Month: September 2007

Illegal aliens become refugees–again!

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Here we go again,  every modern country in the world is struggling with the illegal alien issue.   Unfortunately,  advocates of open borders everywhere have turned illegals magically into asylum seekers and refugees.   Where we have illegal aliens flooding across our southern border by foot, the Australians have them coming by boat from everywhere.  

In the most recent flap, Sri Lankans that had attempted to enter Australia illegally are kept at a detention facility on the island of Nauru until they can be sorted out.   Now 72 have been granted “refugee” status.    But, guess what?   There have been suggestions that Australia  pass them off to the United States!    By the way, the United States takes the largest share of refugees in the world.

“Australia is now exploring resettlement options in other countries for the Sri Lankans that have been assessed as being refugees,” he said.

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Mr Andrews (Immigration Minister) played down suggestions the Sri Lankans could be sent to the US under a refugee exchange deal agreed to in April between Canberra and Washington.

I think the American public assumes refugees are families that have lived for long periods in squalid refugee camps, not men in boats who try to break into other countries.   See our earlier post about Malta’s illegal aliens being sent here as refugees.

It’s all about the ‘D’

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I know you are saying what, “It’s all about the ‘D’?”     Yeah, that’s what was running through my dreams at 3 a.m. today so I’m up writing about it.   It’s about demography, Deobandi, Dearborn, dhimmi Dean, Democrats, Debbie, diversity, and death.    

First, if you have read Mark Steyn’s  America Alone or Pat Buchanan’s State of Emergency, you  have gotten the message loud and clear that we are gradually being knocked off by numbers, by demographics!   Muslim’s are rapidly populating Europe through immigration and high birthrates.  The British, French, Russians, etc. are just not having babies, or at least not enough to keep the European stock alive for long.  In America we are barely breaking even.

Then here comes the Deobandi sect leader quoted in The Times of London last week:

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.

Next you have Democrats pandering to Islamic organizations, most notably Howard ‘Dhimmi‘ Dean, chairman of the Democratic party.  Over Labor Day, Dean got a standing ovation at an Islamic Society of North America (unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial) meeting when he told Muslims to run for public office.  ‘Dhimmi’, by the way,  is the term used for second class Christians and Jews living under Islamic rule throughout history.

Dean didn’t need to tell them to get involved in politics because they already know that.  Imam Hendi of the Islamic Society of Frederick and Georgetown University told us they aim for 30 Muslim mayors by the year 2015.

Debbie Schussel reported yesterday that Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan are “ground zero” and “ground zero and a half” for Muslim controlled cities in America.  She attributed the jump in Muslim population to illegal immigration but the numbers have been ballooning in Michigan from LEGAL immigration through the disastrous family reunification mission of our federal government and through refugee resettlement.  See our story on one Iraqi refugee headed to Dearborn.

So now what do we do to head off American death by demographics?  We give up our reverence for diversity and halt all immigration, or at least slow it to a trickle,  as we did from 1925 to 1965.  

Iraqi Refugees headed to Denver and to a city near you

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This afternoon, just as General Petraeus is telling Congress that things are looking up in Iraq, I see the Denver Post is reporting on 1400 Iraqis on their way to the US as refugees.  The article is your typical story with accounts of injured translators used as the reason we must bring 12,000 Iraqis here by next year.    You can bet all 12,000 are not injured scared translators.  Echoing one of my concerns:

I don’t trust the (government) to vet them correctly,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

And another:

We’re directly affected by what’s happening in Iraq and the rest of the world. … I’d like to see what tangible we can do to help fulfill our moral obligations,” said Colorado state Rep. Joe Rice, a Democrat who served as a civil affairs soldier in Iraq and hears regularly from Iraqis wanting out.

But Rice said he’s also deeply conflicted. Many of those fleeing Iraq “are the very people who are needed to try to stabilize things, to build a new society there,” he said.

