More Islamophobia

A federal grand jury has charged three men, including one from St. Louis and one from Minneapolis, with conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia that the U.S. says has ties to al-Qaida.

In an indictment returned Oct. 21 and unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, prosecutors charged St. Louis taxi driver Mohamud Abdi Yusuf, a Somali national who immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee, with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and three counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization - the radical Islamist group al-Shabab.

The government contends that Yusuf and Abdi Mahdi Hussein sent money through a Minneapolis wire-transfer business where Hussein worked to al-Shabab supporters in Somalia between 2008 and at least July 2009. Hussein, who is also of Somali descent, is charged with one count of conspiracy to structure monetary transactions. Yusuf also faces that count.

Duane Mohamed Diriye, who prosecutors contend was on the receiving end of some transactions, is charged with conspiracy and terrorist-funding counts and is believed to be in Somalia or Kenya.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/03/1906857/3-accused-in-al-shabab-terror.html

Al-Shabab is a terrorist group of radical fundamentalist Muslims active in Somalia. Since 2007, approximately 20 young men of Somali descent left Minneapolis to join al-Shabab's fight in Somalia.

They chose to leave the American Muslim community, the richest, safest, freest and most educated Muslim community in history. Notwithstanding what the U.S. media says, it wasn't because of American Islamophobia.