Day: August 6, 2016

Mona Walter is a Somalian born ex-Muslim activist in Sweden who informs Muslims about issues with the Quran

Following is a summary of a CBN News article that contains the original video: 

View a CBN news segment about the ex-Muslim activist Mona Walter.   Following is a description of the information in the video:

Mona Walter is a Somalian born Swedish activist who is an ex-Muslim that is on a mission to inform Muslims about what is actually in the Koran.

She came to Sweden from Somalia in the 1990s as a war refugee when she was 19, only to discover how oppressive Islam actually was once she arrived.

Mona explains that in Somalia most people are simply born into the religion and are generally not very well informed about it, but in Sweden Muslims expect others to be extremely devout and obedient, and it was then when she read the Quran and learned about many aspects of Islam that she disagreed with.   She became discouraged and initially became an Atheist, and then converted to Christianity.

Soon she started to become and activist by copying disagreeable verses from the Quran and handing them out to Muslim woman on the street, usually when dressed in a disguise of wearing a Burka.    However, in politically correct Sweden Mona has come under attack in the media for criticizing Islam.

Mona explains that people in Sweden take their freedom of religion for granted, but Muslim women in Sweden really don’t have those same freedoms under Islamic law.

She lives under death threats and sometimes travels with police protection, and when she travels in Muslim areas she needs to be disguised in a Burka otherwise she risks being attacked and killed.

Mona now uses videos and speaking appearances to spread her messages, and she says that she won’t stop even though her life is in danger. 

Islamist terror organizations are recruiting from disaffected Somali refugees in Minnesota

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Following is a summary of a Washington Times article:  

Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have been brought mostly to Minneapolis, Minnesota since the 1990s, with over a thousand arriving last year, often having problems assimilating and sometimes being targeted for recruitment by Islamic extremist groups.

“We have definitely seen targeted terror recruitment videos, videos aimed and targeted directly at the youth here in Minnesota primarily within the Somali community,” said Kyle Loven, an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis. “They’re going after disaffected youth — those who are isolated.”

Loven says the FBI has noticed a steady stream of Islamist recruitment videos specifically targeted at Minnesota’s Somali population, saying the FBI has established a strong liaison program within the Somali community to work with organizations and people who have a general uneasiness about their population being targeted.  “The videos and the online messaging is clearly targeting youths from within the Somali community and it’s a challenge for law enforcement to determine who will be moved to action with these videos,” he said.

Since 2008, as many as 40 men from Minneapolis have joined Islamist groups after being recruited by jihadists through social media, according to federal officials.

Last year an American named Douglas McArthur died in Syria fighting for the Islamic State, and he had been recruited from where he lived in Minnesota.

In 2009, a friend of McArthur named Troy Kastigar posted a recruitment video for an Islamic terrorist group al-Shabab before being killed fighting for them in Somalia.

Also in 2009 another man from Minnesota joined al-Shabab and blew himself up in a suicide bombing at an Ethiopian consulate in Somalia, killing 24 people.

On Sunday, al-Shabab made a propaganda video warning about attacks on shopping malls around the world, including the Mall of America in Minnesota.  Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the terror attack at a shopping mall in Kenya two years ago that left 67 dead.

In an effort to increase assimilation and deter against Islamic recruitment efforts, government agencies have greatly expanded state welfare programs to be the most generous in the country, but the problems remain including high unemployment with only 41% of males working.