Comment worth noting: Columbus area resident says send Somalis back to Africa

This is a comment we received yesterday from reader Rowana to a post I wrote in January entitled, ‘Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis?‘ here.  It’s clear that Rowana has had enough—how about you?   He/she, not hampered by concerns about political correctness, suggests that instead of fighting the three wars we are already in, let’s clean up Somalia and send them all back.   And, heck, as we learned in my previous post on Columbus Somalis, they are going back and forth now anyway!

Rowana (original comment did not have breaks in the text, so I added those):

You suggest there are various agencies which resettle the Somalii here. You mention christian churches. In Columbus, Ohio, it was reported in the Dispatch that it was Jewish Family Services which brought in thousands of these radical Muslims into the city. Why not list exactly what agencies brought them to Minneapolis? Don’t we have the right to know exactly who brought these angry, hostile people here to raid our government services, fill up low income housing, stuff our schools, etc.? And when will it end?

How can anyone claim to be a loyal American and bring in such people to pillage our government services, lower our standard of living, plant terrorists among us, etc. And why would the Jewish Family Services bring them here? They have sure not made Columbus Ohio a better place to live! And they are NOT “melting” into the culture.

Numerous of their population have already been found to be planning terrorist attacks on our country! Maybe they should stay in their own county and fight for it.

I was told by one government worker that they nearly bankrupted the state’s Medicaid funds. They set up sham “health care” companies and billed for phoney services. They DEMAND Somalian interpreters (to keep their clansmen employed) and then refuse (or pretend not to understand)to learn English. They DEMANDED home health care workers from their own clans, while the rest of America takes who is assigned to them. They refused to interpret for their own grandmothers unless paid to do so.

If hired, they demand to have a place for their prayers and take their prayer breaks on their knees while everybody else works.

In the schools, they demanded the kids have a room for prayers (but nobody else got such privileges). Watch them walk around with half a dozen kids trailing behind them. How long will the American people have to feed these new generations of dependents and when will they finally call a halt to it?

When the women get a job, the men come in to pick up their checks and scream “discrimination” if one refuses to give it to them, not the woman. The men are completely contemptuous to women (white women especially) and will not be told what to do on a job by a woman.

Go to juvenile court halls in Columbus and they are lined up, with problems. Some have figured out how to give their kids custody every two years or so to a tribal member, to circumvent the limitations on government benefits. Anything to milk the system which was designed to serve the tax paying American in an emergency or crisis.

If a man separates from his wife, just try finding him for support. If his employer is served withholding support papers, he will bring in a “brother” who is to receive his paycheck, so his wages can’t be garnished. It is somebody else’s problem (aka American taxpayer) to feed his kids. It was so bad the clerks refuse to assist them in filing these change of custody papers, knowing what is going on.

I think all you feel good christians and jewish liberals should all line up and sign over YOUR paychecks to these Somalii terrorist breeders. They are a cancer upon our land and no friend to us. We would be better off cleaning out Somalia instead of the three wars we are in, and returning them all once we pay to make it “safe” and call it a very very bad learning experience.

Next I’m going to write a post on what you can do because I had another frustrated commenter to my post yesterday about San Diego asking how can anyone stop this.

 

Feds question friends of Columbus, OH Somali on possible terror connections

Update April 6th: More on this story here.

Here we go again—one more story in a long line of stories about possible Somali terror networking and fundraising in the US.

From AP:

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal authorities have been questioning several U.S.-based supporters of an American citizen originally from Somalia who leads a group that advocates for the rights of people living in the northern part of the embattled African country, The Associated Press has learned.

Suleman Ahmed, president of the group known as SSC Somalia, was briefly detained a year ago in Kenya on suspicions of terrorism, and says he believes authorities in Columbus, Ohio, are looking into the same allegations.
“Somebody approached them and told them that I am a terrorist and SSC is a terrorist group,” Ahmed told the AP.

“I think that’s what they’re trying to find out, which is something that does not exist.”

Fred Alverson, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Columbus, declined to comment.

As many as 13,000 Somalis live in the Columbus area, according to the most recent Census data, although Somali community leaders maintain the figure is much higher. The city has the second highest concentration of Somali immigrants in the U.S. after Minneapolis.  [Well, actually San Diego is claiming it has more Somalis, here—ed]

Somalis began arriving in the United States in the early 1990s* after their country — which has not had a functioning government in two decades — disintegrated amid a civil war.

