Month: April 2010

Dallas: Darfur refugee murders another Darfur refugee

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Ho hum!  Looks like another Muslim honor killing.  The male half is dead but police caught the murderer before he could kill the female half of the supposed illicit relationship.

From the Dallas Morning News:

Ahmed Mohammed thought he’d found a safe home after leaving conflict-ravaged Darfur, but violence caught up to him as he slept in his far northeast Dallas apartment Monday morning.

Mohammed, 32, was fatally stabbed by another Darfur refugee who wrongly believed the victim had impregnated his sister-in-law, authorities said. The suspect, Abdelbakheit Khamis of Amarillo, was taken into custody on suspicion of murder and was being held in the Dallas County jail.

“It’s a pretty weird deal,” said Sgt. Ray Beaudreault, a Dallas homicide unit supervisor.* “He thought that the victim was having affairs with his brother’s wife. He was convinced that the victim was responsible for her pregnancy.”

Caught by police before he could reach the woman (who says the victim was innocent of impregnating her):

“I grabbed him and took the knife from him,” Adam [roommate of the victim] said.

Khamis fled in a white sport utility vehicle as Adam called police.

Shortly afterward, police stopped Khamis at Greenville Avenue and LBJ Freeway. Blood smeared his clothing.

“According to detectives, he was on his way to kill his sister-in-law when he was stopped by the officers,” Beaudreault said.

Notice the article tells us the murderer was working in meatpacking in Amarillo (a big refugee resettlement hot spot).

Then this.  One wonders how much these Muslims were persecuted in Darfur if they were traveling back and forth to Africa for a little bride shopping.

Last August, Mohammed went back to Africa to visit his parents, four sisters and two brothers. He was eager to marry and start a family in America. “He kept telling me, ‘I have to go back and marry and bring my wife,’ ” Khalil said.

*By the way, Dallas police shouldn’t be surprised by the nature of the crime since a notorious honor killing happened in Texas two years ago, here.

New Mexico students fill in for resettlement agencies

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College students in New Mexico can sign up for a class to help refugees get settled in the US and receive college credit for their work.  From the Daily Lobo:

Students are helping refugees make the transition to life in America.
The Refugee Well-being Project, a class offered through the psychology and anthropology departments, gives students the opportunity to work with refugees who are resettling in New Mexico.

 
Program Director Jessica Goodkind said that although some of the stresses refugees endure come from past traumas, others stem from tasks refugees have to face in the United States.

“A lot of the stress is due to how difficult it is to start life in a new place,” Goodkind said. “You don’t know anyone. You don’t have access to the resources that you need.”

The two-semester-long program trains students how to act as advocates for the refugees they are partnered with, said course instructor Brian Isakson.

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Catholic Charities resettles refugee families in New Mexico and offers them a chance to participate in the UNM program.

‘I’m guessing this particular Catholic Charities isn’t a firm believer in the “tough love,” throw them out of the nest, approach we heard about in Fredericksburg, VA recently here.

Writer asks will we all qualify for asylum some day?

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I came across this blog posting a week ago and it’s been rattling around in my head ever since.  The writer is Dr Christopher McDowell.  He questions the underlying premises of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees in the wake of recent decisions on asylum and I am not sure he is thinking what I’m thinking—what happens when the persecuted are whites in South Africa or Jews in Sweden? I doubt that the original crafters of the 1951 Convention had those persecuted people in mind!   It seems to me that logically they will be protected and resettled to say North America to save them from Black supremacism or Muslim supremacism.

Here is Dr. McDowell’s whole post. I don’t like to re-post an entire post, but couldn’t decide where to cut it in order for readers to get the gist of it.

