The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been very successful in recruiting Americans and other Westerners to their cause, but the lure to join jihadist movements seems particularly popular in metro Minneapolis.
Earlier this week, American Douglas McAuthur McCain was identified as an ISIS member slain in Syria. Today, another American slain in the same battle was ID’d as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, who grew up in the same town and went to high school with McCain.
Coincidence? Maybe not. McCain’s best friend in high school was Troy Kastigar, who himself was slain in Somalia in 2009, after going there to join al-Shabaab, another jihadist faction.
Minnesota Public Radio suggested in a past report in June, which focused on the now slain Muhumed, that this may be the tip of the iceberg, saying that at least 15 Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities were active members of ISIS at the time.
Muhumed was one such Somali-American, but neither McCain nor Kastigar were. Rather they grew up with Somali classmates and friends, and became sympathetic to some of the same causes.
The US claims to have identified nearly a dozen American ISIS fighters by name, but that’s a small fraction of the hundreds believed to be there right now. The US and other nations are struggling to determine even how many have gone to join ISIS, let alone who most of them are.
ISIS ability to recruit seems to be far exceeding official reckoning, as officials try to pass them off as “valueless evil” with no agenda at all, and yet the group continues to find growing numbers of recruits in some of the least likely places.
Ghetto, being not wanted, no family with the meaning of the word, being poor all the time, not respected as a human being, no education, and many other social factor makes these youth wanting to do something about their life, yet wanting to help a cause.
Although their cause needs to be at home but they need to be trained and hardened by those whom are using these kids social situation to enjoy their murdering and inhuman acts against humanity while they preach their lies about their delusional god and heaven stealing the mind of these young guys.
The truth in question of, who is to blame, is the social policies set fourth by US and EU governments where many of the Europeans and young Americans fighting alongside the Saudis/UAE barbarians, their domestic and foreign policies is to blame, austerity in England, being poor and living in section 8 in USA is just a beginning, religious is a social narcotic and distributed by the US and EU governments for free to distract people's mind from the rule of a functioning democracy, that's when these barbarians by lying to these kids about their fake god and goals can steal a child and make them to a cold hearted killer.
I blame it on a bad immigration policy.
These young kids are born Americans, wat you are talking about.
No they are not. They are Somalis, let in by the wacko Lutheran church.
"being poor'?
You could've fooled someone in Vermont or Sweden. I live in Milwaukee. I observe and interact with black underclass every day.
Real poverty exists in slums of Rio de Janeiro and Bangalore.
Have you ever heard about EBT, TANF, energy assistance, rent assistance, etc.,?
The "poor" can afford alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, cell phones and consumer electronics.
I am familiar with the Somali and African community in Minneapolis.
It doesn't bear much resemblance to the American black community in Minneapolis or elsewhere. In fact, the two groups at least in Minneapolis have very little interaction.
Not sure what your familiarity with blacks in Milwaukee has to do with Somalis in Minneapolis. Two entirely different cultures.
How have Somalis improved things in Minneapolis?
Hoover Boyz just spent the years between the Kurt Haskell/Umar Abdulmatallab and the Boston bombing entrapping dozens with their informants' own absurd and contrived plots. They began publicly pointing to their own involvement after Haskell's exposure of someone's involvement, and there was a peaking backlash against their breaking-up-their-own-plots right about the time of the Boston bombing.
So, e.g., if someone decided to 'let one through' (or instigate one to completion) the latter event served at least one obvious purpose–get the discussion back on 'Islamic terrorism' and off of the stings.
But in the case of the stings, the Hoover Boyz were revealing how they motivated their patsy–how they e.g. chatted their marks up for a year, heard him say he'll have to ask his mom first, then moved in for the kill. One important theme was Occupied Palestine /Occupied Iraq. But gov't revealing itself as often providing the theme, and what the themes were, was a net PR negative for GWoT and Israel. This had to change.
Our hypothetical ISIS recruiters have no such 'constraint' to explain themselves to the public or even at trial. They could be FBI, with an unappreciated 'transparency' constraint removed, or they could be anybody free to move among Muslims/sympathizers. The PR-positive gos to GWoT/Israel, but they may be operating through previous informants/infiltrators/handlers–i.e., old infrastructure.
They may just be military-recruit fodder who want to be on the winning side for a change.
Who wins when Amerika slaughters?
Or maybe they are made-up fakes to keep Americans interested in the sordid conflict. Easier if they all come from one place – a liberal environment like Minnesota. Hoaxing is in our government's bloodstream.
Well, who knows, maybe next year also Abama will join ISIS. He likes to kill Innocents, and with his Drones he really would be a great asset for this Fanatics
Well, here's a thought: If these young men are wanting a life of adventure and all that- with loaded guns thrown in the mix- and the Army isn't an attractive enough option for them, would we rather have them in the sands of Iraq and Syria with ISIS or in some neighborhood street gang terrorizing the folks at home? Judging from this and other reports here and in other media, ISIS does seem to have it's s**t together while we're still trying to figure out which game we're playing.