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Africa Horn
Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia?
2009-12-13
Darwin always wins. Here are a couple more who selected themselves out of the gene pool.
blockquote>Mahad Dhorre, Mustafa Mohamed, Mohamed Abscir and a fourth we know only as Ahmed vanished the first week of November. A fifth, Ahmed Elmi, left his home in Scarborough about three months ago. A sixth man, an Afghan, who worshipped at the same mosque, is also reportedly missing.

Their passports are missing and they haven't called home. The overwhelming fear is that -- like at least 20 young Somali-American men in Minneapolis who have disappeared in the past two years, and others from Australia, Sweden and Britain -- the young men are en route to Somalia to fight alongside al Shabaab, an Islamist youth militia aligned with Al Qaeda.

The Shabaab, which is fighting the government, is often called Somalia's Taliban. Its increasingly savvy online presence is being blamed as a possible reason for the disappearance of the five Canadians. And Somali community leaders fear other young people will be targeted as long as they feel alienated in this country, and embraced by another.

"These people can speak in their language and lure them from right under our nose," said Ahmed Hussen, the Ottawa-based president of the Canadian Somali Congress, adding people in the community have told him chat rooms were also used to lure the missing men. "We won't even know what's going on."
Posted by:Fred

#10  PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > EXTREMISM BY US MUSLIMS + NEW CASES TEST OPTIMISM ON MUSLIMS
[Ability of US = US-Western Muslims to effec resist pro-VIOLENCE RADICALIZATION-MILITANCY
still potent BUT INCREASINGLY STRAINED OR CHALLENGED BY WAVE = SEEMINGLY NEVER-ENDING SURGE OF ISLAMIST-VS.ANTI-ISLAMIST SOURCES].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-12-13 20:14  

#9  Hopefully the Center Ice package is available in Mog or else they will miss the playoffs
Posted by: Super Hose   2009-12-13 15:11  

#8  It happens to the best of us on occasion, chris dear. Just click the Preview button at the bottom-right of the poster box to see what you've done, before clicking Submit at the bottom-left. Remember, "Proofing is my friend." Which is why PIMF!!!! is posted here on a regular basis, entirely too often by me.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-12-13 12:51  

#7  :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2009-12-13 12:38  

#6  sorry about the caps I'm a moron
Posted by: chris   2009-12-13 12:35  

#5  i'M WITH YALL ON THIS ONE I WISH THEY WOULD ALL "DISAPPEAR" ESPECIALLY ALL THE ONES THAT SEEM TOO MIGRATED TOO NORTH ga AND atl
Posted by: chris   2009-12-13 12:34  

#4  It's the returning that has people concerned. But it's really a drop in the ocean when at least 80% of US mosques are already controlled by the radical Wahabis and Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: ed   2009-12-13 11:45  

#3  It is.
Posted by: Grunter   2009-12-13 06:54  

#2  It really should be obligatory.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-12-13 05:58  

#1  I can not understand this " Overwhelming Fear " of Muslims wanting to leave any Western nation to go and fight a Jihad in some Muslim country. Let them all go, and good riddance to them every single one of them.
Posted by: Dave UK   2009-12-13 04:45  

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