Omar Jamal Director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center
The Executive Director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center Mr. Omar Jamal
will address about the Somalis in Minnesota post 9/11 on Thursday October
20th 2005 at the Humanists of Minnesota at 900 Mount Curve Avenue Minneapolis
MN, Chalice Room down stairs.
October 19, 2005 St Paul, Minnesota
. Thousands of Somali refugees have settled
in the Twin Cities since Somalia's civil war erupted in 1991. Minneapolis-St.
Paul has become the de facto "capital" of the Somali community in North America.
Mr. Omar Jamal will speak about the change the community went through after
9/11. Some of the main reasons the community settled in the Midwest were job
market and services for families; however, soon after 9/11 all hopes vanished
and fear, detention and FBI interrogation become very common.
Mr. Jamal will focus on the high spirit of the Somali community being most
recent immigrants in the United States in an attempt to accomplish the American
Dream, yet without any of their making, get caught up in the terrorist war.
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