Ineluctible Math
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Before 6,000 Somali Muslims were imported to St. Cloud, a town of 60,000 souls, nobody with a knife attacking shoppers while quizzing them on their religion or talking about Allah.
One might be tempted to think that the first thing led to the second, but that would be an example of the logical fallacy post hoc ergo prompter hoc. Fortunately, the media and political leadership wisely avoids drawing any such conclusions. The attacker’s motive may never be known.
Even if this does turn out to be an act of Muslim terrorism as the Muslim terrorist group ISIL claims, the terrorist probably was simply another member of Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves so nothing to worry about, St. Cloud has the capacity to absorb more terrorist attacks.
Joe Doakes
Isn’t it amazing how tolerant the media and political class get about peoples’ motives, when there’s a whiff of ethnic/religious terrorism involved?
September 29th, 2016 at 10:14 am
Not widely reported……..HBO is planning on filming a show in the Twin Cities, called “Mogadishu, Minnesota”. About terrorist recruitment her.
The local Somalians are trying to stop the filming, through violence if necessary. Ahhhh doesn’t that kind of prove the point that we have a problem?
September 30th, 2016 at 2:42 pm
And I have never heard of an explanation of the explosion a couple years ago of that apartment on Cedar Ave in the Little Mogadishu distric of Minneapolis. Maybe I missed it, other than CenterPoint Energy saying, it wasn’t a gas leak.