Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges shown here at a meeting with Somali Muslims wearing a hijab in April 2014.

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MUSLIMS PROTEST NEW TV SHOW 'MOGADISHU MINNESOTA'

'Thou shalt not tell the truth about Islam'

Leo Hohmann 

An Oscar-winning Hollywood producer is being slammed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for filming a pilot TV series about Somali refugees in Minneapolis.

The pilot series, titled “Mogadishu Minnesota,” documents the challenges of life in America faced by Somali refugees and touches on the issue of the Somali community’s well-documented problems with being fodder for jihadist recruiters. Dozens have gone off to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq and al-Shabab in Somalia.

But many Muslims in Minnesota say the film could stoke “Islamophobia” by perpetuating negative stereotypes, Reuters reported.

The backlash to “Mogadishu, Minnesota” started last year after early reports on the show, which the Hollywood Reporter said in December 2015 was titled “the Recruiters.”

Somali residents in one Minneapolis housing complex voted earlier this month to block crews from filming in their building.

CAIR’s Minnesota chapter head, Jaylani Hussein, told Reuters that Hollywood films such as “Blackhawk Down” in 2001 and “Captain Phillips” in 2013 helped shape a negative view of Somali-Americans.

“Blackhawk Down” told the story of a failed humanitarian mission by the U.S. military in Somalia under President Bill Clinton. That mission ended with the bodies of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and spat upon.

But historic events such as those portrayed in Black Hawk Down have no place in Hollywood if they carry the slightest chance of affirming Americans’ negative opinions about Islam and Somalia, according to CAIR’s Hussein.

“There are real consequences in the stories we tell,” he told Reuters.

But the real question is, will the following true stories be included in the TV series?

• The FBI has confirmed more than 40 cases since 2007 of Somali-American refugees being recruited to join overseas terrorist organizations. Dozens of others have been charged and convicted of sending material support to overseas terrorists. One of the convicts, Amina Farah Ali, after being found guilty in 2013 of sending money to al-Shabab, stood in court after the verdict and told the judge through an interpreter that she was happy because she was “going to heaven no matter what,” and condemned those in authority, saying: “You will go to hell.”

Amina Farah Ali, a Somali-American convicted of helping terrorists, told the court ‘you will go to hell.’ Photo/Refugee Resettlement Watch

• Minnesota’s Somali community had its reputation further tarnished by the recent mass stabbing at a St. Cloud mall by Dahir Adan, a 22-year-old Somali refugee, who knifed 10 people and sent terrified shoppers streaming out of the mall before he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. Adan was said to have been in a “joyful” and “happy” mood as he left for the mall on the night of Sept. 17, CNN reported.
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  Obama appointee Andrew Luger admitted Minnesota has a ‘terror recruitment problem.’
  Six Somalis were arrested and convicted last year for repeatedly trying to board planes for Turkey, allegedly using their college scholarship money to buy the tickets. It was after those arrests in April 2015 that Andrew Luger, the state’s U.S. attorney appointed by President Obama, admitted “We have a terror recruitment problem in Minnesota.”
• In late June 2016, during the final days of Ramadan, a group of about a dozen Somali teens and young men dressed in robes terrorized residents of the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, riding their cars over lawns, shouting threats of rape, and pretending to shoot people through their duffel bags, WND reported.

• Then there is the case of Yusra Ismail, the shy college girl who was remembered in high school as the one who wore the burqa and “never got in trouble.” She left the Twin Cities in August 2014 to become a member of ISIS. Ismail, like several of the other jihadist Somalis, attended the radical Bloomington, Minnesota, mosque called Dar al-Farooq.

• Mohamed Hassan came to the U.S. as a child refugee and attended high school in Minneapolis, before leaving for the Middle East and becoming one of the more prolific recruiters for al-Shabab. He allegedly had Twitter contact with the perpetrators and may have helped inspire the attacks on Garland, Texas, and San Bernardino, California, in 2015.

Mohamed Hassan came to the U.S. as a refugee and was resettled in Minneapolis. He joined al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabab in 2008 and left for Somalia.

While it is doubtful that even a fraction of these misdeeds will be included in the new HBO TV mini-series, former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said CAIR is doubling down in its attempts to control the narrative about Somali refugees in Minnesota.

Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann

“CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood front group that manages Muslim messaging in the U.S., demands strict compliance with their false narrative of peaceful Islam,” Bachmann told WND.

If a counter narrative about Somalis’ questionable track record of assimilating into American culture were to gain traction, the continued arrival of thousands of Somalis every year might come under scrutiny, she said.

