{"id":591,"date":"2007-03-19T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T10:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/19\/minnesota-is-porked\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T05:49:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T11:49:55","slug":"minnesota-is-porked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Is Porked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Kersten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/blogs\/kersten\/\">writes re the Somali booze\/pork flap:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will America do better than Europe at assimilating Muslims? The jury is still out. But recent local events \u2013 Somali taxi-drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, Target cashiers refusing to handle pork, the flying imams incident \u2014 signal that difficulties lie ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps, but I&#8217;m not sure for whom.<\/p>\n<p>Where are these problems in other cities? Detroit, which has the largest Moslem population in the nation per-capita, doesn&#8217;t seem to have these issues (or maybe Detroit&#8217;s other issues overshadow them); If the scruples of Moslem cabbies and checkouts were causing trouble in New York or LA, you wouldn&#8217;t think the selectively-righteous indignation of a few cabbies and clerks in the Twin Cities would make the news, would you?<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;problems&#8221; just don&#8217;t seem to exist elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted for your approval; the &#8220;problem&#8221; arises from&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8230;the presence of a relatively <em>huge <\/em>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),<\/li>\n<li>a number of <em>imams <\/em>serving that community that preach a strain of Islam that&#8217;d seem to be more fundamentalist than the Quran itself, and<\/li>\n<li>a local media that will serve as the chuzzlewitted, unpaid sock puppet of any special interest that can chant &#8220;Bush Sucks&#8221; in any language.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How will it resolve? Well, that&#8217;s the interesting question. Will the new DFL majority, to be sensitive to the new immigrants&#8217; mores, ban pork and alcohol? Will local Somalis tire of the ostracism their excessively fastidious and publicity-hungry coreligionists will continue bringing them?<\/p>\n<p>Or will this be for a group of publicity-hungry imams what Tawanna Brawley was for Al Sharpton?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 Somali taxi-drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, Target cashiers refusing to handle pork, the flying imams incident \u2014 signal that difficulties lie ahead. Perhaps, but I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-liberty","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}