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Comment worth noting: Reader from Malta says betrayal must be exposed

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This morning in response to my post on Malta a few hours ago a reader from Malta has sent us further information that I think is so important it shouldn’t be lost in the comments section of that post.

From Charles Sammut:

Please allow me to make a few observations about this article.

Libya is not the terrorist hellhole it is made out to be for the sake of political expediency. It might have been in the past, but is now busily tapping the tourism market and is a perfectly safe place to visit, probably more so that certain areas of the USA.

Some of these illegal immigrants have been in Libya for many years, even 10 years, working and earning a decent wage to save money to get their whole family to Zuwarah (a port in north western Libya) and pay for the boat trip to Malta or Italy. This has now stopped thanks to Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi and his interior minister, Maroni. Boats are turned back to Libya, no ifs and no buts. Libyan coast guard vessels also carry Italian military personnel on board.

The traitorous US ambassador, Kmiec is back in Malta. He was responsible for the death of both his passengers.The nun died on the spot and the 94 year old Monsignor died after 3 weeks (here).

Like his predecessor,Molly Bordinaro, this character, Kmiec, has a soft spot for African illegal immigrants. Molly even sent that Congolese criminal rapper Akon in the ambassador’s official Mercedes limousine to entertain the illegal immigrants (here). Good to know how your tax money is being spent.

Kmiec is busy relocating Somalis to the USA. I mean, with people like this, who needs Al Qaeda?

The Jesuit Refugee Service in Malta receives hundreds of thousands of tax free Euros from the EU for the service it supposedly provides to illegal immigrants (here).

On the JRS Malta website you can find detailed instructions on how an illegal immigrant should apply for asylum so as to avoid rejection. Since this is considered ‘philantropic work’, the JRS is exempted from paying income tax. It is simply a convenient way of diverting profits from other lucrative Jesuit businesses to avoid tax.

It is good to know that the immigration policy regarding illegal immigrants is mostly dictated by a Catholic Monsigneur, Philip Calleja. I have personally seen illegal immigrants at the immigration office telling immigration officers that Mons.Calleja told you to do this or that. He is known to help illegal immigrants to leave the island illegally and supports this policy (here).

I could go on for ages. This is big business, up there with drugs and weapons running. The biggest profiteers from this are the Catholic Church and the leftist unions. Note that the General Workers’ Union (GWU) also receives EU funds to ironically help illegals undercut its own union members’ wages. The betrayal is total. We must expose it.

Mr. Sammut, you can go on for ages here!  Please feel free to send us whatever you have to further expose what is happening in Malta. 

Readers, this isn’t just about Malta and Europe, this is about setting a terrible precedent regarding immigration law—ultimately driven by Far Left activists (hiding under a humanitarian cover) who are working to create a borderless world using your money to accomplish their Socialist/Marxist political aims!

Endnote:  You know what puzzles me the most?  Are Bordonaro and Kmiec just naive dupes trying ever so hard to be loved (and appear not racist), or are they true believers—Leftists hiding in Republican garb?  Guesses anyone?

 

LA Times reports on Malta but misses the important point

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Update:  A reader from Malta comments, here.

Longtime readers know that we have followed the so-called refugee situation in Malta for several years.  The tiny island nation in the Mediterranean is, unfortunately for them, a landing place for illegal aliens (are they truly asylum seekers or economic migrants?) coming in boats from North Africa often from that terrorism hellhole known as Libya.

On Saturday I see the Los Angeles Times has a report on the situation that begins with your usual sympathetic character—a Somali chemistry teacher (or so he says, LOL! wonder what sort of chemistry he was teaching) who is now stuck in limbo in Malta.

The LA Times:

As a member of the European Union, Malta is obligated to grant asylum to individuals who qualify, but the country maintains one of the strictest detention policies in Europe. Migrants who enter illegally can be held up to 18 months while their cases are processed; the Somali teacher’s story is not uncommon.

Most asylum seekers who end up in Malta on boats from Libya are trying to go farther north to Italy, where they believe there are job opportunities and where some hope to be granted asylum. Many are hoping to avoid detention and slip over the border toward northern Europe.

“Nobody was planning on coming to Malta,” the teacher said. “We all bought new clothes for when we landed in Italy so we could just go and disappear.”  [just disappear!—telling comment]

An increase in illegal immigration [note even the Times knows they are illegal aliens—ed] has led countries such as Malta and Italy to boost coordination with Libya in search and rescue operations as well as with the signing of several agreements to crack down on smuggling networks.

