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Somali children leave US for Jihad

by tikun | February 21, 2009 at 11:54 pm

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Parents of Somalis living in America believe their teenage children returned to homeland in order to fight with Islamist rebels against Western-backed government; Abubakar Alsiddiq mosque in Minneapolis denies accusations it pushes disappeared children to fight in African country

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dozens of Somali children have left the United States in secret to join the Islamist fight against the foreign forces in Somalia.

The largest group comes from Somali families in Minneapolis and Minnesota.

Halima Abdi, a mother of five from Minneapolis describes how one of her children went missing in the US and then called her from Mogadishu.

Abdi says she was surprised when her son didn't come home after she sent him to school on November 2.

“I had returned from work and asked my other children where my son Mohamed Yasin was; but they said they hadn't seen him all day,” Abdi says.

She reported the 14-year-old boy to the police as missing, but they could not find him.

After 10 days she gave up looking for him. One day, she says, a young boy called their phone from Somalia, saying, “Mum, it’s your son Mohamed; I came to Mogadishu to fight against the enemies of Somalia.”

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israeli.agent

at 00:18 on February 22nd, 2009

This is an old news, still very relevent. Reminds me of an age old Indian proverb.

"If you put a leech in a feather bed to sleep, it will again crawl back to the shit hole where it came from ".

.Agent.

djermano

at 01:20 on February 22nd, 2009

Tikun,

This makes no sense...can't fix your own troubles, so you write this nonsense?

israeli.agent

at 02:22 on February 22nd, 2009

I disagree, djermano. At times we have to accept that things are not at all happening like we dream.

The news is here

Somali youth leaving Minneapolis to fight

This is despite the US government's (and public's) best effort to get them a decent life . Maybe it is kid thing, but it happens however.

.Agent.

tikun

at 03:39 on February 22nd, 2009

Good to hear from you djermano,

I didnt write anything just put it up. What troubles are you refering too that I have that you know about that I am having trouble fixing? Nonsense to you but apparently not ot others that feel the pain of seeing their children leave and go and fight with terrorists.

Also, you should not get so upset and emotional about a story it is not becoming of a non-violent person.

djermano

at 03:32 on February 22nd, 2009

Why would they leave the US to fight....when they can do more damage because they are inside the country? Sounds pretty ignorant.

Now your link explains it more.....by saying perhaps they are staying in the US to plan terrorists attacks.

Well get this Agent...I am a Christian who left the USA, not to join a fight but to end my participation in the fighting. It is about work, and paying taxes, to support the military complex. My religion is Nonviolence, but I am kicked out of the US, because it is impossible for me to stay. I refuse to allow my tax dollars to finance militaries and war. But it is OK for terrorists to live there, because they pay money to the government to continue wars on other nations. The Somali Kids maybe see this? They see themselves as a burden to Mom and Dad who work, and know that they have to pay taxes to finance the Military Complex....so they leave home.

Seems bizarre....America can not have Nonviolent people live there because its very system is anti-Nonviolent. I do all the things possible to not do acts of violence and I am forced out of the USA.... What a sham......

Bro. Jermano

tikun

at 03:40 on February 22nd, 2009

There is always a place for you in America as an American. That is where your fight seems to be. It seems you have other issues that have nothing to do with the US of A.

djermano

at 04:05 on February 22nd, 2009

......I didnt write anything just put it up. What troubles are you refering too that I have that you know about that I am having trouble fixing?

And you didn't tell the whole story, as Agent linked. Suggesting they are terrorists on the loose in the USA......The trouble that most Americans don't want to send tax money to Israel any longer to fund your endless mindless wars.

......Also, you should not get so upset and emotional about a story it is not becoming of a non-violent person.

You know everything about violence don't you Tikun......makes you feel like a man to push people around right? Gives you that control feeling right?

....There is always a place for you in America as an American. That is where your fight seems to be. It seems you have other issues that have nothing to do with the US of A.

That is the point Tikun....there is no place for me in the land of murder, death and organized crime. Yes I am exactly that......I have nothing to do with the USA....

Bro. Jermano