Just one more reason to slow the flow of so-called asylum seekers into Australia. Are they there for a better life, or just to rest and propagate before heading off to some Muslim war zone?
From the Sydney Daily Telegraph (attempting to not sound Islamophobic in the opening paragraph):
SUCCESSIVE waves of immigrants to Australia largely abandoned disputes in their homelands after reaching our shores. Indeed, many immigrants from Europe, Asia and elsewhere specifically came to Australia so that they could escape violence and conflict.
Unfortunately, this inclination to leave troubles behind is not universal. Australia’s Muslim community features a small but troubling minority who actively seek out opportunities to take up arms. It is estimated that more than 100 Australian Muslims, many from NSW, have so far travelled to Syria and joined in the civil war.
Mother of four arrested on terrorism charges taken to police station where Islamic demonstrators rallied for her release.
Another reminder of local links to the Syrian war came on the weekend with the arrest of a young woman at Sydney International Airport. The 29-year-old, who allegedly was caught attempting to ferry cash and equipment to her husband in Syria, was charged with supporting incursions into a foreign state with the intention of engaging in hostile activities.
These developments are deeply worrying on a number of levels. It is bad enough that Australian citizens are joining, in relatively large numbers, a foreign conflict. Worse still is that they are becoming members of radical Islamic groups, whose extreme doctrines of hatred and intolerance therefore gain a greater hold within Australia’s Muslim community.
They will be baaacck! with their newly-acquired jihadist skills!
There is a much more detailed story here at News.com.auwhich is also where the photo and protest report was found.
See our Australia categoryfor all of our posts especially recent ones where the Abbott government has taken serious steps to stem the tide of illegal boat people.
Then why did they need a large mosque/school complex, and who was paying for it?
We wrote a post here in February where we quoted a blogger who estimated the Somali population in St. Cloud at 25,000!
Somali ‘patriots’ in St. Cloud, Minnesota!
Now some economists at St. Cloud State University say that number is way off—that the population is much much smaller.
So, if the economists are correct, it begs the question—-why do the Somalis need the expensive mosque complex that roiled the city in controversy here last fall, for so few people who surely couldn’t have the millions of dollars needed to build such a massive project?
ST. CLOUD – Two economists at St. Cloud State University released a study on immigration in St. Cloud on Friday, with a focus on immigrants from Eastern Africa.
The School of Public Affairs Research Institute released the “St. Cloud Immigration Fact Sheet”. The report was written by King Banaian, the director of the institute and economics professor, and Monica Garcia-Perez, assistant professor of economics and member of the Faculty Research Group on Immigration in Minnesota. The study reviews U.S. Census data and records from human service officials in Stearns County.
The report shows that 4,484 foreign-born individuals live in the City of St. Cloud, 6.8 percent of its estimated population.
Ethiopia was the birthplace of 195 of those in the city, compared to 469 from Kenya and 888 from “other Eastern Africa” which includes Somalia.
Now this next paragraph indicates there is a rapid increase in refugee numbers in the county as a whole coinciding with the opening of Lutheran Social Services office there:
Separate information from Stearns County as a whole showed that 2,532 individuals receiving some human services spoke an east African language. That’s an increase from 1,243 people from 2010.
Banaian says there are many claims made in St. Cloud about the size of the East Africa immigrant population, but that most of the numbers in this study indicated otherwise.
“We read several stories in the press that had officials and citizens saying there were more than 10,000 Somali immigrants in the St. Cloud area,” Banaian says, “The data does’t support that claim and we felt it important to call attention to what the official data said.”
Dr. Luke Tripp a community organizer/agitator a’la Saul Alinsky/Obama!
Dr. Luke Tripp race baiter and Somali community agitator!
While researching this post I came across an opinion piece by Dr. Luke Tripp also from St. Cloud State.
I wrote about Tripp here in 2010when it was clear he was politically organizing the Somalis and wanted to be sure to run Rep. Michele Bachmann out of office.
In his (October 2013) screed supporting the Somali Islamic Center he says opposition to the Mosque complex (it was to have residential housing and stores in addition to a school and mosque) was all about “white Christian hegemony.”
