A new coalition has formed in Minnesota and launched its first event Saturday in Minneapolis – a rally and march through the Cedar Riverside community, which is home to the nation’s largest community of Somali refugees. CAIR plans similar events nationwide to build awareness about discrimination and “hatred” against Muslim Americans.
“We brought together representatives of over two dozen concerned organizations and created Minnesotans Against Islamophobia,” said Karen Schraufnagel, leader of the new coalition, on the CAIR website. “We need to do more than just respond to the national call for action. We are creating an ongoing network to stand with a Minnesota community that is under attack. Muslims are welcome here.”
The rally and ensuing panel discussion was titled, “Stop Islamophobia, Defend the Muslim Community.”
Minnesota’s Somali refugees have been brought there over the past 25 years by the U.S. State Department in cooperation with the United Nations. WND has reported recently about the growing backlash in St. Cloud, where native-born Minnesotans feel they have been saddled with high tax burdens to provide for the education, health-care and other welfare needs of the Somalis.
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Not to mention the security risks.
The FBI confirms that more than 30 Somalis have left the country since 2007 to fight for overseas terrorist organizations such as al-Shabab and ISIS, causing Minnesota’s U.S. attorney, Andrew Luger, to acknowledge in April 2015 that “we have a terror recruitment problem in Minnesota.”
Dozens of other Somali-Americans have been charged with and/or convicted of providing material support to terrorist organizations.
One participant in the rally, Bilal Mustafa, told CBS Minnesota he hoped to change the association between Islam and terrorism.
By Leo Hohmann