Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson warned that a
Somalia-based terrorist group is encouraging “independent actors” to carry out
attacks in Western countries, with the Mall of America in Minnesota among the
specific targets, but he failed to mention that the U.S. continues to import
hundreds of high-risk Islamic refugees from Somalia every month.
The U.S. State Department’s
refugee-resettlement program has placed more than 100,000 Somalis into U.S
cities and towns since the early 1990s – all of them Muslims hand-selected by
the United Nations refugee agency. And Minnesota has become the most popular
destination, with secondary hotspots in Maine, Ohio, Colorado and southern
California. More than 800 new refugees from Somalia arrive in the United States
every month, according
to Refugee Resettlement Watch.
The constant influx has earned parts of Minneapolis the
nickname “Little Mogadishu.”
Johnson told CNN Sunday that terrorist groups such as
Somalia-based al-Shabab are “relying more and more on independent actors to
become inspired” and “attack on their own.”
But he made no mention in any of his interviews on Sunday
morning news shows of the program that brings these potential “independent
actors” to the U.S. in the first place.
Johnson said there was a need for a “comprehensive” approach
to fighting the ever-present threat posed by terror groups, including al-Shabab
and the Islamic State or ISIS.
One would think that cutting off the
spigot of Islamic immigration would play a role in any truly comprehensive
approach, said Islam expert Robert Spencer, who runs the JihadWatch
blog at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center.
To talk about tackling the problem without addressing the
refugee pipeline is disingenuous, Spencer said.
“The government’s ‘concern’ about these threats is
completely undercut by the Obama administration’s immigration policies,” said
Spencer. “More than 800 Somalis a month are entering the country.”
The latest attempt to inspire so-called “lone-wolf” attacks
came Saturday when a video was posted on the Internet featuring an al-Shabab
terrorist who appeared to be a Somali wearing a scarf over his face and
speaking in a British accent. He urged like-minded Muslims to carry out attacks
against shopping malls in their home countries.
The Somali terrorist provided three examples of what he
believes would make wonderful targets – the Mall of America in
Bloomington, Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the
Oxford Street shopping area in London.
He showed a picture of the Mall of America with GPS
coordinates.
Christians targeted in 2013 mall
attack in Kenya
The video showed six minutes of graphic images and the
terrorists celebrating the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, which
killed 67 people. In that attack, many of the shoppers were asked if they were
Christian. If they said yes, they were summarily executed.
The deputy director of the FBI’s
counter-terrorism unit, Michael Steinbach, told
a congressional committee on Feb. 11
that it is virtually impossible for the U.S. to screen out terrorists from the
U.N.’s Syrian refugees camps because Syria is a “failed state” with no reliable
police or intelligence data. The same could be said for Somalia, which has been
wracked by civil war since the early 1990s. Yet the U.S. has been accepting a
steady stream of refugees from that country since 1992.
Spencer said the U.S. government can’t claim “concern” about
jihadists carrying out lone-wolf attacks but then fail to shut down the main
pipeline into the country, which is the refugee resettlement program.
These immigrants did not just
magically appear on U.S. soil, as many of the major media reports would
suggest. They were brought here with the full support of the White House and
Congress, and there is thus far no indication that anyone wants to rein in the
refugee program even though there have been widespread abuses, such as in 2008
when the State Department admitted that up to 20,000 Somalis lied
on their refugee applications to get into the U.S., making false claims of
American family members.
Others have been caught sending aid to al-Shabab or leaving
the country to go fight for the al-Qaida offshoot. Spencer said there is no
fool-proof way to determine whether Somali refugees have any allegiance to
al-Shabab.
“The government could have imported as ‘refugees’ the very
people who could carry out a jihad attack at the Mall of America,” he said.
“The duplicity is as astounding as the indifference of the Republicans and the
mainstream media.”
Problems assimilating
Minnesota now has the largest population of
Somali-Americans, estimated at from 50,000 to 80,000, concentrated mostly in
the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The Somali community has had
problems integrating into the mainstream of American society. They have called
for foot baths at colleges, demanded halal foods at schools, hospitals and
prisons, and filed lawsuits against employers who don’t accommodate their
special needs related to dress codes or prayer times.
About 70 percent of the 900 cab drivers at the
Minneapolis-St. Paul airport are Somali men. They have repeatedly refused to
transport dogs, both pets and guide dogs for the blind, as many news outlets
have reported, including WND.
While there has been widespread media coverage recently
about the national-security risks associated with bringing in a new wave of
refugees from Syria, little has made its way into the establishment media about
the thousands of Somalis who have already come to America, and continue to come
despite increasing signs of radicalization. Dozens of Muslim youths in
Minnesota have fallen prey to radical teachings both in mosques and over the
Internet, with approximately 25 documented cases of Somalis having left
Minnesota to fight for al-Shabab over the past five years, according to the
FBI.
At least a dozen other Somalis from
Minnesota have left or attempted to leave to go fight for ISIS, WND
reported previously. Still others have been arrested,
charged and convicted for sending financial aid or other support to foreign
terrorist organizations.
Pamela Geller, author of “Stop
the Islamization of America” and the AtlasShrugged blog,
is another critic of the government’s refugee program.
“I’ve been warning about our refugee resettlement programs
for years. In my book, I detail how these programs give preferential treatment
to Muslims, even over Christians and other non-Muslims who face Muslim
persecution,” she said. “There is no telling how many actual and potential
jihadis we have brought into this country as ‘refugees.’”
Pressure from CAIR, ISNA
Any attempts to address this national-security issue have
been undermined by groups such the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or
CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, she said, adding that
these groups are continuously pushing for what she calls “Islamic supremacy.”
“Rep. Peter King’s hearings on these matters were widely
derided in the media and attacked by Islamic supremacist groups,” Geller said.
The problem is that most media companies care what groups
like CAIR and ISNA think of them, Geller said, even though these organizations
have no credibility and were found to have direct ties to Hamas and the Muslim
Brotherhood during the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial of 2008-2009.
“The mainstream media are no longer a news-gathering
industry but an activist organization aligned with the Obama administration and
the jihad force,” Geller said.
Local residents concerned
Debra Anderson, a resident of Minneapolis and an activist
who has fought the growth of mosques in the area, said the latest threat by
al-Shabab is terrifying for local residents.
“If they’re comparing it to the Westgate Mall in Kenya, oh
my God, they tortured most of those people before killing them, they tortured
them,” Anderson said. “When, not if, it happens here it is going to be ugly,
really ugly, and we need to have some preparations in place.”
In the same city where Mall of
America is located, Bloomington, is the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Youth and
Family Center. This mosque is led by radical imam
Waleed Edreese al-Meneese, who is a Ph.D. on the faculty of the Islamic
University of Minnesota and the American Open University in Washington, D.C.,
teaching Islamic studies and Shariah law.
For the past nine years, Meneese has
been a member of the Permanent
Fatwa Committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists
in America as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the North American
Imams Federation and the American Muslim Jurists of America, an organization
that instructs other imams and has been known to teach a literal interpretation
of the Quran on everything from female genital mutilation to death for apostate
Muslims.
“The Middle East is sending their best imams here to
proselytize and convert,” Anderson said.
In fiscal year 2014 the U.S. admitted 9,000 Somali refugees.
In the first four months of fiscal 2015 the U.S. admitted 3,536 new Somali
refugees, or 884 per month.
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