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| Minnesota man charged with threatening family over jihad |
| 2012-01-28 |
| A St. Paul man who started to get violent after he decided to join the jihad and travel to Somalia, according to his family, was charged with making terroristic threats. The family of Sharmarke Duale, 20, told police he had done well in school until he began attending a local mosque, according to a criminal complaint. The name of the mosque was not mentioned. The complaint says, "Since that time, he has been very disrespectful toward the women in the house and has threatened his father to try to get his father to assist Duale in getting a passport." It gives the following account of events. Police were called Tuesday afternoon to the family's home about an assault in progress. They were told that a son had stabbed his mother and was trying to get back into the house by smashing a window with a shovel. Officers arrived to find Duale on the porch wielding a shovel. The mother was inside; police saw defensive stab wounds on her hands. The complaint says the family said Duale was raising money for jihad and told his father, "Take me out of this country, or I will show you what will happen; things will not be good for you." Duale's father, Mohamed Duale, vehemently denied telling police that his son was raising money for jihad. He said, "We never said these words. This is wrong what they put here; this is not from my family." According to the complaint, Sharmarke tried to stab his father but cut his mother when she stepped in to intervene. He also punched his sister. His parents said they fear him and that he needs help. He has threatened to "chop (his sister and mother) in pieces" and "kill the girls." Speaking to police at the county jail after his arrest, Duale said his mother had cut herself and that his family's claims were all lies. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #17 It's still a race between Michigan and Minnesota to be the first state that needs to be retained by the union with force. You mean, the twelfth... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-28 19:34 |
| #16 It's still a race between Michigan and Minnesota to be the first state that needs to be retained by the union with force. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2012-01-28 19:13 |
| #15 Contra-indicated for non-schizophrenics too, but you get the point, I hope. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-28 18:18 |
| #14 Loughner was into "salvia," which is kinda contra-indicated for schizophrenics. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-28 18:17 |
| #13 I dunno, badanov, none of the potheads I've known have been violent or even overtly self-destructive (unless the pot was laced wite PCP or the like), while virtually all the methheads were. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-28 17:51 |
| #12 Oops. Wrong psycho. Loughner was a pot head, in some ways worse than a meth and muscle head. |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-01-28 17:39 |
| #11 This is actually pretty pathetic. Marmaduke or whatever couldn't even get out of the house, let alone to other side of the globe to wage glorious jihad in the name of Allah. I'm no clinician, but it sounds similar to Jared Loughner - standard male 20-ish-onset schizophrenia, untreated by a family either ignorant or in total denial. The guy was a meth head and a muscle head. Schizophrenia, maybe, but brought on by "self-medication". |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-01-28 17:31 |
| #10 Those darned Scowegians! |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-28 17:03 |
| #9 Psychic, you say? So maybe I'm not racist? Whew! This is actually pretty pathetic. Marmaduke or whatever couldn't even get out of the house, let alone to other side of the globe to wage glorious jihad in the name of Allah. I'm no clinician, but it sounds similar to Jared Loughner - standard male 20-ish-onset schizophrenia, untreated by a family either ignorant or in total denial. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2012-01-28 17:02 |
| #8 Yeah, it's all those danged Lutherans! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-01-28 14:09 |
| #7 I blame the lutefisk diet.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-28 13:15 |
| #6 That's the first thing I thought, too, JD - Minnesota+jihad=Somalia. Guess I'm psychic. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-28 12:58 |
| #5 Funny. Every time I see "Minnesota" and "jihad" in the same sentence, I think "Somalia." I wonder why that is? Oh yes, I must be a racist. I denounce myself. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2012-01-28 12:18 |
| #4 "The Dark Lord and I," said Moody [Barty Crouch, Jr.], and he looked completely insane now, towering over Harry, leering down at him, "have much in common. Both of us, for instance, had very disappointing fathers.... Very disappointing indeed. Both of us suffered the indignity, Harry, of being named after those fathers. And both of us had the pleasure... the very great pleasure... of killing our fathers to ensure the continued rise of the Dark Order!" "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", J.K. Rowling |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-01-28 11:24 |
| #3 The lad won't be able to get a passport now, he will be put on a watch list...and he'll get some time in jail to ponder the situation. Back outside in Minneapolis/St. Paul that mosque is going to enjoy the close and continued attention of the local police as well as various branches of the Feds...and members as well as visitors will get the Hawaii treatment. This nation's gratitude should go out to whoever called the cops on Junior's little adventure. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-28 10:51 |
| #2 all he got charged with is terroristic threats? saounds like a big charge but it's really not. An attmepted murder for the stabbing would have alot more effect for jail time or just ship into a jihad zone so he can get his wish and free bullet in the head. |
| Posted by: chris 2012-01-28 09:03 |
| #1 he had done well in school until he began attending a local mosque Someone might want to investigate that mosque. It would seem to not be the one the family attended. His parents said they fear him and that he needs help. And they may even have pumped up the story a bit in order to try and get him that help, even if it involves law enforcement. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-28 07:28 |