Category: Africa

Egyptian who converted to Christianity can’t get into the US

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Here is one guy who does deserve a visa to get into the US.  He converted from Islam to Christianity years ago and thought when the recent Egyptian “revolution” occurred he would be free to escape the Muslim “prison” he and his daughter had lived in for years.

He got out of Egypt but only as far as Syria.  Now the US (where his wife lives!) won’t let him in.  All the while, and every day, the US admits Muslim refugees from all over the world, but we don’t let this Christian refugee in—it is maddening!

From Compass Direct News:

CAIRO, Egypt, March 21 (CDN) — When the plane carrying Maher El-Gohary and his daughter, Dina Mo’otahssem, took off from Cairo International Airport last month, they both wept with joy. After spending two-and-a-half years in hiding for leaving Islam to become Christians, they were elated by their newfound freedom.

They also felt secure that once they arrived in Syria, they would quickly obtain visas to the United States and start a new life. That hope soon proved unfounded.

After spending more than a week and a half unable to obtain a visa to the United States or to any country in Europe, they realized they may have traded in the reality of being prisoners in their own country for being refugees in another. And as El-Gohary watches the weeks pass and his resources dwindle, he said the stress is almost unbearable.

Read it all.

More measles in Minnesota; baby brought it from Kenya

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This is an update on the Minnesota measles story I posted the other day.  Number is increasing.

From Fairwarning:

Seven children in Minnesota have come down with measles since February in an outbreak that public health officials are blaming, in part, on parents’ fears about having their youngsters vaccinated for the disease.

The seven children with measles have ranged in age from 7 months to four years, and they include two Somali children who had not been given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Officials said the vaccination rate has dropped in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, largely because of concerns about a possible link between the vaccine and autism.

One doctor estimates that as many as 70 percent of the Somalis he knows have not given their children the vaccine. “Every family will tell you that, ‘We’re not going to give our children the MMR. We’re afraid that they’re going to get autism,’” Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed told Minnesota Public Radio.

State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield said that before the current outbreak, there had been only six measles cases in Minnesota over the previous five years. Investigators have traced the outbreak to an infant who traveled to Kenya and returned home in the beginning of February.

Nationally, as the Associated Press reports, the most recent federal figures show only 140 reported cases of measles across the country in 2008. Worldwide, however, the disease strikes nearly 10 million people, and kills 200,000, annually.

I thought the refugee resettlement agencies were supposed to make sure Somali kids got vaccinated.

Two Somalis dropped from sex-trafficking case

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I guess this is going to be Somali news round-up Saturday.   I just told you about Somali kids not being vaccinated in Minneapolis and this is news from Nashville updating that huge Somali sex trafficking case we first reported here.

Two have been dropped from the case not because they have been exonerated, but because they can’t be found.  One is believed to have skipped the country.

From the City Paper in Nashville:

The government has dropped the names of two defendants from a case of alleged juvenile sex trafficking so that the case may move forward.

U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. signed an order Friday severing Abdikarim Osman Ali and Abdigadir Ahmed Khalif from the list of 29 individuals indicted last fall on a variety of charges including juvenile sex trafficking, credit card fraud and obstruction of justice involving members and associates of three Somali gangs.

Last November, law enforcement officials arrested two dozen suspects allegedly involved in the sex trafficking ring with connections between Nashville and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Van Vincent, the order granting a motion states that Ali and Khalif were removed from the indictment “to avoid necessary delay as these defendants have not been apprehended.”

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.