join the city’s fire department.

They were all from the local Somali community, which is the nation’s largest.

Community leaders organized the meeting because Minnesota’s largest city is making an effort this year to recruit from the Somali and eastern African communities, said Casidy Anderson, the fire department’s community risk-reduction officer. “It’s important for the fire department that it reflects the face of the community,” Anderson said.

Columbus is making a similar effort and is hiring a consultant to work with both the fire and police divisions to increase diversity.

“There is a targeted approach to reach out not just to the Somali community but to all immigrant communities,” said Napoleon Bell, the executive director of the Columbus Community Relations Commission. Columbus is home to the country’s second-largest Somali population. Some are hesitant to apply to become a police officer or firefighter because they don’t trust authorities, based on bad experiences where they came from, Bell said.

The city is to begin a 35-member fire-recruit class in June.

“We think we need to rebrand our product,” Fire Chief Gregory Paxton said. “People don’t understand what opportunities are available in public safety.”

Rebrand your product? WTF? It’s not a product. It’s a job. Paid for by citizens and thus should be open to all citizens not specific segments of the population.

People with Somali backgrounds can act as interpreters and liaisons between safety forces and the community, said Hassan Omar, who leads the Somali Community Association of Ohio.

Minneapolis is aiming for younger members of the Somali community who have grown up in America and are more comfortable with the idea of joining the fire department, Anderson said. “It’s almost like they’re straddling two cultures,” Anderson said.

Cherie Penn, the assistant chief of administration for the Minneapolis Fire Department, said the Somalis are one segment of the population being recruited in an effort to diversify its work force overall.

Minneapolis hasn’t hired firefighters in seven years, Anderson said.

Abdirizak Bihi, the executive director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, said Somali women also are being encouraged to apply to be firefighters.

They’ve followed Somali’s demands in the past.

Communities in the Twin Cities area began hiring Somali police officers about a decade ago, after Somali leaders demanded it, Bihi said. He estimated there are seven now, including three in Minneapolis. St. Paul just hired its first Somali officer.

The Minneapolis fire department wants to make sure it reflects the changing face of the city, Anderson said. “The Somali community is here. They are here to stay.”

Cops and firefighters will be selecting from a community that has wreaked havoc on local citizens, schools and law enforcement agencies across the country. And for that they are rewarded. Expect sharia concessions like prayer rooms, halal food, paid prayer breaks, gender segregated tasks, and Islamic holidays to follow shortly thereafter. Lawsuits as well.

And who can forget when Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. 15 died.

Minneapolis: Mom Sentenced to 10 Years for Death of Daughter

via Mpls. Mom Sentenced To 10 Years For Death Of Daughter « CBS Minnesota. h/t Refugee Resettlement Watch

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 23-year-old Minneapolis woman was sentenced Friday to more than 10 years in prison for the second-degree murder of her daughter.

Deqa Mohamed Yusuf pleaded guilty to the murder charge in November and will spend 128 months in prison for the death of her 2-year-old daughter.

According to the criminal complaint, just before midnight on May 31, police were sent to Yusuf’s apartment. She was screaming that her daughter was dead, as Yusuf had left her daughter in a nearly full tub while she grabbed something from another room.

Police say her blood alcohol level was more than .20 at the hospital later on that night, and her daughter was pronounced dead on June 17 from the May 31 incident.

There had reportedly been efforts through child protection by friends and relatives to help Yusuf overcome her alcoholism and be a better parent.

CAIR releases video of new #MyJihad PR push (video)

What? That wasn’t the CAIR propaganda video lying about jihad? True. We decided to join the #MyJihad effort by occasionally reposting videos of Muslims in America waging various types of…jihad. That was from a 2009 post Somali Muslim kids in Minnesota assault gay guy.

It’s always better to watch and listen to Muslims in their own actions and words. Here’s some more via Jihad: The Highest Peak of Islam

The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) stated in one hadith, “The head of its matter is Islam and its pillar is the Salah and its highest peak is the Jihad.”

