Many Somalis have perished in Minneapolis after being killed by gangs who mainly hail from within Somalis. The latest victims were three young Somalis who were shot dead inside their shop. Youth crime rate is escalating in Minnesota and I think lack of proper integration is a major factor that contributes to the alarming security concern in the Somali-inhabitied sections of that wonderful city.
Pls read this piece extracted from glocktalk
By BOB VON STERNBERG and RICHARD MERYHEW
Last update: January 10, 2010 - 10:38 AM
Minneapolis police on Saturday arrested a 17-year-old whom they described as a primary suspect in Wednesday's brutal triple slaying at a market in the city's Seward neighborhood.
Investigators wouldn't release the suspect's identity or the circumstances of his arrest because of his age, but said they remain on the hunt for others considered potential suspects.
Sgt. William Palmer, a police spokesman, declined to say how many others were being sought, calling the arrest "a good break for us, but it's not the end of the investigation."
Word of the arrest, less than 24 hours after the victims were buried side by side after a highly emotional funeral attended by hundreds, brought some relief to the East African community in Minneapolis, whose members were credited by Palmer with providing crucial help to the police search.
The arrest was "good news and will help our families a great deal," said Abdi Mohamed, a cousin of two of the victims, Abdifatah and Mohamed Warfa. "It's not as if this will bring them back, but it gives us hope that justice will be done. It makes me very happy."
I am the first Somali generation in the US
I am torn apart by two opposing forces
My parents teach me something at home
But in school I learn something else
The two factions are fighting over me
I am a victim of two clashing cultures
I have no centre to balance myself
I am hanging in the middle of nowhere
Neglect is pushing me in the hands of crime
I am swimming in a murky river of stress
Where on its banks two groups are waiting
On one side I see gangs making an offer
While on the other I see Radicals waving for me
I need help before winds sweep me over
I need my two worlds to be reconciled
As otherwise my soul will make cracks
Georg has gotten to the root cause of this scenario -- my country, America, is in the cross hairs of every society in the world -- anytime anything goes array, blame the U.S. -- to anyone that desires to go through the proper path to become a legal citizen of America, you are welcome -- however,if you do not want to be assimilated into the American society as an American, I would suggest you set your sights elsewhere -- I am an American first last and always -- yes my ancestry is elsewhere -- but I do not consider or refer to myself as anything but, an American -- I am not an European America, or a Scottish American -- I am an American, period -- the sooner those desiring to come to America realize that premise, the faster all of the crime and conflict will end -- you cannot legislate peace and harmony -- you can only legislate freedom, justice and equality of opportunity -- in America "the rule of law" states that no one, but no one,is above the law -- Minneapolis is the representative messenger of the conflict and the unrest, not the root cause of it -- this same scenario is playing out in cities and towns all across America -- Abdi-Noor my friend, my sincere wishes are for peace and harmony among all of the peoples of earth -- Jon Michael
The potential for any situation to aggravate is there, festering because they had landed after leaving an oppressive society in a land of tolerance and rights. From there to fall into the temptation of go bananas all the way without reins the road is short.
We are going to hear about the lack of integration and bla bla bla, but the truth is that a rotten human being in Somalia will be a rotten human being in the USA, or Norway or Italy or...
The world criticize a USA that let Muslims to build Mosques, but don't criticize Muslims to forbid church to be build.
Intolerance is the mother of the atrocities to come in retaliation!
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(((HUGS))) love and continued prayer, Karla.
We are going to hear about the lack of integration and bla bla bla, but the truth is that a rotten human being in Somalia will be a rotten human being in the USA, or Norway or Italy or...
The world criticize a USA that let Muslims to build Mosques, but don't criticize Muslims to forbid church to be build.
Intolerance is the mother of the atrocities to come in retaliation!
Georg
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend/sister in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :(