A Woman With a Plan... She Can? *

Walter Mondale and Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis yesterday.

Meanwhile, in the Democratic primary campaign,  Hillary Clinton was in Minneapolis yesterday afternoon:

“We cannot let fear push us into reckless actions that end up making us less safe,” Clinton said in a 45-minute speech at the University of Minnesota.
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Speaking to a supportive audience of about 500 people at the McNamara Alumni Center from a stage festooned with U.S. flags, the Democratic presidential front-runner laid out a five-point plan aimed at making Americans safer at home and abroad. Before the speech, Clinton met with several Minnesota Muslim leaders who shared concerns and insights from a community that has watched as a handful of its young men were radicalized and lured overseas to fight in the Middle East and Africa.

“There are millions of peace-loving Muslims living, working, raising families and paying taxes in our country,” Clinton said. “These Americans may be our first, last, and best defense against home-grown radicalization and terrorism.”

At least 12 Somali-American men from Minnesota have been charged with attempting to go abroad to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Minnesota is part of a nationwide pilot project, a collaboration of federal and local law enforcement, Muslim religious leaders and youth groups trying to intervene with young people who might be vulnerable to recruitment. Clinton praised the program and said it should be better-funded.

“I think people are scared and they just need to give us a chance,” said Fartun Weli, a local Somali activist who was among those to meet privately with Clinton. The group included Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame.

Replicating those efforts on a large scale are one part of Clinton’s five-part plan. The others are shutting down domestic ISIL recruitment, stopping would-be jihadists from getting training overseas, disrupting terror plots before they’re carried out, and supporting law enforcement officers who are the first line of defense against domestic terror.

~ Patrick Condon

I like the emphasis on law and order.
And I think this is exactly right on countering terrorist recruitment or activation in America's Muslim communities.  No one wants security, freedom and fair policing more than an immigrant glad to be in the country, committed to their children's citizenship and growth.

But I do wish Mrs. Clinton would take Donald's advice on the crazy hands thing... (4 minutes of video, at the StarTribune link.)  (Photos by Renee Jones Schneider)

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* (or Just a Canned Plan?)   I honestly can't figure this one out, myself.  And I know, with certainty, where my heart lies...

Minneapolis Councilman Abdi Warsame

Imam Abdisalam Adam of Minneapolis
(click on the photo to enlarge:  that woman in the middle is beautiful...)