Al Ikhwan-Ul-Muslimeen Founder

Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Ismailia in March 1928 along with six workers of the Suez Canal Company, as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement.The Suez Canal Company helped Banna build the mosque in Ismailia that would serve as the Brotherhood's headquarters, according to Richard Mitchell's The Society of Muslim Brothers. According to al-Banna, contemporary Islam had lost its social dominance, because most Muslims had been corrupted by Western influences. Sharia law based on the Qur'an and the Sunnah were seen as laws passed down by God that should be applied to all parts of life, including the organization of the government and the handling of everyday problems.

Al-Banna was populist in his message of protecting workers against the tyranny of foreign and monopolist companies. It founded social institutions such as hospitals, pharmacies, schools, etc. Al-Banna held highly conservative views on issues such as women's rights, opposing equal rights for women, but supporting the establishment of justice towards women.The Brotherhood grew rapidly going from 800 members in 1936, to 200,000 by 1938 and 500,000 in 1948

Jammu & Kashmir Youth Forum

0ur Mission

To promote the study, practice and knowledge of Islam. To make effective arrangements for the study of Islam and modern sciences, the building of Islamic character and the development of mental and physical qualities for the students To arrange and hold conferences, exhibitions, meetings, discussions and seminars for the propagation of Islam. To make efforts to solve the problems faced by the students community to get their genuine fulfilled and to lead them in their collective problems. To promote cordial relations of brotherhood, peace and co-operation among the different communities. To print, publish and exhibit some books pamphlets, pictures etc necessary for the promotion of the Aims & Objects of the Forum. To give prizes to the distinction holders and monetary assistance to the needy students. To organize relief work during floods, famine, fire etc. To make all possible efforts to promote and facilitate the Educational, Social, Economic, and Cultural programs. To provide necessary health care facilities.

Jammat E Islami Would Soon Begin A Big Movement For The Protection Of Women’s Rights

LAHORE, Dec. 2; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that the JI would soon begin a big movement for the protection of women’s rights.

            Addressing the leaders of the JI women wing at Mansoora on Tuesday, he said he had worked out a charter for the women’s rights as would be presented to the nation soon.

            The JI chief said that the women constituted 51 per cent of the country’s population , therefore, the Islamic government would allocate the same ration of the resources for the women welfare.   Separate colleges and universities would be established for the women and appointments of lady doctors would be ensured at the hospitals for the female patients. The women folk would be provided interest free loans to start business and for the look after of their children and families, he added.

            Sirajul Haq said that the west had deprived the womenfolk of the love and affection of mother and father, brothers and sons in the name of women’s rights.  In a very shrewd manner, the western society had been carrying on the exploitation of the women and had also thrust upon them the burden of earning livelihood.

            He pointed out that the Quaid e Azam had termed the women as the third big force after sword and the pen. He said that the women in Pakistan were deprived of their rights mainly because the westernized NGOs who talked of women’s rights believed in superficial activities and were least interested in the women’s uplift. He said that t was the JI that had come to the help of thousands of mothers and sisters in Waziristan, the tribal areas and the areas affected by natural calamities.

            He impressed upon the JI women wing leaders to make their best efforts for the unity of the nation in the present situation and promote positive ideas in order to save our strength.

            JI women leaders Durdana Siddiqi and Samiha Raheel Qazi also addressed the gathering.

Govt. Resume Talks With PTI -Jammat e Islami

LAHORE, Dec. 5: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has urged upon the government to bring to an end the political tension in the country and resume talks with the PTI because in case of a confrontation, the whole political process could be wiped out. He was addressing a large Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque here.

            Sirajul Haq said that the efforts made by him for dialogue were sincere and in the larger interest of the country and the nation. He said that he would announce his road map for the Islamic Pakistan at the Mazar e Quaid, on December 25.

            The JI chief said that the political parties in the country were only in name as a coterie of tyrants had been coming into power after changing parties and garbs.

He said the grand JI Ijtema in the city last week and the people’s agenda announced by him had given a new hope to the masses in the country as also in other countries, and added that he would make every effort to unite all political parties on this agenda. He said if the oppressed masses supported the JI agenda, the tyranny and injustice would be eliminated from the country for ever. He strongly condemned the police torture of the blind in the Punjab capital.

            Sirajul Haq said that revolt from Almighty Allah in a bid to please the colonial powers was the root cause of all problems and hardships being faced by the nation and the country. He said the nation had achieved this country for the enforcement of the divine system of life after sacrificing lakhs of lives, but the rulers had been persistently violating the divine injunctions. He said the interest-based economic system had ruined the country’s economy. If somebody was thought that he could live in peace and satisfaction after announcing a war with Allah, he was gravely mistaken, he said.

The JI chief said, as long as our people did not give up duplicity and hypocrisy, and sincerely begged forgiveness from Allah for our sins, the country would remain in the grip of problems.

He said the enforcement of the Shariah alone could bring stability and prosperity to the country. He said the country at present was facing problems of poverty, unemployment, price spiral and lawlessness. In spite of possessing vast natural resources, our rulers were begging from alien powers.

He said the Zionist- Christian-Hindu troika wanted to stop the spread of Islam in the world at every cost while our rulers were bargaining national honour by begging for help from the enemies of Islam.  He said if the masses still believed that the present ruling junta could end their sufferings and deprivations, they were under a grave misconception.

Sirajul Haq said the members of the same club had been coming to power during the last 67 years in different garbs. He said, these people had sided with the British and Hindus so as to fail the Pakistan movement but when Pakistan came into being, they maneuvered to come to power due to their Jagirs and wealth. It was high time that the masses rejected these corrupt and self-seeking politicians, he added.

He expressed deep grief over the sudden demise of a senior JI leader and member of the JI central Shoora, Dr Syed Mansoor Ali, who breathed his last Wednesday night, and paid tributes to the departed leader for his life-long services to Islam and the JI.

Best Answer Allah Akber Old Man Challenges Dr Zakir Naik

1. Zakir Naik

   Medical doctor
2. Zakir Naik is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist because of his work at Peace TV.
4. Born: October 18, 1965 (age 48), Mumbai, India
5. Spouse: Farhat Naik
6. Parents: Abdul Karim Naik
7. Education: University of Mumbai,

Caught on camera: Israeli police beating 15yo cousin of murdered Palestinian teen (VIDEO)

A shocking video, showing Israeli police officers savagely beating 15-year-old Palestinian-American Tarek Abu Khdeir – cousin of Mohammad Abu Khdeir who was burnt alive in East Jerusalem – has prompted outrage in the Palestinian community.

The video shows two officers striking the detainee, who was handcuffed and lying on the floor. One of the officers seems to be sitting on the Palestinian, while his colleague is kicking and punching him. The youth is eventually dragged away by the police.

The video of Tarek’s beating has surfaced as the funeral was held Friday for his cousin, Mohammad Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped in the same area and burned alive.

The beating, shot from two different angles by people filming from their windows, took place on Thursday evening in Shuafat, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

Militants storm Somalia presidential palace

MOGADISHU: Shebab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed attack on Somalia´s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily fortified complex in the capital Mogadishu before blowing themselves up.

Somalia´s internationally backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed were not inside at the time and were "both safe", officials said, just five months after a similar attack by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.

Security sources said the two men were with guards from the African Union´s 22,000-strong AMISOM force and authorities gave no immediate details of casualties from the latest attack.

"There were at least nine attackers, all have been killed, and the situation is under control, the attack is over," security official Abdi Ahmed said.

"There were eight blasts towards the end of the fighting, believed to have been suicide vests. They detonated themselves."

A Shebab spokesman confirmed that the group was behind the attack, and claimed their commandos had managed to seize the president´s office inside the presidential compound known as the Villa Somalia.

"Our commandos are inside the so-called presidential office," Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. "We are in control of the headquarters of the apostate regime." The enemy suffered high casualties during the operation, which is ongoing. The assault is a victory for us since the foreign installed government said that security was beefed up."

The attackers launched a two-pronged attack on the presidential complex, police said, setting off a large bomb at the rear of the compound and then storming in via another entrance.

The attack came shortly after the start of Iftar, when Muslims end the day´s Ramadan fast.

It was not immediately possible to confirm reports that the embassy of Djibouti, which has troops in Somalia and whose mission is close to the presidential palace, had also come under direct attack. (AFP)

Israeli air strikes kill six in Gaza: medics

GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes on Friday killed six Palestinians, including one attack on the home of a militant, medical sources said.

