Category: Europe

Sweden “harassing” Iraqi asylum seekers

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The charge is from an Iraqi “human rights” group of course.   Here is what their spokesman says:

Saying that there were too many foreign asylum seekers in Sweden is not “a good enough reason”…..

According to his logic, no western country can turn off the spigot even as its country is overrun.

From Azzaman:

The Swedish authorities are using coercive and inhumane measures to force Iraqi refugees to leave, an Iraqi human rights group said.

“Swedish behavior towards Iraqi refugees is tough and the (Swedish) authorities are using coercive and inhumane methods to compel them to leave the country,” the Iraqi Human Rights Observatory Group said in a statement.

The group’s remarks come as the Swedish police have been rounding up Iraqis seeking asylum, including children, and sending them home by force.

For the past few years, Sweden has been rejecting most applications by Iraqi refugees for asylum and issuing court orders to have them expelled from the country.

[….]

Saadi, a former chairman of the Iraqi bar, said the Swedish authorities should be prosecuted for their practices against Iraqi refugees.

He called on Sweden to put a halt to its current policy vis-à-vis Iraqi refugees and stop sending them home by force.

Saying that there were too many foreign asylum seekers in Sweden is not “a good enough reason” to deny Iraqi asylum seekers the permit to stay, he added.

Why do they want to go to Sweden in such a big way—-because the “living is easy”.

Remember folks—a country cannot survive mass immigration into a welfare state.  Eventually the country runs out of money.

Type ‘Sweden’ into our search function for dozens more posts on the country being over-run by mostly Muslim “refugees” and illegal aliens.

So what happens when the Muslim immigrant population reaches critical mass?

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Just ask Denmark!   You think it won’t happen here in the US, it will, it’s just a few decades away.

From Soeren Kern writing at the Gatestone Institute (emphasis mine):

Muslim immigrants in a town near Copenhagen have forced the cancellation of traditional Christmas displays this year even while spending lavishly on the Islamic Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan.

The controversy has escalated into an angry nationwide debate over the role of Islam in post-Christian Denmark, where a burgeoning Muslim population is becoming increasingly assertive in imposing its will on a wide range of social and civic issues.

The latest dust-up involves the Egedalsvænget housing complex in Kokkedal, a town situated some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Copenhagen where Arab and Turkish immigrants now comprise more than half the total population.

At a recent meeting of the Egedalsvænget tenants’ association, the Muslim majority on the Board of Directors refused to authorize spending 7,000 Danish kroner ($1,200) for the community’s annual Christmas event.

The vote came shortly after the same Board of Directors authorized spending 60,000 kroner ($10,000) on a large communal celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid. Five out of nine of the board members are Muslims.

Convert Denmark into a Muslim country?  Nah, they need to adapt to Denmark (good luck with that!).

The dispute, which is the latest in an ever-growing list of Muslim-related controversies in Denmark, was first reported by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) on November 7. Since then, the issue has snowballed into a national scandal and has become a key topic for public debate in the Danish media as well as in political circles.

A spokesman for the Danish Conservative Party, Tom Behnke, says he fears there are people who want to convert Denmark into a Muslim country. In an interview with DR News, Behnke said: “I think it is deeply alarming that our integration efforts are so ineffective that the moment there is a Muslim majority, we do away with good-old Danish traditions and introduce Muslim traditions instead. We are living in Denmark, and people have to adapt to the situation that applies here.”  [Sounds about as mealy-mouthed as some American “conservatives.”—ed]

When asked whether housing associations with a Muslim minority should sponsor an Eid party, Behnke replied: “We have to remember that in the past, an Eid festival was the Muslims’ victory celebration after they had slaughtered the Christians, so I don’t know how much there is to celebrate in Denmark. Still, people should be allowed to celebrate whatever festivals they want to, but they also must respect the festivals in the country they have come to.”  [Can you say paper tiger?—ed]

It is worth reading the whole article.  The last section is about the immigrant gangs:

The immigrant gangs are involved in countless criminal activities, including drug trafficking, illegal weapons smuggling, extortion, human trafficking, robbery, prostitution, automobile theft, racketeering and murder.

Many of the gang members are ethnic Arabs, Bosnians, Turks and Somalians. They also include Iraqis, Moroccans, Palestinians and Pakistanis.

I just looked back at our many posts on “welcoming” Denmark—a model country for refugee resettlement.  Note that in 2011, the country took a Left turn and elected leaders who are pro-immigration after the former government had tried to slow the trend, here.  Don’t you wonder why it’s so hard to learn from history?

Germany: Asylum seekers continue to “camp out” at Brandenburg Gate

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We first reported the story here last month.

Now, it’s getting cold and they are still there demanding ‘stuff’ from Germans who aren’t giving them a large enough allowance they say.

From Deutsche Welle:

Frustrated at their treatment at the hands of the German authorities, a group of asylum seekers is protesting in Berlin. They have now been camping for nearly a month in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Asylum-seekers in Germany are entitled to a 134 euros (around $170 USD) allowance per month. [In addition to shelter and food—ed].  They say this isn’t enough. Normally, they are not allowed to leave their refugee accommodation either.

