Month: December 2011

Minnesota “love and peace” crowd defends women who told court to “go to hell”

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Oh, geez.  The political hard left in Minnesota is rallying around the Somali women recently convicted of sending material support to the terror group Al-shabab in Somalia.  I first told you about them here where they dissed our legal system and said infidels would die.

Now, from Fight Back News (LOL! don’t you love it when peace people have publications like Fight Back News) we see that peace and justice activists are organizing to rally around their cause in the months leading up to their sentencing.

Minneapolis, MN – About 100 people gathered for a “Speak Out in Support of the Somali Community” Dec. 3. The organizers were inspired to do the forum after the Oct. 20 conviction of Amina Ali and Hawo Hassan, two Somali American women who raised money for charities assisting Somalia’s poor. The women’s conviction was related to providing “material support to foreign terrorist organizations.” During jury deliberations, supporters of the women made it clear that the situation for people in Somalia was dire and that people required help for basic survival.

Remember readers, these were women who did not say they acted out of naivete’.

In the AP story about their conviction, here, we learned that the government had recorded their phone calls and prosecutors reported this at trial:

Prosecutor Steven Ward contended that Ali and Hassan were in contact with key al-Shabab leaders and getting frequent updates on the fighting. He said their conversations showed they knew al-Shabab was a terror group, sometimes celebrating casualties.

In one of those calls, Ali told others to “forget about the other charities” and focus on “the jihad.” In another, she said, “Let the civilians die.”

Now that they have been convicted, Minnesota hard Left groups, saying the FBI is on a “witch hunt,” are making them a cause celebre’!

Both women were convicted of conspiracy to provide material support for a foreign terrorist organization. In addition, Ali was convicted of 12 counts of providing material support and Hassan was convicted of two counts of lying to FBI agents. Each count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization carries a 15-year sentence. On the day of the conviction, there were huge protests in Somalia over the women’s cases.

The women were accused of helping al-Shabab, an Islamist organization that fights to free Somalia from foreign domination.

Participants at the forum were urged to pack the courtroom for the sentencing of Amina Ali and Hawo Hassan. The sentencing is expected to happen in the early spring. Before that, there will be other actions and campaigns around the case.

Why so many Somalis in the US?   That is what people are googling everyday and they end up here at RRW where top posts continue to be this one about how and when we admitted so many Somalis to the US and this one about how come there are so many Somalis in Minneapolis (Minnesota generally).

Hudson Institute: Honor crimes and polygamous marriages on the rise in Great Britain

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Author Soeren Kern at the Hudson Institute this week writes about two recent reports that do not bode well for Muslim women in the UK or frankly for the future of women’s rights generally as the Muslim population in Europe (and a demand for Sharia law) increases with the rising immigrant tide.

From Hudson New York:

More than 2,800 so-called honor attacks — punishments for bringing shame on the family — were recorded by British police last year, according to the first-ever national estimate of the problem.

The highest number of honor crimes — which include murder, mutilation, beatings, abductions and acid attacks — was recorded in London, where the problem has doubled to more than five times the national average.

Still, although the statistics provide the best national estimate so far, they do not give the full picture of the levels of honor violence in Britain. The real figure could be five times as high and in any case shows that Muslim parallel societies are now firmly established in Britain, thanks to decades-long multicultural immigration policies in the country.

The data on honor violence in Britain was released on December 3 by the London-based Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organization (IKWRO), a registered charity that provides advice to Muslim women and girls living in the United Kingdom, who are facing forced marriage, honor-based violence, female genital mutilation and domestic abuse.

Polygamous marriages also hurt women and taxpayers!

The data [about honor crimes] comes on the heels of another report which shows that tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants in Britain are practicing bigamy or polygamy to collect bigger social welfare payments from the British state.

The September 24 report shows that the phenomenon of bigamy and polygamy — which is permitted by Islamic Sharia law — is far more widespread in Britain than previously believed, even though it is a crime there, punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The rapid growth in multiple marriages is being fueled by multicultural policies that grant special rights to Muslim immigrants who demand that Sharia law be reflected in British law and the social welfare benefits system.

The report quotes two senior social welfare experts based in Lancashire (one of the most “multicultural” areas in Britain) who estimate that there are now at least 20,000 bigamous or polygamous Muslim unions in England and Wales. This would imply that around 300,000 people are living in polygamous families in Britain if the average size of such a “family” is 15 people.

The multiple marriages are encouraged by recent changes to the British welfare system, which allows Muslim immigrants to have a second, third or fourth wife (or in some cases five or more) treated as a single mother who can get a house and an array of other state payments for herself and her children.

The report shows how Muslim men can take a new spouse from anywhere in the world, father any number of children with her, and have British taxpayers assume responsibility for this family’s upkeep and care.

Although all marriages that take place in the United Kingdom must be monogamous, Muslim immigrants can employ countless evasions to practice polygamy without running afoul of British matrimony laws.

In the US, refugee resettlement workers know full well (and whisper among themselves) that some Muslim refugees are polygamous with the second wives (third?) living nearby and collecting public assistance.  Honor crimes and female genital mutilation are also here already.

