Day: March 19, 2011

Native Americans and Somalis trying to get along with each other

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I came across this news in a Native American publication last week about how an effort is being made in Minnesota to bring two ethnic groups together that have been at odds for some time apparently.

From The Circle:

Native American and Somali communities in Minneapolis have lived close to each other ever since the first refugees of war-torn Somalia began to arrive in the early ’90’s. The attraction of jobs and services in the cities has been offset by the conflicts that have arisen between Native and Somali youth. Assault and sexual abuse have been reported in the past, and members of both communities have voiced concern about the safety of their neighborhoods.

A high profile crime in January of last year brought the issue to the wider public [what was the crime, does anyone know?–ed]. Violence, human trafficking, and housing placement are just some of the issues facing both Natives and Somalis in Minneapolis.

To stop the violence, and begin a dialogue between the two communities, the Native American Somali Friendship Committee (NASFC) was formed.

I know there have been plenty of conflicts between American blacks and Somalis, and we have written plenty about Hispanic-Somali clashes especially in the workplace, but I didn’t know that Somalis and Native Americans were clashing.

Looks like they are trying to work out their differences.  Yippee! No bad white people in this story!

That reminds me, I wonder what happened with that case of the Minnesota Somali man held as a person of interest in the murder of four Native Americans in North Dakota?  Does anyone know?

Judicial Watch asks: How many terrorists get across southern border undetected?

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Tom Fitton President of Judicial Watch reported this past week at Big Government on a report obtained through the  Freedom of Information Act from Customs and Border Enforcement on the possible number of suspected terrorists getting into the US across our border.  Read it here.

I’ve told you I suspect some of our “humanitarian NGOs” may be helping would-be “asylum seekers” get across the border here.  And, they couldn’t possibly know who the Somalis and others from terror-sponsoring countries really are and who they are affiliated with.

Two Somalis dropped from sex-trafficking case

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I guess this is going to be Somali news round-up Saturday.   I just told you about Somali kids not being vaccinated in Minneapolis and this is news from Nashville updating that huge Somali sex trafficking case we first reported here.

Two have been dropped from the case not because they have been exonerated, but because they can’t be found.  One is believed to have skipped the country.

From the City Paper in Nashville:

The government has dropped the names of two defendants from a case of alleged juvenile sex trafficking so that the case may move forward.

U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. signed an order Friday severing Abdikarim Osman Ali and Abdigadir Ahmed Khalif from the list of 29 individuals indicted last fall on a variety of charges including juvenile sex trafficking, credit card fraud and obstruction of justice involving members and associates of three Somali gangs.

Last November, law enforcement officials arrested two dozen suspects allegedly involved in the sex trafficking ring with connections between Nashville and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Van Vincent, the order granting a motion states that Ali and Khalif were removed from the indictment “to avoid necessary delay as these defendants have not been apprehended.”

Somalis avoiding vaccinations, children developing measles

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Two readers sent this story from Minneapolis today.

From MSNBC:

MINNEAPOLIS — Three more young children in Minneapolis have contracted measles, including two who were not immunized because of fears about the safety of the vaccine.

The Minnesota Department of Health is working closely with Hennepin County Public Health staff in their investigation. The three new cases were reported in children between 23 months and 4 years of age, living in Minneapolis who likely acquired their infections in Minneapolis.

The children became ill between March 1 and March 9. Two of the three new cases were hospitalized, and all are recovering.

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Two of the four children are Somali. They had not been vaccinated because of parental concerns about the standard vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In recent years, MMR vaccination has dropped in the Somali community because of concerns about safety.

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“It is every parent’s responsibility to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella to protect them against these deadly diseases,” said Dr. Abdirahman D. Mohamed, Chief of Staff of Axis Medical Center, Minneapolis. Dr. Mohamed said he knows of four unvaccinated Somali children (two in the U.S. and two in other countries) who have died from measles. He stressed the importance of reaching the community with the message that vaccination is important.

They don’t say it in this story but Somalis got the erroneous idea that American medical requirements—vaccinations—were responsible for an epidemic of autism in Minneapolis among Somali children.  However, studies on autism are increasingly pointing a finger to a Vitamin D deficiency in northern cities exacerbated by dark skinned women covering themselves from head to toe and thus not getting any sunshine during pregnancy.  I told you about the latest research here.

And, you wonder why our health care costs are skyrocketing……