This is what the Mediterranean tide brings in on a daily basis. Al-Hijraanyone!
‘New Europeans’ rescued at sea after launching from Libya.
Syrians, Afghans and Somalis top the list! From AP at FoxNews:
BRUSSELS – The European Union’s statistical agency says more people were granted asylum across the 28-nation bloc last year mostly because of a high influx of refugees fleeing the war in Syria.
Eurostat said Thursday the number of accepted asylum seekers rose by 17 percent to 135,700 in 2013 from 116,200 a year earlier, meaning about one in three applications was accepted out of a total of 462,000.
The biggest group of refugees that were granted asylum were some 36,000 Syrians, a quarter of the total, followed by about 16,000 Afghans and 9,700 Somalis.
Sweden, with 9.6 million inhabitants, was the most generous country in accepting asylum seekers, granting protection to 26,400 people, followed by Germany, the EU’s most populous nation, which accepted 26,100 people. France took in 16,200, and Italy 14,500.
If you haven’t treated yourself to some light (LOL!) summer reading, how about The Camp of the Saints(along with Al-Hijra)!
See our ‘invasion of Europe’ series by clicking here.
See the Department of Homeland Security’s annual flow report for 2012 (the most recent one we could find) that summarizes the numbers and where they come from of US refugees and asylees. The Office of Refugee Resettlement told us that in 2013 we took about 143,000 refugees and asylum seekers (all are eligible for welfare goodies).
Yesterday we reportedthat Jihadists are continuing to recruit in the Somali refugee neighborhoods of Minneapolis.
In response, reader FatherJon from Australia brought a similar story to us from Down Under. It is from late last year but well worth having a look at again now, especially as the American media may be on the cusp of ‘getting it’ about the Islamic imperative as the nightmare in Iraq continues to unfold.
One young “Australian” who joined the rebels in Syria.
The story is about Australian citizens (previously granted refuge there) going to join the rebels in Syria.
”They don’t consider themselves restricted to a particular country; they see themselves as part of the global ummah [Islamic nation],” he ( University of Western Sydney’s Dr Jan Alisaid). ‘‘Islam brings them together, not Syria.”
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Since the conflict began, about 100 Australians, mostly Lebanese-Australian dual citizens, have travelled to fight, and many more have become embroiled in sectarian violence at home.
Lebanon and Syria have a history of hostility but social media and the emergence of extremist groups in Sydney have led many young Australians to view it as a cause to die for.
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The emergence of controversial and conservative Muslim groups in Sydney, such as Bankstown’s Al Risalah community centre, the pan-Islamic political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah Association, which runs several mosques and the Bukhari House bookstore and prayer hall in Auburn, has created fear that young people are being indoctrinated.
Will they bring their new skills “home” to Australia?
Police have described Australians travelling to Syria as a ”game-changer” for national security because of the risk of bringing skills, knowledge and radicalised views back home.
The 100 believed to have fought in Syria far exceeds the highest estimates of Australian jihadists involved in previous overseas conflicts, Monash University terrorism researcher, Andrew Zammit, said.
Naive western governments and their NGO enablers offer them the “American Dream” (or Australian Dream!) and what do they do, raise up young healthy warriors for Allah.
Since this article is nearly 6 months old, we can only hope that most of the 100 “Australian” Jihadists are dead already.
LOL! At the moment I’m thinking of all the people, dissatisfied with America’s direction, who have said to me over the last few years—I’m going to escape to Australia! Good luck with that!
Although I must say, Australia, Israel and Bulgaria are the three non-Muslim countries we have identified which are actively attempting to close their borders and save themselves from mostly Muslim invaders. We have written 137 previous posts on Australia. Ambitious readers! click here, to view those reports.
Agents from the Minneapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are collecting information from Cedar-Riverside residents as part of an ongoing investigation spurred by recent allegations of American citizens joining Syrian rebels overseas.
Rumors that neighborhood residents are illegally fighting in conflict overseas prompted agents from the FBI to ramp up their already-existing presence in the neighborhood earlier this month, said Minneapolis FBI spokesman Kyle Loven.
He said agents are actively interviewing residents and informing them about the allegations, while also trying to figure out if anyone in the community is involved.
“We’re looking for information that would indicate that someone intends to travel to a country where there’s armed conflict,” Loven said.
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Citizens are allegedly joining rebel forces in going against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.
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Mohamed Farah, executive director of Ka Joog, a Minnesota Somali youth group, said al-Shabaab’s recruitment efforts are present in the Somali community “24/7.”
See our huge archive going back to 2008 on the ‘Somali missing youths’by clicking here.
Why so many Somalis in Minnesota? Go here for one of our most-read posts of all time (it is almost daily among our Top Posts in right hand sidebar). Thank the US State Department and its contractors for recognizing and tapping into Minnesota’s generous welfare programs.
Just keep it up! “Refugee” will definitely be a very bad word when/if the Obama-generated crisis on the border is ever resolved.