Five Palestinians, including at least one woman, died when the militant's house in Rafah in southern Gaza was hit, and 15 other people were wounded, Gaza emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

An air strike around an hour before killed Anas Abu al-Kass, 33, of Gaza City's Tel el-Hawa neighbourhood.

According to Qudra, around 95 Gazans have been killed since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge early on Tuesday to halt cross-border rocket fire by militant groups.

Since the start of the operation, Gaza militants have fired 407 mortars and rockets that struck Israel, while another 118 rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, an army spokeswoman said Friday.

It is the deadliest violence since a November 2012 conflict in Gaza, and militants have been firing rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for the first time since then.

No Israelis have been killed from the rocket fire.

Israel has also authorised the call-up of 40,000 reservist troops, as it threatens a ground operation to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza militants.

The ISIS map of the world: Militants outline chilling five-year plan for global domination as they declare formation of caliphate - and change their name to the Islamic State

ISIS has formally declared the establishment of a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the vast stretches of the Middle East that have fallen under its control, and has outlined a vision to expand into Europe. 

The announcement was described as the 'most significant development in international jihadism since 9/11'.

Upon declaring a caliphate, the Sunni militants - whose brutality in attempting to establish control in Iraq and Syria has been branded too extreme even by Al Qaeda - demanded allegiance from Muslims around the world.

With brutal efficiency, ISIS has carved out a large chunk of territory that has effectively erased the border between Iraq and Syria and laid the foundations of its proto-state.

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Caliphate: A map purportedly showing the areas ISIS plans to have under its control within five years has been widely shared online. As well as the Middle East, North Africa and large areas of Asia, it also reveals ISIS' ambition to extend into Europe. Spain, which was Muslim-ruled until the late 15th Century, would form part of the caliphate, as would the Balkan states and eastern Europe, up to and including Austria

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Announcement: ISIS militants (pictured) have formally declared the establishment of a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the vast stretches of the Middle East that have fallen under its control

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Leader: ISIS declared the group's chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (pictured left and right), the head of the new caliphate under the name Caliph Ibrahim and called on all Muslims around the world to swear loyalty to him

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Extremist: A gun-brandishing Islamist loyal to ISIS celebrates the announcement of the Islamic State by waving an Islamic flag in the Syrian city of Raqqa yesterday. The area is considered ISIS' main operational base

'The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organizations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph's authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas,' said Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.

'Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day,' he added in an audio statement posted online.

Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the announcement was likely the 'most significant development in international jihadism since 9/11'.

Al-Adnani loosely defined the state territory as running from northern Syria to the Iraqi province of Diyala - a vast stretch of land straddling the border that is already largely under ISIS control. 

He also said that with the establishment of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq, Sham and the Levant.

However, in a map widely-shared by ISIS supporters on social networks, the Islamist group outlined a five-year plan for how they would like to expand their boundaries beyond Muslim-majority countries.

As well as plans to expand the caliphate throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and large parts of western Asia, the map also marks out an expansion in parts of Europe.

Spain, which was ruled by Muslims for 700 years until 1492, is marked out as a territory the caliphate plans to have under its control by 2020. 

Elsewhere, ISIS plans to take control of the the Balkan states - including Greece, Romania and Bulgaria - extending its territories in eastern Europe as far as Austria, which appears to be based on a pre-First World War borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

ISIS regularly makes statements and releases propaganda calling for the return of the geographical boundaries in place before the Great War .

The group insist the carving up of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces after the conflict - commonly known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement - was a deliberate attempt to divide Muslims and restrict the likelihood of another caliphate being established.

Muslim extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in various forms over the course of Islam's 1,400-year history. 

 

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Support: Following ISIS' demands that Muslims around the world declare their allegiance to the caliphate, some already appear to be doing so. This photograph, apparently taken in the Netherlands, has been share online by ISIS supporters

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Execution: With brutal efficiency, ISIS has carved out a large chunk of territory that has effectively erased the border between Iraq and Syria and laid the foundations of its proto-state

IN DECLARING A CALIPHATE, ISIS NOW CLAIMS TO LEAD ALL MUSLIMS

A caliphate is an Islamic state ruled by a 'caliph' - in this case Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - who is seen as the successor to Prophet Mohammed by those swearing allegiance.

In much the same way as the Pope is considered the head of the Catholic church, a caliph would consider themselves leader of the world's Muslims.

