We had posted on the unfortunate killing of 18 year old Hassan, who had attended Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, as did suicide bomber Shirwa Ahmed who took the lives of 29 others in Somalia last year.
- The FBI wants to find out who recruited and transported Ahmed and 20 other missing Minneapolis youths to Somalia to join the Taliban-like Al Shabaab militia.
- Al Shabaab was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in 2008.
The Star Tribune report notes:
- About 50 people protested Thursday outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis, where the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Minnesota chapter held an ice cream social.
- Abdirizak Bihi is an uncle of 18-year-old Burhan Hassan, who relatives say was killed in Somalia last week.
Bihi and others say CAIR is discouraging Somalis from coming forward.
“We don’t want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up,” Bihi said. “Law enforcement will not be able to do anything without information from the community.”
- About 50 people attended the rally, waving signs and hollering, “CAIR out! Doublespeak out!”
- CAIR Minnesota has encouraged anyone interviewed by the FBI to have a lawyer present.
A CAIR spokeswoman says the effort isn’t to discourage cooperation, but rather to ensure that civil rights are protected.
The FBI investigation into the missing men is ongoing. Authorities believe they went to Somalia to fight for terror groups.
The uncle of slain Burhan Hassan, Osman Ahmed had this to say: ….some in the family believe CAIR has aligned itself too closely with mosques where some believe the missing boys may have been influenced to leave.
“They are supporting the groups we suspect of recruiting our kids,” Ahmed said. “We refuse to be silent.”
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