We then learn about Mirsai, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, who doesn’t bother staying in Afghanistan to help fix his own country.  Heck we have Americans dying there to help fix “his” country so why can’t he stay?

When Mirsai first arrived in Germany, he landed at Munich airport. Carrying a fake passport, and was immediately arrested by police.

“Well, I knew it was a risk, it was a big risk. And I knew what would happen,” he told DW. “But I had to do it because I had to save my life and that’s why I tried.”

He came to Germany expecting to learn the language, go to school, and find a job. Instead, he was packed into a home with other asylum-seekers. His allowance is barely enough to get by on. His German is still rudimentary and authorities don’t pay for lessons.

Mirsai went on a week-long hunger strike before setting off to Berlin. He had to be tube fed at a hospital. When he got to Berlin he went on hunger strike again.

I wonder how much his hospital stay cost the German taxpayer?

Reportedly Sweden to deport 20,000 Iraqis in next two months?

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I’m thinking someone added an extra zero to this number or something!   If Sweden has the nerve to do something like that I will be amazed.

The Iraqis say they are used to living in Sweden and couldn’t assimilate back to Iraq?   I think they have just become accustomed getting Swedish stuff*—you know welfare.  Gosh, it’s the same the world over!

From Shafaq News:

 A diplomatic source revealed on Tuesday that Sweden will deport more than 20 thousand Iraqi refugees to Iraq during the next two months while warned from the lack of a good social environment for their stay in Iraq.

The source, who asked not to be named, said in an interview with “Shafaq News”, that “Sweden intends to return more than 20 thousand Iraqi refugees in the next two months which warns from the presence of a disaster in the lack of a social environment for their stay in Iraq.”

Can’t assimilate back in Iraq!

The source explained that “the Iraqi refugees in Sweden were accustomed to live in a complete different environment than Iraqi environment which makes their integration process in the Iraqi society very difficult.”

* I am assuming these are mostly Muslim Kurds, but they could be sending Christians back too for all I know and that would be a different story because Christians are being persecuted still in Iraq.

Readers:  This is our 540th post in our Iraqi refugee category, here.

Holland: Iraqi illegal aliens refuse to leave

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They say they will be killed because they are not Shiites.   But, when Obama took us out of Iraq he told us everything was fine there—new government, no more religious warfare—what gives?

Sure looks like the same sort of camp “refugees” have set up in Germany demanding to be taken care of, here.  (Probably a coordinated protest across Europe.)

From the BBC (and by the way, no mention of women/children or Christians in the camp, probably Sunni young men or the reporter would have highlighted the women):

In The Hague dozens of Iraqi refugees have set up camp together, jointly resisting the government that wants to send them home.

A medley of tents are pitched across the neatly manicured Dutch grass, their khaki shades mixing with the fallen leaves from an overhanging lime tree to create an impromptu seasonal collage.

It is still early when we arrive at the camp, near the central station in The Hague, the administrative centre of the Netherlands.

“Terrorists will shoot them,” they say, but most of the “terrorists” in Iraq were/are Sunni Muslims?

The campers – about 60 of them – are living on borrowed time. Their visas have expired. They are now illegal residents, littering the landscape in an act of defiance, refusing to disappear quietly back to Baghdad.

“If I go back I will be dead,” says Ajid.

He has just woken up, but already his arms are outstretched, hands grasping at the air, imploring us to understand. “I know 100% if I go back to Baghdad I will be killed, they will shoot me.”

Who will shoot you? “The terrorists, I phone home and no-one knows where my family are, they say my street is kaput, broken. If you are Christian or [Sunni] Muslim you cannot live in Baghdad.”

The Netherlands does not send everyone back, each “asylum seeker” is reviewed individually.

According to the latest figures, 40-45% of Iraqi asylum claims in the Netherlands were approved.

The Dutch “rightwing” believes Holland will be Greece if they are allowed to stay.  

The BBC story continues:

Some warn that allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the Netherlands will provoke a social crisis.

“You see what happened in Greece, with Golden Dawn? That will happen here,” says right-wing commentator Geert Tomlow.

He is referring to the Greek neo-Nazi party that is seeing a surge of support and which has been accused of violence against immigrants.

The threat of far-right street violence seems at odds with the Netherlands’ reputation as a liberal nation.

“You don’t believe it? Look at what happened with the Nazis – we collaborated,” says Mr Tomlow. “If the government doesn’t do something about this ‘Catch 22’ position, then people will take things into their own hands.

“We see the economy getting worse and we can’t afford to pay for these illegal people anymore, otherwise we suffer.”

Be sure to watch the accompanying film and note the excellent English the main spokesman uses to describe their ‘plight’ to the credulous reporterette!   Maybe she might have asked, have any of you committed crimes here in Holland?  Were you involved in any militia activity back in Iraq?  Are you members of Al-Qaeda?  Stuff like that!