else. I will continue to educate the community about the recruitment of our
bright young students for suicide bombing in far away countries. It is
happening around the world in the Somali Diaspora.
Over 20 (confirmed #) kids have been recruited by Al-shabab recruiters in
our community right here in Minnesota-Nice alone and so far several of them
were killed in Somalia. 14 other Somali Americans were indicted for
terrorism related charges. The issue has become the second
biggest investigation in US history after Sept 11. The first American
suicide bomber who killed many innocent poor Somali people in Somalia, was
recruited right here in our community
We are in a very critical juncture to educate our community about who is Al-
shabab and what is happening to the unsuspecting young recruitees.
Al-shabab recruiters are fond of community silence and they prefer us to
keep quite. They have done almost everything to silence us so their complex
recruitment process would smoothly operate. They have tried to shut us up
and even tried to discredit us in public when we started to speak up and
warn others. They even misled good intentioned organizations,politicians and
personalities in the beginning.
We have lost many intelligent young people, there is no way we are willing
to lose anymore.
Our speaking up helped stop this madness and saved many young lives and
many innocent people in Somalia and probably here at home.
Are we gonna be quite? the answer is NO.Because you might not know about our
journey of speaking up since Nov 4th 2008.It was a painful but saved lives
and educated our community. It did also brought us together eventually.
When three people were shot in our Seward neighborhood, we Somali American
community jumped to the occasion to speak up. The result was GOOD! so
SPEAKING UP is good for all of us. KEEPING QUITE is good for AL-shabab and
locally encourages youth violence.
Our community is hard working community that strives to achieve The
American Dream. We refuse to be quite about those who hurt our families and
our hard earned excellent reputation
For those who want to know more about this issue, I hold group classes
around the state and sometimes (when I can afford) in other states.
Just send me an email. Groups are preferable.
With all due respect, JUST DELETE what yo do not like. Simple as that!
Thanks Mo and Fredda
Abdirizak Bihi