What is the Los Angeles Times missing?

The Times is not reporting a critical element of the story—maybe reporter Meris Lutz doesn’t know about it.   A couple of years ago a Bush Administration Ambassador to Malta set a new precedent.   In 2008 some illegal aliens arriving in Malta were transformed into refugees and sent to resettle in a town near you.  Legitimate asylum seekers are to seek asylum in the first safe country in which they arrive.  Ambassador Molly Bordonaro helped to subtly change that long standing policy (apparently with much internal angst in the State Department).  See this early post on the issue in which Molly (and the US State Department) sent Somalis off to Colorado with a  tea party (a real tea party, not the new kind of Tea Party) send-off.   The tea party-feted Somali was quoted as saying he was happy to be going to Colorado because lots of “black people” lived there.

Many feared, and rightly so, that the new policy would attract African illegal aliens to Malta not as a stop-over to Europe, but as a possible opportunity to win the lottery, so to speak, and get to the US.  See my post which confirms that here.

The Obama Administration Ambassador to Malta has continued the same policy.  Douglas Kmiec, one of those despised ‘Republicans for Obama’ in the last presidential election has continued that policy, here.   Incidentally, Kmiec was the driver of a car in California that went off the road resulting in the death of a nun and the serious injury of a priest who were riding in Kmiec’s car.  I don’t know if Kmiec is back in Malta yet after that August accident. 

Note the LA Times does mention the Jesuit Refugee Service office in Malta which I believe has played a key role in helping create the new policy of transforming illegal aliens into refugees bound for the US.

For everything you want to know about Malta and refugees, use our search function for ‘Malta.’

The new mayor of Mogadishu

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Update:  Readers be sure to see the comments. Allahsoldier doesn’t like this guy either because in reality Allahsoldier and his ilk want to see Somalia (and the US too eventually) taken over by the extremists. 

This is a post to reader Allahsoldier who thinks I can say nothing positive about Somalis.  Pay attention! because this is what I call a truly positive story.   Mohamed Nur, a former refugee who was initially resettled in England, has taken all his knowledge back to Africa to try to save Somalia from the pirates, al-Shabaab and international terrorists.

From the Camden New Journal:

FOUR years ago Mohamed Nur was a footnote in Camden politics following a failed attempt to become a Labour councillor in Fortune Green.

Now the man who called Kentish Town home for 18 years has taken on one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet as the new mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.

And Nur, 55, who was director of the Kentish Town Somali Welfare Association for more than 10 years, is making progress. He has paid his staff, turned on the electricity and started collecting the rubbish – no mean feat in a city where chaos reigns and it is said you can buy an anti-tank missile at the market.

His next step will be to put his $50,000 monthly budget to use in reclaiming the streets from al-Shabab, the Islamist militia linked to al-Qaeda who control 90 per cent of the ruined city.

The East African country, once an Italian colony, has been blighted by civil war for two decades. But there is also high praise and hope from the 6,000 Somalis living in Camden that Nur could be the man to make their motherland known for more than being a “failed state” infested by pirates and militants.

Let’s all hope and pray this good man succeeds so that more than 61 Somalis will go home next year!

Geert Wilders is on trial, and so is freedom of speech

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Geert Wilders is an outspoken Dutch critic of Islam, and of unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe. He is also the head of the Freedom Party, which has soared in popularity and is part of the newly formed government coalition. And he is on trial for his speech, in a proceedings that should horrify the civilized world. There is a lot of commentary on his trial; here’s some of the best.

Pamela Geller says In Wilders trial, free speech is also on trial at Big Journalism.

In what can only to be described as a throwback to the seventh century, Dutch Parliamentarian and anti-jihad warrior Geert Wilders was back in court Monday on specious “hate speech” charges filed by a corrupt, criminal dhimmi court in the Netherlands. How dare they subjugate their Western values to Islamic supremacism in this dangerous farce?

Check out the photo of a man holding a sign saying: BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM.

Mark Tapscot says Freedom of Speech on trial in the Netherlands is a hint of things to come in America, at the Washington Examiner.

Dutch political leader Geert Wilders has fought this Islamified PC and is now on trial for doing so, accused of committing a “hate crime” by speaking these lines:

“We must stop the tsunami of the Islamization. This hits us in the heart, in our identity, in our culture.”

