Not too long ago we mentioned that Lincoln, Nebraska was bracing for a surge of Iraqi refugees, but it appears the surge is not materializing according to this article last Saturday in the Lincoln Journal Star.   Contractor Church World Services through its subcontractor  Luthern Refugee Services  indicated that Lincoln is one of 10 areas of the US set up as receiving areas for Iraqis.  

The contractors sound downright despondent to hear that the process is not moving along.     Afterall, 7000 refugees by September 30th is only a drop in the bucket compared to benevolent Sweden’s contribution.   We feel sorry for people too, right?  We like collecting the downtrodden.

But what if these 7000 Iraqis, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have run and hidden, were brave people?   What if they had the spirit that created America in 1776?   What if they were as determined as both the North and South were in our Civil War?  What if they were as brave as the Brits were facing Hitler?  Or, as daring as the Israelis were in the Six-Day War? 

What if……..they all went home to Iraq and told the foreign fighters [no, not fighters, Muslim cowards who deliberately kill children] to take their terrorism and leave.    We, Americans, have rid Iraq of the tyrant Saddam Hussein and given them an elected government.  It is now up to the Iraqis scattered across the globe to go home, take responsibility and make something of their country.   

The choice is theirs.  They can continue to suffer from the whining syndrome that seems to have gripped the whole world.  They can play the pathetic victim card like their Muslim compatriots at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) or they can buck up.   A few years ago I gave a speech at Valley Forge Military Academy in which I told the cadets that what they become in life is up to them, not their parents, their teachers or circumstances in their lives.    The same is true here,  Iraq could be a beacon in the desert.

Or, the Muslim Iraqi refugees can hide out around the world living like parasites on the benevolence of  Christian and Jewish do-gooders.  Now wouldn’t that be a fitting end for the followers of Mohammed?

When I first threw myself into studies about radical Islam, one of the writers I studied was the legendary Fjordman so I am honored now to direct you to this piece that is a follow-up to my post earlier today about poor Sweden.   This is a tragic immigration lesson for America, indeed for the whole civilized world that must not be ignored.   “….the clock is relentlessly ticking, and ticking, and ticking.”

The Radical-Left, Islam-lovers and the Death of Sweden

It should be noted here that Sweden alone in 2006 accepted almost as many asylum applications from Iraqis as all other European countries did combined. Native Swedes, who live in a country that was one of the most ethnically homogeneous nations in the world only 30 years ago, will be a minority in their own country within a few decades, if current trends continue. Sweden is self-destructing at a pace that is probably unprecedented in history, but for the extreme Left, even this isn’t fast enough.

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In a country where the tax rate is above 60%, higher than in almost any other country on the planet save perhaps North Korea – which incidentally also has almost as much free speech as Sweden – the natives are attacked on a daily basis by immigrant gangs, yet the state seems unwilling to do anything to stop this. Although Muslims openly brag about targeting Jews and Christians, this doesn’t constitute a hate crime. But is does constitute racism and a hate crime if Muslims are not presented with halal sausages at all times or allowed to wear a burka wherever they want to.

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The British author Paul Weston believes that Britain’s national heart has ceased beating: “Our national soul is hovering indecisively above the operating table. The crash team have been called, but the politically inclined hospital switchboard have told them there is no problem, that everything is under control. The life support boys have heard otherwise, they are hurrying to get there, but other hospital staff members have switched the signage to the operating theatre and killed the lights. It is a big hospital, they only have minutes to get there, they are lost, confused, misinformed, and the clock is relentlessly ticking, and ticking, and ticking…”

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I’m inclined to say the same thing about Sweden. The Swedish nation is currently on its deathbed. We can only hope there is life after death after all.

Read the whole piece here.

I am going to be as blunt as Kevin Myers is in the post I wrote yesterday.  Iraqi Muslims must go home to Iraq and fix their own country.  We have Americans dying to give them a free country and they are running like rats to places like Sweden presumably to dip into the comfy life of a cradle to grave welfare system (not to mention the fact that they are surely bringing terrorism with them).   Imagine if tens of thousands of Northerners and Southerners skipped out of the US during the Civil War here because things were too tough. 

I repeat, we have Americans dying while Iraqis cower outside of Iraq!

This is from an AP story that appeared exactly one month ago in the International Herald Tribune:

Sweden, the top European destination for refugees from Iraq, will tighten its asylum rules and forcibly deport Iraqis who are denied permission to stay, immigration officials said Friday.

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The announcement marked an abrupt change in the relatively lax immigration rules that had made Sweden a safe haven for thousands of Iraqis fleeing the chaos in their homeland.

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“Sweden used to be positively unique. Now they’ve joined the rest of the gang,” said Bjarte Vandvik, Secretary-General of the European Council of Refugees and Exiles, or ECRE.

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The Swedes stood out among Europeans for their welcoming attitude to refugees fleeing the bloodshed in Iraq. More than 18,000 Iraqis have arrived in Sweden seeking asylum since 2006, the highest number recorded in Europe.

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Many of the refugees in Sweden have joined existing Iraqi communities in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm, and the southwestern port city of Malmo. Although they have generally kept a low profile and have been widely welcomed by Swedes, the influx has raised concerns over strains to Sweden’s generous social benefit system.

Poor Malmo, but that is a story for another day.    Note the last line above, “the influx [18,000!] has raised concerns over strains to Sweden’s generous social benefit system.”   I’m sure that is true.  But, that isn’t the whole reason a country is ready to commit a United Nations sin.      One of the biggest no-no’s in the refugee-saving business is refoulement, or returning a refugee to where they came from.   It must be something important for liberal Sweden to be willing to take the heat from the big bad United Nations and begin deporting those poor downtrodden refugees.

They aren’t saying it here, but you can be sure that once the refugees arrived in Sweden it was discovered that many aren’t so poor and suffering afterall, and perhaps have other plans for the future of Sweden.

Look for Part 2 (Iraqis go home) later.  I have some horse manure to shovel—literally!