Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[KingJaja]

Doesn't Al Shabab in the US have more to do with a large concentration of Somali immigrants in places like Minnesota?

That is a risk that has to be dealt with, but it is nothing like the Muslim enclaves in Bradford, Birmingham and London. (I once lived in Leeds, not too far from Bradford).

America is great at integrating immigrants unlike most of Europe.

[Stan]

Al Shabaab: Recruitment and Radicalization within the Muslim American
Community and the Threat to the Homeland

COMMITTEE FINDING: More than 40 Americans from Muslim-American
communities across the U.S. have joined Shabaab since 2007, including two-dozen
recruits from Minneapolis, Somalia experts told the Committee’s Majority staff. Three
who returned home have been charged in U.S. courts, one awaits extradition from The
Netherlands, and 15 are believed dead, leaving as many as 21 American Shabaab
fighters still at large or unaccounted for. At least 20 Canadians of Somali descent,
many from Toronto, also have disappeared and are believed to have joined Shabaab,
according to Canadian security officials.

Much more at the link

[KingJaja]

Is Al Shabab:

1. Purely an Islamic terrorist organisation.
2. A nationalist movement triggered by the US sponsored invasion of Somalia.
3. Equal parts (1) and (2).

I'm asking because I suspect it is not only Islam motivating a significant number of ethnic Somalis to fight against foreign forces in Somalia or to attack the US.