Month: April 2011

Iraqi refugees clash with police in Sweden

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They were protesting the deportation of fellow Iraqis, but it is not clear if these are Christians or Muslims (or both) being returned.

From Assafirpress:

Gothenburg, Sweden, INN – A number of Iraqi asylum seekers clashed with police forces at the Swedish Immigration Board protesting planned deportation of Iraqi refugees back to Baghdad, informed sources said Wednesday. Around 80 refugees gathered at the facility and tried to prevent police from taking 25-30 Iraqi refugees to Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport to fly them back to Baghdad. Protestors were dispersed by police who used batons and sprinkled pepper spray which causes no harm to human health to keep the protesters away from a bus which carrying to the airport the refugees who failed to get asylum permits., the sources said. Earlier this year, 20 asylum seekers were deported back to Iraq from Stockholm and another six from Denmark despite heated protests against their expulsion by human rights organizations including the UN Higher Commission for Refugees ( UNHCR), a number of the asylum seekers who were sent back belong to religious and ethnic groups targeted by violence in Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled the war in their country to resettle in Sweden, with official statistics showing 117,900 people born in Iraq lived in the Scandinavian country in 2009, up from 49,400 in 2000.

Here is one of several previous posts we have written on Sweden returning Christians to Iraq.

Detroit: one more food stamp fraud bust

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The day just wouldn’t be complete without an immigrant  food stamp fraud scam to report.  Actually I had this one last night, but had forgotten about it until now.

Judging by their names, these convenience store owners and employees sound like Middle Easterners.

From the Detroit News:

Detroit —Food stamp fraud charges alleging the manipulation of more than $100,000 in welfare benefits were filed today against the owner and two employees of a Detroit party store by the state’s attorney general.

Sara Shango, 24, of Shelby Township, owner of Randy’s Market, 18054 Mount Elliott; her husband, Rouni Abdul-Ahad, 29; and employee Omar Sami, 20, of Troy were arraigned Monday in the city’s 36th District Court on a variety off fraud charges and criminal racketeering charges punishable by up to 20 years in prison. They were ordered to return April 15 for a preliminary examination on the charges.  [Did you ever wonder how a couple of twenty-somethings came to own a store!—ed]

Tax dollars stolen (lots of them!):

The charges were the result of a joint investigation dating back to October 2009 by the Michigan State Police, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General. The probe began when federal authorities noticed monthly food stamp transactions at Randy’s Market were more than 365 percent higher than the monthly average volume of comparable stores, according to a statement issued today by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.

“Today’s charges should send the message that we will not stand by while tax dollars are being stolen,” Schuette said in the statement released by his Lansing office.

Bankrupt Michigan loses $55 million a year on food stamp scams!  Think about it!  This bust was for a heist of $100,000.  Imagine how many more crooks are out there to bring the total take up to that $55 million mark.

Schuette’s office said the Michigan Department of Human Services estimates about four percent of all food stamp transactions in the state are fraudulent, amounting to about $4.6 million in illegal transactions every month: about $55.2 million per year. Wayne County alone accounts for slightly less than a third of the state’s food stamp transactions, which translates to an estimated $16 million in food stamp fraud per year.

Tomorrow I think I’ll tell readers what to look for, and maybe you can help bust some of these scammers in your neighborhood!

If you are new to RRW, then type ‘food stamp fraud’ into our search function for dozens more posts like this one.

More on that Columbus, OH FBI probe of Somalis there

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This is just an update of the terror investigation story I posted two days ago from Columbus, Ohio. It seems there has been a federal grand jury convened.

Check out the latest at the Columbus Dispatch:

A Columbus man who says he was elected the leader of a region of Somalia in 2009 apparently is the target of a federal terrorism investigation into his activities in that country.

If the feds are looking into Sulieman Ahmed’s activities, it could be the first such examination of the local community.

Ahmed said FBI agents stopped him at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Jan. 30 and told him they had reviewed information on the Internet that indicated he was engaged in fighting in Somalia.

“I told them that was not true,” Ahmed said.

And, he said, a number of people in Columbus’ Somali community recently have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Columbus about Ahmed and his regional administration.

Read it all.

Sounds like a lots going on in Columbus, right Rowana!

Comment worth noting: Rowana returns!

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Readers, take a few minutes and read my previous post on Australia.  There you have a well-known, well-educated editor of a major paper, a world away, who has come to the same conclusion as an elderly lady from Columbus, Ohio.  Wake up America!

I posted a comment from Rowana as a ‘comment worth noting’ here two days ago.  Now Rowana is back warning of the end to a great American city—Columbus (emphasis mine).

I had four uncles in WWII who fought to maintain freedom in this country. You young people can wuss out all you want and be “politically correct,” and be afraid to speak the truth. I will not. What exactly are you afraid of in not speaking out? That a group of people who do a stupid, inconsiderate, unAmerican thing might be mad at you? England was mad at some of my ancestors in a revolution, too, but it did not bother them. Duh!

Jewish Family Services (and any other agency or group) had NO BUSINESS bringing all those Somalians into central Ohio. TENS OF THOUSANDS of them! The Columbus Dispatch said the Jewish Family Services brought those Somalians to Columbus and that is a fact. I can’t figure out why Jews would bring in Muslims. They are in a nasty war with them over in Israel. Duh!

I wonder, could it have had something to do with all those grants and all the money they possibly got? Some Somalians told me personally that the grants allowed about one million dollars per 50 Somalians imported, and they placed them in government housing, gave them a bag of groceries, and left.

Why not demand an accounting for how much money in grants the people who brought these Somalians over here, received?*  How about a FOIA public records request? (Freedom of Information Act) Did they line their pockets while taxpayers paid to bring those people here, and then taxpayers have to pay to keep them? I suppose we are not “allowed” (snort) to even ask that? (Do not even go there with an old lady.)

