Month: July 2007

Thar’s gold in them thar refugees

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 Your tax dollars:

As we have pointed out before, the refugee/immigration issue is awash in big bucks.  Follow the money everyone tells me!  I used to not give much credence to the notion that money is a big motivating thing for people (I can see you laughing now!), but am getting kind of cynical on that point the further I get into this mess!

One of the questions that has arisen lately in the swirling controversy about Refugee Resettlement in Hagerstown, MD is how do the Refugees manage to pay their rent on $9 an hour jobs and then even buy houses?

If you like wading through mortgage talk, check out the two articles below for a better explanation than I can give:

 According to Thomas Allen   http://www.vdare.com/allen/homeownership.htm

… the Mortgage Monsters are allying with another interest group: the immigrant lobby. Immigration is one of the main engines of growth for the giant mortgage lending institutions.

Check out info. on Individual Development Accounts too.   The Office of Refugee Resettlement has established IDA’s for use by their contractors (the 10 major NGO’s — Volags— and their 300 plus subcontractors).  http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/asset/idas.htm

I am wondering if our homegrown poor people are told about these programs? 

If you are concerned about Refugee Resettlement in your town or city, do a little research on this and see just who benefits from these special deals.     

Somalis here, Somalis there, Somalis everywhere

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You’ve all heard about the now infamous Maine “Ham Hate Crime ” incident in Lewiston last spring, right? You know, white kid puts ham steak in a bag and places it on the table where Somali Muslim kids are having lunch. Somali kids traumatized for life. Just google ‘ham hate crime’ and you will get pages and pages of stories about this international incident.

The Refugee Resettlement program of the US Government has brought thousands of Somali refugees to the US in the last few years.

Just this week talk radio host Laura Ingraham railed about a California elementary school making special accomodations for 100 Somali students. But no one seems to ask why are all these Somalis here.

This Investor’s Business Daily editorial sparked her discussion. http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=268874251390676

The special accommodations for Carver Elementary’s nearly 100 Somali Muslims don’t stop with organized prayer. The school cafeteria has banned pork and other foods that conflict with the Islamic diet.

And the K-8 school has even added Arabic — the language of the Quran — to its curriculum, while segregating classes for girls, a la the Taliban.

……..

Tough, say Muslim-rights groups. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is defending the Carver program, insists public schools must cater to the growing number of Muslim students. “Our country is transforming demographically, religiously,” said the spokesman for CAIR’s San Diego chapter. “Our country has to now accommodate things that are not traditionally accounted for before.”

Look out Greeley, CO! Hide the Ham Steaks! Due to the influx of Somali and other African Refugees a new Refugee Resettlement Office will open to accomodate refugees coming to Greeley and Ft. Morgan.

http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070710/NEWS/107100073/-1/rss02

Greeley is famous for another Muslim connection:

Greeley’s al-Qaeda connections make headlines around the world

Many people believe you couldn’t have found a more conservative, religious and docile town in America than Greeley in 1949. There were many churches, and no bars or liquor stores allowed in town.

But a six-month stay here in Greeley by an Egyptian student in 1949 made him so angry that he wrote books to express his anti-American diatribe. His name was Sayyid Qutb (SIGH-yid KUH tahb) and he became one of the founders of Islamic terrorism.

Read the rest of this important account of the origins of present day radical Islam here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686655/posts

Here is a radical idea–deport all Muslims

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Today while talking with an educated and thoughtful woman in my county —Washington County, MD—a radical thought occurred to us.   Why not stop all immigration to the United States?   You know, implement a  moratorium!   Give it a rest altogether until something is done about  illegal aliens.   This would give time for those here legally to be  assimilated.   And, then don’t allow any further immigration  until the threat of terrorism has been eliminated.

But,  just when I thought a moratorium on immigration was an over-the-top idea, an Iraqi Muslim Shiite living in the US has a more radical idea: 

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD165007

Khudayr Taher: Europe and America Should Deport All Muslims – Including Myself

Khudayr Taher, an Iraqi Shi’ite writer living in the U.S. and a regular contributor to the liberal Elaph website, had a quite illiberal suggestion – he asked why Europe and America shouldn’t deport their Muslim populations.

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“The legitimate question is this: Since the security services cannot sort out the good immigrant from the bad terrorist… why don’t these countries deport all Muslims, of all races, from Europe and America, and [thus] find rest from the danger of terrorism, and protect their peoples?

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“I, as an Arab Muslim immigrant, sincerely call on the countries of Europe and America to deport all Muslims from their territories – including myself, despite my love and my sincere attachment to the U.S…”

O.K.

Strange bedfellows: Refugee resettlement group/ACLU/CAIR

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Although its old news now, it was interesting to discover that Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, a subcontractor of Church World Services located in East Tennessee, joined an ACLU lawsuit challenging the Patriot Act in 2003.   

Bridge’s involvement stemmed from an incident in which the FBI sought information on Iraqi refugees that the resettlement agency had settled in East Tennessee.   Mary Lieberman, then Executive Director of the agency, stated that she was heartbroken that the government did not respect the privacy of these persecuted refugees.

The suit filed in  US District Court, Eastern District of Michigan was the first challenge to the Patriot Act.

 

MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

OF ANN ARBOR, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

JOHN ASHCROFT, in his official capacity

as Attorney General of the United States,

et al.,

Defendants.

    In addition to Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, the groups participating in the lawsuit are Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, which operates a mosque and school in Ann Arbor, Michigan; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a national civil rights organization based in Washington D.C.; Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, a human services organization based in Dearborn, Michigan that operates a medical clinic as well as a center for refugees and torture victims; Council on American-Islamic Relations, a grassroots membership organization based in Washington D.C.; and The Islamic Center of Portland, Masjed As-Saber, which operates a mosque and school in Portland, Oregon.

That is quite a rogues gallery for a kind-hearted enlightened refugee resettlement group to be associating with.

The ACLU withdrew the case in 2006.

To read more go to:   http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/16820prs20030730.html

http://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/affidavit_lieberman.pdf

http://www.aclu-tn.org/release073003.htm

Wow! The 200 views mark has been reached

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I am pleased to report that Refugee Resettlement Watch has now had 200 views (not including me!) on our 11th day birthday!    It’s modest I know, but it’s a start.   

Someone remarked to me just yesterday that the mainstream media will not touch this issue because it’s so politically correct to view Refugee Resettlement as a purely “white hat”,  American as apple pie, sort of thing to do—to rescue the world’s persecuted.   We are not suggesting that we never do that, we only want the process reformed— to be open, honest, straightforward and safe.    In other words, this should not be a case of the ends (rescuing people all over the world by bringing them here) justifying the means.

If the mainstream media won’t touch this issue, won’t investigate it or debate it,  guess we will be going around them directly to you—the people most effected by it! 

   Help us spread the word!