The Lost Boys of Minnesota: A mother speaks. An Imam complains.

And believe it or not, she's blaming US government airport security for her son joining the jihad in Somalia.  It's important to note that after 10 days, she gave up looking for him.

The Imam is complaining that he had to miss an important feast because he had to answer phones, deal with the press, etc.

One of the Somali mosque leaders, Imam Hassan Mohamud, says the reports of missing children have placed a cloud over holding important religious feasts, and he had to postpone a large feast because he was busy answering calls and talking to other imams about the issue.

I really hate to be this way about people and the way they are, you know?  But you just can't win with these people.  First, we're evil racial profilers targeting decoy Flying Imams and the next thing you know it's our fault some Muslim lady's kid runs off to join the terrorists in Somalia.  And the Imam is complaining because he wasn't ready for his close up. 

And get this - when asked who could be responsible for recruiting her 14 year old child for jihad?  Mama Shaheed says she 'knows but she can't publicly accuse anyone'. 

She sure is quick to blame the US government, though.

From The Jerusalem Post.

"I had returned from work and asked my other children where my son Mohamed Yasin was; but they said they hadn't seen him all day," Abdi says.

She reported the 14-year-old boy to the police as missing, but they could not find him.

After 10 days she gave up looking for him. One day, she says, a young boy called their phone from Somalia, saying, "Mum, it's your son Mohamed; I came to Mogadishu to fight against the enemies of Somalia."

He hung up the phone without saying another word.

She says she was upset that her child went to the anarchic country and took up a gun to fight.

"The only thing I am expecting now is for him to die," she says tearfully.

Abdi blames the U.S. federal police for her young boy's disappearance - according to her, it is because of lack of good safeguards at airports.

"How can a very young boy be allowed to fly on a plane? The police are irresponsible," she says.

Asked about who encouraged her son to take off to Somalia, she says she knows but can't publicly accuse anyone, adding she has heard that several other young children have left for Somalia in a similar way.

Comments

[janice]

"How can a very young boy be allowed to fly on a plane? The police are irresponsible,"

How can a MOTHER give up looking for their 14 YO son after 10 days?

[DD2]

I gave up asking questions. Just when you think you have seen it all. Some thing like this happens.

[BT in SA]

Where does a 14 year old come up with $1000 bucks to fly overseas? And, in economy. Business class from Bahrain to Washington, DC is $4000. per ticket, round-trip. Guessing he didn't fly business class.

I didn't have $1000 when I was fourteen. [Or 15 or 16, either!]

But, he isn't young either. After 12, you don't have to be an unaccompanied minor on a plane. You're free to travel on your own if you have a ticket. Yes. Again, someone's fault in the US. So sue.