Category: Europe

Malta citizen: send them all to Sweden!

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We’ve been following the sad tale from Malta since we first began RRW in 2007.  The tiny island nation is taking the brunt of the illegal immigrant flow out of countries such as Libya.    Here is the latest update.  Apparently the EU border agency, Frontex, is to be beefed up but it continues to be squishy on the issue of returning illegal aliens to their country of departure.  Citizens of Malta are fed up as many of the comments attest:

From Charles Sammut:

With liberals like Cecilia Malmström* calling the shots, Malta is doomed to be part of the African Union in 5 years’ time.

What about our human rights? Or are we not human any more and the right to live peacefully in our country amongst our kith and kin and decide our future for ourselves has been devolved to the eurobrats in Brussels. Do we have to wait until there is serious civil unrest to wake up? By which time it will be too late.

*Cecilia Malmström is the Home Commissioner of the EU and obviously is Swedish.

And here is commenter Louise Vella:

Malta’s security and social cohesion should not be left in the hands of Swedes who do not care about Malta. The Maltese, especially the common people of Malta, are the best judges of what is best for Malta. Nobody has consulted them to see if they want an unending influx of African boat people settling in Malta as illegal immigrants with the excuse that they are refugees. We know the story and we know that asylum applicants have a long history of telling untruths to increase the likelihood of their acceptance. See the reports of the Refugee Commissioner and of the Refugees Appeals Board.

If the Swedes want to turn their country into an African colony it’s up to them. They can take all of Africa’s 1 000 million inhabitants, especially as they have enough space for them in Sweden. But they should not try to off-load them on to Malta.

As we reported many times, Sweden is already busy destroying itself with its immigration policy, see this post just a few days ago.

The Malta Magnet

The US State Department has exacerbated Malta’s problems by providing a carrot for illegal immigrants to try to reach Malta—they might be magically transformed into “refugees” and moved to a town near you.  You can thank Bush Administration Ambassador Tea Party Molly (that is not tea party as in the new political movement in the US) and now the Obama Ambassador to Malta, Republican traitor, Douglas Kmiec, here.

Swedes to deport Iraqis this week, protests planned

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This is from AK News, a Kurdish news agency, obviously written by someone whose English is a bit rough, but you get the gist.  Demonstrations planned in London! 

We have been telling you recently, here and here, about problems in “welcoming” Sweden with Muslim refugees, so this deportation plan is not a surprise.

Sulaimaniyah, Feb. 21 (AKnews) – The Special Representative of Kurdistan Branch for the Iraqi Refugee Association announced that the Swedish government has planned to deport forcefully 70 Iraqi refugees back to Iraq, and the Refugee Association has decided to hold a massive demonstration in in London and Sulaimaniyah to protest against the decision.

“The Swedish government has planned to deport a number of Iraqi Refugees forcefully, whose their cases are cancelled by the Swedish Juristic Court,” Amanj Abdullah said today.

According to the latest information, Abdullah said: “the Swedish authority exiledd to Iraq 60-70 refugees, including 40 Kurds, via Baghdad International Airport on Friday.”

See our ever-popular post from last year, ‘Muslim immigration killing Sweden,’ here.  I don’t know why this post persists in being near the top of  RRW’s most visited posts— the only thing I can figure is that the title is catchy!

Brits to teach immigrants how to queue!

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Just now I was going to tell you about the “squatter’s rights” that illegal immigrants have in the UK —if they hang out in Britain for 14 years illegally they can then apply to stay!  Here it is at Counter Jihad blog (it is a story from the Telegraph).   However a story posted in the sidebar at the Telegraph entitled, ‘Immigrants to be taught how to queue,’  attracted my attention instead.

Foreigners applying to settle in the UK will have to learn about the revered British practice of forming an orderly line for everything from buses to sandwiches.

While the idea may sound like a joke, ministers insist they are entirely serious and want to indoctrinate migrants more effectively into the British way of life.

They claim a lot of tension in communities is caused by immigrants not understanding that they must wait in line for services rather than barging to the front.

This is not their fault, ministers say, but happens because in less-wealthy countries the only way to get access to necessities is to push yourself forward.

But to elderly people waiting in bus queues, for example, such behaviour can be off-putting and frightening.

Phil Woolas, the immigration minister, confirmed that he was pushing the idea as part of moves to ensure immigrants integrate properly.

He said: “The simple act of taking one’s turn is one of the things that holds our country together. It is very important that newcomers take their place in queues whether it is for a bus or a cup of tea.