Opposition to the project demonstrated ‘deep-seated American racism!’ blah! blah! blah! said Tripp:
The city officials should enthusiastically support the proposal for the Islamic Center of St. Cloud. It will empower the Somali community to provide its members with social, economic, and psychological assets to support their integration into the city. By providing youth services and supporting families seeking guidance for solving problems, the center would serve as an agent to spawn solutions to pressing social needs.
It can also help dismantle racism in the city. The reality of the growing Somali population and the accompanying racial tensions will eventually compel some accommodation. However, without progressive political leadership, racial tensions will continue to fester, thus undermining the vision of a vibrant multicultural city. Will the city officials work to change the image of the city from “White Cloud” to “Rainbow Community?”
The White Council member’s opposition to the Islamic Center was strong and rigid. They and some White residents contended that the project would cause parking problems, traffic congestion, and lower property values. They were also critical of the size and location of the proposed Islamic Center of St. Cloud; the project is too large for the site.
Their argument was used to obscure, confuse and mislead the public. And it worked to a great extent because the predicted impact of the project on the area seemed reasonable. Thus their concerns seemed legitimate and unbiased. But their underlying opposition to the project reflects the deep-seated racism endemic to U.S. society.
See our complete archive on St. Cloud by clicking here. We have been following the city’s troubles ever since some Somali ‘kids’ tormented a fellow student’s service dog here in 2008.
For readers who may have been in Outer Mongolia over the last couple of weeks, go here for backgroundon the Somali teen who survived a flight to Hawaii in the wheel well of a passenger jet.
No mention of whether he will be charged with any crime while exposing a major hole in airport security. Imagine! while you are taking off your shoes and being patted down before boarding a plane, a Muslim kid is climbing into a wheel well out on the tarmac!
The teen stowaway who survived a trip to Hawaii returned to California Saturday, but it was unclear where he was taken.
The 15-year-old may not immediately return to his Santa Clara home.
The San Jose Mercury News reported the teen was in the custody of Santa Clara County’s Department of Family and Children’s Services.
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The boy’s father reportedly flew to Hawaii earlier in the week in an attempt to bring his son home, but was denied any contact with him.
Relatives declined to comment about the situation at the family’s Santa Clara home. The ordeal has exposed how the Somali born teen had a hard time adjusting to life in America.
Still scratching our heads about why CAIR got involvedin the first place!
The Council of American and Islamic Relations had been speaking on behalf of the family, but on Saturday said they had no comment.
Any bets on how soon he is back ‘home’ with Dad and wicked (as described by relatives) step-mom?
Of course the sensible and humane thing to do is to send him back to Africa to join his real Mom.
This is a follow-up to the story we posted here about Christian Mbemba Ibanda who refused to obey county health officials when they told him he must stay home in order to keep from spreading Tuberculosis to one and all.
‘Pungentpeppers’ has been following the case.
Christian Mbemba Ibanda
First, he had to be put in jail for disobeying the court order to stay in his apartment. Yesterday, we learned, he was released.
We don’t know Ibanda’s immigration status, but if I were to make a wild guess, I think he may be a refugee possibly from the Congo. Remember in June of last year Asst. Secretary of State for PRM, Ann Richard, said 50,000 Congolese ‘refugees’ would soon be on their way to America.
‘PP’ noted that according to his facebook page, he speaks French. If any readers in Illinois know through which (presumably legal) immigration program he entered the US, let us know!
MONTICELLO — A Champaign tuberculosis patient under a court order to stay home is in jail in Piatt County.
Christian Mbemba Ibanda, 24, of 100 Kenwood Road, C, has been under a Champaign County court order since April 11 to remain confined to his apartment to keep from infecting others with his disease, and a petition for indirect criminal contempt of court for failing to follow court orders was filed against him Thursday.
Deputies arrested Ibanda at his apartment Thursday. At a hearing held at the Piatt County Jail Tuesday with his lawyer present, he denied the allegations. A hearing on the petition has been scheduled for May 5 before Champaign County Associate Judge Chase Leonhard.
Ibanda is incarcerated in Piatt County because its jail has a negative pressure room that doesn’t share the air with other people, according to Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh. Champaign County is paying $50 a day plus medical costs to keep Ibanda in that jail, he said.
