Somalian Born Terror... In Oregon USA
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Tolerance. Ah yes. As Americans, guided by our sense of fair play and a deep belief in the virtue of tolerance and understanding we must analyse how our American society caused this relative youth to plot his terrorist actions. I give you the following excerpts from the an Associated Press article reported out of the Portland, Oregon bureau: A Somali-born teenager plotted "a spectacular show" of terrorism for months, saying he didn't mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, according to a law-enforcement official and court documents . He never got the chance. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested Friday in downtown Portland after using a cell phone to try to detonate what he thought were explosives in a van, prosecutors said. Certainly there must be an underlying societal driven reason that a nineteen year old individual would plo...