They are changing America by changing the people
That’s the title of an 18 minute documentary from ‘Indomitable realist’ you should watch. I think it’s just out today. Hat tip: Brad
It features Somalis in Minnesota, Lewiston, ME, and Shelbyville, TN. It includes one segment on the Lost Boys of Sudan. I didn’t know Glenn Beck talked about the State Department populating Rep. Michele Bachmann’s district with Somalis (something we have written about here on several occasions).
Click here to watch. Then be sure to check out the comments!
Iraqis top the list!
At the State Department hearing this past Wednesday in Washington, representatives from contractors US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Church World Service and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society all praised the US State Department for the expeditious arrival (so far) of refugees in FY2013.
So, just now as I checked the Palestinian arrivals at WRAPS, I see that, for only being a little over half way into the fiscal year, we have brought a larger number of refugees than usually arrive by this time. So far, as of April 30th, we have brought in 39,778 refugees. We could easily hit 80,000 at that rate which would be higher than previous years.
Here are the top 5 nationalities of refugees resettled so far:
Iraqis: 11,066 (The State Dept. knows how many of these are Muslims and how many are Christians! See Muslim share of immigrant population growing, here)
Burmese: 9,336
Bhutanese (really Nepal): 5,067
Somalis: 4,387 (This number is so high because they re-opened family reunification for Somalis. It had been closed beginning in 2008 due to high levels of fraud detected. At this rate, 2013 will come close to the highest Bush years.)
Cubans: 2,199 (could Florida’s wealthy Cubans be pushing Senator Marco Rubio?)
Hurry! Someone tell Senator Rand Paul! Just now as I searched for a photo of one of Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Iraqi refugee terrorists, I came across a story only a few weeks old where Paul is asking, why the heck are we bringing so many Iraqis? Maybe Senator Paul doesn’t know that S.744 (The Gang of Eight plus Grover bill) will make it easier and provide more money for refugees and asylum seekers to get into the US! He could do something about that!—strip all refugee/asylum provisions from the bill and hold separate hearings on the program!
If you are a new reader here, scroll back through the previous few days for stories on Somali, Chechen, and Uzbek refugee terrorists in the US (and Palestinian immigrant terrorists too!).
I told you yesterday that sentencing was about to commence for the refugees who went back to Somalia to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaida affiliate in East Africa. I hadn’t planned to write anymore about it, partly because I am sick of it! We gave these people the ‘good life’ at great expense to the US taxpayer and they threw it back in our faces. But, this part of a long story on the sentencing from the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (hat tip: Cliff) was worth mentioning.
The Judge wonders whether this Somali, Kamal Said Hassan, might still be lying:
Each man told Davis his story, and the judge seemed to react differently to each. In the case of Hassan, the judge acknowledged that while the defendant had been an “extraordinary” help to investigators since his arrest, he didn’t know if the words he was hearing were a performance.
“I can’t take back what I did, but I can show you, the government, the Somali community, that I can do better,” Hassan told the judge.
“I know what I did was wrong and illegal and I take full responsibility for my actions,” he said. “I’m sorry to the ones I hurt.”
He apologized to his family, his adopted homeland and his fellow Somali immigrants.
“I want the American people to know I am very sorry for what I did,” he said.
When he finished speaking, Davis paused for several moments.
Finally, he spoke. “I heard a lot of sorrys,” the judge said. “And as you well know, I grilled you on the witness stand when you testified (against Omar). Your talk here has reared that ugly head, in my mind … where we have people who are very, very bright and can be very, very dangerous.”
The judge noted Hassan had been deceitful to his own family and had even not been fully truthful with the FBI when they questioned him; prosecutors even added a charge of making false statements to his two counts of providing material support to al-Shabaab.
The judge said he had to ask himself, “Why aren’t you lying today? I have no indicia that you’re not.”
About the photo: I found it here with a brief background on Hassan. I had not seen this website, Global Jihad, before but it looks like it might be useful going forward.
It appears we are reaching the end of the story (this particular story!) of the twenty plus Somali youths who left the good life we gave them in America to join an al-Qaida affiliate, al-Shabab, in East Africa where they underwent jihad training.
Below is a fairly brief summary of the story that we have followed extensively since 2008 here at RRW. In fact, when you type into our search function the words ‘Somali missing youths‘ you will see an archive that probably runs to at least 50 previous posts.
The only glaring error I see here is that, perhaps recruiters appealed to the youths to help rid Somalia of Ethiopians, but that is not what this was all about. I noticed when I went to the Senate hearing, here in March 2009, Senators Lieberman and Collins were obviously hoping it was all about “patriotism” for the homeland (a “homeland” that most had never set foot in previously!) but we learned in trial testimony later that al-Shabab was busy violently building an Islamic caliphate.
Here is the summary at the Lacrosse Tribune. Don’t you think it’s interesting that this news will likely not appear on Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS etc. etc.
Must be a local crime story!
Nine people convicted in a government investigation of terror recruitment and financing for an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia are to be sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
Authorities say more than 20 young men have left Minnesota to join al-Shabab since 2007. Some have died, several remain at large, and others have been prosecuted in what the FBI has said is one of the largest efforts to recruit U.S. fighters to a foreign terrorist organization.
Some of the issues in the case, based on court testimony, court documents and AP interviews:
HOW IT BEGAN
In 2007, small groups of young Somali men began holding secret meetings at a Minneapolis mosque, in cars, and at restaurants to talk about returning to their homeland to wage jihad against Ethiopians. The Ethiopians had been brought into Somalia in 2006 by its weak U.N.-backed government, but were viewed by many Somalis as invaders.
Al-Shabab recruiters in Minneapolis appealed to patriotic ideals and told young men _ some in their teens _ that it was their “duty” to return to Somalia and fight. Recruiters also quoted from the Quran, appealing to religious beliefs to deepen the fighters’ resolve.
The men began leaving Minnesota in small groups to avoid detection, with the first departing Minneapolis on Oct. 30, 2007. Additional groups left in waves over the next months and years, with some raising money for their trips under false pretenses.
The FBI began investigating in 2008. The U.S. declared al-Shabab a terrorist organization in early 2008.
Read it all. Everything discussed in this summary was reported at some point on the pages of RRW.
Readers, I have so much more to report on the “refugee” bomber boys, but virtually no time today (LOL! I’m the farm laborer around here!). However I wanted to quickly post this update story about the Somali youth (all just youngsters in the mainstream media) in Maine (also a member, we presume in good standing, of the religion of peace) whose rape case has been dragging on because no one who admitted him to the US as a refugee actually knew how old he was. More of our great screening of refugees from terrorist countries.
For background, here are our earlier reports. Here is AP (thanks to a reader for sending it last Friday).
PORTLAND (AP) — An 18-year-old Portland man has pleaded guilty to breaking into a 50-year-old woman’s apartment as she slept and raping her. [Guess she didn’t keep a gun!—ed]
Mohammed Mukhtar had sought to be tried on the charges as a juvenile. But under a plea agreement reached Thursday, the refugee from Somalia will face eight years in prison and could be deported after release.
He is being held without bail pending sentencing next Thursday in Cumberland County Unified Criminal Court.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Mukhtar pleaded guilty to charges including gross sexual assault, burglary and aggravated criminal trespassing.
The case went back and forth from juvenile court to adult court because of confusion over Mukhtar’s age. His lawyer said he was 17 at the time of the attack.
He could get up to eight years in prison (I thought rapists were getting 20 years these days?) before being deported. Heck, why not just deport him now with others we are sending back to the ‘new’ Somalia. And, save us some money!