Bosnia a haven for Islamic terrorists, but did you know…..

……that we resettled over 100,000 Bosnian Muslims in the US and they freely go back and forth to Bosnia!

The excellent blog Islam in Action posted this story from AdnkronosInternational today which lays out the role Bosnian Islamists are now playing in the international terror arena since the US military saved their butts in Bill Clinton’s Bosnian War.

Bosnia has become a haven for Islamic terrorists who feel protected by local authorities and are planning terrorist acts in various countries, experts on terrorism said on Thursday. Dzevad Galijasevic, a Bosnian expert on terrorism, told Tanjug news agency that there was a “developed network of support for Islamic terrorists” in Bosnia.

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“Bosnia is a base for Islamic terrorists who live here in safety, operate training camps and prepare cadres for attacks in third countries,” said Galijasevic.

To demonstrate the utter naivete’ of the Leftists in the Clinton Administration, we resettled 103,107 Bosnian Muslims through 2003 and who knows how many since then.  This is what I said in September 2007:

The largest group of Muslims we ever brought to the US are Bosnians.  From 1990 to 2003 we resettled 103,107 Bosnians.  Any chance a foreign fighter or two slipped in?

If you go to the ORR data bases you will see that they list refugees as only being from the former Yugoslavia and don’t break out the Bosnian numbers.  However, an inside source gave me the number I’ve cited above.   And, although the State Department says they do not keep statistics on the religions of refugees, they do.

So good ol’ Bill, and probably Hillary as well, helped their old friends in the meatpacking industry and brought them some good cheap labor—Bosnians!

I recently learned from another source inside the refugee industry that many Bosnians still own property and even businesses in Bosnia and often travel back and forth.

For all of the posts, including some clever Bosnian fraud schemes, just use our search function for Bosnians or Bosnian Muslims to learn more.   And, by the way, to my critics who don’t believe I mention white people perpetrating frauds or commiting crimes, I do, and you will see a few cases when you search our site for posts on Bosnians.

Minnesota Muslim school counter sues ACLU

Your tax dollars:

It is getting downright vicious out there in Minneapolis where the ACLU sued the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), a Muslim charter school, over its religious teaching while it was using taxpayer money.  Think about it, the liberal ACLU is watching out for the taxpayer more carefully than some faux conservative tax crusaders we know.

Now the plot thickens as TIZA is counter suing the ACLU.  From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

An Inver Grove Heights charter school accused of crossing the line between religion and public education is fighting back against the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) says the ACLU, which sued the academy in January, defamed the school and hurt its ability to hire qualified teachers, according to counterclaims filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

In its suit, the ACLU alleged that the public school promotes the Muslim religion, violating the Constitution’s First Amendment.

The K-8 school has denied the allegations and said in court documents that Charles Samuelson, executive director of the Minnesota ACLU, injured the school’s reputation by saying publicly that TiZA is “a theocratic school … as plain as the substantial nose on my face.”

The State Department of Education is also in on the act, threatening to withhold funds because of teacher licensing problems.   However, what interested me most in this paragraph from near the end of the story is, where are all these federal grants coming from?

As a result of the Education Department’s decision, which TiZA is appealing, state officials told the school last month that it would lose about $530,000 in state aid. The Education Department also withheld federal grants that had been awarded to the school. TiZA spokesmen have said the grants total close to $875,000. 

Are other Islamic schools in the US getting federal grants?

More on TIZA last week, here.

As Maine Muslim population grows, police need cultural understanding

That’s apparently what prompted the US Justice Department funded meeting at the University of Southern Maine a few days ago where police officers from across the state listened to a consultant tell them the facts about how Muslims live.  The commenters to the article were having none of it.  Hat tip:  Susan.

The Portland Press Herald story begins:

PORTLAND — Police officers planning to interview members of a Muslim household approached the door, only to spot a woman inside dashing into a back room. Was she grabbing a weapon? Warning a suspect? Fleeing out a back door?

