Category: Africa

The Times of Malta editorial tip-toe!

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Oh my gosh, faced with the possibility of tens of thousands of fleeing North Africans coming ashore on the Mediterranean Island country of Malta—a big problem before the “democracy” revolutions began—an editorial in the Times of Malta goes on for paragraphs about the humanitarian problems (costs etc.) before it gets to several squishy paragraphs that tip-toe around the real problem.   How do you sort out “deserving” refugees from criminals and terrorists?  You ask them!

“….the nature of certain claims could be very delicate!”

Many of those fleeing Libya are likely to be asylum seekers. But there may also be many other nationalities who are in Libya but do not want to return to their own country fearing persecution. The UNHCR says it registered over 8,000 refugees in Libya, mainly from Palestine, Sudan, Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia and Chad. However, the number might be much higher.

In such circumstances, the Office of the Refugee Commissioner in Malta needs to be sufficiently resourced [gobs of money on hand–ed] and prepared. Not only because it might once again be faced with a huge wave of asylum seekers but also because the nature of certain claims could be very delicate and would require top interviewing, credibility analysis and refugee status determination skills.

“Top interviewing!”   What on earth are you going to ask a bunch of guys in boats from Libya or Tunisia with no papers, escaping countries with no government to speak of, ‘hey, Muslim 20-year-old, any criminal record?’  How many do you think will answer in the affirmative?

Here is a good one, someone is going to have to determine if the would-be asylee or refugee has been “found guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” Or, how about “crimes against peace?”   Do we really think they will have their criminal or terrorism dossiers on the boat.   Read it, I am not making this up.

Malta’s refugee status determination legislation, which reflects international and EU requirements and practice, lays down that an applicant is excluded from being a refugee where there are serious reasons for considering s/ he has committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity, as defined in the international instruments drawn up to make provision in respect of such crimes. Moreover, exclusion could also be considered because of the commission of a serious non-political crime outside the country of refuge prior to one’s admission as a refugee or because of being found guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

So, to Maltese citizens and tourists, are your minds now at rest?   The would-be refugees will be asked if they are peaceful and have only peaceful intentions, and I guess you will have to take their word for it.

It needs to be ensured that international protection is there only for those who really deserve it. This is necessary to put people’s mind at rest, whether locals or tourists.

I’ll bet the US State Department and Ambassador Kmiec (Republican for Obama) are salivating at the prospect of scooping up more illegal aliens from Malta and resettling them in your neighborhood as they have been doing for years now!

Egypt: more myths exploding about the glorious “democracy” movement

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The other day I reported on an opinion piece where the author asserts that the reason we aren’t hearing much about Egypt and its new and wonderful democracy (under military rule) is because what is happening in Egypt goes against the Far Left media image we have been led to believe.  See my post on the rape of Lara Logan here.   Now see the news about 4000 Muslims attacking a Christian village 30 kilometers from Cairo.  Hat tip: Jerry Gordon

From the Assyrian International News Agency:

(AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons who were at church; some say they died in the fire and some say they are being held captive by the Muslims inside the church.

Witnesses report the mob prevented the fire brigade from entering the village. The army, which has been stationed for the last two days in the village of Bromil, 7 kilometers from Soul, initially refused to go into Soul, according to the officer in charge. When the army finally sent three tanks to the village, Muslim elders sent them away, saying that everything was “in order now.”

This is what Shariah Law looks like:

This incident was triggered by a relationship between 40-year-old Copt Ashraf Iskander and a Muslim woman. Yesterday a “reconciliation” meeting was arranged between the relevant Coptic and Muslim families and together with the Muslim elders it was decided that Ashraf Iskander would have to leave the village because Muslims torched his house.

The father of the Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he did not kill his daughter to preserve the family’s honor, which led the woman’s brother to avenge the death of his father by killing the cousin. The village Muslims blamed the Christians.

