Month: April 2009

Somali reports on aggrieved Somalis and FBI

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The University of Minnesota newspaper ran an article last week titled FBI continues questioning U students.  It begins:

The disappearances of young Somali men from Minneapolis, including two students from the University of Minnesota, have resulted in numerous students being questioned by the FBI, both on and off campus.

The federal agents have been visiting students in high schools, colleges and the University for information about the missing Somali men.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on colleges to provide more legal help for students and also says students have been approached by the FBI while walking to class and in the library. Students have also received calls from investigators.

The piece goes on to focus on one student who was interviewed, who said federal agents are “terrorizing” her family, and the rights of students not to talk to law enforcement. It concludes:

 The FBI did not return a call for comment on this story.

Not too much context is provided, I thought as I read it. Kind of one-sided. And then I looked at the author’s name: Ibrahim Hirsi, a Somali name. Is that how it works? Reporters from an aggrieved group get to do the reporting on the grievances?

Excellent analysis of the mainstream media’s abysmal coverage (or no coverage!) of the Tea Parties

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Update just a few moments later:   See Mark Steyn’s column (linked there) and other excellent commentary on this same subject by our good friends over at the Blue Ridge Forum, here.

 

Kyle-Anne Shiver, the author of this excellent piece at American Thinker on how the mainstream media apparently purposefully and maliciously missed the real message of the Tea Party story, is an expert on the Alinsky School (Obama!) of community organizing.*   I suspect she gets some particular amusement at seeing the results of genuine and spontaneous outrage by citizens at the Tea Parties as opposed to the orchestrated demonstrations put on by the Radical Left (using the Alinsky method of manipulation) in recent years.

So without further ado, here is how she begins.  Please read the whole excellent column!

In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don’t believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired among the liberal MSM covering America’s Tax Day Tea Parties. The Tea Parties represented a very significant news event.

Whenever close to 300,000 middle-class Americans put their productive lives on hold on a midweek workday, make original signs with their own hands, and travel miles and miles to stand with other private citizens just to demonstrate their anger with government, in more than 300 cities from coast to coast and everywhere in between, that’s NEWS. Yet, many local newspapers – even the Boston Globe for crying out loud! – pettily refused to even cover their local protests. When every news channel – except the only one thriving on the block, Fox – finally decided to cover the events, it was with derision, mockery and elitist condescension. 

Note to MSM: This is why you’re going broke.

Dirty jokes!   I laughed when I read this next paragraph, because I too polled my friends to see if they knew what the disgusting reference was to “tea-bagging” and none did (I still don’t know and don’t want to know).  But, it tells you what kind of people Obama has on his side, doesn’t it!

The puerile, vulgar humor of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, targeting the most clean-cut, rancor-less groups of protesters possibly ever assembled in the U.S.A., was the kind of thing one would expect on an adolescent playground when the teacher isn’t listening. I personally polled 16 friends and relatives, aged 23 to 66, and not a single one of them had ever even heard the sexually perverse phrase regarding tea bags, which peppered Maddow’s and Cooper’s primetime rants.

Regular readers know that Judy and I demonstrated proudly and with gusto last Wednesday at our local Tea Party.

* We have discussed the Alinsky School of community organizing that inspired Obama’s career in that field at length in our Community Destabilization category.  And, here, is a link to a post in which I mention Kyle-Anne Shiver.

SEIU saves the crew of the Maersk Alabama, huh?

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I told you before that I signed a petition some months back demanding a halt to all Muslim immigration to the US.   Well, within a few days I was receiving e-mails from the Service Employees International Union(SEIU), the Union all tangled up with Obama and Blago,  thanking me for signing up for their cause. They even took my name (they said) to Capital Hill in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.   I was furious at the cheaters, but their e-mails give me some insight into the cheating mind-set of this Union that is busy organizing Somalis.

Well, this past week I received an e-mail alert from them bragging about how unions, and by extension SEIU, were behind the brave action of the crew of the Maersk Alabama in their fight that ended in the annihilation of three black Somali Muslim teens.  Entitled Unions 1, Pirates 0, here it is.  Note that only with passage of the Employee Free Choice Act will such acts of bravery be possible.

I wish I could find it now, but I saw a photo of Somali SEIU lackeys demonstrating somewhere in the last few months.  The Somalis were all carrying SEIU signs.  The image came to mind when I watched that film clip of a crew member of the Maersk Alabama bragging about defeating the Somali pirates, and I wondered how the Somali Americans feel about that humiliation of their kin.

In my wandering around the web this morning to see what else I could find about Somalis being organized by SEIU, I found a couple of interesting nuggets.

Take Action Minnesota, a community organizing network to which SEIU belongs, is helping Somalis organize politically in that state.  Just last month they held their first Somali Day at the Capital.

(St. Paul, MN) March 12, 2009 – On Thursday, Minnesota’s Somali-American community gathered at the State Capitol in their first-ever “Somali Day on the Hill.” Hosted by Somali Action Alliance of Minneapolis, the all-day event was developed to introduce leaders from Somali communities from around Minnesota to the state legislative process and to provide initial contact with legislators on important issues such as education, headwear in driver’s license photos, racial justice, health care and jobs.

