‘Pungentpeppers’ sent us this story from Utah a couple of days ago—it’s about Afghan refugees bringing their Islamic culture clashes and their violence to your communities. It is long, and annoys me so much I could barely read the article.
And, for Utah political leaders, what the heck are you thinking allowing your lovely state to be the doormat for the kinds of people resettlement contractors are dropping off? Didn’t you get an earful with the gruesome murder trial of a Burmese Muslim man who was convicted earlier this year for raping and killing a little girl (she died in excruciating pain)?
For citizens of Utah, if the culture clashes aren’t bothering you, aren’t you at least asking elected officials what all this crime and violence is costing taxpayers?
By the way, if you are thinking it’s the Mormon Church dropping off the Muslims, it isn’t. The federally-funded refugee contractors in Utah are: The International Rescue Committee, Catholic Community Services, Jewish Family Service and the Asian Association of Utah.
Now here is the lengthy and complicated tale of the Afghan refugees, clashing, quarreling (and killing).
Read the sob story that opens the article. I am so cynical, I don’t believe it. I think the family fabricated their tale of woe to get in here.
From City Weekly:
After the tale of woe:
After a year of waiting, Haji Rahimi, his wife, three daughters, son Nisar, the two widows of their eldest sons and their children were granted political asylum in the United States in 2000. They flew into Chicago, and from there to Utah, where they settled.
[….]
But while the Rahimis thought they’d left violence behind them, the very cultural values that Haji had advocated against in Pakistan were waiting for them in Utah. Nazir’s relationship with Nargis Mullahkhel—an Afghan single mother in the middle of a divorce, at odds with her family’s strict cultural values—led to friction, then violence between the two families, and ultimately to the death of Nargis’ 19-year-old brother and Nazir spending five years in prison for his killing.
Although the police who investigated the killing never got to the bottom of exactly how and why it happened, the Rahimi family’s story and court documents suggest that at the heart of the tragedy lies not only a clash between modern and traditional Islam, but also the struggle of immigrant families to both assimilate within American society and retain their cultural identities, even if those identities may sometimes chafe with American cultural values and laws.
Chafe with American values and laws? Chafe with? WTH! Why are we putting up with ‘retaining cultural identity’ when it ‘chafes with’ ours?
Diana West nailed it!
Remember the Iraqi and Somali Muslims are pouring into the US right now, and soon the flood gates will open for more Afghans and Syrians to arrive in your “welcoming” cities.
For more on Utah, click here. We have a lengthy paper trail on problems there.