‘The Real Disneyland’: New Video Tries to Recruit Somali-Americans in Minnesota for Jihad


‘The Real Disneyland’: New Video Tries to Recruit Somali Americans in Minnesota for Jihad

A new terrorist propaganda video posted to YouTube aims to lure Somali-American youths in Minnesota to the Middle East to wage jihad against “infidel forces,” comparing the experience to a visit to Disneyland.

The 39-minute video shows images of smiling, machine gun-wielding young men and onscreen English slogans glorifying terrorism, including “Minnesota Martyrs,” “I am proud to be a traitor to America,” and “the path to paradise.”

WCCO-TV reported that even before the video was posted online on Wednesday, more than two-dozen young Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities had already been lured to overseas terrorist training camps.

One of the images that appears in the terrorist-recruiting video (Image source: YouTube)

According to the Associated Press, at least 20 young men have traveled from Minnesota to join the Somali-based branch of Al Qaeda, Al-Shabab.

The FBI told WCCO that Al-Shabab is believed to be behind the video, which shows images from the streets of Minnesota, graphic photos of dead Muslim children, and U.S. forces operating in the Middle East.

It also shows jihadis in military fatigues lined up in formation marching next to the black Al Qaeda flag.

“It is troubling, because it uses the medium of video to romanticize what it is to go to Somalia and fight,” FBI spokesman Kyle Loven told WCCO. “And it’s appealing, unfortunately, to some young men here in Minneapolis.”

Federal law enforcement officials for at least seven years have been investigating the so-called “terrorist pipeline” from Minnesota to Middle Eastern jihadi training camps. The Twin Cities have the largest population of Somali-Americans in the U.S., earning one Minneapolis neighborhood the monicker  “Little Mogadishu.

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