Twin Cities Somalis protest against … CAIR?
posted at 9:30 am on June 13, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
When a young Somali man disappeared from the Twin Cities and committed a suicide bombing in his home country — and when several of his fellow Muslims from the same mosque disappeared as well — the local Somali community wanted answers. They wanted to get those answers from the FBI, but as they soon discovered, another force didn’t want those answers at all. The Somalis took to the streets yesterday in opposition to the kibbitzers:
Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men.
At a protest outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of Burhan Hassan, who relatives say was killed last week in Mogadishu by a terrorist group, accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter of discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI.
“We don’t want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up,” Bihi said. “Law enforcement will not be able to do anything without information from the community.”
About 50 people attended the rally, waving signs and hollering, “CAIR out! Doublespeak out!”
Have CAIR officials interfered with an FBI investigation and tampered with witnesses? Both would be federal crimes, as would obstruction of justice. Any coordinated effort to do any of the three would add conspiracy charges. The FBI should take note of the protest and find out why their investigation may not be going as smoothly as they hoped.
Besides, why is CAIR so interested in shutting up Muslims who want to cooperate to find their sons before they might commit suicide as well? An organization that wanted to serve American Muslims should be more interested in finding the missing young men than in silencing their families. Unless, of course, CAIR has a completely different agenda.
Even without the speculation, clearly CAIR has angered the community it purports to represent.
Update: Just to make clear, the suicide bomber and the disappearances were long before the murder of Burkhan Hassan, whose death in Mogadishu just got confirmed. Hassan disappeared at the same time as the others from the Abubakar Mosque, last November.
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Deserving people should be rewarded. It is nice to see this happen.
burt on February 15, 2013 at 5:41 PM
America ALWAYS getshe government it deserves so excuse me for NOT being shocked that the CLUELESS democrats in Minnesota discovered they just sat on a barbwired enema tube.
Actions have consequences just as does lethargy.
DannoJyd on February 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM
To quote a now decades old movie “Welcome to the party, pal!”
Fynxbell on February 15, 2013 at 5:51 PM
Bend Forward!
DavidM on February 15, 2013 at 6:25 PM
Wisconsin definitely doesn’t want these business people moving in, especially that Taft guy. They would just bring their big government mindset with them. They still haven’t really learned the lesson that stupid people like them should have learned, they just think that it’s not fair that their businesses were affected.
AZfederalist on February 15, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Ah…of course. It’s Daddy’s business and this hippy dipstick inherited it and is in the process of running it into the ground. That’s pretty much the sissy/liberal model — born with money, happy to call for higher taxes…until.
Jaibones on February 15, 2013 at 8:25 PM
I’d tell him he can’t move. You wanted Dayton, now you got him. Live with it.
TulsAmerican on February 15, 2013 at 9:15 PM
You reap what you sow.
COgirl on February 15, 2013 at 11:03 PM
Better to move to the Dakotas. They have oil and gas and lower taxes. Also, if there is the “divorce”, they will be on the right side.
Mirimichi on February 16, 2013 at 1:22 AM
Higher taxes!
Oh wait, I thought that meant higher taxes for everyone else?
It’s very simple to understand. When you are frivolously spending, you very quickly run out of other people’s money.
Democrats can simply not deliver the utopia they’ve promised. It’s collapsing the economy and that destruction will continue until people realize it’s the big lie.
Look no further than states like Wisconsin and Texas for models that work.
Demonizing people doesn’t work when folks can look across the border and see how much better their neighbor is doing.
Marcus Traianus on February 16, 2013 at 6:41 AM
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/02/video-axelrod-dodges-the-better-off-four-years-ago-question/comment-page-1/#comments
rogerb on February 16, 2013 at 6:45 AM
I support Obama!–No wait!!!
You screwed yourselves and the rest of us along with you.
I don’t like you very much.
Sherman1864 on February 16, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Don’t worry libfree Governor Moonshine and the DFL plan on expanding our Sales tax as well. When corporations pay more in taxes they pass that expense on to their customers. Eventually the end user pays all of those expenses + profit or the business goes under. Voting DFL always means trickle down taxation.
jpmn on February 16, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Ah Minnesota Schadenfreude, brewed in the state, kept in secret dark liberal think tanks, only served at the start of a term in office and denied that they wanted it. Best served ice cold with a hint of hypocrisy to give that burst of irony. You wanted it Minnesota, now drink rhe Witches brew you voted for, as we laugh at the ” elections have consequences” reactions. Sweet for me but not for thee. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
stormridercx4 on February 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Great comment thread but I have to say this: I live in a 3rd ring suburb of the Mpls/St.Paul geography. I’ve watched the Dems leave Mpls and St. Paul b/c of crime and taxes. But they move out and continue to vote Democrat.
Either they’re too stupid to figure out it’s the Democrat policies that cause the problems or ?????? can’t think of anything else. But the worst is, those of us who “get it” get stuck with them and their fantasy world of a better city through OPP (other people’s money) in their new city.
Lefties will never get it – they won’t listen. During gun hearings this past week, the Dems left when challenged by people who understood what’s at stake with taking away our guns.
Then there’s our questionable elections but not for today.
MN J on February 16, 2013 at 10:35 PM
If things are that bad, MOVE! I did when I discovered there was no way I could have an actual life in Illinois, and my family thinks it was the best idea I’ve ever had, while my friends still in ChiTcago think I was nuts to do so.
Today they remain cowering in their overpriced shacks scared that today will be THE DAY they are attacked by the criminal element there. The mere thought of a firearm scars them as well.
DannoJyd on February 17, 2013 at 1:09 AM
‘Ones Demise is always one’s own making’
Hello Voters… You’re screwed! Guess who’s to blame!?
I’ll give you a hint: there’s a bullet sized hole in your shoe and there’s a smoking gun in your hand.
Chaz706 on February 17, 2013 at 1:31 AM
It is great to see another Blue State going down the same crapper as my own native state of California. Just keep voting Democrat, people. That will equal high taxes, a terrible business climate, and a bankrupt state. That must be the “attributes” that this hippie whack-job wants.
Rogervzv on February 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Yet, after the 2008 campaign of Hope and Change, and four years of destroying the republic, topped with 2012 campaign of Forward, ole JugEars earns fore more years to complete his destruction of the US.
Way to go, Libs.
socalcon on February 17, 2013 at 9:45 PM
The Captain Louis Renault award is off base.
Captain Louis Renault was handed his winnings at the end. The productive people of Minnesota are being handed the bill.
krome on February 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM
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