Political Mavens blogger adds to our understanding of how we got so many Muslim refugees from Bill Clinton’s war in the Balkans

I don’t have the time or energy to thoroughly sort out Clinton’s war but have wondered why on earth we took, as refugees, the largest group of Muslims we have ever taken—more than Somalis even— from this war.

Here is a blog posting I just came across that adds some more details that I found especially interesting because it seems that Albanians* are in fact popping up everywhere these days.  

The post is about the plight of the Roma (Muslims also according to this post?) and is critical of what the author calls the “Frankenstein’s monsters” we helped create, referring to the Albanians.

Indeed, we gave “refugee” status only to the culprits in the Kosovo war, resettling them throughout the U.S. and the rest of the Western world so they could plot attacks here and abroad (see Ft. Dix in 2007 and North Carolina last month). No one else got refugee status out of that NATO gig — not Kosovo’s gypsies, Serbs, Jews, Gorani, or Croats — not anyone but our prized Frankenstein’s monsters.

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So, just as with the Serbian Red Cross that the mountain Muslims, the Gorani, are dependent upon to survive, these largely Muslim Roma depend on Serbian hospitals. Not unlike the humanitarian aid coming from all over Serbia to the “Kosovar” refugees during the war their clan leaders waged. Or the Albanians escaping that war — to Serbia. In other words, after devastating Serbia’s environment and economy based on fabricated tales of “anti-Albanian” and “anti-Muslim” policies — devastation the country has yet to recover from — we’ve also put them in the position of footing the bill for the damage we caused. That’s in addition to Serbia’s struggling to absorb or place the highest number of refugees in Europe, thanks to Western defacation on the Balkan peninsula.

*Albanians here, here, here, here and here.

Wouldn’t you love to know who made the decision in the Clinton years to bring all those Muslims here, over 100,000, from the Balkan region?  Was it all to supply Iowa meatpackers with cheap labor?  Or something else?

European Union to take more refugees; individual countries can decide, LOL!

Two stories from the BBC yesterday taken in combination made me laugh. 

The first one gives further information about a story we reported the other day that the EU was going to come up with a joint refugee policy and take more refugees so they can look good in the eyes of the humanitarian crowd.

The European Commission has unveiled plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries.

The scheme is aimed at discouraging immigrants – mainly from Africa – from attempting to reach Europe illegally.

Many risk their lives as they try to enter the EU, often on rickety boats and relying on human traffickers.

What on earth makes them think that just because they have a ‘policy’ it will stop the traffickers filling boats in places like Libya when members of the EU are scared to death of Muammar al-Gaddafi (he might cut off their oil) and dare not send any illegal aliens back.   Sending them back is the only way to really stem the flow.

The EU policy would not require countries to take refugees, oh yeh!

The Commission’s statement on Wednesday said EU member states would “remain free to decide whether they want to resettle at all, and if so, how many refugees they wish to resettle”.

Under the new scheme EU nations would decide together every year which refugee groups should be given priority for resettlement, and receive more money from a joint fund to give them a new home.

This is what I thought was funny.  On the very same day, yesterday, the BBC also reported that Denmark was getting all sorts of flak from the ‘humanitarians’ at the UN and in the NGO circles because they chose to deport some Iraqis back to their home country.   That is how the radical Left one-worlders in the EU will push member countries to take more and more refugees—intimidation.

Denmark has deported 22 Iraqis after rejecting their asylum requests. A plane carrying the Iraqis – 21 men and one woman – left Odense airport early on Wednesday. The plane is reported to be heading for Baghdad.

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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Amnesty International have criticised the Danish government’s policy of sending the Iraqi refugees home. They argue that the situation is still too unstable in several regions.

By the way, when you check out the BBC stories, note the first one contains a very interesting map of Europe showing which countries do take refugees and which take very few.

EU trying to improve its image on refugee resettlement

Seems the European Union is trying to come up with some refugee scheme that won’t serve as a pull-factor that would only encourage more illegal aliens to try to reach Europe.  Good luck with that!

From the Ottawa Citizen:

BRUSSELS – The EU this week unveils plans to boost and coordinate Europe’s response to the waves of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, seeking to polish its own international image at the same time.

On Wednesday, the European Commission will get the ball rolling with a recommendation for a “joint EU resettlement programme” under which nations would take in more refugees from poor and war-hit third countries.

This scheme, though voluntary, is aimed at cutting the numbers seeking to reach Europe’s shores aboard rickety boats or via unscrupulous people traffickers.

The EU’s executive arm is also trying to ease the pressure on countries such as Malta, Italy and Spain which are in the frontline of the influx and feel that other member states are not sharing enough of the burden.

Then in October, the commission will publish proposals for harmonizing asylum and family reunion criteria through Europe.

I’ll be watching for that “harmonizing” this fall, won’t you?

Also, according to the story the UNHCR is telling the EU what bad boys and girls they are for only taking 6.7% of the world’s refugees last year.  Funny, I thought we were hearing that wonderful “welcoming” European countries like Sweden were taking the lions share.

The EU wants to improve its humanitarian image.

While the European Union is keen to do its best to help refugee-laden countries plus the immigrants themselves, there is also a feeling that at the moment the bloc has an image problem.

“The current relatively low level of involvement of the EU in the resettlement of refugees impacts negatively on the ambition of the EU to play a prominent role in global humanitarian affairs and hence on the influence of the EU in international fora,” the commission said in the resettlement proposals.

Be sure to use our search function for ‘Malta’ and learn how the US has been adding to the “pull factor” by taking some of Malta’s illegal aliens to the US.

Rohingya hoping for resettlement in the Czech Republic

I came across this month-old article (probably from the UNHCR) but just today published at a Rohingya website.   If the Czech Republic is interviewing prospective refugees in Malaysia to come to their country, they will likely be Rohingya Muslims.

With the wrap-up of a selection mission to Malaysia this week, the Czech Republic is on its way to becoming the first former Eastern Bloc nation to become a resettlement country for refugees.

Henrik Nordentoft, acting UNHCR representative in Malaysia, said that while the Czechs have a history of receiving refugees, this is the first time a resettlement programme is being formalized where the Czech government selects refugees to start a new life in the country. The small Central European country is initially to take about two dozen Myanmar refugees from Malaysia.

“The Czech Republic joins a small group of countries who offer resettlement to refugees and UNHCR is grateful to the Czech Republic for responding to our call to countries to offer this vital assistance to refugees,” added Nordentoft. “For many refugees, being offered a new home in another country can mean the difference between life and death. It offers refugees both protection and a lasting solution to their plight.”

A Czech delegation is completing a mission to Kuala Lumpur to interview some 40 refugees for selection and to provide cultural orientation. The Czech pilot programme is aimed at helping vulnerable refugees, so top consideration was given to survivors of trauma, refugees with serious medical problems, or protection needs.

The following information must be inaccurate because the US alone will be taking between 70,000-80,000 refugees this fiscal year, and who knows how high the Obama Administration will set the ceiling for FY2010 which begins October 1st.

The Czech Republic joins the ranks of some 19 countries worldwide that open their doors annually to refugees through formal resettlement programmes, and is the eighth European Union country to have established such a programme. Some 70,000 refugees are accepted for resettlement worldwide every year.

See our category on Rohingya here.