Month: March 2011

Somalis avoiding vaccinations, children developing measles

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Two readers sent this story from Minneapolis today.

From MSNBC:

MINNEAPOLIS — Three more young children in Minneapolis have contracted measles, including two who were not immunized because of fears about the safety of the vaccine.

The Minnesota Department of Health is working closely with Hennepin County Public Health staff in their investigation. The three new cases were reported in children between 23 months and 4 years of age, living in Minneapolis who likely acquired their infections in Minneapolis.

The children became ill between March 1 and March 9. Two of the three new cases were hospitalized, and all are recovering.

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Two of the four children are Somali. They had not been vaccinated because of parental concerns about the standard vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In recent years, MMR vaccination has dropped in the Somali community because of concerns about safety.

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“It is every parent’s responsibility to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella to protect them against these deadly diseases,” said Dr. Abdirahman D. Mohamed, Chief of Staff of Axis Medical Center, Minneapolis. Dr. Mohamed said he knows of four unvaccinated Somali children (two in the U.S. and two in other countries) who have died from measles. He stressed the importance of reaching the community with the message that vaccination is important.

They don’t say it in this story but Somalis got the erroneous idea that American medical requirements—vaccinations—were responsible for an epidemic of autism in Minneapolis among Somali children.  However, studies on autism are increasingly pointing a finger to a Vitamin D deficiency in northern cities exacerbated by dark skinned women covering themselves from head to toe and thus not getting any sunshine during pregnancy.  I told you about the latest research here.

And, you wonder why our health care costs are skyrocketing……

Europeans freaking out over African exodus

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Bloomberg has titled the story “Biblical Exodus.”   It begins here:

As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.

“They cannot be allowed on the shore,” Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. “Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land.”

Camp of Saints anyone?

An inside look at the Shelbyville film propaganda team

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I’ve written many many times about the propaganda film that has been created to tell the world that even in the heart of redneck country (Tennessee) that local folks are coming around to embrace their Somali neighbors (who arrived there to work for the meatpacker Tyson Foods) and welcome them to Bible-belt America.  But, as with any film of this kind, it all depends on who edited the film and what the propaganda goal is that is being promoted.   I suspect I could have taken the same footage and created a film with the exact opposite message.

This film has a two-fold purpose.  It was shown in Africa to assure Africans that its just hunky-dory fine to live in America (the power structure in the refugee program and their friends in big industry need reliable Democratic voters and cheap labor).  And, the film is being shown to shame other towns and cities should anyone question a large influx of African Muslims to their neighborhoods.

So check this out! It is a rare inside look into how the film is being canned and promoted through a multi-media effort to manipulate public thinking on a very important immigration issue.  There is even a photo of the young socialists sitting around a conference table planning their next moves.

See my most recent post on the “welcoming” Shelbyville mind-meld campaign here and follow links back.

More on trafficking illegal alien Somalis to Malta

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This would be funny if it weren’t so serious.  The Times of Malta reported yesterday that a Somali has been sentenced to four years in prison for bringing boatloads of illegal aliens from Libya to the island nation of Malta (for a handsome profit of course).  But, here is the hitch and the funny part.  He was turned in by a “client” for cheating the client (the illegal alien) because he didn’t get the illegal alien to the illegal alien’s hoped-for destination.

So did he go to jail for trafficking or lying to his “client?”   And, can the illegal alien “client” now stay in Malta or will authorities and the US Ambassador to Malta move the guy on to a town near you as the Ambassador and the US State Department have done with hundreds of other Somalis who have managed to get to Malta over the last few years!

From The Times of Malta:

A man found guilty of organising boat trips to get illegal immigrants from Libya to Europe was this morning jailed for four years and six months and fined €270.

Mohamed Muhudiin Dhiblaawe had been reported to the police by Somali Omar Hasan Nour in March 2009, who ended in Malta after paying Mr Dhiblaawe $900 for the trip.

Mr Nour reported Mr Dhiblaawe to the police because he felt robbed as he did not intend his destination to be Malta.

Following investigations, the police found that the accused transported people from Libya to Europe because of the massive profits involved. The accused had spoken to Mr Nour and others in Libya and offered to help them travel to Europe for the equivalent of €600 each.

The accused had promised to make all the necessary arrangements and gave the Somalis all the necessary instructions for the escape.

For more of this sort of humor, check out my post on Malta in January to see how one Somali traveler through Malta got sent to the US and is complaining about it!   The post also has some links on our precedent-setting arrangement to scoop up illegal aliens in Malta and transform them into refugees for resettlement in your neighborhood.   This practice has been going on since at least 2007 when I started to follow the issue during the Bush Administration.  Bush started it, and Obama continues it.

Finns backlogged on Somali refugee cases

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It seems Finland is running a backlog of family reunification applications from Somalis.

From YLE.fi:

The Finnish Immigration Service is swamped with family reunification applications from Somalis. About 5,600 such applications are being processed, with the oldest dating from the start of 2009.

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The Finnish Immigration Service says that the handling of Somalis’ applications for a residence permit on the basis of family ties takes longer than average for such applications.

There are two reasons for the hold-ups, according to the authority. Firstly, the numbers of applications from Somalis have rapidly grown. Secondly, it is usually impossible to obtain documents proving a familial relationship from Somalia, which means that the interested parties have to be interviewed in person.

Most frequently, applicants are interviewed at the Finnish mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Gee, can you tell us if you are related to so-and-so!—ed]

Two words for Finland:   DNA TESTING!

For new readers: In 2008 the US State Department shut down the entire family reunification program for Africa mostly because they found that as many as 80% of the applications were fraudulent.  Back in November of 2010 the State Dept. was about to re-open the program with some DNA testing required.  I frankly don’t know what happened with it, they have probably quietly re-opened Somali family reunification to the US and are operating on a backlog as well.