Ilhan Omar’s District Shown By FBI Data As Terrorist Recruitment Capital Of The U.S.
The more we learn about freshman Representative Ilhan Omar, the more there is to be concerned about. In just a few short weeks in Congress, she has revealed herself to be a virulent anti-Semite, as well as a defender of terrorists, and the list of questionable issues surrounding her past and present continue to expand. Recent FBI data shows that her district in Minnesota just “happens” to be the hottest place in the USA to be trained as a terrorist!
One of two newly elected Muslim congresswomen, both of them known antisemites, reportedly grew up in what has been dubbed the terrorist recruitment capital of the United States.
“More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country,” Fox News reported Saturday, citing data from the FBI.
The data specifically shows that over the past 12 years, a total of 45 Muslims have departed from the Minnesota city to go join a radical Islamic troop, be it ISIS or al-Shabab. And of this 45, roughly a dozen Somalis left as recently as 2018 and some even reportedly this year.
“Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled,” Fox notes.
It just so happens that the family of notoriously antisemitic congresswoman Ilhan Omar — who in recent weeks has berated a Jewish-American diplomat and suggested Jews use money to manipulate U.S. politicians — relocated to Minneapolis from Somalia in 1995.
The 37-year-old lawmaker essentially grew up in the city known as the terrorist recruitment capital of the U.S. Is this a mere coincidence or is it suggestive of something more?
While there’s no clear answer, Omar’s record certainly doesn’t look good. Three years ago she wrote a letter to a judge asking that he show “compassion” to three Somali defendants who had at the time were slated to be sentenced for trying to join ISIS.
In her letter the Muslim congresswoman appeared to excuse the defendants’ actions, writing that they “chose violence to combat direct marginalization” and claiming that “[t]he desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequences of systematic alienation.”
“[P]eople seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them,” she continued, echoing the sentiment among far-leftists that the root of Islamic terrorism isn’t Islam but rather so-called “marginalization” and even a lack of good jobs.
But the recruitment of young Somalis has nothing to do with jobs.
“Recruitment takes place online as well as face-to-face radicalization, sometimes with promises of what appears to be legitimate opportunities. For al-Shabab, they focus mainly on the negative impact of US counterterrorism policies — like targeted assassinations and drone strikes that sometimes kill innocent civilians in Somalia – to attract recruits and sympathizers,” David Otto, the director and counterterrorism program coordinator at Global Risk International, said to Fox.
“They blame the failures of government on foreign intervention and link it to the reason why most Somalians have escaped home. The promise that al-Shabaab will restore a Sharia state and get rid of the government is somewhat attractive.”
It’s all about anti-Americanism, which incidentally is an ideology at which Omar seems to excel. Last week she berated the Trump administration’s Special Envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, about his past work in the Reagan administration promoting democracy in Latin America.
Her defense of a group of would-be terrorists is clear-cut proof of this, according to Rudolph Atallah, former Africa Counterterrorism Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
“Rep. Omar is asking for our justice system to support known terrorists. This sets an extremely poor precedence and should not be allowed. She clearly has a bias and an agenda and does not understand what the United States truly stands for,” he said.
She does indeed have an agenda, and it’s odd how her agenda seems to share much in common with the agenda of those radical Islamic groups that seek to recruit terrorists from Minneapolis.
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