From Creeping Sharia:
Green Bay gets mosque, Somali student population quadruples
Posted on November 28, 2010 by creeping
Coincidence or a case of ‘build the mosque, and they will come’? Will Ground Zero be any different? An update on this post, Rezoning gives Green Bay its first mosque, via Somali student enrollment surges in Green Bay School District – h/t RRW
The number of Somali students enrolled in the Green Bay School District has more than quadrupled since the end of last school year.
The district now enrolls 90 Somalis, compared with 49 in September and just 18 in June. The district’s overall student population tops 21,000.
The growing number of Somali students — many of whom need help to improve their English skills — prompted the Green Bay district to hire someone full time to support and instruct students, to work as a parent contact for schools and to interpret. Abdul Nur’s first day is Monday.
District officials expect to see more Somalis moving to the area, Seefeldt said.
“Green Bay doesn’t have neighborhoods like Chicago,” she said. “They’re coming here because they feel safe, and now they have a community.”
They also are attracted to the newly located Green Bay mosque of the Islamic Society of Wisconsin, she said.
“We have had an influx of Somalis in the past year and a half or so,” said Mohamed Ibrahim, a mosque leader. “They come to worship and be part of a community.”
Nearly 40 percent of students were minorities in the 2009-10 school year, according to the state Department of Public Instruction. Hispanics make up the largest minority group, representing about 20 percent of total student population. In 1995-96, nearly 83 percent of the Green Bay student population was white when the overall student count was 19,618.
How long before Green Bay has its first jihad plotter?
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