Mothers the true victims of the tragedy of missing American Youths

[General Duke]

Tormented mother grieves son who heeded a fatal call

 

The toughest days

 

A woman of faith, Bihie has leaned heavily on the Qur'an and prayer.

 

It sustained her when she fled the bloodshed of her homeland more than a decade ago and again when her husband died in an accident in Kuwait.

 

The friendship offered by several other families with missing sons has also proved a weekly comfort.

 

She thinks of Burhan constantly, and writes often in the journal she keeps at her bedside. Sometimes, she writes poems about her son whom she lovingly nicknamed "Bashir" after his uncle, a doctor who delivered the boy.

 

She sobbed uncontrollably in April when someone at Roosevelt High called her to ask if she could return Burhan's schoolbooks.

 

A medical technology student at the time, Bihie was driving home from an internship in Glencoe, Minn., and had to pull off the highway because she was crying so hard.

 

"That was the toughest day," she said.

 

The days since haven't been much better.

 

She cannot bear to look at Burhan's clothes or see his backpack. Even photographs of her son bring her to tears.

 

"You can smile, but it is a false smile," she said.

 

Community divided

 

In the aftermath of Burhan's disappearance, Bihie's family and others asked tough questions of the Abubakar administrators. The mosque leaders have repeatedly said the mosque wasn't involved in the disappearance of the men.

 

But Bihie can't help but wonder, because Burhan spent so much time at the mosque, whether someone there influenced him.

 

The community finger-pointing, some of it rooted in longstanding clan rivalries, has often been bitter. That some have attacked Bihie and other families of the missing for speaking out and questioning the mosque has hurt her greatly. It stings even more that some say she has attacked her own religion.

 

"I don't know what's happened to my community," she said, shaking her head slowly. "How can they say we're destroying the mosque? ... We still are missing other kids. ... I was missing my son. I needed information.

 

"I don't know what is going on, but something is going on," she continued. "I need an answer ... the Somali community -- we need an answer."

 

 

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[General Duke]

CNN source

 

Jamal Bana's family tell reporters they want to know who recruited him to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia.

[General Duke]

Ali Yusuf Omar and wife Asha Ali say they cannot understand why young men want to return to fight.

[General Duke]

The mothers of the arrested men

 

Ahmed's mother...

In the second row of the federal courtroom in Minneapolis, Ahmed's mother rocked gently and dabbed at her eyes, one more tragic figure from the Somali diaspora in Minnesota.

Isse's mother

His mother, in an interview earlier this week, said Isse was a "good boy" who fell in with the wrong crowd while in Minneapolis.

 

Speaking in broken English without a translator, the woman — who did not want to give her name but acknowledged she was Isse's mother — said her son changed after meeting a girl in Minneapolis while on break from school.

[Chocolate and Honey]

Oh! This made me cry. I'm so sad. My heart breaks for the family. I didnt pay attention to Jamal untill I saw his picture on the news and a shock wave went through my body because he looks so much a like his brother Abdulfatah who I used to see everyday in the school year. Ughh.. this is heartbreaking wallahi. These evil people need to stop recruiting children to fight for their false ideals.

The people who sent these kids are here. Why are they here? Why dont they go or send their kids instead of recruiting other people's kids if they trully beleive in their misguided notions of nationalism and Islam? Shows what true cowards they are.

[General Duke]

^^^Imagine the mother of Jamal had to see his corpse paraded on Somali sites that must have broken her.

 

Also these individuals are here, hiding behind institutions and getting lawyers.

 

May they all be caught and tried, they don’t deserve a single tear of these Mothers.

[Juje]

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

[General Duke]

^^^These mothers fled with their kids, and they were taken by a network in the Twin Cities to go back and kill innocent people.

 

For our community here we need answers and insha Allah we will get them soon.

[Chocolate and Honey]

Sadly, this is going to effect the Mosque and probably the FBI will monitor if not close Mosques arround the state. See what they've done in the house of God? Now, this is probably going to inflame the minds of the gaalo thinking that we are terrorists as well. It is on every channel, every newspaper arround the country.

BTW, why arent the imams speaking about this tragedy? Why arent they denouncing it for the sake of the mothers if not for the community? All they've done so far is deny their involvement. I dont beleive that the imams recruited anyone but they must've seen the signs or something.

[General Duke]

^^^Something strange is going on here, the community as a whole is to blame, because we should have seen how this impacts us all instead of hiding things and turning into the usual nonsense.

 

I dont know who is behind it all but there is a clear conspiracy, and there has been a sudden change since the reported deaths of the youths.

[Che -Guevara]

Duke....Who will answer for kids that get massacred during Tigray occupation. It looks like your moral consciousness kicks in when it's politically convienant.

[General Duke]

Che, you are a sad person afflicted by deeply seated clan inferiority complex, I also noticed how you rejoiced that these youths were from the “family” of Duke, on an earlier post. Fighting between combatants is one thing. I have always been against the deaths of any human being least of all my Somali people.

 

The Tigray you parade around have nothing to do with my person, nor have I condoned the actions of killing individuals, you on the other hand laud and celebrate the actions of the criminal Shabaab and thier targeting of civilians which continues till today. The dilemma for you is that most Somali’s have now woken up to this evil and you are isolated.

[NGONGE]

You know these 'kids' you are all talking about, how old exactly were they?

[General Duke]

^^^I was familiar with two of them, the youngest Burhan Hassan who's mother is the first in the thread was 17 when he disapeared and the other boy was around 19.

 

Skinny kid with glasses, finished the Quran and was top of his class. A student.

[Chocolate and Honey]

NG,

They range from 17-26 literally. Most of them went to the same high school:Roosevelt. They're literally kids, the kind who did not lie about their ages. Their faces and ages were printed on a NY article that came out on Sunday. Most of them were not even that religous untill the invasion.