Some years back when I took over running the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) at King’s College London I was rummaging through press cuttings left by my predecessor when I uncovered a piece by Matthew Parris in The Times. Matthew’s article came out at a time when the UK was leading the way in asylum intake with somewhere in the region of 100,000 people annually entering the country to make an application for refugee status. His point was that we should not be surprised about how many people were making the hazardous journey to the west for the purposes of asylum, but rather, we should be surprised by how few people were making this journey. The article pointed out the ways in which rulings, taking into account human rights laws, had progressively broadened the definition of refugee to include new categories of persecution straying way beyond the political and religious persecution envisaged in the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Well, two recent rulings would add weight to Parris’s argument. The first is the case of Brandon Huntley a South African citizen* who has been granted refugee status by the Candian Refugee Board on the grounds that the South African Government are unable or unwilling to protect him against racially-motivated violence. The second, only this week, concerns a ruling (reported in The Times online) that has shocked the German authorities, in which the the Romeikes, a well-meaning and idealistic German family who fled their homeland in August 2008, were granted asylum in the US after a federal immigration judge in Tennessee determined that they had a reasonable fear of persecution for their beliefs if they returned. The ‘belief’ in question was their preference to educate their children at home rather than sending them to the local state school. [Judy wrote about the case here.]

The Refugee Convention at 50+ remains venerable but as an ageing actress her eminence at the centre stage of international law is being usurped by the glamorous new human rights starlet. Tony Blair said repeatedly that the post-war Convention had outlived its usefulness but the question remains how far are governments prepared to go in accepting new obligations under any new international arrangements which will inevitably reflect even more closely the requirements of human rights legislation. It’s not difficult to imagine a future in which all of us could present a claim for protection overseas based on an infringment of our rights at home that would persuade some judge presiding diligently in a backwater court room.

* Huntly is a white man who has claimed persecution because of his race.

In the week since I first saw Dr. McDowell’s post we’ve seen the growing racism in South Africa, the rainbow nation, in relation to the use of the song “Kill the Boer” and the murder of an outspoken white leader (although some reports are that the death was associated with a dispute over pay, I doubt the story).  And, we have seen the increased persecution of Jews by Muslim immigrants in Sweden.

So, why not, why wouldn’t the 1951 Convention apply to Christians or Jews persecuted in Europe or Whites persecuted in South Africa?  Or, was the Convention only supposed to apply to races, religions and politically persecuted people favored by the Left?   Shouldn’t it also apply to persecuted whites or persecuted religious homeschoolers like the German family?   If that is what Dr. McDowell is saying when he says we all may qualify some day, then we are in agreement!  However, his use of the phrase “judge presiding diligently in a backwater court room” suggests he only thinks certain persecuted people should be protected—those being the ‘correct’ sort to suit the political Leftwing.

As I have said recently on these pages, I envision a day when Swedes, and Danes, and Dutchmen and even Brits like Dr. McDowell will be applying for asylum in America alone because of the rising Muslim population and the Sharia law it is bringing to Europe.  [If America survives!]

Resettle Rohingya groundswell has begun in earnest

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I’ve been following the issue of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar (formerly Burma) since January 2008.   If you scroll all the way back through our entire Rohingya Reports category to the beginning you will find this post in which I wrote about how Time magazine and the Hudson Institute both linked Rohingya “refugees” to Islamic radicalism.  Now over two years later the drumbeat to resettle the Rohingya is reaching a crescendo.

This is how it works, there is a deliberate media campaign that we have chronicled throughout 90 posts on the subject.   Now the pressure is really building.

Just in the last couple of days I see that Change.org is telling its activists to lobby the UN and the Office of Refugee Resettlement to resettle the Rohingya:

Demand action from the UNHCR and the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement* to prioritize the resettlement of the Rohingya refugees and offer them the protection they deserve.

* They should be lobbying the US State Department, but I am sure ORR will be happy to forward their demands to the federal department that makes the decisions on who gets into the US (with direction from the UN of course!).

I have just learned that American Muslim activist groups are pushing Rohingya resettlement too.  Here we have a report in which, surprise-surprise, they are also criticizing Muslim Bangladesh about its treatment of the Rohingya flowing into that country.   But, of course reading down the article the idea of resettling Rohingya to the wide open spaces of North America is presented.

