559. Unnamed Quaran school in Hargeisa, Somalia

This Somaliland based boarding school was used when parents of girls with ethnic origins from the area now living in Denmark, Norway or United Kingdom believed that their girls had adapted too well to the western life style.

So they lured their girls on holiday and enrolled them in this boarding school with the help of bribed policemen.

Here the girls were shackled if they were believed to be planning escape and subjected to a non-western life style and teaching.

One of the girls escaped the boarding school and her information led to a raid where other girls from a number of western countries were liberated.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• Norwegian arrested in Somaliland (Norway Today)
• Norwegian Detained In Action Against School In Somaliland (WARGEYSKA SAXAFI)
• Danish-Somali Girls Freed From The Koran School In Somaliland (WARGEYSKA SAXAFI)

434. Daarul Fajri School

Daarul Fajri School was or is located in Qordho, Puntland, Somalia. For reasons unknown the parents of 17-year-old Ammar Abdihamid Abdirahman decided to sent him to Somalia to learn about his culture despite the fact that he was born in the United States and was supposed to live a life based on Facebook, spring breaks, MTV etc. and whatever healthy teenagers do.

For not so many years it was normal for immigrants to alter their names and make them American when they entered the United States. It was a decision of building a future for both themselves and their children. In order to do that properly the old culture must go.

Anyhow, he ended up in Somalia and being the country Somalia is he was killed and none was really taken to justice. He was killed for free and none of the locals cared. There were witnesses. Still no investigation.

To make matters worse his mother became under pressure from people who took interest in removing children from safety and exposing them to what looks very much like boarding schools run by extremists.

The whole setup looks suspicious. Someone have something to hide and it is certainly not something his parents must have suspected when they sent him there.

It doesn’t sound like a fun place to be when you are a teenager born into a totally other culture.

Sources:

• Somalis investigate Minnesota-born teen’s death at boarding school (Minnesota Star Tribune)
• Somali authorities probe slaying of Minnesota teen (MPR News)
• Family believes Minnesota teen killed at school in Somalia for being American (Fox 9 News)
• Exiled child strangled by locals (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)

85. Unnamed boarding school north of Mogadishu

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Photo from the school (From the Daily Mail)

ere is a boarding school where you are taught that you can make it trough life as a suicide bomber. If you don’t like the school you can be put in shackles until you have learn to like the school.

It doesn’t sound like fun for the students but it neither sounds like fun for the potential victims who risk being blown to pieces.

Source:
Al Qaeda’s brutal new weapons: Children kidnapped and kept in chains to be taught how to become suicide bombers (The Daily Mail)