Once upon a time, this Blogger was asked to appraise the fighting skills of Somalis. This Blogger believed, and believes them to be brave, fierce, capable of accepting the risk of death…..if they think they are going to win. Somalis are incapable of accepting casualties in the pursuit of accomplishing the impossible…..organized Somalis are incapable of being the 1 st Minnesota at Gettysburg, or the 1st Battalion, the   Gloucestershire Regiment  (the Glorious Glosters) at Hill 235, ("Hold on where you are"), or the Big Red One on Omaha Beach. Somalis are capable of war, incapable of sacrifice. Somalis have the courage of bandits, which means they never defeat the superior force; the Ethiopians defeated a superior Italian Army at the Battle of Adowa; the spear carrying Zulus defeated a modern British detachment at the Battle of Islawanda; the Sudanese under the Mahdi defeated a superior Egyptian Army under the British Colonel Hicks at the Battle of El Obeid. The S

Is it racist to advocate for the repatriation of Somali refugees from America back to their homeland? Or patriotic?  Somali patriotism. Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin and Ohio have given sanctuary to many Somalis fleeing war conditions in Somalia. “Since the 1990s more than 100,000 Somalis have come to America as refugees. Many settled in the Minneapolis-St Paul area, which today is home to around 75,000 immigrants from Somalia and their children. The Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood in the Twin Cities is sometimes called “Little Mogadishu”. After they arrived, Somalis clustered and kept to themselves;….. Somali women made little effort to learn English. ……Somalis are one of the most troubled groups of immigrants. Many young Somali men are in prison; many Somalis of both sexes drop out of high school. Unemployment hovers around 21%, the highest of Minnesota’s five largest immigrant groups. More than half of Minnesota’s Somalis are poor. Many are isolated from other immigrants