Category: The Opposition

An opinion piece to ponder…..

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I was a little surprised to see such a frank piece published in a mainstream publication—the Richmond Times Dispatch.

I don’t have time today to analyze every bit of it, but wanted to post it before it’s too old (something that happens too often when I can’t get to my queue of articles worth posting).

The author, Patricia Strait, is an associate professor at the University of Richmond and dares to address the dreaded “N” word—Nationalism.

Rising Nationalism raises Global Tension:

Now that the budget debate is behind us for the moment, perhaps the public can turn its attention to a far more dangerous global phenomenon, the clash between rising nationalism and immigration.

A recent case in point is the massacre in Norway. Despite initial reports that the massacre in Norway was the senseless actions of a madman, the attack itself was actually meticulously planned and its victims carefully selected.

Many people asked if the gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, wanted to make an anti-immigration statement, particularly against Muslim immigration, why did he attack Norwegian children at a summer camp? In this case, the camp was no ordinary summer camp, but rather one for children whose parents belong to the ruling political entity known as the Labor Party.

When questioned by the police, Breivik indicated that the only way to get politicians to acknowledge the danger of Norway’s immigration policies was to kill their children — a chilling rationalization. However, it would be a grave error to label the recent events in Norway as the isolated actions of a mad man.

Breivik is only a small bubble in an otherwise simmering pot of violent nationalism that is gaining ground among countries that are experiencing high levels of immigration. In this instance, nationalism is defined as an intense desire to protect one’s nation from intrusions from nonnative populations whose culture, religion and language differ from those of the host population.

Such differences often include profound philosophical differences regarding the concepts of freedom and equal rights.

The level of alarm among nationalists has been increasing as Scandinavian countries, Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, and the U.K. experience a wave of unprecedented immigration. It is dangerous to simply dismiss Breivik and others like him (yes, there are others like him) as psychotic xenophobes. 

Strait has three theories of immigration drivers.  Read the article for the first two and then here is the third—MULTICULTURALISM IS GOOD and represents the natural order.

Here it is assumed that immigration represents the natural order of the universe as the world becomes more mobile and interconnected. Multiculturalism is a phenomenon that in itself should be protected and valued. Immigrants should not be forced to adapt but rather countries should encourage a pluralistic society. This mixing then creates a more advanced and sophisticated society.

It is in fact multicultural theory which is currently under attack by Sarkozy, Merkel, and Cameron, who have recently publically declared multiculturalism a failure. Indeed, they contend that multiculturalism creates not only an unsustainable and divided society, but a system that eventually leads to the demise of the host population as the immigrant birth rate overcomes the host population.

Multiculturalism is also the theory that best explains the increasing violence because advocates of multiculturalism did not anticipate the extent to which host populations would go to defend their native cultures.

How does it all end? According to Strait:

Is the means to end the violence to end immigration or to insist upon faster assimilation of immigrants into the host population? It would appear both of these options are currently being explored as host countries are rolling back their immigration quotas and at the same time insisting on rapid assimilation.

When elements such as religious differences, terrorism and clashing concepts of equal rights are thrown into the mix, the simmering pot of nationalism and multiculturalism threatens to boil over.

There is more, read it all and follow links, here.

Obama administration wants to “continue the conversation” on our “broken immigration system”

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….blah, blah, blah!

Big problem is we have very different ideas on what exactly is broken.

This is an article I’ve had kicking around for over a week.  Nothing surprising here, but want to post it so as to not lose the link.  Earlier this month the Obama Administration had a chit-chat meeting in the White House with members of the African Diaspora.   They like that word “diaspora” because it makes it sound so what—chic, exotic, acceptable? to spread throughout the world like the Somalis have done and as reported in this Taki’s Magazine article I’ve also had kicking around in my queue for more than a few days.

From the Office of White House Public Engagement:

This past Friday (a couple of Fridays ago), White House and senior administration officials – including representatives from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Education, and HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement – met with African community leaders to discuss immigration issues specific to the African immigrant and refugee population. The convening brought together leaders and advocates representing communities from the countries of Mauritania, Somalia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Guinea Bissau.

Cecilia Munoz, Director of White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, opened the forum and highlighted the challenges in fixing the legal immigration system and reassured the community leaders in the room of the President’s continued commitment to a legislative solution to fixing the broken immigration system.

Get your White House community organizing “tool kit.”

Stephanie Valencia, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement, encouraged everyone in the room to help broaden the dialogue and elevate the debate by hosting immigration action roundtables in their own communities check out the roundtable toolkit to sponsor your own immigration roundtable.

After you have your local “immigration roundtable” turn in the names of those attending to help build for Obama’s reelection efforts (they don’t really say that, but they do want the attendees names).

For more on Obama’s “conversation” on “broadening the dialogue,” and “elevating the debate” about our “broken immigration system” go here, so we can “win the future.”  Blah, blah, blah…..