They would hold themselves responsible for establishing policy - based strictly on the Quran - for all Muslims and territories.

One of the first things ISIS did after announcing a caliphate was to declare all emirates and sultanates illegal.

Therefore anybody swearing oath to the new Islamic state would simultaneously be declaring that they no longer recognise either the borders, laws or authority of current Muslim-led states.

On announcing the Islamic state, the militants repeatedly described it as being 'restored'.

This is a reference to the last widely-acknowledged caliphate - which existed under the Ottoman Empire and effectively ended with the founding of Turkey in 1923.

Many Islamists - including ISIS - blame this collapse on the geographical carving-up of the Ottoman Empire by Allied Forces after the First World War.

In declaring a caliphate, ISIS now claims to partly 'corrected' the century-old dispute. 

It was unclear what immediate impact the declaration would have on the ground in Syria and Iraq, though experts predicted it could herald infighting among Sunni militants who have joined forces with the Islamic State in its fight against Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Shiite-led government.

'Now the insurgents in Iraq have no excuse for working with ISIS if they were hoping to share power with ISIS,' said Aymenn al-Tamimi, an analyst who specializes in Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. 'The prospect of infighting in Iraq is increased for sure,' he added.

The greatest impact, however, could be on the broader international jihadist movement, in particular on the future of Al Qaeda. 

Founded by Osama Bin Laden, the group that carried out the September 11 attacks on the U.S. has long carried the mantle of the international jihadi cause. 

But the Islamic State has managed to do in Syria and Iraq what Al Qaeda never has - carve out a large swath of territory in the heart of the Arab world and control it. 

'This announcement poses a huge threat to al-Qaida and its long-time position of leadership of the international jihadist cause,' said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.

'Taken globally, the younger generation of the jihadist community is becoming more and more supportive of [ISIS] largely out of fealty to its slick and proven capacity for attaining rapid results through brutality,' he added.

Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, took the reins of ISIS in 2010 when it was still an Al Qaeda affiliate based in Iraq. 

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Brazen: An ISIS fighter holds a jihadist flag in one hand and an assault rifle in the other in a public square in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week

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Protests: The group has called for Muslims around the world to swear their allegiance to the Islamic state. In Shi'ite-dominated Iran, however, there have been widespread demonstrations against the Islamist militants

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Fighting back: Members of Kurdish security forces sit in a vehicle as they keep guard during clashes with ISIS militants in the village of Basheer in Iraq yesterday

Since then, he has transformed what had been an umbrella organization focused mainly on Iraq into a transnational military force.

Al-Baghdadi has long been at odds with Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, and the two had a very public falling out after al-Baghdadi ignored al-Zawahiri's demands that the Islamic State leave Syria.

Fed up with al-Baghdadi and unable to control him, al-Zawahiri formally disavowed ISIS in February.

But al-Baghdadi's stature has only grown since then, as his fighters strengthened their grip on much of Syria, and have now overrun large swathes of Iraq.

Following his appointment as head of the caliphate, ISIS demanded al-Baghdadi be referred to as Caliph Ibrahim - using the name given to the son of the Prophet Muhammad in order to strengthen the claim that he is now the leader of the Muslims and a direct successor to the prophet himself.

The Islamic State's declaration comes as the Iraqi government tries to wrest back some of the territory it has lost to the jihadi group and its Sunni militant allies in recent weeks. 

On Sunday, Iraqi helicopter gunships struck suspected insurgent positions for a second consecutive day in Tikrit - the predominantly Sunni hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi military launched its push to wrest back Tikrit - a hotbed of antipathy toward Iraq's Shiite-led government - on Saturday with a multi-pronged assault spearheaded by ground troops backed by tanks and helicopters. 

MORTAR SHELLS KILL 15 AND WOUND 50 OTHERS IN NORTHERN SYRIA

 A barrage of mortar shells hit government-held areas of the northern city of Idlib today, killing 14 people and wounding at least 50, Syrian state media said. 

Idlib is the provincial capital in northwestern Syria and it has been under the control of President Bashar Assad's troops since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011. 

Rebels trying to overthrow Assad's government control the areas around the city. 

They have been besieging the city for more than two years, firing mortars into the government-held areas and clashing with Assad's troops at its outskirts. 

