Refugee Resettlement Watch’s year in review

Happy New Year to one and all! 

I can’t believe RRW will be six years old this year!  Time flies when you are having fun!  I don’t know that much has changed with the refugee program/legal immigration (from our point of view!) in the last five years, but you surely are more informed.   I’m looking forward to many more years ahead as a blogger (assuming our free speech isn’t killed in the next four years) and might even write a book about why this program needs to be reformed or completely abolished.

WordPress kindly sent us a review for 2012 (it is the first time I’ve seen this) and here are some facts they reported about RRW:

~ We had about a quarter of a million visitors this year.  The largest numbers were referred to us by facebook. (But, sorry folks I haven’t figured out how to use our facebook page effectively.  Others of you must be kindly putting our links on facebook—thanks!).

We had visitors from 193 countries.  The largest numbers (since Feb. 2012 when wordpress began keeping these stats) were, of course, from the US, Canada and the UK.  But rounding out the top ten were Australia, India, Sweden, Malaysia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Germany (in that order).

~  We posted 458 new posts and increased our overall number of posts to 4,417.

Here are the top posts of all time (NO!  this is not Somali Watch, but it sure looks like it based on which posts are the most viewed!):

1. Although not a post per se, our fact sheets were number one!  (26,240 views).  We need to update this for you!

2. How did we get so many Somali refugees—the numbers are telling  September 2008 (23,602 views)

3. Asylum seekers head for Israel    January 2009 (12,693 views)

4. Muslim immigration killing Sweden  March 2009 (10,967 views)

5. Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis?  January 2011  (10,959 views)

6.  Somali Migration to Maine: it’s the welfare magnet, stupid   November 2009 (7,185 views)

7. State Department:  Possibly tens of thousands of Somalis in the US illegally   November 2008 (5,394 views)

8. Holy Cow! Now 40 young Somalis are missing in Minnesota  November 2008  (5,149 views)

9. How many refugees and from what countries  May 2008 (4,760 views)

10. Canada refugee problems and programs March 2008  (3,790 views)

You also might want to keep an eye on the TOP POSTS (see right hand sidebar) every day.  It is very interesting to see what readers find most interesting on a daily basis.

We still have work to do!  In addition to updating our fact sheet, our blog roll needs review and updating, and some of the pages need to be deleted or kept up, but I must admit it is much more fun simply to bring you the news almost every day while that ‘housekeeping’ type of work is so boring!

Thanks for reading Refugee Resettlement Watch, don’t get discouraged, keep sending us story ideas, and have a Happy New Year!

Iranian kills his brother (in North Carolina)….

…..and what about The Muslim Issue?

I know this “accidental” shooting of a brother by his brother has nothing to do with anything (uh, oh, except there was a gun involved!).  Brothers of all sorts can get drunk, argue and kill each other anywhere in the world.

But, the story in The Muslim Issue gives me an opportunity to remind you about North Carolina, a preferred resettlement state for Middle Easterners, and to introduce you to The Muslim Issue, a blog I just recently noticed.

Here is the news from North Carolina:

North Carolina man shoots brother to death in chest after believing he was an intruder: police

Wilmington police arrived to the home of brothers Ali and Vahid Dastmalchi last Friday. Ali, 65, said he mistook Vahid, 63, as a burglar after he lunged at him at the front door in the dark. He fired a handgun at Vahid, fatally wounding him in the chest, police said. No charges were filed Friday.

Read on, turns out they were drunk and arguing earlier in the day.

We don’t know if they are refugees, but there is a good chance they are (they could also be Christian Iranian refugees, I’m not sure any of the reports say they are Muslims).

North Carolina is one of the Nation’s top resettlement states and if you visit WRAPS here (arrivals by destination city by nationality) you will see that we resettled over 13,000 refugees to that state in the last 5 years.  102 of those were Iranians (small compared to the 1000 plus Iraqis the state “welcomed” in that same time period).  Why North Carolina?  In fact, why certain states and not others?

North Carolina’s refugee problems have received a fair amount of attention here at RRW over the years.  When you type ‘North Carolina’ into our search function you will see what I mean.

North Carolina as training ground for terrorists?

One of my best stories about North Carolina is about the fact that many Middle Easterners were drawn to colleges there (the colleges were desperate for paying customers) and the infamous Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was one of them!  Although not a refugee of course, KSM was here legally on a student visa.   Here is just one line from my post about KSM’s time in Greensboro in the early 1980’s.

Did you know Khalid Shaikh Mohammed the terror mastermind, really Osama bin Laden’s brain, went to college there, in Greensboro, along with hundreds of other Middle Easterners?

And, bet you didn’t know that KSM’s cousin, Ramzi Yousef, was an asylum seeker.  After interviewing him in 1992 the INS released him into the general US population and then he bombed the World Trade Center the following year—never did come back for his asylum hearing!

Now to The Muslim Issue (the blog that posted the Iranian kills his brother story)….

I don’t know who writes it.  Based on its archives it’s only been around for 6 months or so.

Here is what the blogger says in his or her ‘about’:

The Muslim Issue is focused on compiling news reports and government statistics demonstrating the effect of Muslim influence on Western society; particularly Europe, UK and the U.S. Many of the statistics demonstrate a growing concern for our future security and social safety, based on the consequence of a growing Muslim immigration.

Islam is the ultimate human evil in today’s world and always was through history. In spite of this millions of Muslims following this ideology have been allowed to immigrate into the West with devastating consequences. The result is growing and festering efforts to establish a Caliphate in the Western world.

Muslims repeatedly claim that Islam is a religion of peace, of rights for women and of harmony that offer the world the ultimate peace and justice. Nothing could be more laughable and absurd. At present there are 51 Islamic countries (Muslim majority population) in the world. Every single one of them are placed on the UN’s Human Rights watch list. In spite of this the UN wants to endorse a blasphemy law protecting Islam. Incidentally this correlates exactly to the agenda Muslims have across the West to establish a caliphate across the world. One of the ways to go about, is to suffocate our freedom of speech and legal system.

The fact is that not a single country in the world has ever benefited from a growing Islamic influence. On the contrary. Muslim migration into non-Islamic nations have always been a disaster. The association has eventually ended in Sharia law with persecution, safety issues, wars, sodomy, antisemitism, violence, slavery, despair, poverty, rape waves, struggles and grief.

I detect a kindred spirit!  Will add this website to our blogroll!

And, LOL!  Don’t forget to read about the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration!  Instead of a Trojan Horse, The Muslim Issue has a Trojan Pig just below its masthead.

Update:  After I posted this The Muslim Issue re-posted an earlier post on the twenty steps to a caliphate in Europe and America, here.  Any of it sound familiar?