Category: Africa

More tension in Lewiston, ME

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This is a story I had seen before Thanksgiving but never did get time until today to post.  From the Sun Journal, “Mosque Parking Raises Heat at Meeting:”

LEWISTON — Councilors asked Bartlett Street neighbors to talk to each other, hoping to head off bigger problems smoldering between members of a mosque and nearby property owners.

Former City Councilor Denis Theriault, owner of two buildings on the west side of Bartlett Street, just north of Adams Avenue, told councilors he shouldn’t have to work so hard defending his property.

“This happens all the time. These are a confrontational people,” Theriault said. “I’m tired. I don’t think I should have to spend my nights playing policeman protecting my property, and neither should my son.”

He outlined problems he and neighbor Elmer Berry have with the mosque, located across from him at 256 Bartlett St. and used by Lewiston’s Somali Bantu residents, over two hours Tuesday night at a City Council workshop.

Theriault alleged members of the mosque have regularly parked on his property, taking spaces from his tenants, since the mosque opened last year. When he complained, they escalated. They’ve used their cars to block his driveways, left trash behind, thrown rocks onto his property and destroyed his first “No Trespassing” sign.

He responded by putting up a sturdier sign and taking pictures to document what he saw.

They responded, he said, by verbally threatening him. But Theriault, who carries a concealed handgun, said he will not be threatened.

Readers this is only the latest story about the clash of cultures going on in Lewiston, Maine ever since thousands of Somalis picked the rural small city for their secondary migration destination having been originally settled near Atlanta, GA.  We have written dozens of posts on Lewiston over the years, but here is one to get you started.  You will note in the comments, the “pingbacks” will direct you to more posts on the subject.  Also, use our search function for Lewiston.  I regret not having created a whole category just on Lewiston, but who knew!

White South Africans can still apply for asylum in Canada

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That is apparently the message sent by the judge in the Huntley case.  Although Huntley’s claim was turned down, Eyewitness News from S. Africa (the Rainbow Nation) is reporting the decision actually confirms that whites are eligible for refugee status.  (Emphasis mine)

A Canadian judge, who overturned an immigration ruling to grant a South African man refugee status, said other South Africans may qualify.

Former Capetonian Brandon Huntley had earlier been granted refugee status, claiming the South African government was not doing enough to protect white citizens from violent crime by blacks.

Last week, Judge James Russell said he was not convinced of Huntley’s case, and that it appeared he had gone to Canada looking for a job.

However, the judge added that this does not mean that other South Africans could not apply.

Huntley’s lawyer, Russell Kaplan said the judge’s ruling opened rather than closed the door.

“Justice Russell clearly opened the door to other white South Africans who may feel that they are at risk in South Africa on account of their skin colour,” he said.

This must drive the Leftist gang at the UN a little crazy.

Oregon Christmas tree bomber was a refugee

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I’ve had several inquiries from readers about whether the alleged Oregon Christmas tree bomber came to the US through the US State Department’s refugee resettlement program.  According to several reports it sure looked like it.   Now, thanks to Brenda Walker who pointed to a few paragraphs in a New York Times story, we have confirmation that, yes, his family came to the US as refugees making Mr. Mohamud the first refugee accused terrorist in the US.   (I’m leaving out all those Somali refugees who returned to Africa for jihad training, but have not yet returned to use their new skills, or were arrested before they attempted a terrorist attack).

From the New York Times:

Mr. Mohamud, his younger sister and their parents had long lived in the Portland area, including in Beaverton, a suburb that has a small Somali population.

Mr. Mohamud’s family fled Somalia in the early 1990s, and his father, Osman Barre, a well-educated engineer, worked to establish them in Oregon.

“Osman was very sophisticated,” said Chris Oace, a former refugee worker for Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon who helped the family resettle here in the early 1990s. “Some refugees are afraid of having Christian churches help them. But it wasn’t an issue with his family at all.”

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon is a refugee resettlement agency most likely affiliated (subcontractor) with Church World Service (one of eleven federal contractors)*.   They (EMO and CWS) also do “social justice advocacy” which means lobbying for far left (socialist) causes.  And be sure to check out EMO’s most recent annual report, here, and note that more than half of their funding comes from you—the taxpayer.

Read the whole NYT story to learn how troubled and “confused” the alleged bomb plotter (who didn’t mind killing kids) was.  For our previous posts on this case go here.

* New readers probably thought that these “church groups” resettling refugees were doing it out of pure charitable impulses with private money from parishioners.  Not so!  The so-called volags (short for voluntary agencies) are federal contractors and could not survive without the bulk of their funding coming from the taxpayer.  The top eleven contractors (grants and contracts) subcontract to three hundred or so “affiliates” making tracking your tax dollars virtually impossible.  It is my view that this extensive funding of Far Leftwing “non-profits” is how more and more power has passed out of the hands of the taxpaying voting citizenry.