Conflict: Idlib is the provincial capital in northwestern Syria. Intense fighting has taken place in and around the city in recent days, with the Free Syrian Army (pictured) among those taking part

The state-run SANA news agency said mortars shells fell on several parts of Idlib this afternoon, including a residential area and a market. State TV said children were among those who died in the attacks, and at least 50 people were wounded. 

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. 

State TV blamed 'terrorists' for the attacks, a term the Syrian government uses for rebels trying to overthrow Assad's government. 

Also this morning, activists reported heavy clashes between several Syrian rebel factions and an al-Qaida breakaway group fighting for control of a border crossing with Iraq in eastern Syria. 

The fighting in the town of Boukamal, on the border between Syria and Iraq, between rebel groups and members of ISIS comes just hours after the jihadi group declared the establishment of a transnational Islamic caliphate. 

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the infighting was concentrated in the town and the nearby border crossing as different factions sought control of the frontier. 

Foreign LeT commander Mehmood Bhai Martyred in Kashmir encounter

A top foreign commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit was killed in a gunfight between security forces and guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town on Monday.

"One foreign militant commander identified as Mehmood Bhai of the LeT has been killed in the Krankshevan (Sopore) encounter that started yesterday (Sunday) evening," a senior police officer told IANS here.

The officer said a local militant is still holed up inside the house from where they fired at the security forces Sunday evening when police, counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force jointly started an operation against them.

This followed intelligence reports that two to three guerrillas were hiding inside a house in Krankshevan colony of Sopore town in Baramulla district, 54 km from Srinagar.

A senior police official said acting on a specific information about the presence of 2-3 militants at Krankshavan in Sopore, the joint team of army and Kashmir Police cordoned off the whole area at around 5:15 pm on Sunday.

"Following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of a group of militants in Krankshavan colony of Sopore, security forces comprising local police, Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers surrounded the area in the evening but came under fire," a senior police officer said.

This triggered the gunfight which is still on.

"The security forces are carrying out the operations against the militants with extreme caution to ensure that civilian life and property is not damaged in the area," he added.

According to the police official, two to three guerrillas of the banned Pakistan-based outfit are believed to be hiding in the cordoned area.

One house got also damaged by IED blast.

ISIS Militants Seize Three Towns in Iraq, Border Crossing

BAGHDAD — Sunni insurgents led by an al-Qaida breakaway group expanded their offensive in a volatile western province on Saturday, capturing three strategic towns and the first border crossing with Syria to fall on the Iraqi side.

It's the latest blow against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is fighting for his political life even as forces beyond his control are pushing the country toward a sectarian showdown.

In a reflection of the bitter divide, thousands of heavily armed Shiite militiamen — eager to take on the Sunni insurgents — marched through Iraqi cities in military-style parades on streets where many of them battled U.S. forces a half decade ago.

The towns of Qaim, Rawah and Anah are the first territory seized in predominantly Sunni Anbar province, west of Baghdad, since fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group overran the city of Fallujah and parts of the provincial capital of Ramadi earlier this year.

The capture of Rawah on the Euphrates River and the nearby town of Anah appeared to be part of march toward a key dam in the city of Haditha, which was built in 1986 and has a hydraulic power station that produces some 1,000 megawatts. Destruction of the dam would adversely impact the country's electrical grid and cause major flooding.

Iraqi military officials said more than 2,000 troops were quickly dispatched to the site of the dam to protect it against a possible attack by the Sunni militants. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The Islamic State's Sunni militants have carved out a large fiefdom along the Iraqi-Syrian border and have long traveled back and forth with ease, but control over crossings like that one in Qaim allows them to more easily move weapons and heavy equipment to different battlefields. Syrian rebels already have seized the facilities on the Syrian side of the border and several other posts in areas under their control.

Police and army officials said Saturday that the Sunni insurgents seized Qaim and its crossing, about 200 miles west of Baghdad, after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in daylong clashes Friday.

Somali-Americans leave homes, friends in Minnesota to fight alongside ISIS jihadis

As many as 15 Somali-American men have left their homes in Minnesota in recent months to travel to the Middle East and join up with ISIS, the jihadist army at war with Syria and Iraq, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

The fighters appear to have made the decision to go fight with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Levant while the terror group was fighting to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but some may now be in Iraq, where the marauding group is seeking to topple Baghdad.

