Oso planning to go pro
Looks like Minneapolis and Detroit have become centers for Islamic Radical Recruitment. Actually, didn't UCONN have a guard from MN named EL-Amin about 15 years ago?
Mpls has a large community of Eastern Africa immigrants who sought political asylum, etc over the years. It is this communities children who have interest, are getting recruited and returning (i.e. grew up pretty much entirely in the states and finding connection with radical elements). There have been some very good articles written about this situation many years old at this point....just now refocused due to the US citizen's death in Syria. I am sure the folks from Minnie on this board are not surprised.Don't know why Khalid El-amin has anything to do with the sad situation above.
Detroit also has a huge Islamic community in the Dearborn area. If I recall correctly, there was a constitutional case regarding a Dearborn Mosque's right to blast the call to prayer over loudspeakers 5 times a day.
Decision?
Moderator,Can we just set up a "We Hate Muslims" thread where certain people can voice their displeasure - and the other 90% of us here can ignore?
how tall are they? Can they hit a 15-footer?
Associating people with Arabic last names with radical terrorists is no more fair than associating everyone with an Italian last name with organized crime. We are Marquette educated, and we are better than that. So let's not.Catholic churches have been allowed to blast their bell chimes all over cities. I'll admit I'm glad I am not within earshot of the Muslim call to prayer every morning at 5 am but I see nothing unconstitutional about it.
Detroit/Dearborn has a ton of Muslims. We also have a sh!t load of Chaleans in metro Detroit which are Catholic Iraqis. No one outside the Detroit area knows what Chaleans are so trying to explain them is kind of funny, but they're good people.
Met a few in Wisconsin. Good people. Sorry to see that they had to get kicked out of their homes.
I had never heard of Chaldeans until I became good friends with a guy from Detroit in college. I thought it was a derogatory term until I found out what it meant. Pretty sure Miss America a few years ago from Detroit was a member of that group.
A couple of our terps in Iraq were Chaldean. What was genuinely sad is that they knew their time in Iraq was over, especially those working with MNC-I. After thousands of years in Mesopotamia these good, decent people were being forced to flee because they followed the wrong God. The fortunate ones were those with family in Detroit, Toledo, and Chicago.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.