“It is central to the British sense of fair play and it is also better for everyone. Huge resentment is caused when people push in. [No kidding!  It is one of the complaints I hear all the time with especially Muslim refugees–ed]

British citizenship tests include questions about such things!  I doubt we have anything like this in the US.

Since 2005, foreign nationals applying for UK citizenship – which confers the right to a British passport – have been required to sit a written test at one of 90 centres across the country before taking part in a formal citizenship ceremony.

The 45-minute tests, introduced by David Blunkett, the then-home secretary, include questions on various aspects of the British way of life from politics to pop music.

The answers are all to be found in a 150-page book, Life in the UK, which applicants must study before sitting the exam. Topics covered veer from complicated matters of government procedure and welfare entitlement to the apparently banal.

The book already addresses the thorny question of what you should do if you spill someone’s pint in the pub, with the correct response being to buy them another one.

But, of course for the hundreds of thousands of illegals hiding out in the UK for the 14 years before they seek “squatters rights” whether they stand in line or buy a new pint for one spilled in the bar matters not.  They will have had 14 years to irritate the Brits.

So-called Somali recruiter fights extradition in the Netherlands

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The US is trying to extradite Mohamud Said Omar who some of the Somali youths in Minnesota have fingered as the “recruiter” who helped the Somali missing youths (some dead youths now) leave the good life in the US and return to Somalia in order to learn the Islamic Jihad trade.

We told you about this guy previously here.  Apparently he was a “refugee” we resettled in Rochester, MN.  I often wonder how refugee resettlement workers feel when they hear someone they resettled and helped turns out to be a terrorist bag man (alleged terrorist).

From AP via the New York Times:

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for a Somali man fighting extradition to the U.S. on terrorism charges stemming from a case in Minneapolis argued in a Dutch court Monday he is innocent and should be released.

Mohamud Said Omar, 44, is suspected of providing money to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab that was used to buy guns. Around 20 youths of Somali descent are believed to have traveled to Somalia from Minnesota since 2007 to help the group, which the U.S. says has ties to al-Qaida.

Omar’s lawyers say he never intended to help terrorists.

”In any case Omar denies that he has ever been involved in any way whatsoever with the financing of terrorism,” his lawyer Bart Stapert said.

Omar has been held in a high-security Dutch prison since his arrest at the request of the U.S. government in November. He has residency in the U.S. but had been living in a center for would-be asylum seekers in the Netherlands since December 2008, apparently before he was a suspect. 

A total of 14 people have been charged in the ongoing U.S. federal investigation into the travels of as many as 20 young men who went to Somalia to fight over a period of two years starting in 2007. They face a variety of accusations from recruiting and raising funds for the trips, to engaging in terrorist acts in Somalia and perjury.

For new readers:

For more on the Somali missing youths, use those search words.  We have written dozens of stories on the case.

The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US (this linked post continues to be one of the most widely read posts we have ever written) in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.  That specific program has not yet been reopened (that we know of), but will be soon. 

Nevertheless, thousands of Somali Muslims continue to be resettled as I write this. We recently learned that we will be taking 6000 Somalis this year from one camp in Uganda and as many as 11,000-13,000 total from around the world.

Attacks on Jews the ultimate result of Sweden’s liberal immigration policies

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This is a follow-up to my post yesterday about Sweden’s Muslim problem.  The UK Telegraph is reporting that Jews who had found a home in Sweden decades ago in the wake of the European Holocaust are now leaving the country in which they once felt safe.

When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.

She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland – until last year.

In 2009, a chapel serving the city’s 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and “Hitler” was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.

“I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway,” Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.

“This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now.”

Malmo’s Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country’s Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.

Mr Reepalu, who is blamed for lax policing, is at the centre of a growing controversy for saying that what the Jews perceive as naked anti-Semitism is in fact just a sad, but understandable consequence of Israeli policy in the Middle East.

Read the whole article.  While the mayor may blame it all on Israel (don’t they always!), a line near the end places the blame squarely on liberal immigration policies.

For many of Malmo’s white Swedish population, meanwhile, the racial problems are bewildering after years of liberal immigration policies.

Message to America’s far left Jews and especially the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: what part of this story do you fail to understand?   Do you think as you continue to resettle Muslim refugees and encourage Muslim immigration that you will escape this same fate right here as the Muslim population increases?  Do you really think the magical American melting pot somehow sets us apart from Sweden, that the outcome will be different?