“She did not want to answer the door without getting her head covering,” said Foria Younis*, a former terrorism investigator with the FBI. In many Muslim cultures, “if a woman doesn’t have a head scarf on, it’s almost as if she’s nude.”

Younis tells the true story to help illustrate the importance of understanding Muslim traditions if police are to work effectively within their local Muslim communities.

Younis was the key presenter Tuesday at a daylong training program at the University of Southern Maine, attended by 62 officers from across the state.

Organized by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, the training was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice in hopes of helping local and state authorities build ties with people in Muslim communities. It’s also meant to give officers the tools to conduct investigations in those populations.

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The Muslim populations in Maine include the growing Somali community, primarily in Lewiston and Portland, as well as immigrants from southern Asia. Although many Sudanese are Muslim, most of those who have come to Portland are Christian refugees from southern Sudan.

Younis said, after 9/11 it’s important to build bridges to the “Muslim community” and knowing about and respecting prayer rugs will help.

As investigators worked feverishly to locate other terrorists and search for ties to the hijackers and al-Qaida, relations with many in the Muslim community soured. It was the first time many law enforcement officers had interacted with Muslims in their communities, and it didn’t always go smoothly.

“It caused the bridges between the Muslim community and the law enforcement community to collapse,” Younis said. “It’s easy to make a bridge fall apart, but building it back is very hard.”

Younis said something as simple as recognizing a prayer rug and being respectful of it can go a long way toward achieving cooperation.

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Younis conceded that she can give officers only a glimpse into understanding the complexity of Muslim culture, but said she hopes to encourage them to do more research.

Readers of the Press Herald say we have this backward.  Go and read the angry comments!  Last time I looked there were 287.  This is one from Chris of Pownal that sounds very similar to the woman from Shelbyville, TN I told you about here when the Somalis lectured the Tennesseans about how they (the implied rednecks) needed to understand Islamic culture.   The gist of both commenters’ complaints is—if you choose to live in America, you learn about and adjust your culture to ours!

From Chris of Pownal:

How about the Refugees LEARN AMERCAN CULTURE AND LAWS!!!!!!
America doesn’t need to change it’s laws because of ignorance from a 3rd world country.
DON’T come if you don’t want to follow a countries laws.

Here is what commenter Dianatn said last spring in Shelbyville, TN in response to a meeting to educate Americans about Somalis in Tennessee:

I think we have this backwards I do not live in Somalia so why should I need to learn their culture. It seems to me the Somalis should be given the forums on American Culture if they are going to live here.

I suggested in that post that the citizens of Shelbyville organize an educational session on American culture and invite all the Somalis and other Muslims to learn about how we live!

* Learn more about presenter Younis here.  Apparently she must be getting US Justice Department contracts to get local police properly educated.

Obama birth certificate controversy according to Andrew McCarthy

This is a follow-up to my post the other day about the Left’s campaign to get Lou Dobbs fired because he dared to mention the birth certificate issue on CNN.   Andrew McCarthy has penned a really interesting theory here at National Review Online today.  Hat tip: Judy.

See also, Diana West’s July 30th column on the issue that only seems to be gathering steam.

Massive Medicare fraud bust in 4 states yesterday: immigrants again!

Since health care reform is on everyone’s mind these days, how about we start with wiping out the massive fraud in the government health system (Medicare) we already have!   Yesterday a reader sent us this article from AP.   Looks like the Obama Administration is doing that and we’re  going to have to praise and thank Holder and Sebelius for these busts—of immigrants!

AP says:

BOSTON– Federal authorities arrested 32 people, including doctors, in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as “arthritis kits” — expensive braces that many patients never used.

It’s the third major sweep since Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in May they were adding millions of dollars and dozens of agents to combat a problem that costs the U.S. billions each year.

Using about a dozen agents in targeted cities, including Miami, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, has recovered $371 million in false Medicare claims and charged 145 people across the country in just two months.

More than 200 agents worked on Wednesday’s $16 million bust that included 12 search warrants at health care businesses and homes across the Houston area.

