There should never have been a Little Mogadishu in Columbus, Ohio. Unfortunately politicians chose to import Somalia's Islamic violence to the United States. There are as a result Little Mogadishus all over America. Including in Columbus, Ohio.
The latest Muslim terror attacks at OSU is not the first Islamic terror plot to become out of the Somali settlement in Columbus.
For the past year and a half, Abdiraham Sheik Mohamud, a 23-year-old Columbus resident born in Somalia, was being watched by law enforcement. Reading through his emails, investigators learned that Mohamud planned to join the ranks of jihadists fighting in Syria. He updated his Facebook page around March 10, 2013, with a picture of armed men holding a black flag, often a symbol of terrorist organizations such as ISIS. One informant said Mohamud talked about killing U.S. allies in battle. Another said that Mohamud, after returning from Syria, wanted to execute three or four American soldiers at a Texas military base. In the end, on the same day that the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab called for attacks on American malls, the F.B.I. arrested Mohamud without incident at his home on the city’s west side. He awaits trial on two counts of terrorism and lying to Federal agents.
According to the Department of Justice indictment, “Mohamud wanted to kill Americans, and specifically wanted to target armed forces, police officers, or any uniformed individuals.”
Abdiraham has given way to Abdul. As the Somali migrants continue to terrorize America.
At its heart, Columbus is a college football town dominated by prosperous, mostly white suburbs. Somalis began arriving in the Ohio capitol about 20 years ago, part of a secondary migration after initially fleeing to other cities because of the East African nation’s 1991 civil war. Drawn by cheap real estate and extended family ties, many have settled near my former neighborhood in Westerville, just north of Columbus.
The modest stretch crossed by Morse Road and Cleveland Avenue was never pretty, but there’s a disheveled look since the centerpiece Northland Mall closed in 2002. Once propped up by Frisch’s Big Boy and grocery chains, the adjoining strip of storefronts now includes Vietnamese restaurants, Mexican taquerias, and a Somali market that sells cell phone cards and bright traditional dresses. A new mosque, Columbus’s sixth, is planned to replace a boarded-up Value City Furniture, squeezed between the High Performance bowling alley and Saint Phillips Baptist Church.
Of course there's lots of whining about how mean Americans are. And soon the "Muslims fear backlash" stories will be running in the media. But Muslim terrorism is very much a self-inflicted problem that can be solved at the immigration and denaturalization level.