Here’s some news from the other side of the world —-for February 9th—-it’s tomorrow there you know!
A Somali woman who would have been just fine and not attacked airline pilots on a flight today (tomorrow) if only the bad authorities had brought her extended family to New Zealand, will hopefully get some taxpayer funded mental health treatment and then be returned to Africa so she can be with her extended family there.
The Somali woman who allegedly knifed airline pilots on a flight from Blenheim to Christchurch today was lonely, alienated from her community and frustrated by failures to reunite with her family.
People have known since her arrival in New Zealand (in 1994!) that she wasn’t quite right.
But in this woman’s case “it was apparent that from the time of her arrival that she had some very significant adjustment problems that often demonstrated themselves in angry outbursts.”
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There were attempts to determine if the problems were psychiatric or behavioural and generally the feeling was her problems were behavioural.
The point of this post is not to say that Somali women pull knives on pilots, while other people don’t. I’m sure all sorts of people from all races and cultures have been so inclined. The point is that we need to stop being so squeamish about returning some refugees to their home country if they aren’t fitting in to western-style societies.
P.S. In case you are wondering how the pilots are doing, the article doesn’t say, it’s all about the Somali woman and her problems.