A new Minnesota-centered recruiting video from al-Shabab calls for African-Americans to convert to Islam, move to a Muslim country and flee "racial profiling and police brutality" in the United States.
Hoping to capitalize on recent high-profile police killings of African-American men, the terror group's 51-minute video urges American blacks to seek better lives abroad. It also refers to anti-Islam sentiment in the West and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent call for the ban on Muslims immigrating to the U.S.
Most of the video centers on eight al-Shabab fighters from Minnesota, who all died between 2009 and 2011. Some of the footage is a repeat of an earlier al-Shabab video that focused on the lives of three Minnesotans. ...
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