Month: January 2009

Al Shabaab threatened to disrupt Obama inauguration today

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Update Feb. 28th:   AP has more details on what went down on inauguration weekend.

Update Jan. 21st:   PI Bill Warner has more on this story and directs us to al Shabaab’s recruitment website in Vancouver, WA.

Update:   Washington Post has this story too with a bit more detail, but the Post reporter does not have the most up-to-date information on al Shabaab’s activities in the US as the LA Times reported a couple of days ago.  Reuter’s version is here.

 

The following is the subheading of the article from Fox News today (Hat tip: Blulitespecial):

Law enforcement and intelligence officials received information that a Somalia-based Islamic terror group, al-Shabaab, might try to travel to the U.S. with plans to disrupt the inauguration.

Hint to Homeland Security:  They do not have to travel to the US, they are already here!    Maybe you law enforcement guys aren’t following RRW daily, but gee, don’t you even read the Los Angeles Times!   Read our post  of two days ago and you will know that al-Shabaab is recruiting at mosques in the US.

And one wonders if the Fox reporter did any googling before writing!

More from the Fox story:

WASHINGTON — Authorities monitored a rush of intelligence leads Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group.

Law enforcement and intelligence officials received information that people associated with a Somalia-based group, al-Shabaab, might try to travel to the U.S. with plans to disrupt the inauguration, according to a joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin issued Monday night. The information had limited specificity and uncertain credibility, said Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke.

Then this is really ticking me off!  (BOLDING, Italics, capitalizing and underlining means really ticked off.) 

Officials told FOX News that they are actively exploring whether a link exists with two Americans of Somali descent recently identified as suicide bombers in Somalia.

EXPLORING!  EXPLORING!   The FBI has already identified and buried America’s first suicide bomber—Shirwa Ahmed—al Shabaab American citizen.  What aren’t you law enforcement people talking to each other again?  I thought putting you all under the same head man (now head woman) was supposed to solve that problem.    Or are you possibly soft peddling this story so as not to scare the party goers?

And, by the way, al Shabaab is the same as Al Qaeda—they both want a worldwide Islamic caliphate governed by Sharia Law.   They just keep making up new names to throw us off track, and we keep falling for it!

BUT WAIT!  Why would they attack us now?   Isn’t Obama here to save the day?  Won’t the lion soon lay down with the lamb?

Note to new readers:  The US State Department with the help of 10 non-government contractors including Catholic Charities, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Church World Service have resettled over 80,000 Somalis in the US in the last 25 years.

Reluctantly a Rohingya update

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Update Jan. 21st:   UNHCR wants access to any Rohingya thought to be in the custody of the Thai government.

And this:   Dhimmi Thai professor says that  just because the Rohingya are Muslim it doesn’t mean they were trying to join Muslim insurgents in the southern provinces of Thailand.  They have different causes he says!  Oh really!

 

I feel like I need to update readers on the developing story from Thailand about the Rohingya Muslim illegal aliens and their alleged mistreatment by the Thai military, but there are so many increasingly sensationalized stories I can’t sort them out.

More importantly, I see the ultimate conclusion to this media frenzy will be that we and other western countries get guilt-tripped into resettling Rohingya refugees to your town.

Here is one story, entitled ‘So thirsty, they lick water off rescue ship’s deck,’ I’ll let you read it yourself.   One story says the men (they are all men so don’t be fooled by the news accounts of boat people implying women and children) lived two weeks with no water, another implies some lived 28 days at sea with no water.

Most medical experts say you can’t live for more than 3 days without water, but when they killed Terry Schiavo by withdrawing food and water, it took her 13 days to die.   So, I suppose the two weeks with no water is possible, but I have my doubts.

Bottomline, I can’t sort out the fact from fiction in the daily dozen or so news accounts of the growing public relations battle between human rights groups and the Thai government.

See Rohingya Reports for all the previous stories I’ve posted on the subject.

Comments worth noting: we kill fornicators

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We’re starting a new category this morning and wish I had thought of this sooner.  We get some incredible comments from time to time that are mostly sent to old stories so that you, the reader, probably never see them.    We will henceforth bring some of the best to your attention.

This one was posted last night to the horrible story of the Somali teenage refugee girl stoned to death for supposedly committing adultery.