CAIR files complaint with EEOC against Electrolux in St. Cloud, MN (again)

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Here we go again—religious discrimination in the workplace—prayer break problems during Ramadan upsets Somalis (sounds of snoring!).  Hat tip: Dave

From City Pages:

For the third time in eight years, Muslim employees of Electrolux, the Swedish appliance giant with a plant in St. Cloud, have complained that the company is denying them religious freedom in the work place.

In a nearly-identical complaint to one filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2010, Muslim employees claim that Electrolux is not accommodating necessary practices during the month-long Ramadan fast.

Last year, a mediation granted employees a shifting 30-minute break, to allow for a meal and prayers to break the fast. This year, the company’s cut back on the lunch break, and 150 Muslim employees say they don’t have enough time.

The employees filed their EEOC complaint through the Minnesota chapter of the Council for American Islamic Relations.

Pipe Line News cuts to the chase and tells us this is about the stealth jihad!

The company employs approximately 150 Muslim workers, whom CAIR has been taking advantage of in order to foment the type of civilizational/cultural jihad proposed by the Muslim Brotherhood and its numerous front groups.

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To many, the prospect of a pressure group advocating on behalf of its constituency is unremarkable however the above outlined type of dispute reflects something far more insidious. It’s a clear demonstration of the ability of Shari’a proponents to employ the West’s numerous freedoms and rights against itself – a seditious stealth weapon – designed to weaken and eventually overturn constitutional government.

Yup!

And, its perhaps even more insidious here because my theory is that St. Cloud has been targeted and the Islamists are working with hard Left agitators. Here is a detailed post I wrote in 2010 about who the agitators are.   You will see that Electrolux is not the only company targeted by CAIR (a chicken processing factory was sued as was the school system) in St. Cloud which is in MICHELE BACHMANN’S CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT!

Type ‘St. Cloud’ into our search function and see the many posts originating from there.

Demographic growth curves of Islam tell the whole story

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It’s time to study some history about the expansion of Islam and Shariah law.   Only twice in about 14 centuries have civilizations been able to turn back the Islamic tide—and both required war to do it (being nice doesn’t cut it!).

Here is a piece by Bill Warner at Political Islam with the history lesson we must not ignore.  I’ve only posted the concluding paragraphs but please visit the article to view the demographic charts for various countries swallowed by Islam and the Shariah.

One of the myths defenders of multiculturalism will tell you is that Christians who lived under Shariah law in past centuries lived just fine—as a dhimmi (kafirs)!  It is important for you to learn more about dhimmitude here in Warner’s piece and then go elsewhere to learn more.

Bill Warner on the annihilation of civilizations:

Let us look at one last feature of these curves. Once it starts, it never reverses. Islam never retreats. Slowly, year by year, century by century, the native Kafir civilization vanishes and is never able to fight back, never reverses Islam’s gains.

There is one exception to this law—force and the acceptance of war. Twice in history Islam has been driven out in Spain and Eastern Europe.

Today we see another approach to dealing with the Islam of annihilation. We ignore the history of annihilation and say that all we need to do is love Muslims and we will live in harmony, a wonderful multicultural civilization. A history of 1400 years without a single exception to the rule of annihilation and we will repeal it with a smile and a hug. All you need is love; love is all you need; all you need is love; love is all you need. Repeat that again and again, it will make a doctrine and history of annihilation go away. Actually, the way it works is that the history is never known. It is a cliché to say that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. It is a cliché but it is true. We have our foot on the path to annihilation today because we refuse to know history.

What is the lesson? Islam, peaceful Islam, is about destruction of all Kafir civilization. Only if the Kafirs realize the goal of Islam is annihilation of their culture, can the destruction be stopped. Islam is at war with Kafirs, and Kafirs are trying to “nice” their way out of destruction. Islam is at war, we are at nice. Mohammed has a dream that is coming true while we sleep.

Frankly, readers, we have to halt Muslim immigration to America.

Ex-nun, and leader in the Sanctuary Movement tells a lovely story, but others see it differently

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Here we have a glowing piece in the Chapel Hill News about the smiling (former) Sister Darlene Nicgorski who was in Guatemala in the early 1980’s when the local priest was murdered as the civil wars were getting underway and the Communists were trying to take over governments throughout Central America.  Update July 25th, 2014:  The original Chapel Hill News story is gone, but here is another very similar piece.

She escaped back to the US and ultimately helped thousands and thousands of illegal Salvadorans and Guatemalans get across the Mexican border as part of the Sanctuary Movement.  She was convicted in federal court and should have served five years in prison for transporting and harboring illegal aliens, instead she got probation—she says with pride that it was her calling, what she was meant to do.

Jump to last week in Northern Virginia—MS-13 Gang Leader Convicted of Sex Trafficking of a child.   Some would say that her lawbreaking in the 1980s led to this sort of lawbreaking today—that Jose Ciro Juarez-Santamaria is just as much a part of her legacy as is helping some poor peasants intermingled with Communist Sandinista guerrillas to establish new lives in your town.

We now have several hundred thousand illegal Central Americans in the US thanks to Darlene Nicgorski and the Sanctuary Movement.   Press Release from the US Attorney’s Office in Virginia:

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Jose Ciro Juarez-Santamaria, 24, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was convicted today of prostituting a 12-year-old female with clients throughout northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and John P. Torres, Special Agent in Charge for ICE’s, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C., made the announcement after the verdict was accepted by United States District Judge Liam O’Grady.

