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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 12:38 PM Aug 2014

Minnesota Father of Nine Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

Another American, Abdirahmaan Muhumed, has been killed fighting on behalf of ISIS in Syria. Muhumed was from Minnesota; Douglas McAuthur McCain, whose death in Syria was reported Tuesday, attended high school in Minnesota, though it's not clear whether the two men knew each other.

Minnesota Public Radio reported earlier in the summer that Muhumed was among the group of "as many as 15" Americans of Somali ancestry who had left the Twin Cities to fight in Syria:

"A Muslim has to stand up for [what's] right," Muhumed, 29, wrote in a Jan. 2 [Facebook] post. "I give up this worldly life for Allah."

Muhumed, who claims he wants to save the global Muslim community, said if that causes others to consider him a terrorist, he is "happy with it." He asked Allah to forgive him and to "make my mom strong for the decision that I made."


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Minnesota Father of Nine Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2014 OP
Idiot. TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #1
+1 CJCRANE Aug 2014 #2
+1000 samsingh Aug 2014 #3
Helps cull the herd, I guess. hifiguy Aug 2014 #4
Sadly he had nine kids mythology Aug 2014 #9
If he had take his responsibility to them hifiguy Aug 2014 #11
Good riddance. HooptieWagon Aug 2014 #5
Dumb ass. cwydro Aug 2014 #6
Fuck him. linuxman Aug 2014 #7
It would have been one thing if he had gone back to Somalia to fight. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2014 #8
Assholes like him just want to kill humans seveneyes Aug 2014 #10
Good riddance. POS> GeorgeGist Aug 2014 #12
NOC Operatives n/t 951-Riverside Aug 2014 #13
Something poetic in the fact that both clowns were killed by other followers of the Islamic faith. Mike Daniels Aug 2014 #14
It is obvious he didn't place any value on human life but deserting his children and Jim Beard Aug 2014 #15
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
11. If he had take his responsibility to them
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 01:57 PM
Aug 2014

as seriously as those to an invisible Sky Daddy he'd still be alive and his kids would still have a father.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
5. Good riddance.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 12:58 PM
Aug 2014

29 years old, and fathered NINE children? And then rather than help raise and support them, he traipses off to the ME to fight a jihad? I feel bad for the kids, who won't have a father (though I suspect he'd be a negative influence), and I feel bad for the mothers, who have to go it alone. But I also feel the US, and world, are better off without this douche-bag.
Go ahead, flame away if you must.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
8. It would have been one thing if he had gone back to Somalia to fight.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 01:09 PM
Aug 2014

At least he would have been fighting and dying for his own country.

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
10. Assholes like him just want to kill humans
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 01:21 PM
Aug 2014

It's their ticket to play out their fantasies. Fuck him and any other pieces of shit like him.

Mike Daniels

(5,842 posts)
14. Something poetic in the fact that both clowns were killed by other followers of the Islamic faith.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 02:09 PM
Aug 2014

Not sure what separates idiots like these two clowns from the idiots that joined the Confederacy in that both chose to betray and fight against their county.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
15. It is obvious he didn't place any value on human life but deserting his children and
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 02:25 PM
Aug 2014

helping destroy the nation that has most likely been feeding his children. I still believe in the melting pot, assimilate or leave.

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