Month: August 2008

Somali author in Norway blasts fellow immigrants

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Update:  Gates of Vienna has more today on the problems in Norway with asylum seekers here.  Note at the end of that post there is list of GOV links for many recent posts on Norway.

Thanks to Janet over at Women Against Sharia for tipping us off to this story.   A Somali woman in Norway has written a book in which she says Somalis aren’t integrating into Norwegian society (no kidding!).   You have to give this brave woman a great deal of credit for what she has written because now she fears for her life.

A Somalian woman who came to Norway more than 10 years ago is harshly criticizing her fellow Somalian immigrants and Norwegian authorities. In a new book, she claims Somalians themselves don’t want to integrate into Norwegian society, and that Norwegian welfare programs make it easy for them to remain isolated.

The book written by Amal Aden, a pseudonym for the Somalian author, is already creating an uproar. Amal Aden wouldn’t use her own name because of fears for her own safety.

She claims that resistance to integration is widespread especially among Somalian men, who fear losing their culture and religion. Many are afraid of Norwegians and view them as infidels who can’t be trusted.

Likely she will be joining Ayan Hirsi Ali among the hunted.   Here is how it works, sound familiar:

In her book, entitled “See us!” (Se oss!), Amal Aden claims the Somalians also exploit the Norwegian welfare state and have many children in order to qualify for more welfare payments. Many couples also “divorce” under Norwegian law in order for the women to receive even more welfare payments as single mothers, only to continue to live under Somalian customs with their Somalian husbands and have more children, the author claims.

Then here is what I thought were the most telling lines in this whole article.

Abdulwahab (a Somali activist in Norway) has five daughters himself aged four to 14, but has sent them all to school in Kenya. Not, he claims, because Norwegians can’t be relied upon but because he wants them to get a good education.

What is going on here?  Why is he living in Norway if it isn’t a better place to raise his kids?  Why aren’t they all living in Kenya?  First, I suspect the girls are being kept from the corrupting influence of a free society and secondly, as much as many of you reading this  will want to tell me I’m crazy (or worse!), Somalis are not in the west to have a better life—they are the foot soldiers of the advancing Islamic Army.   

Go ahead, call me names and put your head in the sand.  No sense beating aroung the bush.  The arrogance and resistance to assimilation we read about with Somalis all over the country (the world!) is because they believe they are superior to us.  We are the infidels and they plan to populate western democracies and ultimately change Dar el Harb (a country at war with Islam) to Dar el Islam (a country where Islam dominates).

See our archives on problems with Muslim immigrants in Norway here.

Drug-dealing Iraqi refugee’s body found in S. Carolina

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Thanks to an informant’s tip, the body of an Iraqi refugee who was murdered in South Carolina eight years ago has been recovered.   Police have made arrests and are now trying to piece together his life.

The man whose skeleton was recovered recently from a car in a McClellanville creek had arrived in the United States as a refugee from Iraq in the early 1990s.

Investigators think that once here, Ala Hassan Sarhan became involved in a world of cocaine dealing that led to his demise eight years ago.

Though the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has made arrests in the case, much of the homicide victim’s past remains a mystery. Authorities have not been able to track down Sarhan’s relatives. Questions also linger about how he arrived in America after the first Gulf War and why he later moved to the Lowcountry.

Read about how he ran afoul of those he was selling drugs to here.   Police know that Sarhan had a prior arrest for assault and lived in a campground, but they want to know who brought him to the US and federal immigration officials are not saying.

In 1999, North Charleston police arrested Sarhan on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill that stemmed from a fight at the same bar where he supposedly met Herrmann and Cumbee.

The local police want answers from the Feds and aren’t getting any.   No volag is stepping up to tell them the man’s background and how he was resettled and by which agency.

“He came to this country as a political refugee,” Watson, one of the sheriff’s investigators on the case, said. “As for the reasons why he came here, we don’t have that information at all. Based on what we gathered, he had some dealings with the Iraqi military … He was injured by a land mine. He does have family in Iraq.”

The U.S. Department of State could not answer questions about Sarhan’s visa because the agency does not release information on individual visas, said spokesman Karl Duckworth.

A representative from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request about Sarhan’s past.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the U.N.’s refugee agency, tallied 3,440 Iraqis who resettled in the U.S. in 1992, the year Sarhan arrived.

Sheriff’s investigators still want to know which agency sponsored him to come here as a refugee, what activities made him run afoul of Iraq’s now-defunct Baathist regime and where they can find his surviving relatives.

