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October 1, 2017 — John Hinderaker
You have probably heard about last night’s terrorist attack in Edmonton. It began when a man driving a Chevrolet Malibu crashed through a police barrier associated with a sports event and struck an Edmonton police officer, throwing him 15 feet through the air. The terrorist, who had an ISIS flag in the front seat of his vehicle, then jumped out of the car and attacked the officer with a knife,
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March 10, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Scott wrote this morning about the costs of Minnesota’s Somali refugee population to the state. He discussed, among other things, an article in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune that contains information about the cost of welfare benefits to Minnesota’s Somali refugee population. The Strib’s spin on the issue is a positive one: yes, temporary welfare costs are high, but just wait until all those refugees go to work and benefit the
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March 10, 2017 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota’s large and ever increasing Somali population is the ultimate protected minority in our left-wing utopia. The Somalis are black. The Somalis are Muslim. The Somalis vote Democratic. As I never tire of noting, in October 2015 Governor Mark Dayton instructed “white, B-plus, Minnesota-born citizens” to suppress their qualms about immigrant resettlement in Minnesota. If they can’t, they should “find another state,” he advised. We are directed to adjust and
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November 28, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
This morning, Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove his car into a group of students at Ohio State University and then jumped out of the vehicle to slash others with a butcher’s knife. Ten people were hospitalized as a result. A campus police officer finally put an end to the attack by shooting Artan dead. Artan was a student at OSU and a resident of Franklin Township, Ohio. According to neighbors,
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June 5, 2016 — Scott Johnson
We are all painfully familiar with the journalistic genre portraying the suffering of favored groups. That would be groups favored by the journalists. The satirical headline that captures the genre gives us the New York Times’s take on the apocalypse: “World ends, women & minorities hardest hit.” Credit is due to someone for the shaft of light cast by that parody headline. NewsBusters credits comedian Mort Sahl, still going strong
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June 2, 2015 — John Hinderaker
Ami Horowitz goes to the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis, near the University of Minnesota, and asks residents–Somali immigrants or their children–some questions. Is it hard to be a Muslim in America? Which do you prefer, American law or sharia law? Should people who mock the Prophet Muhammad be killed? Where would you rather live, America or Somalia? This last one, at least, seems like a solvable problem. Funny that no
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April 28, 2015 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday’s Star Tribune featured Paul McEnroe’s page-one story “Minneapolis nonprofit tests program to pull teens from terror’s grasp.” Taking off on the arrest of the Minneapolis based Somali six who sought to depart these parts to join ISIS, the article focuses on an experimental program implemented under the auspices of Heartland Democracy to divert Somalis from such a path. Mary McKinley is the nonprofit’s executive director; Ahmed Amin is a
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April 26, 2015 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota authorities have gone deep in search of taxpayer funds to lavish on Somali immigrants in the name of “outreach.” Someone should probably reach out to the supporters of the local Minnesota based Somalis recently charged with seeking to depart these parts in order to join ISIS, but I wonder if we have a government program in process to help Minnesota taxpayers resolve anger management issues arising from reports like
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September 30, 2014 — Scott Johnson
We’ve got a problem in the Twin Cities that is based in our large and still growing population of Somali immigrants. Somalis have been immigrating to Minnesota for more than twenty years now. They have taken advantage of all the services that our state and local institutions offer. They have been welcomed with open arms, in Minnesota’s characteristic style. Yet Minnesota’s Somali community — a/k/a “Minnesotans” — is the most
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January 20, 2014 — Scott Johnson
Today’s Star Tribune features a formulaic story by Randy Furst from the usual heart-tugging angle: “Somali woman living in Willmar can’t get her husband into U.S.” Deep into the story a small dose of reality is permitted to intrude: A State Department spokeswoman said that “most administrative processing is resolved within 60 days of the visa interview, but the timing can vary based on the individual circumstances of each case.”
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October 7, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
Information is beginning to emerge about the Navy SEALs raid in Somalia that failed (apparently; we are not sure) to kill or capture its target, an al-Shabab commander named Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, also known as Ikrima. For me, the information contained in this Washington Post report raises more questions than it answers. According to the Post, the commander in charge of the raid had the authority to call for an
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September 30, 2013 — Scott Johnson
With the horrendous terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Somali al Qaeda affiliate al Shabab is back in the news. We still don’t know the identity of the perpetrators, or whether any of them had made their way to al Shabab from Minnesota or points elsewhere in the United States. I trust that time will. For now we have the New York Times visit to Minneapolis to pass
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September 25, 2013 — Steven Hayward
Update: When last we checked in on the seafaring antics of Greenpeace, we found that they weren’t faring so well up in Russian waters. The no-nonsense Russians said they were ready to open fire on Greenpeace ships that interfered with their Arctic energy projects. Better than firing on a Greenpeace ship? Arresting and charging them with piracy. From the Wall Street Journal today: MOSCOW—Russia has opened a piracy case against
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April 22, 2009 — John Hinderaker
One might think that a Somali pirate, captured in the Indian Ocean and brought to the United States to stand trial, would be without friends, allies and financial supporters in this country. But no: it turns out that a veritable Pirates’ Aid Society exists, right here in Minnesota. We’ve written about the connections between the Somali community here in the Twin Cities (the nation’s largest) and Somali terrorists. Similarly, local
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April 11, 2009 — Paul Mirengoff
At one level, this front-page headline from today’s Washingon Post inadvertently makes President Obama sound a bit ridiculous. The group in question, al-Shabab, is a terrorist outfit that, according to the Post, has ties with al-Qaeda and is training new terrorists including some Americans. What’s to mull? As a general matter, however, there’s nothing inherently wrong with an adminstration carefully thinking things through before resorting to force. Unfortunately, the Post’s
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November 19, 2008 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported the story of the seizure of the Saudi oil supertanker MV Sirius Star by Somali pirates. John wrote about it last night here. Mark Steyn comments here. Reader Charles Barker is a former Coast Guard officer who writes: A 25-member crew is very typical for a merchant tanker. Three teams, each working two four-hour watches per day, with three on the bridge and three in
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January 10, 2007 — John Hinderaker
Somalian officials say that according to American intelligence reports, the planner if the 1998 African embassy bombings, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, was among those killed in the AC130 strikes that took place earlier this week. Airstrikes have continued, but the same Somalian officials say that American special forces will be needed to finish rooting out the remaining al Qaeda enclaves. They also say that they expect such American forces to be
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