"Islaminnesota"
Andrew McCarthy at National Review has an article available online for subscribers only that Power Line provides some details from about how Minnesota is becoming an enclave of Somali Muslims, among others, perhaps more so than Michigan:
Minnesota, with its huge influx of Somali immigrants sowing Muslim enclaves, is a harbinger of things to come. The state was the site of the infamous 2006 "flying imams" incident, in which six Muslim clerics were thrown off a flight after allegedly intimidating passengers and crew by aping the behavior of the 9/11 hijackers. They complained and filed a lawsuit with the assistance of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- a Brotherhood-rooted organization whose communications director has advocated the conversion of the U.S. into a sharia state (and some of whose members have been implicated in terrorism investigations). Our craven federal government reacted by subjecting 45,000 airport-security officers to Islamic sensitivity training. On its website, the Department of Homeland Security published a CAIR press release, which brayed about the fact that CAIR was regularly asked to advise DHS agencies on matters of Islamic culture. Remarkably, even as DHS and the FBI were "partnering" with CAIR, the Justice Department was citing the "civil rights" organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.Scott Hinderaker adds a little more about Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress:
In Minneapolis, cab drivers began refusing to ferry airport passengers believed to be carrying alcohol. Rather than revoking licenses, state authorities opted to consult the Muslim American Society, perhaps the Brotherhood's principal American arm. Afterwards, the cabbies were cajoled into providing service -- not because their discriminatory practice was wrong but on the (dubious) theory that sharia was not actually violated if alcohol was only transported, not consumed.
Minnesota schools are also in the jihad's sights. A graduate education student was ousted from a high school last year while doing course-required field work. Prone to seizures, the student required the assistance of a specially trained dog. Sharia, however, pronounces canines unclean and prohibits touching them. The Muslim teens threatened to kill the dog. When the student complained, his university shamefully capitulated, awarding him credit without the requisite course-work. An official rationalized that it was "important to respect different cultures" and that the accommodation was simply "part of the growth process when we become more diverse."
"Accommodation," meanwhile, may have reached a new level regarding Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) in Inner Grove Heights, Minn.: taxpayer funding for what appears to be a madrassa camouflaged as a charter school. TIZA is sponsored by an entity called "Islamic Relief," and its executive director is a Muslim imam. It is housed in the headquarters of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (the declared mission of which is "establishing Islam in Minnesota"), in a building that also contains a mosque. Students pray daily, eat halal meals, and attend "Islamic studies" courses -- officially, after the close of the regular school day, but witness accounts suggest it is more like a staple of the regular workload.
And that's not all Minnesotans are funding. The state has recently taken to facilitating "Muslim mortgages." Sharia does not permit interest to be assessed in financial transactions. One might think that's not a government's problem -- but Minnesota now buys homes from willing sellers and then resells them to Muslim buyers in transactions that disguise interest by higher costs and fees. That is, American taxpayer dollars are employed to promote conformance with Islamic law.
McCarthy doesn't even mention that Minneapolis is represented in Congress by Keith Ellison, the left-wing Democrat who is famous as Congress's first Muslim. Ellison embodies the American left's weird alliance with radical Islam. How Ellison reconciles his Islamic faith with the Democratic Party's devout belief in homosexual rights, leftist feminism, abortion rights and every other element of the party's most radical agenda is a subject that the media have somehow left unexplored. We have yet to learn of the branch of Islam that comports with the dogmas of the left.Minnesota clearly does have a very corrupt state government system that needs to be cleaned up as much as Illinois does. Those residents of Minnesota who don't want their state being overtaken by this kind of monstrosity are going to have to start speaking out.
Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, United States