Shame on the Organizer’s Forum (Wade Rathke and Drummond Pike) with Casa de Maryland and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights for having anything to do with bringing on the Revolution in Africa and thinking they can help build a workers utopia in tandem with the Muslim Brotherhood—bunch of naive socialists and Marxists who don’t have a clue about the Pandora’s box they have opened.

Why aren’t we hearing much about Egypt…

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…..because as this author suggests, the rape of Lara Logan, in one brutal moment, exposed the great lie that we are all the same the world over, hungering for freedom and across cultures have only lofty human aspirations.  (Hat tip: Paul)

From Taki’s Magazine:

So Egypt is over. Oh, we’ll hear snippets and see some snapshots, but make no mistake, Egypt is over.

[…..]

…..the real reason Egypt is finished in the media is a single white female.

If you have not heard, CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan was gang-raped by 200 or so Egyptian men in the moments following Mubarak’s abdication. They were celebrating, you see.

But to read the inevitable after-effect of media censorship over the past several days she was not raped, she was “sexually assaulted,” which soon became simply “assaulted.” Given enough revisions, one wonders whether she will have merely been insulted.

What does this nearly unimaginable bestiality have to do with the cessation of reporting from or about Egypt? Everything.

Because, you recall, we are all the same. All races are the same. All cultures are the same. All civilizations are the same. All people everywhere, over the Earth’s disparate spaces, evolved in exactly the same way over millions and billions of years to render us, all of us, identically developed at this same moment in history. Astounding, isn’t it?

Read it all!  And, have you noticed too that we don’t hear a peep anymore from the old media about the great democracy movement in Egypt.

Update: Not much interest in Egypt for bringing justice for Logan, here.

 

Egyptians want to go home, but no government to take care of them

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This is one of the dozens of stories about “refugees” in North Africa at the  moment.  In this case its about Egyptians trapped in Libya or stranded in Tunisia who want to go home to Egypt.  But, guess what, there is no functioning government there thanks to American Leftists (friends of Soros) and union “leaders” who helped bring on the glorious Egyptian “democracy” revolution only a few weeks ago.

From the International Business Times:

The overwhelming flow of humanity – many of them Egyptians with no way to get home – is creating a humanitarian crisis, according to aid workers. Tunisian authorities are unable to cope with the sudden huge influx of people.

[….]

More than 20,000 Egyptians are now stranded in Tunisia, a refugee official of the United Nations told the BBC with a desperate need for food, water and shelter.

BBC reported that some Egyptian refugees were chanting: “We want to go home.”

All the people here are demonstrating because they want to go to Egypt,” an Egyptian refugee was quoted as saying. “All countries are sending aircraft to rescue their people – Turkey, Korea, India, Bangladesh – everyone is arriving and leaving except for Egyptians.”

Where is the Egyptian government?

“Where is the Egyptian government? Where is the Egyptian army? Where is the Egyptian ambassador?” one refugee at the border told AFP.

Where indeed?

A reminder to readers, two prominent US immigrant and refugee rights organizations, CASA de Maryland and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights are both up to their necks in the Egypt mess because of their involvement with the Organizer’s Forum which helped bring on the revolution in the first place.  Check out the Organizer’s Forum board, here.

US Banks not cooperating with Somali money transfers

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If only it were so!   But, I find this story in a Somali publication hard to believe.   These money transfer operations are the backbone of Somali enterprise in the US (you don’t really think those little mom and pop trinket shops and eateries can survive otherwise do you?).

From the Suna Times:

Minnesota (Sunatimes) Somali money transfer companies (Hawala) in the United States of America are complaining that the US banks do not want to cooperate with them.

A year ago, the banks refused to accept money from the companies who help Somalis living in America to transfer their money to Somalia and else where around the world.

The US banks were worried that the huge sums of money deposited by the companies better known as “Hawala” would risk US’ security.

In 2009, some members of the Somali community living in the US were accused of sending money through those companies to Somali insurgent group, Al-shabab militia which the US believes is linked to Al-Qaida network.

Abdiaziz Mohamed, who is the manager of Tawakal Hawala in Ohio region said although the banks do not want to associate with them, they will do all that they can to convince them to accept their deposits.