“If all the good people leave, who’s left to build a new society?”

We need to set up a safe refugee camp in the region, perhaps in Kuwait, and take care of people until the country is stabilized and they can return home to rebuild Iraq.    While our soldiers are fighting and dying  for their country, we don’t need to bring thousands of Iraqis here to live on welfare.

Hagerstown is ready for Hookahs?

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O.K., what’s going on here?   You can’t smoke in restaurants and bars in Maryland unless you are an immigrant from the Middle East I guess and you use a cool nifty multicultural pipe instead of dirty old American cigarettes.  Yesterday’s Herald-Mail has a story lots of people in Hagerstown, MD are smoking over!   It seems that one, Ham Abu-Zayyad, has plans to open a Hookah Cafe in downtown Hagerstown.  And, he says that “Hagerstown is going in the right direction.”— not according to all the calls I’ve gotten on it.  He says he envisions Hagerstown as the next Frederick (MD).   That last is the ultimate slur!

Hookah cafes are increasingly popular in the United States as places where mostly Middle Eastern and Turkish men go to smoke a communal pipe and talk politics, according to several articles I’ve just read about the unhealthy practice.   You can go here and learn about the history of hookah smoking and how it was intially a method for smoking opium.

You can go here and learn about health hazards associated with the practice:

The social aspect of hookahs also puts smokers at risk for diseases such as tuberculosis and viruses such as hepatitis and herpes. Shared mouthpieces and the heated, moist smoke may enhance the spread of such diseases.

These diseases are already on a dramatic upward trend anyway due to the haphazard and often non-existent health screening of immigrants entering the US.

And, you can go to the Mayo Clinic warning here and read about the myths surrounding hookah smoking.  

What concerns me is how did Abu-Zayyed get the notion that there were going to be enough people to patronize such an establishment here? Is he hoping for more Turkish Russian refugees who are by several accounts such heavy smokers they couldn’t get through their English language lessons without leaving the class frequently for a smoke.

And, I’ll be waiting for an outcry from all the anti-smoking folks, or is this somehow outside the bounds of criticism because of our national reverence for multiculturalism.

Iran, flexing muscles within our gates

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In our zeal to bring the world to America, we not only bring the interesting aspects of the world’s many cultures we bring the dark side of the culture as well,  [I guess that is the ‘multi’ part of multiculturalism].  One of America’s greatest strengths is our freedom of speech and most of the world has little experience with that brilliant and beautiful concept.  Silencing us is one of the primary strategies being employed daily by Islamic organizations gaining increasing power in the US. 

Just this week the National Iranian American Council  (NIAC) objected to a cartoon in the Columbus Dispatch depicting Iran as a sewer with cockroaches crawling out into the surrounding countries.   So what!   Is NIAC making the illogical leap that by suggesting that depicting the Ahmadinijad regime in an unfavorable way, in a political cartoon no less, the Dispatch is racist?  And thereby is propagating hate against Iranian Americans?  Whah?  Yes, that is exactly what they are doing (they must be using the Democratic party play book—ten easy steps to victimhood).    Here is what NIAC says about the Dispatch:

By publishing this racist cartoon, the editors of the Dispatch have insulted and propagated hate against the Iranian American community.

NIAC Board member Dokhi Fassihian sent a letter to the Editors of the Dispatch protesting their action. She wrote: “The bigotry demonstrated by the publication of this cartoon not only betrays the mission to inform your readers, it endangers our country at an extremely sensitive time in our nation’s history by serving to further divide us at home and thrust us toward further conflict abroad.”

According to statistics compiled by Center for Immigration Studies,  we have allowed 331,000 Iranian immigrants to come to American through 2005.   The latest available statistics on refugees (Appendix A) from Iran put the number of refugees through 2005 at 63,979.  That number places Iran in the top three Muslim countries sending refugees to America.  What are we thinking?

For more on NIAC, go to Center for Vigilant Freedom here.