Blaming on Non-existent External Factors on the Recruitment of young Jihadists

Abdirahman Aynte asks: Are jihadist groups luring Minnesota Somalis back to fight?
I say: you betja, yeah.

Before these teenagers went missing, youth programs at mosques went minimally scrutinized, complained some community leaders. To address this, Adam, the Daral Hijra Center director, urges mosque leaders to introduce greater oversight on youth activities. “Our image as a community is tainted,” he said. “Instead of pointing fingers at our mosques and religious leaders, we need to repair our image. We need to minimize the influence of external factors by increasing oversight.”

Minimize the influence of external factors? This is absolutely baloney and a diversion. There is no such thing as external factors. The factors that are luring young men to Jihad activities are already built into the Abubakar mosques’ dynamics. The matter should be framed as to how can we progressively modify and monitor mosques’ and Madrasas’ Islamic curriculum.