Rape wave in Norway by Muslims blamed on Israel!

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Say what?

From the Israeli National News Service:

Norway is suffering from an unprecedented wave of rapes that are largely being perpetrated by Muslim immigrants against local women, according to Yehuda Bello, an acclaimed Israeli blogger whose special interests include Norway.

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Bello notes that Norway is “the most advanced country in the world in granting rights to women.” However, he adds, the “politically correct rot” prevents the rape wave by Muslims from being reported. “They are called ‘non-western,’ ‘dark skinned,’ ‘Middle Eastern’ et cetera.”

After a police report in Oslo said that Muslims were raping Norwegian women out of a religious conviction that this was the proper thing to do, a stormy public debate erupted, reports Bello, and “the government ministers, most of them avowed anti-Semites, claimed that the report and its publication serve Israel and its policy of occupation.”

Meanwhile, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has been ruled “insane” which means that he will be quietly put away in a psychiatric institution without the public trial he was looking for.  As for that charge of anti-semitism against Norwegian government officials, remember the kids at the camp were learning  political tactics to support the Palestinians against the Israelis, here.

Jewish resettlement agency being sued for discrimination by former employees

~ Ann Corcoran

This is not the first time we have written about problems at Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) in Kansas City, MO.  Here is our archive of six previous posts on the complaints going back to 2009.

One of the most interesting facts about this case, for me anyway, is that JVS is a subcontractor of the same federal contractor having problems in Manchester, NH right now.  That would be the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) whose head honcho Lavinia Limon headed the Clinton Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and its former VP, Eskinder Negash, now runs the Obama ORR.   Seems neither must have a very good management style if their subcontractors keep having problems—like in Bowling Green, KY or Waterbury, CT (and others that I am too lazy to link!)

Here we have the news of the lawsuit by former employees at The Standard (A KENYAN PUBLICATION!):

A Kenyan US based journalist and two other African immigrants have gone to court and sued a Jewish organisation in the US for racial discrimination.

Peter Makori, a resident of Kansas City who originally hails from Kisii in Kenya and Abdi Murasaal and Bakar Abdalla from Somalia have sued Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City for damages claiming they were dismissed from their employment because their boss, of Caucasian origin (white) discriminated against them due to their race, skin colour and national origins.

The three, through their lawyer, Brian Barjenbruch complained in their suit papers filed in the circuit court of Kansas City Missouri, that a white female employee who was herself not punished committed the mistakes that led to their dismissal from work.

They also filed their complaints at the Missouri State Human Rights Commission, the Kansas city human relations department and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC).

Makori and Abdallah worked as refugee resettlement case managers at the JVS, while Mursaal was their general manager at the organisation’s Centre for New Americans.

They are seeking millions of shillings [What is that in dollars?-ed] in compensation for unfairly losing their jobs and other inconveniences. They claim in their suit papers the fact that their colleague who is white was never punished despite evidence of impropriety on her job performance showed that they were victims of racial discrimination.

There is a lot more, read it all.

By the way, it’s also USCRI that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is whining about to Congress that received a couple of a million bucks to take care of trafficking victims—money the Bishops thought should rightfully be theirs.

Ethiopian refugee gets 30 years for sexually assaulting elderly man

~ Ann Corcoran

That’s the report last week from Minnesota where the convicted man’s attorney tried to get a lesser sentence because he was a poor refugee from troubled Africa.

From the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (Hat tip:  Cliff):

Ahmed Sule was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting a legally blind elderly man in the victim’s Fridley home last year.

Anoka County Judge Tammi Fredrickson handed down the decision after the victim’s daughter told the courtroom how Sule’s actions last September had affected her father and their family.

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The victim, who was 84 at the time of the attack, was suffering from cancer when Sule broke into his home. Sule, 24, repeatedly told the man he loved him and wanted to kiss him before sexually assaulting him. The elderly man tried to fight off Sule but was weak from radiation and chemotherapy.

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The man has since died.

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Brisbois [Sule’s attorney] had been hoping the judge would take into account Sule’s background. The refugee from Ethiopia grew up in a constant state of conflict in his native country, Brisbois said.

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He will be deported after his prison term.

Be sure to read the comments on this troubling story where friends of the victim said they danced in the street at hearing the verdict.

The Ethiopian refugee flow to America keeps flowing

The article doesn’t tell us in what year Sule came to the US, but we have resettled the following numbers of Ethiopians in the last four years (here): 560 (2011), 668 (2010), 321 (2009) and 299 (2008).  For years prior to those go here where we were bringing over 1000 Ethiopians each year.  Why?  I don’t know, but one of the Top Eleven federal refugee contractors* is run by Ethiopians—The Ethiopian Community Development Council.   The present head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Dept. of Health and Human Services is Ethiopian Eskinder Negash, here.  [By the way, I hope to write a post soon on the revolving door between contractors and the federal agencies that dole out the money to the contractors!]

* If you are a new reader, don’t be fooled by the name they call these contractors—voluntary agencies (volags for short)—they are not run by volunteers but by highly paid professionals managing a refugee industrial complex!