Cut me, do I not bleed 10,000 lakes? The Minnesota of my youth, a wondrous mystical place, is now a place of distant nostalgia.
The last couple days, the Twins played the Texas Rangers in Arlington. Living in Texas, I get to see all the Rangers games and have adopted them as a pseudofavorite since a I rarely get to see the Twins play. Watching them both slug it out for three days was a real treat.
Watching the Twins vaults me to the time of Killebrew, Carew, Allison, Blyleven, and Kaat. While the Twins have remained as scrappy as ever and the lakes haven't lost their luster, Minnesota is not the place I left.
When Al Franken earns a senate seat, something has tipped in the cosmos. Has Minnesota has lost its political mind? First Jessie Ventura. An aberration, I thought. But Al Franken?!? Outright insanity. You don't elect a cartoon to political office.
But it's not just in politics where Minnesota has changed. A recent news article highlighted Minneapolis' problems with Somali gangs (here). What's mostly from absent from the article is any reference to Islam. The predominant religion in Somalia is Sunni Muslim. For a comparison, that's Saudi Arabia's freedom-focused, laissez faire brand of religion. [Saudi Arabia is the source of funding for what have become a drove of Islamic charter schools, the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy one of their shiny pennies going so far as to refuse to fly the American flag (here).]
What's to blame for the problem with the Somali gangs? The article suggests the standard socialist saws: poverty, bias of authorities. Hmmm...how about refusal to assimilate? Unwillingness to submit to US law? Poverty driving that? Nope. Minnesota, like Michigan, has an infestation of fundamentalist Muslims, the kind who don't want to play well with others, the kind remove the opposition not with the vote but with the scimitar or the C4 vest. The FBI is right to be watching the Twin Cities' Somali community (here).
What about the Somalis and the Muslims who do want to live in peace on Minnesota soil? They should be distancing themselves from their mutant cousins and decrying all such conduct. Say the pledge. Fly the flag. Or move out. Perhaps those are the Somalis who have lost their lives at the hands of the demons.
Al Franken is bad enough, but if this keeps up, brats will be banished from the ballpark and the National Anthem is sure to follow.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Using the term "pseudofavorite" in reference to a Texas sports team is like smoking pot. It can only lead to dangerous rationalization and increasingly hazardous activities in the future.
The Minnesotan with whom you watched part of the 1987 World Series at Williams AFB sat on his couch Sunday night in Krum, TX holding broom in his lap hoping for a Twins sweep.
I mowed Nate Wright's lawn when I was a kid in Minnesota and I will never forget what happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfyJBJoLQs
On a more serious note - if God wants to send Muslims to us, lets thank Him and evengelize those we can. Pick off the stragglers with love, hospitality, hope, and grace. We're supposed to catch all the fish we can - not spend our time trying to keep the pond clean. When the fish swim to us, it sure saves a long boat ride. I've been to Saudi Arabia, and I'd rather try to reach them here.
The other Keith
I was waving my Homer Hankie.
On a more serious note, there is a big difference between the individual and the nation. The nation must be vigilant. The Christian must seek and love the the lost. This is not contradictory.
With the horrifying silence within other media about the spread of radical (fundamental) Islam within our borders, I'll flash the red light.
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