An afterthought:  This sure put the Somali Sex trafficker story on the back burner!

And one more thing! The largest number of Somalis entering the US came in the Bush years (post 9/11!) of 2004, 2005 and 2006, see here.

Somali teen wanted a spectacular show at a Christmas event, Omar Jamal spins the story

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Alleged “teen” bomber said he didn’t mind killing kids either.  Here is more on the radicalized Muslim Somali we heard about yesterday.  AP has a lot more details, and I am sure there are even more details available today.  However, this article made me laugh for one reason (yes, I know its a terrible situation that could have been very tragic)!  I’m laughing that once again the mainstream media turns to our old buddy, previously convicted of immigration fraud, Omar Jamal (the Somali Jesse Jackson, I call him) for a quote.

Do you reporters have no one else who will speak for the so-called “Somali community” than Jamal?

Every time over the last couple of years whenever a Somali gets into trouble with the law, Omar Jamal dashes on to the scene to spin the story that the “community” is upset, that the perpetrator doesn’t represent the “community,” that the perp was just a “kid.”   And, he ALWAYS contacts the family of the kid so he sounds authoritative to the gullible reporters!   I’m beginning to think that the authorities (FBI?) must give out his name to reporters—hey, reporter, call up Jamal, he will give you a politically correct quote!

I am too lazy to link every post on Jamal but use our search function for him and you will see what I mean.  Most recently I wrote about him here early this month when he was busy spinning the Somali sex trafficking bust story.

Here then is Jamal in this AP story:

In August, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment naming 14 people accused of being a deadly pipeline routing money and fighters from the U.S. to al-Shabab, an al-Qaida affiliated group in Mohamud’s native Somalia.

Officials have been working with Muslim community leaders across the United States, particularly in Somali diasporas in Minnesota, trying to combat the radicalization.

On Saturday, Omar Jamal, first secretary to the Somali mission to the United Nation and an advocate for Somalis in Minnesota, said Mohamud has a stepmother in Minneapolis. [LOL! Jamal knows some distant step-mother, its probably one of the “teen’s” father’s other wives—ed]  He condemned the plot and urged Somalis to cooperate with police and the FBI.

Jamal said he had spoken to two Somalis who knew Mohamud, and he was described as religious, quiet and innocent. Jamal said Mohamud is from southern Somalia.

“Everybody’s afraid, really really afraid,” Jamal said of members of Oregon’s Somali communities and elsewhere. “They’re afraid of, first of all, the label. The allegation is very serious …”

Guess what Jamal?  We are the ones who should be afraid.  If Somalis are afraid they better get their acts together and get the “kids” under control!

For New Readers! This story is bringing new readers to RRW in droves, so it’s important that you know some of the background of where all the Somalis are coming from—-the US State Department brings in thousands every year as refugees.  Groups like Catholic Charities, the Hebrew Immigrant Aide Society, Church World Service and World Relief (among others) are paid with your tax dollars to resettle them in your towns.

We have admitted well over 100,000 Somali refugees to the US.   To check out the numbers visit this post, one of our most widely read posts over the last few years.   In FY2010 which ended September 30th the US State Department resettled 4,884 Somalis (here) to towns near you.  The “teen” would-be bomber in Oregon was one of the refugees.

Also, after being closed for nearly two years, the US State Department is on the verge of resuming the fraud-ridden family reunification program that admitted as many as 36,000 Somalis fraudulently to the US between 2003 and 2008.  See the latest on new regulations, here.  The State Department is on the verge of re-opening the program.

Somali terrorists hiding in refugee camps in Yemen

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No! You are kidding me!

From the UK Telegraph:

Militants from war-torn Somalia are using refugee routes into Yemen as a cover for making contact with an al-Qaeda group responsible for a series of plots against the West.

Yemeni officials have claimed that members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group have been arrested in refugee camps for Somalis. The government fears that refugee camps such as Al-Kharaz, which now houses 18,000 out of an estimated 2-300,000 Somali refugees in Yemen, could become recruiting grounds for radicals.

Yemen: no automatic refugee status!

The Yemeni government says it is to make it harder for refugees to claim asylum as a way to cut the links. It is considering a proposal to remove automatic refugee status to all Somali arrivals and then seek international support for repatriating those not granted asylum. The move is opposed by aid workers, who say there is little evidence to back the claims. The UN, which runs Al-Kharaz and another camp in Aden, said it had received no approach from the government over the change of rules.