Update: Matthew Vadum writing at Frontpagemagazine has a piece today on the gathering.
I’ve been looking around for a story that might best summarize what happened yesterday when Muslims in a supposed demonstration of power held a ‘religious’ event at Vikings Stadiumin Minnesota.
When I find more stories I’ll update this post, but here is a report by Pamela Geller re-posted at the DC Clotheslinewith lots of photos including this one—men in front and women behind as is the tradition in Islam.
Originally printed Tuesday August 21, 2018 at Geller Report
How did Minnesota get so many Somalis?
For new readers and longtime readers who may have forgotten, go here to my 2011 post that answers the question—it is one of my top most-read posts of all time. Three federal resettlement contractors got the ball rolling because cheap laborers were needed and because Minnesota was a generous welfare state.
Now Minnesota is the top secondary migration state for Somali refugees as they head there to be with their own kind of people and build a power base.
Leo Hohmann has penned a very thorough report on the secretive (outside the Somali Muslim community!) event to be held tomorrow in Minnesota.
We first reported it here last Thursday, but this is a must-read filled with details and expert translations of what one might expect to hear at the “one-of-a-kind Muslim event that’s never happened before on U.S. soil.”
Here are just some of Hohmann’s opening paragraphs:
The Minnesota Vikings’ US Bank Stadium seats 65,000 people for pro football but the state’s imams are hoping to fill those seats with more than 50,000-plus Muslims chanting “Allahu Akbar!” on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in celebration of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Ahda.
While the size and scope of the “Super Eid 2018” celebration is described by Muslim organizers as “unprecedented” for this country, it has attracted little media attention.
It might have attracted little mainstream media attention, but I can tell you it’s garnered tens of thousands of social media reads if my numbers here at RRW are any indicator.
Eid al-Ahda is one of the most important Islamic holidays and literally means “Festival of the Sacrifice” in Arabic. It involves the ritual slaughtering of domestic animals, typically goats or sheep, although stadium management has promised a group of concerned citizens in Minnesota that no animals will be killed inside the stadium.
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Featured speaker DR. WALEED AL-MANEESE PH.D http://www.supereid.com/speaker/luis-gallop/
While an event of this size takes at least a year to plan, details about the Super Eid have been held under wraps. The first visible sign that it would happen came in mid-July, when a website popped up under the registered domain name of SuperEid.com.
“Super Eid” was formally announced by a group of 13 imams during a cryptic 20-minute press conference outside the US Bank Stadium, aired Aug. 7 on Somali TV of Minnesota.
The imams, speaking mostly in Arabic and Somali, said they were inviting tens of thousands of Muslims to come together to celebrate an Islamic holiday that involves not only the slaughter of animals but three hours of chanting “Allahu Akbar,” followed by feasting, merrymaking and events for children.
One imam exclaimed at the Aug. 7 announcement that “Super Eid 2018” is being designed as a statement to America that the best Islamic teachers, imams and scholars will be “coming together and showing the unity and the power of our community.”
Don’t miss the discussion about what happened when concerned citizens attended a stadium board meeting last Friday.
We will be eager to hear how it goes—-presumably from the mainstream media which we expect will be giving it extensive coverage for such an important first-in-America Islamic show of power and unity!
Too funny!!!
No sooner had I written those words when I saw that the Washington Postis down playing the event and calling it “not real news” by focusing only on the issue of animal slaughter that they say will not be happening! Dear WaPo, you are missing the point (on purpose!).
“There’s been nothing else like this, promoted anywhere in the United States which is a message in and of itself.”
(Minnesota resident Bob Carrillo)
But, it isn’t too late for Minnesotans and others to tell the powers-that-be at the US Bank Stadium that you object to the event—an event that celebrates the ritual slaughter of animals.
The Secret Plan of Muslims to Sneak Tens of Thousands Into the U.S. Bank Stadium for a Historic “Show of Power” in Minnesota
There is a secret plan to literally sneak fifty thousand Muslims into the Minnesota Vikings US Bank Stadium.
Feast of the Sacrifice…at US Bank Stadium? Yup.
Their own words not mine: “to show our unity and power”.
What is the Islamic event about?
Well it’s called EID AL ADHA – Feast of the Sacrifice.
About a week and a half ago we discovered this program being sponsored by some very interesting people and organizations.
Fifty thousand people – two day event on the 21st and 22nd of August at our Minnesota Vikings US Bank Stadium. That folks is tantamount to two Super Bowls back to back. We just had a Super Bowl here recently and capacity is between 60 and 65 thousand people! These folks have, in a very stealth fashion, invited 50 thousand people to be in the stadium on the 21st and 22nd – both days.
With a list of who’s who in the Islamist world in terms of Imams from Minnesota and from around the country as presenters.
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This is the first of its kind and it’s massive. And Minnesota residents Minneapolis St Paul and the surrounding area are not prepared for this.
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Call the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority at 612-332-0386 and demand, the operative word there, demand its cancellation.
Tomorrow!!!
Come to the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Board Meeting on Friday, August 17 at 9 am and voice your position together with other citizens.
More here. See how secretive the organizers have been about the gathering.
See also the video accompanying the story. Honestly I couldn’t watch because the ‘celebration’ is about brutally sacrificing animals. BTW, where is PETA?
Wonder where the organizers will find 50,000 celebrants?
Just have a look at the numbers Conservative Review put togetheryesterday. We are admitting Muslims to the US by the tens of thousands annually through a variety of LEGAL immigration programs. Expect the construction of more mosques and events like this one!
Update July 20th: Trump Administration extends TPS for Somalis until March 2020, see here.
Frankly, I don’t know why they still have TPS for Somalis when we have admitted over 100,000 Somalis as permanent refugees. Tens of thousands of permanent Somali refugees are in Minnesota alone.
One of those stumping for the continuation of TPS for Somalis is Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR MN
And, you should know that in order for those here on TPS, the temporary refugees were supposed to have been in the country (usually they were here illegally) before TPS was designated for their country. It is not an on-going opportunity for certain immigrants to get in and then say—gee I want to apply for TPS. Continue reading “Trump Administration may end temporary protected status for Somalis”→
