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COMMENTS: Somalia’s Troubles Reach Minnesota
The abu-Bakar Islamic Center, a mosque that serves the 70,000-strong Somali-American community in Minneapolis, invited CBS' Dean Reynolds for a show-and-tell. Last year, 20-or-so young men from the mosque returned to their civil-war-torn ancestral homeland. "The Somalis here are deeply troubled. Who is behind the exodus? Who is paying for it? Who may be the next to go?" In October, Shirwa Ahmed, one of the 20, committed suicide by blowing himself up, murdering 30 others near Mogadishu in he process. The abu-Bakar Center had a dual message of damage control: it has no role in turning worshippers into radicals; instead the mosque itself has become the target of threats and harassment.
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