Ahmed, a resident of Columbus for more than a decade, says his organization has only one goal: to protect residents of the region in northern Somalia where his clan lives, and ultimately to seek a functioning, unified Somalia.

These back and forth trips to Somalia are not new to us.  My question is, if Somalia is so dangerous and Somali are seeking refuge here, why keep going back and forth?

Ahmed was last in Somalia in December for about two weeks. In March 2010, he was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, on suspicion of terrorism along with two other men as they tried to board a plane to Somalia. All three were released after a day. Ahmed blamed the arrest on “African politics.”

Federal investigators have been concerned for years about alleged terrorist recruiting in U.S. Somali communities.

Somali women going door-to-door for Somali terror group!

Last year, federal authorities questioned a handful of Somali women in Columbus who raised money door-to-door for health care aid in their native country in a case that tied the money to terrorists.

A federal indictment issued in Minnesota said one Columbus resident — who was not charged and not identified — helped a Minnesota woman raise money for al-Shabab.

Ahmed, US Citizen, father of 9 kids and he ran a home health care business!   Readers should know that along with food stamp fraud, home health care businesses run by immigrants are the second best way to scam the US taxpayer.

Ahmed, 44, came to the United States in 1995 and lived in Phoenix and Minneapolis before moving to Columbus in 1999. He became a citizen in 2001.

He is a married father of nine children who recently sold a home-health care business and now focuses full time on his duties with SSC. He travels throughout the country encouraging people to donate directly to families in the SSC region. Several members of his family still live there.

LOL!  Wait until you see the comment I’m posting next from a reader in Columbus!

* Actually we began bringing Somalis to the US in the 1980’s.   For new readers, a 2008 post in which I compiled all the numbers of Somalis coming to the US each year from the first stats I found beginning in the 1980’s is here.   Almost every day this old post is the top post or one of the top most visited posts at RRW.  You should also know that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement is now hiding the numbers from Congress because they have not submitted a legally required Annual Report to Congress since 2007, here.  We continue to resettle Somalis by the thousands each year.

Murder trial for Ethiopian refugee opens in Virginia

He is charged with brutally murdering his girlfriend and his three-year-old daughter a year ago.  The daughter was nearly decapitated.  I first reported the case last May, here, when authorities called him a “monster” with a long criminal record.

Note that the reporter opens his story referring to the “frail-voiced” killer (good coaching by his lawyers?).   Looks like the mental illness from African trauma defense again.   Only yesterday we had the kid on Staten Island, here.

From the Alexandria Times:

A frail-voiced Simon Bahta pled not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering his 3-year-old daughter and ex-girlfriend Monday at Alexandria’s courthouse.

Alexandria police found 27-year-old Seble Tessema and the former couple’s 3-year-old daughter, Eden, dead in Tessema’s West End apartment on April 11, 2010. Both of their throats were slit and Tessema was stabbed 40 times, authorities said.

Police arrested Bahta, 35, also known as Simon Asfeha, in New York later that month after a national manhunt.

Nearly a year later, the defense’s case rests on Bahta was psychotic at the time of the slayings. Public defender Melinda Douglas used the gruesome crime scene to claim her client’s innocence Monday.

[…..]

Bahta’s lawyers will prove several years of mental illness stemming from his forced conscription into the Ethiopian army as a 14-year-old during the Eritrean-Ethiopian War….

No mention in this story of whether he was a refugee resettled by one of the federal contractors or an asylee who got into the US illegally and then asked for (and was granted) political asylum.  He was one or the other because there is no mention of illegal status.

By the way, the man on trial for murder also used the name Simon Bahta Asfeha, so am not sure why the full name is not being used here.

San Diego Somali translator and truth-teller Ahmed Abdille

The San Diego school district (like all school districts) is trying to find some budget cuts and one they have proposed is to cut a Somali translator’s time from full time to half time.  The reporter for Voice on San Diego sets up an article to play on our sympathies and gives Ahmed Abdille an opportunity to say why his hours shouldn’t be cut.  Reporter Emily Alpert begins with a recitation of his previous difficult life in Africa.