A little Nation within a Nation

And many are not the poorest Somalians. Some came with African gold, one group bought their own radio station, they have their own little government, and their own paper, but all work the system and cling together as a little nation within a nation. They were already talking about carving out their “own section” of Columbus to be “theirs to govern.”

Some were the elite who abused their own people, and were thrown out of power. They provided a huge billboard in the courthouse translating everything for them (not even the Mexicans got that)as well as instructions and brochures for government offices.

I will speak about facts and if that includes Jewish people (or any other group who comes forth to claim this travesty on taxpayers) bringing this plague upon Columbus and the Ohio taxpayer, so be it. They did not ask the local residents if they wanted those people or discuss all the problems the people would bring, or who would pay for it, on and on. They just dumped them.

Columbus was a better place before they arrived and you would think that local Jewish people would appreciate that and not bring this mess to the area. Oh, I forgot to note, they did not dump them in the Jewish suburb back yards of wealthy Bexley. They dumped them everywhere else!

Incidentally, young people, hate, dislike, contempt, anger, frustration, irritation are all EMOTIONS. We as a free people can feel all we want, and when our survival is threatened, emotions tend to protect us and get us into a survival mode. The first part of feeling that your own survival is threatened, is to figure out who and what the threat is. To an old traditional American, anybody telling me I can’t question them or raise issues or ask for an accounting of how tax dollars were spent, is threatening the First Amendment, not to mention my tax bill.

Incidentally, Columbus is becoming a dead zone with about 40% of downtown businesses vacant. Even F. & R. Lazarus Co. (old traditional Jewish family in Columbus since the 1800′s) left Columbus! Maybe it will become “New Somalia.” And if you think I am just an isolated grump, guess again. Every native of the area that I know personally “feels” the same way.

If what Rowana describes is not happening where you live, I assure you it is happening throughout America.  The reason you don’t see it, is that the old media and even Fox News doesn’t go near this issue to pull it together into a national news story.  Perhaps they fear being labeled racists, Islamophobes and so on for even noticing the takeover of sections of some cities by Muslims who have no intention of assimilating.

But, the fear could be another sort—if they report on what is happening and really see it, then they must also be afraid to their very cores for the future of Western civilization.  So, it’s best not to mention it and maybe the monster will go away—maybe it will then only be the imaginary boogy man behind the closed door in their childhood closets.

LOL!  Thank God for people like Rowana who are not afraid to open the closet!

* It is very hard to track the finances of these resettlement agencies.  We’ve done it on many occasions but no one seems to pay attention to the flow of taxpayer dollars to non-profit groups.    Oh, people are starting to notice thanks to the much-publicized NPR sting or the Planned Parenthood travesty, but most don’t fully understand how the Hard Left has its dirty hands in the pockets of taxpayers.   Our money is funding Western Civilization’s and capitalism’s demise.

 

 

Australian: All immigrants are not the same (duh!)

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This is an overly long piece by Greg Sheridan, foreign affairs correspondent for The Australian explaining how the realization has dawned on him that Australian multiculturalism is failing for one primary reason—Muslim immigrants.

I found myself annoyed as if I was reading the confessions of a liberal who got mugged.  However, it seems Sheridan isn’t liberal in the George Soros sort of way.    I was further annoyed by his assumption (that he gets from the mainstream media) that America is successfully assimilating its immigrants—Not!

Anyway, here is a bit of Sheridan’s ‘How I lost faith in multiculturalism‘ from The Australian:

IN 1993, my family and I moved into Belmore in southwest Sydney. It is the next suburb to Lakemba. When I first moved there I loved it.

We bought a house just behind Belmore Sports Ground, in those days the home of my beloved Bulldogs rugby league team. Transport was great, 20 minutes to the city in the train, 20 minutes to the airport.

On the other side of Belmore, away from Lakemba, there were lots of Chinese, plenty of Koreans, growing numbers of Indians, and on the Lakemba side lots of Lebanese and other Arabs.

That was an attraction, too. I like Middle Eastern food. I like Middle Eastern people. The suburb still had the remnants of its once big Greek community and a commanding Greek Orthodox church.

But in the nearly 15 years we lived there the suburb changed, and much for the worse.

Three dynamics interacted in a noxious fashion: the growth of a macho, misogynist culture among young men that often found expression in extremely violent crime; a pervasive atmosphere of anti-social behaviour in the streets; and the simultaneous growth of Islamist extremism and jihadi culture.

This is my story, our story and the story of a failed policy.

Gee, I realized after spending time in Europe that the problem wasn’t European multiculturalism that went awry (or never existed in the first place) but it was the large Muslim population most of whom are not like us and have no interest in assimilating.

So this must, logically, lead to one extremely inconvenient, politically incorrect and desperately fraught question. Could it be that the main difference between Europe, with its seething immigration problems, and the US, Canada and Australia, with their success, is not actually a difference based on some footling interpretation of multiculturalism?

There is one other variable that is consistent with the results. The US, Canada and Australia have far smaller Muslim migrant communities as a percentage of their total populations than do most of the troubled nations of Europe. Could this be the explanation?

All immigrants are not the same:

No one in Europe, 25 years ago, thought they would be in the mess they’re in today.

Australia has been a successful immigration country. But the truth is not all immigrants are the same. And it may be much easier than people think to turn success into failure.

So, now what the hell will Australia, or Canada, or for that matter the US, do to stop the inevitable?   After all, the writing is on the wall and it’s unfortunate that those who might have led us—‘intellectuals’ of all stripes—can’t see it (or, like Sheridan, are seeing it too late).