There are Muslim enclaves all over the country, many in big cities. But there are also concentrations of Muslims in the suburbs outside of Detroit, the Kentucky countryside...and Minneapolis, MN. The State Department began an agressive Somali refugee resettlement program back in the 1990's, choosing Minneapolis as a prime destination because "it’s the closest thing in the United States to a true social democratic state.” Generous welfare benefits and access to money and services supplied by charities attacted Somali refugees from all over the country to settle there. Today, terrorist recruitment of young Muslims in the Somali community has drastically picked up as 26% of Muslims who leave the US to fight for ISIS and al-Qaeda are from Minnesota. Scott Johnson writing in The Weekly Standard: In a presentation to Minnesota’s National Security Society last month, FBI Minneapolis chief division counsel Kyle Loven conveyed the impression...(Read Full Post)