From ‘Moody’ of the Religion of Peace to us:

SHAME ON YOU !! YOUR PROPAGANDA IS JUST FULLISH. WE MUSLIM IS CLEAR STREIGHT IF YOU KILL SOME ONE YOU WILL BE KILLED IF YOU FORNICATE YOU WILL BE KILLED SHORT AND CLEAR WETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NO.

Yup, I agree, short and clear.

Take note Leftists:    They don’t have any problems with teenage premarital sex under Sharia Law.  Not too squeamish over the death penalty generally I would say.

Shelbyville, TN: The Mysterious Case of the Bedbug Evictions

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We haven’t stopped by Shelbyville, TN lately—you know the town overwhelmed more than a year ago with the arrival of  hundreds of Somali refugees to work in the Tyson’s chicken plant nearby.  Readers may recall it is also the location of the now infamous battle— the Labor Day Holiday battle— when Tyson’s cancelled Labor Day and swapped it for the Muslim holiday EID (at least until a major furor erupted in the national media).

So, back to today’s story from Shelbyville.   Coincidentally just as a film crew was in town to document the trials and tribulations of Shelbyville’s immigrant population we hear about the curious case of the  Bedbug Evictions.

With documentary cameras rolling, members of Shelbyville’s Somali community met with Hispanic residents and the T-G (Times Gazette) to talk about living in Tennessee, as well as some of the problems they have encountered, such as eviction from a local apartment complex.

Mohamad Ali and Hawo Siyad both told the documentary makers that around 150 Somalis were evicted from Davis Estates last year after one of the units in the complex was found to be infested with bedbugs.

The Somalis say they love Shelbyville and think Tennessee is beautiful but the ‘fly in the ointment’ was the Bedbug Evictions.   Then there were the Menacing Flashlight Men (I’ll get to that shortly).

However, her experience in Shelbyville, as well as Mohamad’s, was marred by the bedbug-related evictions.

Hawo said that an Somali infant was found to have suffered numerous bites from the parasite and the mother did not know the cause. Doctors told the refugee mother to report the cause to the owners of the apartment.

“When she did, they did nothing about it,” Taylor (Luci the Local activist) said. When the mother returned a second time to alert the property owners, 150 of the refugees were told to pack their things and move out, Taylor said

“They evicted anybody that spoke out,” Taylor claims.

So, let me understand this.  One woman went to complain, but Luci the local activist says that anybody who spoke out was evicted.  So did 150 Somalis go to complain?  What were they complaining about if only one apartment was infested?  I’m confused.   150 got evicted because one apartment was infested.  Hummm!  Sounds fishy. Something tells me there is more to this story.

Now to the menacing men with flashlights….the plot thickens!

Both Hawo and Mohamad also claim that men representing the apartment owners would conduct late night inspections of the units, showing up unannounced with flashlights and frightening the refugees.

Taylor explained this action was very upsetting to some of the Somalis, given their experiences in their home country, where there is no government to speak of and roving bands of militants frequently have their way with the people.

It was especially upsetting to the women, Taylor said, who would sleep with little or no clothes and then have to deal with strange men suddenly entering the apartments, shining the flashlights around. Taylor was told that this practice is still going on with the remaining Somali residents and wants to know how to get it stopped.

Now, this is all pretty improbable.   Think about what Luci the local activist is alleging here (before a documentary film crew).   Men with flashlights illegally entering apartments in the middle of the night where naked Muslim women are sleeping—-dang that is a beheading offense where these refugees came from.

So what happened?  I bet you are dying to know the ending to the Mysterious Case of the Bedbug Evictions and the Menacing Flashlight Men!

Nieto (public awareness coordinator for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition) said that the matter was investigated by the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, who found no wrongdoing on the part of the apartment owners.

You can bet if there was even the slightest wrongdoing the Tennessee Human Rights Commission would be going for blood (and calling in CAIR!).   But, that doesn’t really matter, the charges are now on FILM, a documentary film (everyone knows documentaries are truthful films), and I will wager there is never any mention made of  the Tennessee Human Rights Commission findings of no wrongdoing.

These are, afterall, community organizers who know their business well—the means (any means) justify the ends.    Shelbyville, this is a set up.