With the session in full swing, Bluestem hadn't read the Central Minnesota Tea Party Blog for a while, and thus the March 7 post, Why Does It Matter that We Have An Estimated 77,000 Somalis in MN?, is new to us.
The post, which appears to be lifted from an email sent by Debbie Anderson, ACT! for America Minneapolis Chapter Coordinator, not only claims "Islamic ideology, Sunni and Shia, is antithetical to our way of life and is incompatible with our Declaration of Independence and Constitution in its very gene code," but also suggests that Somali-Minnesotans are likely to be sympathetic to terrorism:
So why does it matter that MN has an estimated 77,000 Sunni Muslims?Even if MN had only 77,0000 Sunni Muslims and only half of them were sympathetic to Somalia’s terrorist group al-Shabaab that would be an army the size of ISIS.
That’s why it matters.
The post concludes with a list of "MN Resettlement Contractors" along with the groups' phone numbers.
Go read the entire post.
The Central Minnesota Tea Party is based in St. Cloud (a separate group, the Central Minnesota Tea Party Patriots, operates out of Browerville).
According to the Central Minnesota Tea Party's About page:
The Central Minnesota Tea Party is made up of non-partisan independent thinkers working to restore our Republic. We are pro-family, pro-God, pro-American and pro-Constitution. One thing is certain. You won't see a Tea Party member desecrating the American flag or engaging in hooliganism.
Our core values are fiscal responsibility, limited federal government, personal responsibility, private property rights, free markets, and national sovereignty. We are opposed to the New World Order, social engineering in our schools, UN involvement in our government, and progressive, socialist, and entitlement legislation.
In the past, Republican elected leaders and candidates have been guests at the group's meetings. It's not the Republican Party of Minnesota's policy to promote Islamaphobia, and so we hope those Republicans stopping in to meetings in the future make it clear that the GOP doesn't support Anderson's ideas.
In St. Cloud, this isn't an abstract problem. A Muslim worship center has been vandalized several times in the near past.
Photo: Somali American women.
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