We have written extensively in our community destabilization category about how important it is for the hard Left to create disunity among groups of people so as to fuel the battle of the ‘have-nots’ vs. the ‘haves’ and bring about a socialist form of government.  Not to mention the fact that Unions need dues-paying members!  Since they were running out of unhappy Americans, they had to move on to organize and agitate immigrant groups to demand stuff.  That is where the Somalis fit in, they are lackeys for the Radical Left.

Ending on a humorous note (another humorous note, since the first is that Union membership saved the crew of the Maersk Alabama), Michelle Malkin reported last month that the SEIU had to dump some of its own workers and those workers went out and used their training to picket the SEIU!  I didn’t see that in the mainstream media, did you?

Somali missing youths should soon return home

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Update April 22nd:  I can’t believe it, the Obama Administration is considering funding training for security forces for this supposed moderate Somali government in hopes of deterring piracy, here.  More taxpayer funds down a rat hole!

As a starting point, the United States plans to help fund the country’s nascent security force.

 

Did you hear the news?   The New York Times is reporting that the Somali Parliment has voted to govern Somalia with Shariah Law.  Hat tip:  Mars.  This should be great news for the American Somali families whose sons have gone to fight for al-Shabaab (an al Qaeda affiliate) and a fundamentalist Islamic Somalia.

MOGADISHU, Somlia — Somalia’s Parliament voted unanimously on Saturday to institute Islamic law, a measure lawmakers say they hope will strengthen popular support for the government and siphon it away from the Islamist militias fighting an insurgency here.

The vote ratified a decision by the cabinet last month to adopt the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, known as Shariah.

Okay, so that means the fighting will end, right?

“I am happy with the Shariah,” said Ismahan Haghi Aweis, 24, a student in Mogadishu, the capital. “I hope that the fighting is all over.”

The Shabab, a hard-line Islamist insurgent movement that controls large swaths of southern Somalia, has imposed its own version of Islamic law and vowed to rebel against the government.

We can all be on the lookout for the return of the missing former refugee youths, because afterall isn’t that what they were fighting for—a Shariah government in Somalia?  They can now turn their attentions to the next battle—establishing Shariah Law in Minnesota!

Further thoughts in the a.m.:  You know that report that Janet Reno (oops! Napolitano) released the other day (Judy posted on it here).  When Homeland Security warns of returning radicalized American military men, they must have been thinking of returning American Somali fighters.

Washington Post’s muddled editorial on Uighurs

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This is a prime example of why I no longer subscribe to the Washington Post after two decades of doing so.   Yesterday’s editorial, “Justice for Uighurs, Chinese Muslim detaineees should be welcomed into the United States,”  is muddled and demonstrates that Leftwing do-gooders still drive the WaPo.   As I read the editorial, I wished the Uighurs, all 17 of them, could be relocated to the author’s street.

If you don’t know the facts about the Uighurs, please read our many previous posts here.

The Post begins:

FOR THE PAST seven years, 17 men have been held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees who the U.S. government acknowledges should never have been there. They are not enemies of the United States or its allies and have not engaged in violence against U.S. or other interests. Yet these men — ethnic Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs — continue to be prisoners of years-old mistakes, ancient hostilities and modern-day diplomatic failures.

The Washington Post fails to tell readers that these poor misunderstood men didn’t just drop from the sky into the custody of the US, they were captured in Afghanistan.  Were they there on a little vacation from the troubled Chinsese region where they are wanted for terrorism?

China wants them back, so Obama will be inviting official Chinese anger to be rained down on us just at a time when he and Miss Hillary are begging the Chinese to further bail us out of our financial woes.  But, of course, the Washington Post denies the harmless Uighurs are part of an Islamic separatist movment in China.

The United States cannot return the men to China for fear that they will be mistreated or even tortured; the Chinese government considers them part of a terrorist group and has itself detained or abused Uighurs even when there was no evidence that they engaged in violence. The Bush administration tried for years to find the Uighurs a home in a third country, but to no avail; the Chinese government has threatened to retaliate politically against any nation that offers the Uighurs a haven.

The editorial hammers home the point over and over again (count the number of times!) that they are innocent.  Read the entire editorial.

In the meantime, 17 innocent men will continue to be confined on an island naval base ringed by barbed wire.

Washington Post, make up your mind!  Are they innocent or not?  Check this out, after repeatedly telling us they were innocent, here is how they cover their ass in case they don’t turn out to be such nice fellows afterall.

We have previously urged the administration to accept one or two of the detainees as a show of good faith and in an effort to spur ambivalent allies to take in the others. But the time has come for the United States to accept full responsibility for wrongly holding the Uighurs and to act boldly to rectify this miscarriage of justice. President Obama should grant asylum to all of the Uighur detainees, subject to confirmation that they have not engaged in any acts of violence.

What!!!!  You just spent I don’t know how many words telling us they are harmless!

As I said, I wonder if they could be resettled in the editor’s “welcoming” neighborhood.