This report shows the problem not only with anti-assimilationist multiculturalism but with the mincing political correctness that makes it impossible to tell the truth about the danger of importing violent Muslims from war zones into our country and allowing them to ghettoize themselves. Somali American Muslims have already been found fighting the Jihad in Somalia, participating in hate crimes against non-Muslims and of course Denver cyanide terror suspect Saleman Abdirahman Dirie was a Somali Muslim from Canada who likely received financial and material support form the American Somali community.
Now this report from MyWay News shows that Somali gangs are out of control in Minneapolis and the police are basically powerless to stop it:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Ahmednur Ali’s family fled the chaos and violence of their West African homeland Somalia in the 1990s, eventually making their way to Minnesota like thousands of their compatriots.
While many of the estimated 32,000 Somalis who settled in the state have struggled to adapt, Ali flourished, blazing a path to Minneapolis’ Augsburg College on a soccer scholarship by age 20. He studied political science and aspired to a political career modeled on President Barack Obama’s.
He was shot and killed last September outside a busy community center where he worked part-time as a youth counselor, and prosecutors said the 16-year-old accused of killing him was part of a gang.
Ali was one of seven Minneapolis-area Somali men killed over a 10-month period, and authorities believe all were killed by fellow Somalis. Police say it’s too simple to tie all the killings to Somali gangs, which have lured hundreds of young community members to their ranks in recent years.
Those in the insular community willing to speak out, however, disagree.
“It was all gang activity, totally, 100 percent,” said Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer who estimated in a 2007 report for the city that between 400 and 500 young Somalis were active in gangs. “The police don’t want to say that but everybody else knows that.”
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. More than half of Minnesota’s Somalis are living in poverty, according to state statistics, and many complain that authorities are biased against Somalis because of their Islamic faith.
Last month, prosecutors dropped the murder charge against the teenage boy in Ali’s case after one witness backed out and another apparently fled the state.
Gangs like the Somali Hot Boyz, the Somali Mafia and Madhibaan with Attitude have grown more active in recent years, said Jeanine Brudenell, the Minneapolis Police Department’s Somali liaison officer.
This coddling of Somali Muslim sensibilities is in part the reason their community is so easily overrun by gangs. I will bet you that part of the problem in Minneapolis is tension between hardliner Muslims and semi-modern gang members vying for control of the community. A community which has either imported or developed a “no snitchin'” mentality that has turned them into a population of sheep preyed on by wolves from their own community.
Almost two years ago I blogged about the rape committed by Somali immigrant Rage Ibrahim who brutally violated a Somali woman in a apartment complex hallway monitored by video camera. The tape shows that at least ten of the woman’s fellow immigrants opened their doors, saw what happened and did nothing. The Somali Justice Center, a hotbed of radical Islam, claimed Rage was innocent even though he was on tape raping a woman.
More recently I blogged about video surfacing of Somali children throwing rocks at and harassing a gay man on a Minnesota street in broad daylight:
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Clearly there is more wrong in the Somali community than a few hundred gang members. But don’t expect to read that in any news report.