Indicted on May 12, 2011, Juarez-Santamaria was convicted today of conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation of a minor for prostitution. He faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 28, 2011.

“From the moment he laid eyes on the victim, Juarez-Santamaria did not see a young 12-year-old runaway in need of help,” said U.S. Attorney MacBride. “He saw a money-making opportunity for him and his gang and began prostituting her the very next day. No child should ever have to suffer what this victim endured, and we will continue to pursue MS-13 and other criminal organizations that prey upon young girls and enslave them through sex trafficking.”

“Forcing girls into prostitution for the purpose of turning a profit is not only criminal, it is intolerable,” said SAC Torres.

Nicgorski, the Sanctuary Movement and the caring class

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research on the Sanctuary Movement because thousands of those illegal Salvadorans are in Maryland and indeed CASA de Maryland was created by members of the Sanctuary Movement at the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church in Montgomery County (read about CASA’s founder, Quaker Bette Rainbow Hoover, here).  Recently the Washington Post revealed that CASA’s Director, Gustavo Torres, came to the US after working with the Sandinista Communists in El Salvador.

Nicgorski and others in the illegal movement make it sound like they were helping only the poor peasants escape right-wing death squads.  Surely some were peasants (economic migrants!), others were Leftwing fighters themselves—guerrillas or the ‘intellectual’ ideologues pushing the Communist overthrow of the governments.

The good Catholic nun and her friends took it upon themselves to break the law and get them across the border.   I would recommend that readers with an interest in this topic read, ‘God and Caesar at the Rio Grande’ by Hillary Cunningham for more on the Religious Left and Liberation theology and how they justified breaking the law and planting the seeds of unrest we have in many American cities with the huge illegal alien population today.

From the Chapel Hill News:

The Reagan administration had declared refugees from Central America to be economic migrants, not political refugees, which hindered any legal asylum process under the 1980 Refugee Act. Akin to the Underground Railroad, The Sanctuary Movement was initially started by Tucson residents Jim Corbett, Jim Dudley and John Fife in the early 1980s.

Central Americans would make their way through Mexico to the United States where sympathizers would meet them at the Arizona border and match them with sanctuary communities willing to house and feed them while providing health care and sometimes employment. In exchange, the refugees would discuss their plight with local church and college communities [In other words spread a political message, which many refused to do, much to the consternation of their handlers!—ed]

By the time Nicgorski accepted a paid position in the movement, funded by the Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America, cities such as Chicago and three states – New Mexico, New York, and Wisconsin – had declared themselves public sanctuaries. Her responsibility was to match refugees with appropriate situations.

[By the way, everything did not go smoothly in the so-called Underground.   The Tucson members of  ‘Sanctuary’ argued that any suffering Central American should have an opportunity to get their ‘transportation services’ into the US, but the Catholics from Chicago had a political purity test of sorts and were only looking for their fellow Leftwing “refugees.”]

[…..]

In 1985, Nicgorksi and 10 others were indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting and harboring illegal aliens. The story made national headlines and Nicgorski was thrown into the spotlight.

[…..]

“When the trial started in October of 1985 there were 150 sanctuary churches spread throughout the United States,” he said. “By the time the trial was over, there were 350 churches and temples that declared themselves sanctuaries.”

A rude awakening!

The movement pretty well petered out around 1990 partly I am sure because some church leaders and parishioners must have gotten a conscience or at least had a fear of the fact that they were breaking the law.  But, also and this is the part I think is so humorous—they realized that some of these people they had “welcomed” into their communities had some serious problems not to mention the fact that the Salvadorans hated the Guatemalans and vice versa!

From “God and Caesar” (p.66):

While conference participants [they held a National Sanctuary conference in 1985–ed] waded through the intellectual, theological, and organizational ramifications of Sanctuary, the more than three hundred church sanctuaries that had been declared by mid-1987 were dealing with problems of a different order.  Many Sanctuary communities did not know how to handle some of the deep psychological problems refugee family members were manifesting as a result of torture, witnessing massacres, having family members “disappeared,” or leaving children behind.  [not everyone had a horror story although Sanctuary would like you to think that—ed].  Nor did they know how to respond to pervasive domestic violence within the Central American families.  Complex political divisions between and among Salvadorans and Guatemalans had also come across the border, and in some instances severely divided the Central American communities in Sanctuary.

Nicgorski is now collecting her “sanctuary” memorabilia which will surely glorify the movement.  We are left dealing with the likes of CASA de Maryland and its political and financial demands on the citizens of Maryland and watching the Central American “community” produce the Jose Ciro Juarez-Santamaria’s in our cities and towns (soon to be a member of the burgeoning US prison population).

By the way, today El Salvador has its Sandinista (FMLN) president and is one of the ten most dangerous countries in the world, so she and her friends can encourage the Communists to go home now—they got the government they wanted!  Maybe they can start a railroad in reverse and even help them back across the border!