"A Muslim has to stand up for [what's] right," Abdirahmaan Muhumed told MPR News through a series of Facebook messages dating back to the beginning of the year. "I give up this worldly life for Allah."

ISIS, an Iraq-based, Al Qaeda-linked terror group, poured into Syria as rebels known as the Free Syrian Army fought to overthrow Assad. But ISIS’s ferocious brutality, especially toward Christians, quickly caused a rift with the Syrian rebels. Now, the group appears bent on establishing an Islalamic caliphate, or nation under strict Islamic law, spanning the two nations.

Among Minnesota’s thriving Somali community, Muhumed's transformation from ordinary life in Minneapolis to Middle East jihadist is evidence of a strong recruitment and radicalization effort.

“Most of [those who left] don't have the resources to even buy a ticket to go to Chicago. So that means there is some influential individuals who are taking advantage of our youth," Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, told MPR. "So it's up to us to defend ourselves. This is not only a fight for our youth. It is a fight for our future."

It is against the law for Americans to independently travel overseas to fight in civil wars or armed conflicts against foreign governments. FoxNews.com has written about Americans who went to join the war in Syria in the past, including Eric Harroun, a onetime U.S. Army soldier from Arizona.

After FoxNews.com interviewed Harroun from the battlefield, he traveled back to the U.S., where he was arrested in June 2013. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was released, then died of an apparent overdose in April.

FBI officials in Minneapolis told MPR News that as many as 15 Somali-Americans left for Syria in recent months, and that the agency is investigating.

Somali-Americans left Minnesota in previous years to fight in their homeland, but friends and family told MPR they don’t understand why the men would go to a place to which they have no connection.

"It was really hard for me to believe because the guy seemed he was busy with his own life, trying to make it," Abdinasir Mohamed, a friend of Muhumed, told MPR. "And [for] him to leave his family and kids, and just go to the other side of the world, that was really surprising to me. I've not really expected him to do that type of move."

Muhumed said in Facebook messages that ISIS is "trying to bring back the khilaafa," a reference to an Islamic empire. He also said "Allah loves those who fight for his cause."

The report also cites the case of Abdi Mohamud Nur, a 20-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis. Nur's sister, Ifrah, told Voice of America on June 1 that her brother also went to Syria to fight with ISIS.

FBI investigators aim to discover who is recruiting the Minnesota men, said Kyle Loven, an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis.

"It is something that we have seen in this division, and it is something that we are actively working with the Somali community here in Minnesota to try to prevent," Loven said.

White House vows faster deportation of illegal immigrants, will open new detention center

June 18, 2014: A toddler sits on the floor with other detainees at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)

The Obama administration has announced that it will work to process and deport illegal immigrants quicker, and that a new detention center for families crossing the border is to be opened.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the facility, located on the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Artesia, N.M., campus, will hold families while their deportation proceedings unfold

The Homeland Security Department said the facility is one of several DHS is considering to hold and expedite the deportation of the mounting number of adults with children illegally crossing the southwest border.

"We will house them in facilities that are humane and compliant with legal requirements," Alejandro Mayorkas, deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, told The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, the government reportedly shut down the main family detention center amid complaints about conditions there.

Currently, the government only has about 100 beds to house families with children. This fiscal year, some 39,000 people traveling as families have been apprehended, but the vast majority have been released, with many receiving ankle bracelets to monitor movement.

The Obama administration’s plan will do nothing to address another piece of the Central American surge—children traveling to the U.S. alone, a group that is treated differently under U.S. law.

The administration’s announcement brought both praise and criticism from politicians across the political spectrum.

"I am pleased to see that the administration is finally taking some steps to address the crisis caused by the flood of undocumented immigrants and unaccompanied children from Central America arriving at the Texas-Mexico border," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

But other Democrats and immigrant advocates said it was wrong to put children into jail while awaiting their deportation hearing.

"I don't think small children should be locked up in jail. There is consensus that we must quickly address this refugee and humanitarian crisis, but to say that a child who is apprehended at the border with their parent must remain locked up throughout their judicial proceeding is simply a step too far," said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.

And Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, condemned the plan as "nothing but smoke and mirrors" because many border crossers can game the law to find ways to stay.

About 52,000 children traveling by themselves have been apprehended since the fiscal year began last October. U.S. law requires that these children be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services, which works to find family or friends in the U.S. until their deportation cases are processed.