The Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center deniesany wrongdoing, but many here suspect that the mosque and its imam areradicalizing their youth to become jihadists in an Islamic holy waroverseas or perhaps even in the United States
Mohamud Ali Hassan once told the Somali grandmother who raised him that he’d become a doctor and care for her. The Somali immigrant, who moved to the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” when hewas 8, had good grades at the University of Minnesota and calledMuslims to prayer at his mosque, where he also slept during the holymonth of Ramadan.
But on Nov. 1, Hassan disappeared, as have a dozen other boys andyoung men here — two days after another young Muslim from Minnesotablew himself up as a suicide bomber in Somalia.
Hassan, 18, called his grandmother to say he was back in Somalia,where an Islamist militia is trying to take over the Horn of Africanation. What he was doing there, he did not say.
Now the FBI is asking questions, as are members of the Somali community.Continue…