REPORT: Ilhan Omar’s District Is The ‘Terrorist Recruitment Capital’ Of America

One of the new faces of the “diverse” Democratic party is that of a virulent anti-Semite who despite her sympathies for radical Islamic terrorists, managed to not only get elected to Congress but was given a spot on the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Rep. Ilhan Omar who hails from Little Somalia Minneapolis has taken Congress by storm with her Jew-hating and like her fellow newbies Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, she has already run afoul of her experienced colleagues by being called out for her promotion of anti-Semitic tropes about Jews controlling the world with their money when she took on the powerful American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and was forced to give a smirking, insincere apology.

But not only is Omar an anti-Semite, but her district is a hotbed of Muslim extremism.

At least according to the FBI.

Via Fox News, “How Minneapolis’ Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US”:

More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.

FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined. And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.

In the case of the Somalis, it’s no longer just the men. Early last year, a female was apprehended by authorities on charges of supporting providing material support to Al Qaeda and arson.

So what has made the area such a hotbed for such activity? And what has been Rep. Ilhan Omar’s record in addressing the issue – either before she was elected, or since?

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“For over a decade, Islamist terror groups have been able to recruit from Minnesota. This is, in part, because Minnesota has a large Muslim population compared to other parts of the U.S,” said Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security expert at The Heritage Foundation. “However, it is also because there have been small segments of the Somali community there that have struggled to integrate into the U.S. Al-Shabaab and ISIS have exploited this – upon religious, political cultural and identity issues to offer a compelling alternative to Western democracy.”

Josh Lipowsky, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project concurred the immigrant community in Minnesota has proven to be ripe for targeting in recent years by specifically playing into the card of being something of an outsider and that “society has shunned them.”

Local authorities contend it has been challenging for them to penetrate the Somali-American community in Minneapolis, who remain a unique immigrant population that hasn’t actively assimilated with the neighboring township. In the neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside, for example, it’s possible to go about day-to-day business without ever interacting with a non-Somali.

Read the entire Fox News report HERE.

Even more troubling?

Omar wants to defund the Department Of Homeland Security, the massive agency created in the aftermath of 9/11 to protect America from another terrorist attack.

Of course, she walked that back but it was as insincere as her apology for the anti-Semitic tweet about AIPAC.

Whose side is she really on?