Kansas City: Somali Christian (?) may be charged with hate crime for killing Somali Muslim
Here is a story that will make your head spin. In the first version I read from two days ago it sure sounded like some crazy white guy who hated Somalis intentionally killed a Somali teen with his SUV. CAIR was immediately on the scene.
Ahmed Aden charged with murder of Muslim Somali teen told police earlier that “people from Islam were going to kill him.”
Then after looking for an update, we have this story from late last night at the Kansas City Star that tells a different story. Turns out the man arrested for the intentional killing of the teen is another Somali, supposedly a Christian one (very rare) who believed that the Muslim Somalis were out to kill him.
Isn’t diversity beautiful!
Kansas City, by the way, is (no surprise) a preferred resettlement community. Check out who is bringing Somalis to Kansas City by going to this handy list. One of the contractors operating in KC is a Jewish organization.
Before suffering gruesome and fatal injuries Thursday, Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein helped lead the evening Muslim prayers at his mosque near downtown.
“He asked for mercy for humankind and asked for humans to follow the righteous path,” remembered Ali Abdi, the assistant director of the Somali Center of Kansas City and its mosque.
But Abdisamad, 15, received no mercy minutes later as he stepped off the curb at 1340 Admiral Boulevard and headed toward a car. A Chevrolet Blazer speeding eastbound sideswiped the car and struck Abdisamad, nearly severing his legs.
The Staley High School sophomore died later at a hospital.
The driver of the SUV, Ahmed H. Aden, a 34-year-old Kansas City truck driver, told police after his arrest that he had been searching for men who’d threatened him nine days earlier. And he said he planned to kill those men if he found them, according to court records.
Aden told police that he intentionally struck Abdisamad, but he had mistaken the teen for one of the men who had threatened him. ...
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