“They know the potential for negative messaging about Muslim immigration in the Twin Cities could easily create a negative backlash against Islam for millions of viewers,” Bachmann said. “CAIR believes they must control messaging, because reality easily belies the untold story of the sad impact on Minnesota taxpayers.”

The U.S. government has distributed more than 132,000 Somali refugees into dozens of U.S. cities and towns since the late 1980s, almost all of them Sunni Muslims.

Islamic concept of slander ‘very different than ours’

Philip B. Haney

Philip Haney, a retired Homeland Security officer and co-author of the best-seller “See Something Say Nothing,” said he finds it intriguing that CAIR is so critical of an effort to document life within the Somali immigrant community without even having seen the final product. He said CAIR has opposed dozens of similar film projects since 9/11 with a high success rate of stopping them from getting on the air.

HBO declined to discuss the issues around the pilot other than to confirm the cast and provide a short synopsis, describing it as “a family drama that grapples with what it means to be American – among the Somalis of Minneapolis.”

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HBO said the TV series has hired almost all local people and contributed $4 million to the local economy.

“And CAIR hasn’t even seen the final product so how can they criticize something they haven’t even seen?” Haney said. “That shows they have another agenda, and the only reason you would criticize something you haven’t seen is because you just have a fundamental disagreement on the subject – they don’t want it discussed, but what about freedom of speech?

“That’s not promoting freedom of speech, which they always say they stand for,” Haney said. “That is censorship.”

So what does CAIR want?

“What would be a suitable venue, what would be a suitable theme for this TV series?” Haney asks. “Why do you have to be the arbiters of everything the American public sees about Islam? Why do you have to intrude into the area of free speech? Why don’t you just let the people have their say and then respond to the content in a rational, appropriate way? Let them make their film and then comment on it after it comes out.”

Haney said CAIR wouldn’t like it if someone in the media started criticizing imams for sermons preached on Friday.

“Before we’ve even heard what the sermons are, we’re just going to assume they are pro jihad. They wouldn’t like that, so why do they feel they can do it?” Haney said. “You can’t have it both ways. You either want to be part of the American culture, which recognizes free speech and free expression, or not.”

Haney believes there is another reason for the double standard. He traces it to a key component of Shariah law, which, in the eyes of Islamists, trumps the U.S. Constitution.

It’s the Islamic concept of “Ghiba,” an Arabic word for slander.

The concept of slander under Shariah law is very different than the Western concept of slander.

In American law, truth is always the best defense for anyone accused of libel or slander.

But truth has no bearing on whether someone is slandered under Shariah. All that is necessary is for a Muslim to be offended by a non-Muslim, says Haney, an expert on the Quran and hadiths.

“It’s not whether it’s true or not that matters. You can slander somebody even if it’s the truth if it offends someone in the Muslim community,” Haney said.

While criticizing Allah or his prophet is considered blasphemy and punishable by death, telling someone who is a Muslim something that is true is slanderous if he is offended.

Slander is also a form of fitna, which is a test or a trial for the devout Muslim.

“If you tell someone the truth about Muslims slaughtering people in jihad, that’ slander and a fitna, if it offends them,” Haney said. “And it’s a very serious offense in Shariah law. The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States do not want the American public to have an open discussion of the tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. or the Muslim community in the U.S.

“In the end, CAIR is still an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation [terror funding] trial, they are still supporters of Hamas, so why should we care if they have anything to say about what is actually a freedom of speech issue? But the concept of Ghiba is the underlying gravitational force at work – they perceive anything critical of Islam to be slander, even if it’s true. It’s a violation of Shariah law, so they’re basically promoting and advocating submission to Shariah law. You’d better submit to what we say, without saying that what we are saying is actually a principle of Shariah. Thou shalt not tell the truth about Islam if it’s seen as critical of Islam.”

The filming of a pilot does not ensure it will air or be made into a full series.

“Mogadishu Minnesota” is not the first Hollywood film project that CAIR has tried to prevent from getting on the air, Haney says.

“Since 9/11 they have done it routinely, with a success rate that is very high, and it’s like pressing the reset button,” he said. “Every time they come out and say the same thing, and it usually works. 

They’re trying to intimidate the American public and the media industry into submitting to the principles of Shariah, because they see Shariah as superior to all forms of law, both civil and constitutional. 

They say they promote and support the First Amendment but they always have a caveat – anything critical of Islam, they protest. That’s not covered under free speech. Well, I’m sorry but it is.”

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My comments: Islam is a False and evil Religion that spreads its Evil wherever it goes.