Katherine Kersten writes re the Somali booze/pork flap:

Will America do better than Europe at assimilating Muslims? The jury is still out. But recent local events – Somali taxi-drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, Target cashiers refusing to handle pork, the flying imams incident — signal that difficulties lie ahead.

Perhaps, but I’m not sure for whom.

Where are these problems in other cities? Detroit, which has the largest Moslem population in the nation per-capita, doesn’t seem to have these issues (or maybe Detroit’s other issues overshadow them); If the scruples of Moslem cabbies and checkouts were causing trouble in New York or LA, you wouldn’t think the selectively-righteous indignation of a few cabbies and clerks in the Twin Cities would make the news, would you?

These “problems” just don’t seem to exist elsewhere.

Submitted for your approval; the “problem” arises from…:

1. …the presence of a relatively huge Somali community, brought to the Twin Cities during the Clinton Administration (with major help from our local DFL representatives, who realize that poor, welfare-bound immigrants make reliable DFL supporters),
2. a number of imams serving that community that preach a strain of Islam that’d seem to be more fundamentalist than the Quran itself, and
3. a local media that will serve as the chuzzlewitted, unpaid sock puppet of any special interest that can chant “Bush Sucks” in any language.

How will it resolve? Well, that’s the interesting question. Will the new DFL majority, to be sensitive to the new immigrants’ mores, ban pork and alcohol? Will local Somalis tire of the ostracism their excessively fastidious and publicity-hungry coreligionists will continue bringing them?

Or will this be for a group of publicity-hungry imams what Tawanna Brawley was for Al Sharpton?

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