After a little research I found that there are two women who could tell Sheriff’s investigators how he came to be in the US and where his relatives might be because both were involved with the Iraqi refugees who came after the First Gulf War (and are still bringing Iraqis to the US).   Terry Rusch, the head of admissions today for the US State Department’s Office of Population, Refugees and Migration knows, or knows where to find the information and so does Lavinia Limon head of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

You know what is worse than an Iraqi refugee gone bad, or federal officials not helping local law enforcement, it’s the fact that this guy was missing for 8 years and no one seemed to know or care.   It continues to surprise our readers to learn that refugees are brought to the US and can literally disappear often within weeks of arrival.  Someday one of those will be a terrorist.

Iraqis to Bowling Green, KY, where another refugee was killed while breaking into someone’s home

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This is another in my continuing series about Iraqis and “welcoming” cities.  There will be a flood of Iraqis and a flood of these puff piece articles  (this one by the Associated Press, no surprise there) over the next 4 weeks as the fiscal year comes to an end.   Today it’s a story about an Iraqi family (among 17 other Iraqi refugees) who have arrived in Bowling Green, KY.   A volag representative confirms, in a round-about-way that your city will be a chosen one if no one makes waves.

James Robinson, director of the Bowling Green International Center, has helped introduce many new citizens to the area. In the past 12 months, Robinson has helped resettle 188 refugees from Myanmar, 37 from Burundi and 30 from Cuba.

“They look to see what agency has had the best luck in relocating people,” Robinson said of how refugees find their way to Bowling Green. He said his agency is helped by having an Arabic-speaking population at Western Kentucky University.

The “best luck?”  What does that mean?  Shouldn’t refugee resettlement be based on many considered factors: jobs, affordable housing, whether the community is open to multiculturalism, or whether the county/state can afford the welfare, etc.   Could he possibly mean that “lucky” is when no one makes waves.  Obviously someone is asking, why Bowling Green?

Also, since this puff piece doesn’t mention it,  things have not gone smoothly in Bowling Green where a homeowner was exonerated last month after shooting a Bosnian teenage refugee who was attempting to break into his home.  Follow that story here.

Tennessean makes Shelbyville residents look like hicks, implies Somalis unfairly maligned

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Update August 25th:  More on this from Jerry Gordon at New English Review’s The Iconoclast here.

The Tennessean, the BIG city newspaper out of Nashville, TN has a “culture clash” story today on Shelbyville.  I guess it finally took the Tyson’s Labor Day fiasco to bring their attention to the unhappy goings on in Shelbyville since hundreds (thousands!) of Somalis have arrived there since 2002.  (Reliable sources tell us that The Tennessean may not have done its homework, depending only on the Imam’s word for extremely high numbers of Somalis).

Tyson’s 1,000 unionized employees include about 250 Somalis by Tyson’s count. That is a fraction of the town’s total Somalian population. By Yousuf’s [local Imam] count, between 2,000 and 3,500 of Shelbyville’s residents — or roughly 20 percent — are Somalian.

The article puts a great deal of focus on how nice the Imam is and how much the Somalis love Shelbyville and how the locals think the Somalis don’t use toilet paper, but only a few lines on what jumped out at me— The FBI has been to town:

But there were suspicions, including those of the person who called the FBI.

About a year ago, residents reported seeing Somalis taking pictures of the town’s water treatment facility, bridges around Bedford County and the home of a state legislator. The FBI came to town for two days, asking questions but ultimately making no arrests, Sheriff Randall Boyce said.

“I guess by them being Muslim, maybe there was some concern,” Boyce said. “And with how ugly things got after the stuff about the holiday come out, I think there are just a lot of people around that aren’t too happy that they’re here. Folks just don’t trust them.”

The FBI does not generally confirm or deny that it has opened or closed an investigation or responded to a citizen report, said Stacy Bohanan, a Chattanooga-based FBI spokeswoman.

“I can say that we are aware of the Somalis in Shelbyville,” Bohanan said.

Why would Somalis need photos of facilities and bridges?  Maybe just sending them home to Somalia for the relatives to see?

Also, the reporter is quick to say that a mosque has been burned in Tennessee, but not one word in this article about the Somali who committed a hate crime by going on a rampage near Shelbyville and attacking a woman in a Baptist church—after leaving the nice Imam Yousef’s mosque.  Hmmm!

