Visit my previous post this a.m. to learn more about the Somali “youths” in the UK and how they keep busy.
Fearing that Somali former refugee youths are going astray in the US, a Somali man in Columbus, OH thinks the kids, not just in the US but in Africa, need something to keep them busy (and you, the taxpayer should pay for it). We can call it the ‘skate board park’ equivalent—a reference to the appeal made throughout middle America to ‘keep the kids out of trouble’ and off the street by publically funding skate board parks.
How about if we first try strict law enforcement and strict parents—-not more taxpayer funding!
From the Columbus Dispatch:
His background is in business, but Abdulkadir Ali thinks his future lies with stopping young Somalis in Columbus and overseas from getting into trouble or being lured into terrorism.
That’s why the chairman of the Somali-American Chamber of Commerce in Columbus is resigning today so he can focus on a venture called New Hope Job Training and Development.
It’s a simple concept, even if the logistics and finances are not.
Ali wants to create summer job training and educational programs here. And he has traveled to Africa to talk with the U.S. State Department and aid agencies about building recreation centers and creating technical schools, sports centers and youth programs in war-ravaged Somalia.
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He is seeking $3 million from the U.S. government to get things started in Columbus; Bossaso, Somalia; and Nairobi, Kenya. [Americans are such suckers! What! We are going to give him $3 million and let him head off to Africa with it?]
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Like any American teens, young Somalis here are influenced by friends, television, music and popular culture.
Abdulkadir Aden, the Somali chamber’s treasurer and Ali’s successor, said most Somali youths “have become lost between the Somali culture and the American culture.”
Somali leaders fear that if the community doesn’t create positive alternatives, young people could be lured into gangs here and into Islamic extremist organizations such as al-Shabab overseas with promises of brotherhood and paradise.
Predictably there is not a word in this article about the Islamic imperative to wage Jihad being preached in mosques throughout the US. It’s all about the poor culturally confused kids.