The 55-year-old translator fled Somalia two decades ago, leaving his job as a linguistics lecturer at the University of Somalia to escape warlords and killings in a country roiled by civil war. In a Kenyan refugee camp without running water, he translated off and on for foreign agencies and collected Somali oral poetry before coming to San Diego just before the new millennium.

Alpert goes on to ask Abdille about his job clearly in an effort to help show how unfair this cut is, but I had to chuckle because Mr. Abdille is so honest (and not at all politically correct) that he tells us much about the Somali culture clash that we have come to know so well at RRW and convinces me they should keep him ( but, not because he had a tough life in Africa).

Most Somalis are illiterate:

The documents that come from the central office are intended for someone who can read and write. But most of the Somalis here are illiterate. I have to put it in common language they can understand.

My child does not have a problem:

When a kid has got some kind of disability, most Somalis, when it comes to special education, they see the (assessment) teams coming together — the school psychologist, the nurse, the teacher, the administrator — most of time they say, “No, my child is not sick, they do not have a problem.”

In Somalia, the only responsibility the parent has is to feed the kid:

Some of the parents cannot understand the system and they get very mad. In Somalia, you send the child to the school. So they think that the teacher, when it comes to behavior, when it comes to teaching, every responsibility is on the teacher. So the parents do nothing, except feeding them.

In America the kids have lots of assignments and parents have to come to school:

When they come to this country things are different. They’re being called to meetings, not like in Somalia. The students have got lots of assignments that the parents have to help.

Somali 14 and 15 year olds can’t hold a pen when they get here (yikes, but they end up driving cabs):

The kids when they come to here, some of them they are 15 or 14. They are placed according to their age. They go to high school even though some of them have never been to school. They start in tenth grade with no knowledge of English or the subjects or even how to handle the pen. It is very hard for them to finish high school. Most of them drop out from school. They just end up driving taxis.

The mother can drive (yikes again!), but she is a little emotionally unstable:

I remember a single mother who was living here. Her boy was disabled. Every time when she came to the school, she was shouting and yelling and nobody understood her. She doesn’t speak good English. Nobody could help.

She can cook and drive, but she’s a little emotionally unstable. It was a culture shock for her. She’d say, “You don’t teach my child well.” She believed the school was picking on her child and mistreating him.

The article says there are an estimated 30,000 Somalis in San Diego.  I think Mr. Abdille should keep his full-time job and help keep us all a little safer.

More refugee news from liberated (ha! ha!) Egypt

On the one hand, the UN praises Egypt for its good and welcoming work with Libyan refugees while it closes the UNHCR office for frightened Sudanese migrants desperate to get out of Egypt.   What a mess!

From Almasryalyoum:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has closed its head office in Egypt until further notice due to ongoing protests by Sudanese refugees demanding to be resettled outside Egypt.

The protests started about three weeks ago and escalated until aggressive confrontations between refugees and UNHCR personnel forced the organization to temporarily close the office on Tuesday — a decision not to be taken lightly considering the large number of refugees yet to be registered.

Sudanese refugees assert that Egypt’s revolution has amplified the insecurity and fear of a situation already made tense by refugees’ inability to obtain proper legal working status here, as well as severe racial discrimination.

The UNHCR is responsible for registering refugees in Egypt, and the Egyptian government has agreed to recognize those who have been registered. However, in practice such recognition has remained limited.

Weren’t we all assured the the democracy movement in Egypt was an enlightened movement?

The article goes on to report praise for Egypt by UN High Commissioner for Refugees and socialist Antonio Guterres.   Go figure!

In related news, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees visited Egypt this week and praised Egypt’s handling of the Libyan crisis during a meeting with Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Thursday.

Antonio Guterres said he was grateful that Egypt opened its doors to refugees fleeing the violence in neighbouring Libya.

“This is a new beginning in our relations and for refugee protection in Egypt. I hope the UNHCR will be able to enhance its assistance program, in cooperation with the Egyptian government, and increase the number of resettlement places for refugees staying in Egypt.”

Looks like those Leftists at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights will have a lot of work to do in the new and democratic Egypt when they go to help them “organize” in September!