Because the article is written in a way to ridicule local folks (too many lines devoted to toilet paper), here is the sort of comment the Tennessean is receiving:

I’ve said it a million times before and I’ll say it again…

The issue of immigrants with you rednecks has nothing to do with them being legally in the country or not. (as you constantly preach “if they come here legally, I wouldn’t have a problem with them”) that’s complete BS as you are proving right now. It has to do with COLOR. You hate them because they’re not white, whether they are here legally or not.

Why don’t you white-trash, trailer park rednecks just admit it? Why don’t you retards admit that you hate anyone that isn’t white? That’s what this is… it’s racism, pure and simple.

I read some really, REALLY stupid comments from you idiots everyday on this forum. It’s pretty sad that you rednecks are soooo afraid of another culture. That’s what racism really is… you’re SCARED of others cultures.

LOL@you white trash, trailer park rednecks constantly talking like keyboard commandos when in actuality you’re not more than little chicken-shts….

Don’t you just love these guys, while calling others racists he (she?) sounds bigoted as hell.  Guess he/she didn’t know that the Bedford County Mayor Eugene Ray is the first African American elected as a county mayor in Tennessee and he called for the Shelbyville Somalis to assimilate here.   And, notably the Tennessean has NOT quoted him, I suspect because it is counter to their notion that this is all about race and rednecks. 

Guess Mr. or Ms. commenter also doesn’t know that Somalis are clashing with black Americans in many cities in the US.   This is not about the COLOR of anyone’s skin.

Senator Biden wants more Iraqis to come to the US, and lies

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Senator Joe Biden, senior Senator from Delaware and now Barack Obama’s VP pick, has been Senator Ted (anywhere but Hyannisport) Kennedy’s right hand man on opening the door for more Iraqi refugees coming to the US.   We reported on his previous activities here and here.

Earlier this summer Kennedy and Biden introduced a bill to force the White House to create a special position, a coordinator, to focus just on bringing Iraqis here.  As I have said on many occasions, the Iraqi displaced persons are all Bush’s critics have left to demonstrate how badly they believe the Iraq war was carried out.  In other words, to satisfy their bloodlust against the Bush Administration you will be getting Iraqi Muslims to your city or town thanks to Kennedy and Biden.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy today introduced a bill to establish a senior position at the White House to coordinate, develop and implement strategies to more effectively address the plight of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons. Since the 2003 invasion, more than four million Iraqis have been displaced from their home or have become refugees. Senator Kennedy is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees.

The bipartisan legislation is sponsored by Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Gordon Smith (R-OR), and was introduced on behalf of the Senator by Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid. U.S. Representative Howard Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has introduced companion legislation.

Note that they always say that the supposed millions displaced are the result of our “invasion” in 2003.  They never tell you that at least a million of the displaced were forced from their homes by the policies of Saddam Hussein.  And of course they never mention the inconvenient fact that some of those who high-tailed it out of Iraq were the bad guys.   Here is just one post where we addressed the Iraqis displaced prior to our arrival in that country.

Now here you have to laugh, in the very same article that Kennedy says there are 4 million Iraqis displaced by us, Biden puts the number at 5 million.

“As many as five million Iraqis have been displaced, the vast majority since the war began in 2003. American leadership is critical in providing the humanitarian assistance these people desperately need, especially since much of the international community considers this crisis the result of our intervention in Iraq,” said Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) [Edit.  So Joe, you can’t help set the record straight, you join right into the chorus singing the US is bad when you know the truth?]   “Because this leadership has been lacking, we are seeking an Iraqi refugee coordinator, reporting directly to the President, to manage the American response to the crisis and work with the international community towards long-term solutions. This is not just the honorable thing to do – we owe it to our Iraqi friends many of whom have risked their lives to help us.”

If anyone of these politicians or NGO’s would admit that we are not responsible for millions of displaced people and mentioned that Saddam Hussein displaced maybe more than a million who are still displaced, I would have some respect for them.  But they don’t; they lie and exagerate to make their political points in trying to convince the American public that the US is bad and should feel guilty and thus be airlifting Iraqi refugees from all over the Middle East to a city where you live.

And one last thing, in only a few minutes of research I found Biden saying in 2002 (BEFORE OUR “INVASION”) that Saddam Hussein had forced many Iraqis to flee to Iran.  Read about Biden’s policy suggestions for Iran here.

Iran has “a huge population of Afghan and Iraqi refugees,” Biden said.

Judy wrote about the Iraqis residing in Iran here.

Just a reminder, Homeland Security has identified 365 supposed Iraqi “refugees” with terrorist connections trying to get into the US.   See our post here.

See Biden the hypocrite here.