Health officials begged him to stay home and keep the quarantine sign on his door. He did neither.
Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde said the court order wasn’t disobeyed just once. Ibanda was being monitored with an electronic ankle bracelet that alerted authorities if he left his home, and he got numerous warnings, she said.
“He was just like running around,” Pryde said. “I went and talked to him and said, ‘Seriously, please stay in your apartment, keep the sign on the door. Take the medicine. This is not that hard, or you risk going to jail. This is a court order.'”
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The health district sought the court order initially because Ibanda wouldn’t cooperate with home isolation while he was considered able to infect others, and the order to keep him home was issued without Ibanda present when he didn’t appear for a scheduled hearing.
Update yesterday, no longer testing positive for active TB, he was released, but must take meds for seven more months under the watchful eye of a health worker ($$$).
I continue to be amazed that stories like this one never break out of the local media to make it to the national news.
For more on medical problems brought to America by refugees and immigrants generally, check out our ‘health issues’ category, here. The foreign-born represent most US TB cases, here.
Oh brother! We haveSweden literally destroying itselfwith its wide open borders and these Syrian young men are whining about their miserable lives there.
One of Sweden’s Syrian refugees—how would you like some like him in your home town? A “young professional” for Casper or Gillette Wyoming perhaps? Photograph: Matilde Gattoni
From The Guardian—cold comfort indeed. (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’ who pretty much wrote this post!):
Salah Debas, 23 struggled to arrive in Sweden (smuggled in the luggage hold of a bus), but complains how unhappy he is in Sweden now that he’s there:
“I feel I am just throwing away another year of my life.“Here, on a farm-turned-residential-complex for asylum-seekers, Debas clearly struggles to adapt. “I feel like shit,” he says. “Life here is just pressure, pressure and more pressure.”
There are no jobs for Syrian young men:
The majority of those who make it [to Sweden] are young single men, whose main goal is to quickly find a job and send money to their families back in Syria. This massive movement of people has created a severe housing backlog, forcing Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish government’s employment agency (which also assists recent arrivals in finding accommodation and subsidises their rent) to allocate newcomers to remote and isolated villages in the north. Conditions here are tough and work hard to come by.
Big cultural differences between Europe and Syria. (Warning for Wyoming, you want “young professionals”? Don’t look to get them from Syria.):
Many of the young Syrians who arrive here are successful professionals – architects, academics and businessmen – who held a prominent place in Syrian society and, unlike economic migrants, would not have left their country if it wasn’t for the war. “They had a very good position in Syria and they want the same position here. But they will not get it,” explains Elias Kasgawa, a 47-year-old Syrian from Hassake who has lived in Sweden since 1970. Sweden and Syria are worlds apart in terms of food, weather, political systems, gender relationships and the way society is organised. “Syrians are raised in a more hierarchical way. You always have a leader figure, your parents, your relatives or your teacher,” continues Kasgawa, who lives with his family in Sweden and works as in hotel construction. “In Sweden, you don’t have many guidelines. You must develop yourself.”
Bleak outlook:
After an adventurous trip through Greece and Italy that lasted more than a month and cost him around €16,000, Giwara finally settled in Helsingborg, where he now shares a hostel with 10 other immigrants. “We have only one kitchen and one bathroom. Some of these guys have stayed in this place for 15 years,” he says. His face leaves no doubt that he fears the same fate.
‘Pungentpeppers’ directs us to a commenter at The Guardian who said this:
C’mon its not enough to simply give them a free wage, shelter, healthcare, education and citizenship. Sweden has to give them private bathrooms and kitchens in Stockholm and fulfill their career dreams.
Editor’ comment: Here is what I don’t get about these men—why the h*** didn’t they just stay in Syria and fight for whichever side they believe in in their civil war? Someone used a phrase to me the other day in regards to the State Department not holding hearings this year, and I shouldn’t really repeat it in light of my admonition to commenters about foul language. But, this makes one want to swear—these men are “chickens***s!”
We have a huge archive on Sweden (click here). My bet is on Sweden to be the first European country to crash from the immigrant invasion of Europe. Others have their money riding on the UK or France.
