{"id":10728,"date":"2016-09-20T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2016-09-20T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:37:02","slug":"somali-community-in-minnesota-condemns-somali-kenyan-born-man-for-mall-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10728","title":{"rendered":"Somali Community in Minnesota Condemns Somali-Kenyan Born Man for Mall Knife Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/minnesota-mall-stabbings-might-realize-worst-fears-of-local-somalis\/\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the stabbing of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a potential act of terrorism &#8212; a finding that would realize long-held fears of an attack in the immigrant-rich state that has struggled to stop the recruiting of its young men by groups including ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).<\/p>\n<p>A young Somali man dressed as a private security guard entered the Crossroads Center mall over the weekend wielding what appeared to be a kitchen knife. The city\u2019s police chief said the man reportedly made at least one reference to Allah and asked a victim if he or she was Muslim before attacking.<\/p>\n<p>The rampage ended when the man was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. None of the injured suffered life-threatening wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The motive is still unclear, but FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Rick Thornton said on Sunday that the stabbings were being investigated as a \u201cpotential act of terrorism.\u201d ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were digging into the attacker\u2019s background and possible motives, looking at social media accounts and his electronic devices, and talking to his associates, Thornton said.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t appear anyone else was involved in the attack, which began at around 8 p.m. and was over within minutes, Police Chief Blair Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Somali community in central Minnesota condemned the stabbings. They said the suspect &#8212; identified by a source to CBS News as 22-year-old Dahir A. Adan, according to CBS Minnesota &#8212; does not represent them, and they expressed fear about a backlash.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo by <a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Tom Woodward's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bionicteaching\/\">Tom Woodward<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QyZW2ffcUVY&amp;w=640&amp;h=360]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CBS News Authorities are investigating the stabbing of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a potential act of terrorism &#8212; a finding that would realize long-held fears of an attack in the immigrant-rich state that has struggled to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10728\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[4922,4921,64,1686],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Somali-Community-in-Minnesota-Condemns-Somali-Kenyan-Born-Man-for-Mall-Knife-Attack.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10737,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}