AND! Surprise (not)! Another Somali Ethnic Community Based Organization is born!
We reported extensively last year about the demands of Somali Muslim workers for religious accommodations at the JBS Swift & Co plant in Grand Island. You can visit our category that includes the controversy at the Swift plant in Greeley as well, here.
The gist of what happened is this, from the Washington Examiner a couple of weeks ago.
Hundreds of Muslim workers walked off the job and picketed in protest last September, saying they wanted time to pray at sunset and break a daylong fast. Plant management responded the next day by adjusting the work schedule to accommodate them. That fueled a counterprotest in which other workers walked off the job, arguing Muslim workers were given preferential treatment. Management then ended the accommodations, which sent Muslim workers back to the picket lines.
The company fired 86 workers for walking off the job. It eventually hired back about a dozen.
“I think a lot of people went in last year sort of flying a little blind,” said JBS spokesman Chandler Keys. “Everyone got their eyes opened.”
They had their eyes further opened this past week when it was learned that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) gloatingly reported that the federal EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) had ruled that the Muslims were “unlawfully harassed” last year. Jerry Gordon writing at New English Review has more on the story.
Nevermind that the Somalis in Grande Island harassed and intimidated the mayor of that city last year here. Everyone knows harassment only goes one way right! Somalis don’t harass white women, of course not! See also Mohamed Rage, the community organizer from Omaha, and his ECBO and its involvement with CAIR here.
Enter a new ECBO
Looks like the Somalis of Grand Island don’t need Rage’s agitation services anymore! They have their own brand new Ethnic Community Based Organization as of June 2nd of this year. It is called the Nebraska Somali Community Association and they are already weighing in on the CAIR/EEOC/Swift issue here where the reporter quoted as the authority Yasin Ali .
Ali is the 17-year-old co-founder of the Nebraska Somali Community Association. See staff and Board of Directors here (see below also*). No sign of who is paying for this ECBO but when you look over the site you will see they are using all the right verbage to make a case for grants at the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to help refugees find “resources” (aka taxpayer supported programs).
More from the Grand Island Independent in June.
Yasin Ali, a 17-year-old senior at Grand Island Senior High School, filed the incorporation paperwork with the Secretary of State’s Office Wednesday in Lincoln. He’s also working on a non-profit filing for the association.
Teenager Ali is helped by another Somali who is looking for work in Grand Island.
Ali will be staffing the office over the summer, but once school starts again in August, he will rely more on assistance from his co-incorporator, Samatar Ali, who is not related to Yasin Ali. Samatar Ali was a doctor in Somali and is currently looking for work in Grand Island.
Now, I thought this was kind of curious, when you go to their papers on file with the Secretary of State of Nebraska someone named Abdullahi Abdulle is listed as agent at 210 N. Piper St. #10, Grand Island, NE 68803 and coincidentally so are Yasin Ali and Samatar Ali at that same address. We learned previously that Samatar Ali is not related to Yasin. It must be a busy household at 210 N. Piper St!
Interesting, don’t you think, that Somali ECBOs are popping up wherever there are meatpacking plant controversies. As I said, who is paying for this one? We know in Greeley their new Somali “community organizing” outfit is mostly supported by taxpayers, Lutherans and a union.
Learn all about ECBOs at our new category, here.
*I decided to post the staff and board of directors names here too in case we need them in the future.
Staff
Yasin Ali- Founder and President
Guled Ismail- Vice President
Liiban- Community Liasion
Board of Directors
Paul Warshauer (Grande Venues)- Board Chairman
Alisa Grim (GIPS Teacher)- Secretary
Ali Samatar (Former Doctor)- Treasurer
Yasin Ali ( Student)
Guled Ismail ( JBS Swift)
Karen Natchigal (BBBS)
Amanda Levos (GIPS Teacher)
Note to new readers:
The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing