Month: January 2009

Comments worth noting: Somalis don’t work because they’re chewing khat

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A commenter from Scandinavia called Universalgeni sent us some interesting responses to my post yesterday on barriers to Somalis getting jobs, with some good links. I’m posting them all here so more people will see them.  I apologize for the random sizes and typefaces; sometimes it’s impossible to work with the WordPress platform. You can go to the original comments linked above for more readability and links that work.

The main reason why Somalis don’t work is because they can’t. At least that’s the reason for it in Denmark and Norway. And why can’t they work? Because they are drug addicts. More than ½ of them. That’s what official government analysis and reports show. In both countries. Repeatedly. Year after year. The problems name is “khat”.

 

This article is translated into English from Norwegian. A word is confusing – the word Greenland. It is the name of a certain part of Oslo.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/bak8b8

The next article is also translated, this time from Danish to English. The last part of it confirms that the problem is the same in Denmark. The Somali who is interview actually underestimates the problem. Official reports says it’s worse:

Link: http://tinyurl.com/b4wuz5

I can get you more documentation if needed. 

 

 

Sweden is also badly hit by this immigrant burden that needs to be supportet by tax payers money because they are too drugged to work. It’s the same all over Europe. 

Link: http://www.thelocal.se/12066/20080528/

Minnesota – USA. Same story all over again: http://tinyurl.com/bsmfea 

 

This here is what the Danish government has to say about it. Quoting the Ministry of Health:

Department of Health has worked with female genital mutilation Association, and in this case was held out of the public. Health suggests that the same thing done in the case of khat prevention – the general public do not know about any cultural problems in various groups as it can fortify certain prejudices. The concerned must be involved and informed.

End quote.

Certain prejudices!! But this is not prejudices. The drug addiction among probably the majority of all grown up Somalis is a fact. A fact!

And this is the reason why most people don’t know about it: most countries cover it up on government level. They just call innocent people racists and say that it is our fault that Somalis don’t have jobs. But ordinary people and ordinary employers have nothing to do with it.

The quote came from here – it’s a summary from a Nordic conference held at top government level. It’s interesting:

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ceu3ds 

 

 

 

Quote of the day

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We don’t really have a quote of the day, but I have one today anyway.  Wrap your mind around the fact that the world’s economy is struggling and then consider this (referring to the Rohingya boat men story we have been following).  From AP:

“It is a horrible humanitarian crisis unfolding, the fairly large numbers of people leaving in these boats, either drowning at sea or finding themselves in exploitative, abuse situations on arrival,” said Chris Lom, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.

[….]

“The issue of people in poor countries trying to reach richer ones is not going to stop,” he said. “It’s going to become more serious and it needs to be addressed, not just regionally, but globally.”

Address it?  How?  I would say we are ‘on the horns of a dilemma.’

Rohingya: Today’s news from Thailand

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Yesterday we told you that 78 more Rohingya illegal aliens have been apprehended in Thailand.    Sixty-six have been sent to jail (the other 12 are minors).

RANONG, Jan 28 – 66 illegal Rohingya migrants sent before a Thai judge in this gateway to Myanmar on Wednesday were fined 1,000 baht each (nearly US$30), and when none were able to produce the funds, the judge sentenced them each to five days imprisonment.

The wrangling is well underway between on one side the UNHCR and human rights groups who say the Rohingya Muslims are persecuted and thus should be given asylum,  and the Thai government which maintains they are economic migrants and thus illegal aliens subject to deportation.

The migrants represent the latest influx of Rohingya who have been entering Thailand illegally amid accusations that the Thai military have mistreated them. Human rights groups fear that repatriation could lead to further difficulties.

“There is no reasonable ground to believe that these illegal migrants fled from their country of origin for well-founded fear of being persecuted,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Thailand faces an “enormous burden” because of 3 million illegal migrants currently in the country, the statement said.

Note:  the emphasis above is not mine, it is in the original story.

Finland planning to deport Somali criminal pair

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When I saw this story I laughed.   I laughed because I couldn’t imagine the US deporting some Muslim immigrant back to Somalia who had been here for 15 years (since he was a child), heck we are bringing American terrorist body parts back for burial when they blow themselves up in Somalia.    And, I laughed because this guy is now begging to stay in good old Finland where he has lived on welfare and stolen booty.

A repentant young man sits in Jokela Prison. Unrest in Somalia drove Said out of his country at the age of ten, but now, after spending 15 years in Finland, he faces deportation to Africa.

“I regret what I did. I would like to have another chance in Finland”, the 26-year-old man says in a prison interview with Helsingin Sanomat.

Officials feel that the interests of Finnish society override the personal interests of Said. Before Christmas, the Supreme Administrative Court kept in force a court ruling ordering his deportation and that of another Somali man.

Said has been convicted of a number of crimes of violence and theft. Some of the crimes have been serious. He has been given two prison sentences of over two years.

Said has not integrated into Finland.  [Indeed!]

Read the rest of the story, it’s amusing.

Don’t you just love this line!

Officials feel that the interests of Finnish society override the personal interests of Said.

Search for more Somali missing “children” extends to Atlanta

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Every day, visit us because it seems that some new bit of information comes our way regarding the Somali missing ‘youths’ saga.   This is from a blog at the Christian Science Monitor.  Admittedly I don’t know anything about how the FBI does its investigations, but it strikes me that from this account it’s haphazard (and that is a kind choice of words!)

We have theorized that when Homeland Security first learned that Somali (former refugees) were turning up missing in Minneapolis, suspected of returning to Somalia for terrorist training, that the FBI would be checking other cities for missing youths as well.    Guess they are!

While pursuing our recent story about the shooting death of a local teenager, I stumbled into an active FBI investigation. One evening last month, more than 60 members of Atlanta’s Liberian community gathered at Clarkston International Bible Church outside the city, to discuss the shooting by a Liberian youth. Community leaders spoke: a school principal, a minister, a judge, the local police chief.

[….]

Two hours into the meeting, a pale, buzz-cut man, who’d slipped in partway through, stood and introduced himself as FBI Senior Special Agent Andy Young – “not the Andrew Young,” he joked, referring to the Atlanta civil rights icon. Crowd members shifted in their seats, and the event’s moderator joked that if the agent had said he was from US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the room would’ve cleared out. This got a huge, nervous laugh.

We are your friends!

No, Agent Young said, he wasn’t there to bust anybody on immigration violations. He was there to dispel commonly held fears about the FBI.

But, we want something from you!

His agents would be visiting churches and mosques all over Clarkston to listen to the community’s concerns.

But friendship, he said, carries “reciprocal obligations” – so he had a favor to ask. Although this was a gathering of – “Liberians, right?” – from the opposite side of Africa from Somalia, he wanted to ask their help making contact with friends, neighbors, coworkers: Anyone who might be a leader of Atlanta’s Somali community.

He wanted information on the Somali community because “kids” are missing from Minneapolis.

Because Somali kids were disappearing. Not in Atlanta yet, that he knew of. But “six or seven high school kids,” former refugees resettled in Minnesota’s Twin Cities area, the largest Somali community in the US, had recently been recruited by an extremist group through a mosque there and sent back to Somalia to train as suicide bombers.

Now get this little juicy bit of information he revealed to an audience of 60 people he didn’t know.

“One child blew himself up last month,” Young said. “They flew his thumb back to [the FBI Academy in] Quantico [Va.],” fingerprinted it, and discovered he’d come to the US as a refugee.

Child! Child!  Ahmed, the first American suicide bomber (that we know of) was 27 years old!   And, do you remember that Minnesota funeral of the “remains” back in early December?   I’m wondering, did they just bury the thumb?

“They’re still looking for those six other children,” said Young, “Their parents had no idea. They reported their kids missing.” If terrorists are recruiting teenagers in Minnesota, Young said, they could easily be doing it in Atlanta too.

Uh, Mr. Young, I think it’s possible some (more than six!) of the “children” were captured in Somaliland two days ago.