Posts by Abdi Aynte

For most Somalis, Mahamud Abdullahi Isse is a highly regarded poet and playwright, but for the law enforcement community in Hennepin County, he’s a child molester and fugitive. He is now among the most-wanted people in the county — and was recently spotted on a wedding video in Djibouti.

Minnesota Monitor first reported Isse’s disappearance in [...]

Before Jews can enter heaven, they need to ditch the Old Testament, completely put their faith in to the New Testament and “be perfected,” Ann Coulter said in a recent interview with CNBC’s “The Big Idea.”
Here’s a Youtube video of that interview.

And, oh yeah, heaven looks like “New York City during the Republican National [...]

Rep. Keith Ellison renewed his call for an immediate pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq after a top Iraqi official said reconciliation is unattainable among warring factions in his country.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told the Washington Post Monday that he doesn’t think “there’s something called reconciliation…it’s a very inaccurate term. This is a [...]

A report by the Census Bureau two weeks ago revealed that Minnesota’s major immigrant groups — Hmong and Africans — are climbing the educational and economic ladder faster than anyone thought likely.

A subset of the report particularly riveted my attention: An immigrant is more likely to have an advanced degree than a native-born Minnesotan. This [...]

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University of St. Thomas president the Rev. Dennis Dease said the decision to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak at its campus was wrong, and that he will take measures to invite him.

“I have wrestled with what is the right thing to do in this situation, and I have concluded that I made the wrong [...]

In the aftermath of disallowing Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu to speak at its campus for fear of offending the Jewish community, the University of St. Thomas is under intense pressure to reconsider its position.  Leading the chorus are members of its faculty and student groups.

On Monday, 18 faculty members of St. Thomas’s law school sent [...]

To avoid offending some in Minnesota’s Jewish community, the University of St. Thomas scrubbed a plan to invite Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to speak at its campus next year. But along the way the Catholic university offended many others and rekindled a debate about a larger question: Is there an effort to stifle [...]

Over the past three years Pastor Danny Barnes has found himself in the Traverse County jail several times for various scuffles with people in the small Minnesota town of Wheaton, near the South Dakota border. But his latest arrest is validating his worst nightmare: that, as one of handful of blacks in the town, the [...]

For the past two weeks Pyi Maung hasn’t spoken with his parents in restive Burma. It’s one of the longest silences between him and his parents, but it’s for a good reason: He doesn’t want to get his parents in trouble.

The 24-year-old architecture student at the University of Minnesota fears that the repressive military junta [...]

Like most presidential hopefuls, Sen. John McCain is trying to rebound from a near- catastrophic campaign by constantly refining his support base. Hence, the Arizona Republican marginalizes potential supporters along the way.

In an interview last week with Beliefnet, a website that focuses on religious issues, the once maverick and tough-talk candidate strongly implied that only [...]