Last week, the American Muslim Taskforce (AMT), an umbrella organization that includes the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), amongst other Muslim organizations in the USA, hosted a press conference in the National Press Club, Washington D.C. to discuss human rights abuses in Bangladesh. In his inaugural statement, Mr. Wright Mahdi Bray of the AMT brought up the squalid living conditions of the Rohingya refugees inside Bangladesh. In the last few years we have raised the Rohingya issue a few times with Bangladesh government, but have failed to improve the deplorable condition.

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Should the refugees choose to leave Bangladesh for a third country the government should not hinder that process either. It must also make all diplomatic efforts to find shelters for these stranded refugees in sparsely populated and prosperous countries of Europe and North America, and the Gulf states.

This is the second time in recent weeks I have seen this reference to “sparsely populated” North America.  I wonder if Change.org ever has any conflicts between its environmental activists who want to preserve American vistas and open space (not to mention, wanting clean air and water) and the activists pushing for higher populations through immigration.  I hate to break it to you, but you can’t have both especially with such high birth rates among Muslim immigrants.

Also, I’ve told you several times recently about how Rohingya refugees who have gone to Saudi Arabia have been imprisoned there, well this article from the Asian Tribune tells us more of the details of how that happened.  So much for Muslim charity!

To round out the troika this  morning.  I see that Christiane Amanpour has posted a CNN report entitled, “The forgotten people:  Rohingya refugees.”  I didn’t watch it, but I’m sure its the same old drumbeat.

We are already resettling Rohingya

Quietly and with no fanfare the US State Department has already begun resettling Rohingya Muslims to your cities, so has Canada and many European countries including the UK and Ireland. 

Tensions between Burmese Karen Christians, another persecuted minority from Burma, and the Muslim Burmese Rohingya continue to mount in resettlment cities although this goes unreported by the mainstream media that is still stuck in the American melting pot myth.

If I lived in a resettlement city, especially one with a large Burmese population, I would be asking the resettlement agencies if more Rohingya are on the way.  Those agencies have a tendency to gloss over concerns and play up the Burmese Christian refugee angle.

The immigration jihad laying siege to the Gates of Vienna

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….and the rest of the western world.

On the night before Easter, here is a depressing article by Daniel Greenfield published at Canada Free Press.

Several hundred years ago when the forces of Islam wanted to capture Vienna, they came with the sword and the cannon and laid siege to the city walls. Today they simply take a plane. While Vienna was able to resist repeated sieges, it was not able to resist Islamic immigration, and as a result the city looks a good deal more the way it would have had it fallen to an actual siege. Today as much as a third of Vienna is of foreign origin. And as many as 50 percent of Viennese schoolchildren have a non-German language as their mother tongue.

Immigrants want Sharia law introduced in Austria

Austria itself is projected to have as many as half a million Muslims. This would be catastrophic enough in a country with a smaller population than the state of New Jersey, but it is far more catastrophic considering how much of that population skews youthful. The Muslim birth rate is nearly double that of the Protestant and Catholic birth rates. This results in a demographic shift in which statistics may deceptively peg the Muslim population of a country at only a fraction of its real power and growth potential, thereby blinding the government and the population to the reality of how bad things already are.

The practical implications of this are obvious enough, as they are everywhere else. The majority of Turkish immigrants polled by the Interior Ministry said that they want to see Sharia law introduced in Austria. Those same immigrants also stated by a decisive majority that Islamic laws were more important than Austrian laws, and blamed “democracy” for crime. The Austrian government has predictably tried to treat it as an integration problem, but as the survey shows, Muslims are enthusiastic enough about integration. They just mean to integrate Austrians into an Islamic Republic of Austria, rather than the other way around.

The example of Vienna, where the Islamic conquest of Europe was once halted, is a telling testament to the power of the Immigration Jihad. What the armies of Islam could not do en masse over several centuries, a permissive attitude toward Islamic immigration managed to do in only a few decades. The Gates of Vienna have not only been breached, they have been occupied by the enemy. And now the motto of the Vienna Tourism Bureau urging visitors to come is, “Vienna: Now or Never”.

Read about Detroit, Michigan and Buffalo, NY too.  Read it all, here.