American Recruits to Terror

Sons of single moms, young and conscientious, they found role models in the local mosque...in America. Now they are recruits to terror:

These are the new Lost Boys of Somalia: The first wave, largely with the help of Lutheran and Catholic charities, relocated to America in the '90s, when Somalia was in the throes of civil war. These were families fleeing rape and genocide, living in abject poverty in refugee camps until they could be placed somewhere in America.

There are several areas of the US populated with Somalis, among them Boston, Arlington, Va., Portland, Maine, Columbus, Ohio, and the Cedar-Riverside area of St. Paul, Minn., which houses the largest population of Somalis outside from Somalia itself. There are between 40,000 and 70,000, though no one has done a full census.

They have been taken from their families, mosques like slavers:

The families aren't buying any of it. They are convinced that these places, institutions they trusted more than any other, have been brainwashing and radicalizing their young men. "Do you see the women here, how they dress now?" Bihi asks. Most of the Somali-American women in Cedar-Riverside dress in the hijab. "We have never dressed that way. These people, from Saudi Arabia" - and he says Sheikh Omar is one, a former colonel in the Saudi special forces - "are the kind of people who will not give you water if you are dying, unless you change your ways. They are not interpreting the Koran [as it should be]."

So, the battle is joined. Sad, sad. It's a civil war in Islam. And yes, jihad has come to America.

P.S. Excerpt from the comments:

Mad Max wrote:

I found an easy way for these guys to get back into the country and have a clean record. all they have to do is attack a US Embassy in africa, get caught, and get shipped to Guantanamo. Soon their ACLU lawyers will get writs of habeas corpus, and the OBamaniac administration will be quickly cowed into dropping any charges, and send them right back to Minneapolis...