The discussion concerning Jihad is taking place throughout the Ummah and indeed many misunderstandings and distortions, some deliberate, have come forth. Some of these have been propagated by the likes of the government scholars both in the West and in the Muslim World, such as Jihad an-Nafs, Jihad against oneself and Jihad as a defensive war only.

We must realise that Jihad is a pillar of Islam and was described as its peak by Sayyidina Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). It is the thing, which Allah (Subhanahu Wa ta’ala) in the Qur’an states that gives the Ummah life; indeed Umar ibn al Khattab (ra) stated, “There is no izza (honour) without Jihad”. Hence any misunderstanding of this vital concept would have huge ramifications. Hence, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of Jihad and make clear these corruptions, which have been propagated by the Kuffar, their agent rulers and their “scholars”.

Jihad an-Nafs

Some have attempted to justify their stance on this concept with what is apparently intended as a daleel (Islamic evidence), and so have used a narration to justify this concept of Jihad an-Nafs or dealing with all the political and military problems we face by becoming introspective or looking inwardly as opposed to looking at the Ahkam Shari’ah and seeing what Allah (Subhanahu Wa ta’ala) has demanded from us.

So they use what they claim is a hadith, or saying of Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), “We have returned from the lesser Jihad to the greater Jihad, that is the struggle against the evil of oneself.”This is in fact a fabrication and is known as Mawdu’ (spurious). Hafidh al Iraqi and Ibn Hajar al Asqalani, who were hadith masters and muhaditheen, who memorised one hundred thousand hadith by Isnad and were qualified to scrutinise hadith and their authenticity, stated that this was not a saying of the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) but was in fact a statement that was made by someone in the later generation named Ibrahim ibn Abi Yabla. Hence, this is not considered an evidence in the Islamic Shari’ah.

To elaborate further, it is in contradiction with the subject matter of Jihad that has been elaborated in over a hundred ayat of the Qur’an that have come with the meaning of Jihad being Qitaal, which means to slay or to kill or to fight. This was how the Prophet (Sallallahu Sallallahu “>Alaihi Wasallam) and the Sahabah (ra) understood it. To give an example from the Seerah that was narrated by Ibn Majah with a source in Bukhari, woman came to the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) and asked “O Messenger of Allah! Is Jihad obliged upon the women?” To which he responded, “Yes, a Jihad without Qitaal (fighting), it is the Hajj and the Umrah!”

This clearly demonstrates that Jihad is Qitaal i.e. Jihad is undertaking the physical fighting and this is how it was understood by the woman and the Prophet (Sallallahu Sallallahu “>Alaihi Wasallam), as explained in the Prophet’s (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) answer i.e. Jihad in Islam means fighting.

Continue reading here for much more of the article written by and for Muslims.

Bachmann: ‘Game over’ for America if any dissent of Islam criminalized

via Michele Bachmann says Obama wants to ‘lift up the Islamists’ and allow Sharia law in America | Mail Online.

The congresswoman, who won the Republican presidential straw poll in Ames, Iowa, in 2011 and who narrowly won re-election to the House of Representatives last month, said that Americans who are not Islamists will ‘lose their right of speech and expression’ because there was ‘no tolerance for dissent or disagreeing in any way with the goals or the beliefs of the Islamists’.

She said: ‘Not just verbal speech, but written, a cartoon, a painting, whatever it is, if it is in any way construed as being against Islam that is where the confrontation comes from the Islamist world and they want to stop anyone in the world from saying anything negative about Islam.

‘Which means there is only one free speech right and that would belong to the Islamists. Everyone else would lose their right of speech and expression.’

It would be ‘game over’ for America’ if free speech were denied because ‘once you criminalised anti-Islamic speech, anything that we would say that would be critical in any way of anything Islam does would be considered criminalised.’

She continued: ‘That’s why I say it is game over; the Islamists will have won everything. That’s why they are willing to put ten years [link] into achieving this objective of silencing any form of dissent to Islam.’

At this point ‘Sharia Islamic law in effect becomes the law of the land because the Islamist gets to have the authority, not anyone who opposes Islam’.

Take the time to listen to the full interview and bonus interview at the links below:

• Caution: Free Speech at Risk
• Web Bonus: Caution: Free Speech at Risk