Ellison speaks out on missing Somali youth
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 6:43 am
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Rep. Keith Ellison says U.S. authorities are trying to help the missing Minnesota youth thought to be caught up with a radical Islamic faction in war-torn Somalia return to the United States. Ellison told Minnesota Public Radio that he’s been briefed on classified information about the issue.
At least one youth was killed when he tried to leave Al-Shabaab, an Islamist movement in Somalia. The New York Times took a fascinating look into the missing Somali-Minnesotan youth and the war in Somalia last week.
“We can’t have a knee-jerk emotional reaction,” Ellison told MPR. “We’ve got to have an intelligent reaction. If a young person says, ‘I have been lied to. I don’t like these people. I want to get away from them,’ we should help them do that, as long as we know that does not create a public safety issue for Minnesotans and Americans.”
Ellison had a message to Minnesotans who have joined Al-Shabaab.
“If you’ve learned the truth about these exploitative organizations like Shabaab, who are so dangerous, then abandon them and then help tell the truth about what these groups are really all about,” Ellison said.
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Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 7:34 am
How do you know it will not create a public safety issue by returning these men to the US? It may be time for the Somalia citizens to speak out against this Jihad to protect their own and also to protect this countr they now call home! IF they are returned home, they need close watching. These Somalia men made their decision to sneak off and leave, perhaps they have made their beds and need to sleep in them!
It may be time for this country to look at a true separation of church and state and pull tax exempt status from them at the slightest hints of political involevment. It seems as if religion today has become politically entrenched in a fringe sort of manner to be dangerous to national security and everyday living! All religions today appear to have morfed into the fringe!
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