2nd Black American Fighting for ISIS in Syria Is Reportedly Killed

Abdirahmaan Muhumed is reportedly the second black American to have been killed while fighting in Syria for the jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to CBS News and KSMP-TV in Minneapolis. Suggested Reading New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed Steve Harvey’s Gorgeous $15 Million…

Abdirahmaan Muhumed is reportedly the second black American to have been killed while fighting in Syria for the jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to CBS News and KSMP-TV in Minneapolis.

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Muhumed was reportedly killed in the same melee that took the life ofย Douglas McAuthur McCain, the first Americanโ€”and first black Americanโ€”known to have been killed in the civil war raging in Syria. Both McCain and Muhamed were from Minnesota.

U.S. officials have not confirmed Muhumedโ€™s death, but Fox 9 News is reporting that an undisclosed source has said that U.S. officials notified a second Minnesota family that their relative had been found dead.

While McCain was not of Somali descent, CBS News reports that โ€œboth McCain and the second American were from the Minneapolis area. Home to the largest population of Somalis outside East Africa,ย it has become fertile ground for Islamic terrorist groups looking for recruits.โ€

The ISIS fighters in Syria are using social media programs and recruitment videos to entice susceptible Americans.

โ€œAmericans are being recruited in a litany of ways,โ€ FBI investigator Kyle Loven told KSMP-TV, adding, โ€œSocial media is a big way.โ€

Leaders of Minneapolisโ€™ Somali community have denounced ISIS and its tactic of recruiting Americans who are often extremely vulnerable because of high unemployment. Thereโ€™s even been a push to recruit young Muslim-American women.

โ€œBut we are aware of their messages that they were sending to the last few months over the Internet, including recruiting young women to be married off to the jihadis," Abdirazak Bihi, a community activist in Minneapolis, told CBS News.

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