Most people likely think of mellow peace-loving Midwesterners braving the piles of snow when they think of Minneapolis Minnesota.
But changing demographics and lacking immigration standards have resulted in an overwhelming influx of Somali and Ethiopian refugees fleeing the violence in their home countries.
2010 American Community Survey data indicates that there are approximately 85,700 people with Somali ancestry in the US. Of those, around 25,000 or one third live in Minnesota; 21,000 of the latter were born in Somalia. Nationwide, 76,205 were Somalia-born. According to the Arab American Institute, Somalis are among the larger Arab American populations in the country.
Most Somalia-born people in the United States live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area (17,320).
Now not all these folks are in love with their new homeland or offer the country who so graciously took them in with open-arms any respect.
Police arrested Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis, on suspicion of arson after eight small fires were set at St. Catherine University in St. Paul on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis, was arrested for trying to kill Christian children in hopes of avenging what the U.S. Industrial Complex did to the Middle East.
A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college’s St. Paul campus told police she did it because she’d “been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing,” according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
“You guys are lucky that l don’t know how to build a bomb because l would have done that,” Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis allegedly told investigators after being arrested Wednesday afternoon in a campus dorm lounge.
Hassan was charged in Ramsey County District Court with a single count of first-degree arson. No injuries or major damage were reported in the fires, all of which occurred in the middle of the day Wednesday.
The FBI refuses to comment on whether or not Tnuza Jamal Hassan has any international ties to extremist.
A spokesman for the FBI’s Minneapolis office said he could not comment on whether federal authorities also were investigating the incident. A call to the United States District Attorney’s Minnesota Office to inquire about whether Hassan might face federal charges was not returned.
A woman who identified herself as Hassan’s older sister — in tears outside Hassan’s first court hearing Friday — declined comment. In addition to the sister, Hassan has a mother in the area, who could not be reached for comment.
Patrick Nwaneri, an attorney retained by Hassan’s family, declined to comment on the charge but said it came as a “big shock” to the family, adding, “They are just at a loss.”
Hassan, appearing in court in a black and white hijab, gave only brief, one-word answers to questions from the judge.
It seems odd that her family knew nothing of her extremist tendencies considering casual acquaintances warmed facility about Tnuza Jamal Hassan after uncovering evidence she sought to abet the Islamic Caliphate.
According to the complaint, she told investigators she set six fires on the private Catholic university’s campus, though university and fire officials said there were eight.
The most serious fire started in Saint Mary Hall, a residential dormitory that also houses a day care. Police said there were 33 children and eight adults in the building when a chair was set ablaze — triggering the building’s sprinkler system, which prevented it from spreading.
A second fire was set at the Butler Center fitness facility in a women’s bathroom.
Police reviewed surveillance footage and saw a woman — later identified as Hassan — entering both halls just before the sprinklers activated. She was carrying a plastic shopping bag, which police later recovered. It contained a box of matches.
Police located Hassan at 1:30 p.m, roughly two hours after they arrived.
Hassan told investigators she was a student at St. Catherine but dropped out last fall because she and her family were planning a vacation to Ethiopia.
She told them, according to the complaint, that “her fire-starting was not as successful as she had wanted,” and “she wanted the school to burn to the ground and that her intent was to hurt people.
“Hassan said this was the same thing that happened in ‘Muslim land’ and nobody cares if they get hurt, so why not do this?” the complaint added.
Hassan told investigators she wrote a letter to her roommates about “bringing back the Caliphate,” an Islamic state. The letter scared Hassan’s roommates, who turned it over to campus security, the complaint stated.
Asked whether such a letter existed and if university officials received it, a university spokeswoman said she could not comment because the investigation is ongoing.
Now it is my belief that Miss Hassen is merely a deranged young woman suffering from mental illness and that the majority of those who espouse her religion would condom her actions in righteous indignation. However, it does seem like this particular religious ideology does seem conducive to fueling extremism in unstable individuals.
What do you think?
Here is the video!
Source: Twin Cities
Lock her up. She is crazy. Look at those eyes!
Deport her back to the country of her birth with no delays.
Set her on fire.One down,many to go.