Invasion of America continues….
Mayor Fitch: Yippee! Federal money and federal workers headed our way!
Check out this story by Ryan Lovelace who has been writing some good stuff atNational Review Online (hat tip: Paul). Emphasis is mine:
Oklahomans expect an economic boom as a result of the flood of illegal immigrant children the federal government has begun sending their way.
The Department of Defense has loaned the facilities at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, to the Department of Health and Human Services to house approximately 600 unaccompanied alien children, according to the Department of Defense. Local officials expect the surrounding community to reap the rewards.
“They’re talking about $1.2 million impact for the Lawton-Fort Sill community within the first 30 days,” Lawton Mayor Fred Fitch told KSWO 7 News.
Lawtonwill roll in federal tax dollars/federal workers and the “children” will all be good kids (as long as they are confined)!
The Oklahomanreports the ratio of federal worker to child at Ft. Sill will be one federal worker per every two children. Based on that ratio, the area could expect approximately 300 federal workers.An HHS factsheetindicates such workers would include representatives from the Office of Refugee Resettlement within HHS’ Administration for Children and Families. The kids will be kept in a 200,000 square foot building and kept under 24-hour supervision. Fitch insisted to KSWO that the children will not be allowed to leave the confines of the post and that the influx of children will not have any adverse impact on the local community.
See all of our posts on “unaccompanied alien minors” here. Some go back several years.
Would someone please explain to me how communities are “enriched” by becoming magnets for impoverished refugees, many from Muslim areas of the world. I hear that phrase, or how about this one—“diversity brings strength” —all the time.
A plea to those in the refugee industry—please explain what that means. Are we talking about colorful clothing and foreign foods — what? The taxpaying citizens surely aren’t enriched by the costs involved with social services and education needed by the refugees.
Mustafa allegedly ripped-off his refugee agency and brought cultural enrichment to Kentucky.
Lexington, Kentucky is being “enriched” we are told. Remember “Mustafa” from Louisville, KY who is charged with ripping-off Kentucky Refugee Ministries? Did Mustafa bring cultural enrichment?
And, by the way, readers, it is a good thing we captured some of Mustafa’s facebook page about his travels in recent years to Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and his role “working” with the FBI because all that has been removed since we last visited.
Did the Iraqi refugee terrorists bring enrichment and the joys of cultural diversity to Kentucky, or how about the Congolese woman recently suedby another Congolese “refugee” for human trafficking. Did Sifa bring enrichment to Lexington?
You are going to see fluffy articles like this one all week as World Refugee Day approaches on Friday, the 20th.
Carine [of the Congo*** and star of this story—ed] will talk about that transition at the “World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” at the Central Library June 20.It is Lexington’s celebration of the rich, overlooked pockets of diversity throughout this community.
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations in 2001 to pay tribute to the courage and strength exhibited by those forced to flee their homelands and familiar routines to escape conflict.
Lexington’s celebration has a twist, however.
“Unlike New York … and many larger cities with a rich history of immigration, Lexington is not yet used to helping new neighbors resettle,” said Lindsay Mattingly, multicultural liaison at the Lexington Public Library. “We do not yet have a well-developed infrastructure that can support nonnative English speakers.”
Here is an example of a deceptive line (there always are a few in stories like this one):
While the Kentucky Refugee Ministries does a great job, she said, that organization has to adhere to time limits set by the federal government of up to six months.
The only “time limit” is that their federal dole ends at that point. There is no law that says a resettlement agency can’t raise PRIVATE FUNDS to continue to care for refugees they bring to your town. In reality their job for the first six months is to find refugees a job (if they can) and get them enrolled in all the welfare programs available to them. Then they move on to the next paying “client.”
If you are in the Lexington area, you might want to attend Friday’s event:
“World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” begins with a conference at the Central Library, 140 East Main Street, from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
***The Congolese in Lexington:
“Lexington has the third-largest population of resettled Congolese immigrants in the country,” Mattingly said. Phoenix and Houston are ahead of us. And there are more than 90 languages spoken in the homes of students in Fayette County schools.
Bowling Green, KY (more pockets of diversity!): population of foreign born is 10% of the city’s population!
Bowling Green, where those Iraqi terrorists were living when they were arrested, is ahead of the rest of Kentucky in its demographic change (and enrichment!) thanks largely to the resettlement of refugees that has gone on there for decades. See this story (hat tip: Robin). That Daily News story also tells us this:
Whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S., and by 2050, whites are projected to become a minority of the U.S. population,according to the Pew report. U.S. Census Bureau results show that from 2000 to 2010, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7 percent of the nation’s growth. In 2000, 11.1 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born, which increased to 13 percent by 2011. By 2050, 19 percent of the nation’s population is projected to be foreign born, according to a Pew report.
We have been writing about problems that cultural diversity has brought Bowling Green for years, click here for those posts.