Soeren Kern gives a good summary of what led up to the trial, and what is going on now:

Wilders is being prosecuted after complaints following an August 2007 essay titled “Enough is Enough: Outlaw the Koran, published by the Dutch newspaper De Volksrant, in which Wilders called the Koran “fascist” and compared it to the book Mein Kampf. Wilders also wrote: “I’ve had enough of Islam in the Netherlands; let not one more Muslim immigrate;” adding “I’ve had enough of the Koran in the Netherlands: Forbid that fascist book.” A year later, he released the documentary film “Fitna,” in which he calls on Muslims to rip out “hate-preaching” verses from the Koran.

In a February 2008 interview with Britain’s leftwing Guardian newspaper, Wilders said: “Islam is something we cannot afford any more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop the Islamization of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams.” He added that Islam was “the ideology of a retarded culture,” and said that “not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.”

In February 2009, the British government led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown banned Wilders from entering Britain on grounds of Islamophobia. That ban was lifted in October 2009 after a British court ruled that the entry ban was illegal.

The attempt to bring Wilders to trial was initially dismissed after the Public Prosecutor (OM) originally said that Wilders was protected by the right to free speech. But an appeals court overruled him and ordered that Wilders be charged. The case against Wilders was initiated by the extreme left anti-racism group called Netherlands Admits Color.

Some of the most prominent legal scholars in the Netherlands have spoken out against the case, arguing that “this prosecution does not befit a civilized country.” Adding to speculation that the proceedings against Wilders are pre-cooked, the Amsterdam court is refusing to allow Wilders to call four legal scholars as witnesses because the judges say they have already “learned enough” about the case from other sources.

And he describes the influence Wilders has had on Dutch politics:

The trial comes at a moment when Wilders is close to seeing many of his policy goals realized. On September 30, Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) agreed to support a new minority government made up of the Liberals (VVD) and the Christian Democrats (CDA). Following inconclusive elections in June, the new government is expected to take office in October with a tiny majority (76 seats in the 150-seat parliament). It will be led by Mark Rutte, the VVD leader, as prime minister.

In return for the support of Wilders’ 24 seats in parliament, his political allies have promised to ban the burqa, turn away more asylum-seekers and cut immigration from non-Western countries in half. Under the pact, radical religious leaders could be barred from entering the country; immigrants convicted of crimes would be expelled more rapidly, and those who failed an integration exam would lose their residence permits.

The coalition government also plans to pursue more Euroskeptic policies, and invest in Dutch relations with Israel. “This is an historic event for the Netherlands,” Wilders said after reaching the coalition agreement. “We will be able to rebuild our country, preserve our national identity and offer our children a better future. We want to stop the Islamization of the Netherlands.”

How similar this is to politics here. A ruling class of elites does all it can to impose political correctness and multiculturalism, even at the cost of the survival of their own nation and civilization. But the ordinary people see exactly what is at stake, and as soon as a politician is brave enough to speak out, he gains an enormous following. Wilders is having an effect all over Europe, as his message resonates and his courage inspires.

See our previous posts on Geert Wilders here.

UK Somali youths hooked on khat

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Here is a BBC story from Slough (yes, I had to look it up here , btw 13% of the population is Muslim) about how the favorite drug of some Africans and Middle Easterners, including Somalis in the UK is khat.   Somali families are worried about its effect on young people.

A drug which is sold legally in Britain is causing problems for Somali families in Slough, according to a voluntary group in Berkshire.

Khat is a plant which can be chewed and is used as a stimulant by people living in Yemen and Somalia.

The Slough Somali Women’s Organisation says the drug is to blame a range of problems such as truancy and anti-social behaviour in young people.

The drug is banned across America and most of Europe but legal in Britain.

Causing family breakdown

Faisal Aashour is part of the Somali community in Slough and works for Berkshire Education and Sports Centre – a voluntary organisation set up by Somalis.

He said that Khat use was causing a “family breakdowns” in Slough.

“Young people overdo it,” he said.

“It’s a highly addictive drug used in Somalia and Yemen. Its stimulant properties are similar to but less powerful than amphetamine.

“There’s a lot of Somalis who chew it in Slough.”

There is more, read on.

Khat is illegal in the US, but nevertheless khat is used here and is becoming an increasing problem.  Here are several posts we have written about the drug’s use in the US.