Read on and notice that the AP story gives no hint of who the scammers are, but since we had recently seen the bust of alleged Somali home health care fraud in Lewiston, ME, we were suspicious.   So after searching around, bingo!, I found this article from the Houston Chronicle which describes the bust in Houston and identifies those arrested as immigrants.

Investigators say one reason Medicare fraud is on the rise in Houston is a steady influx of immigrants who, in some instances, consider gaming the government for benefits an acceptable practice, said one top Justice Department investigator, speaking on condition he would not be identified.

“There’s a real problem of health care fraud in recent immigrant communities — we see it everyday,” the official said. “One of the reasons is you’re looking at people who don’t come up through the educational system, they’re impoverished, they think this country is very rich, and they don’t view taking advantage of a government program as a crime.”

The federal charges, outlined in seven indictments returned by a Houston grand jury, allege the Houston health providers filed false claims for so-called “arthritis kits” — a collection of orthopedic braces — expensive battery-powered wheelchairs and feeding tube equipment and supplies, according to a Justice Department news release.

Everyone’s got their very own feeding tube!

Investigators said a preliminary review of Medicare claims for feeding tubes in Houston defied reality, noting it appeared ‘‘that in certain ZIP codes every older person should have a tube in them.”

Of course, this article only mentions that immigrants are involved in Houston so if any of you have a few minutes to spare, help me find more articles from the other cities that identify those arrested.

Gosh, is Attorney General Holder targeting brown-skinned people?

Iraqi Palestinian update from Forbes magazine

Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing in the July 30th, 2009 edition of Forbes magazine, fills in more details AND asks more questions about the Iraqi Palestinians due to arrive soon in the US.  Hat tip:  Jerry Gordon.   See our original post here.

Please read Ms. Rosett’s whole article.   What follows are a couple of sections that interested me the most.   Since the story broke I’ve been asked many times what exactly is the process for security screening of Saddam’s former friends.   Ms. Rosett would like to know too!

Are those security clearances flowing with such ease because among these former guests of Saddam’s regime there is almost no security risk for Americans? Or has the bar simply been set low enough to meet the UNHCR’s wish to empty the camp? Only U.S. security agencies know for sure, and they aren’t saying much.

According to U.S. officials at the departments of State and Homeland Security, interviewed recently by phone, some 1,000 Palestinians at Al Waleed have already been interviewed for admission to the U.S. They are expected to arrive by early next year. But their names and specific histories are confidential. Also confidential are the interview questions, the number of U.S. officers conducting the interviews, and the amount of time spent per interviewee.

While stressing that “National security is always at the forefront of our mind,” Homeland Security officials describe the interview process preceding the final security clearance as “non-adversarial,” with interpreters provided if needed, and efforts to make sure the interviewees “feel quite comfortable.”

Asked if any of the Palestinians from Al Waleed have been rejected on security grounds, a Homeland Security officer replied: “I can’t go into that.”  [Edit: I had heard that about 20 were rejected outright for security reasons and another 100 or so couldn't get their facts straight in interviews, I don't know what happens to them.]

It’s also unclear exactly where inside the U.S. these Palestinians will be resettled. Asked about the locations inside the U.S. of some 24 Palestinians who have already arrived from Iraq over the past two years, a State Department spokesman declined to say. A July 7 dispatch in the Christian Science Monitor said that most of the 1,300 or more expected from Al Waleed would go to southern California. But a State Department spokesman claimed that was not necessarily the case, adding that he would “rather not” get into specifics. He said that the actual geographic allocation inside the U.S. hadn’t been decided yet, but “They’re going to go all over.”

The Palestinians will surely be spread throughout the US, but citizens will not know they are Palestinians because they will come into the US as “Iraqi” refugees.  If they follow the usual pattern, one thing you can be sure of, they will be resettled in crime-ridden neighborhoods and they likely won’t have jobs.

Toward the end of her article, Rosett, brings up another  issue I wonder about also.   It has been reported that about 30,000 Palestinians were in Iraq before the war and only about 3000 or less are in these camps, so where are the others?   If they are mostly still  living in Iraq and if Iraq is improving, why is it necessary to move the Al-Waleed refugees to the US?  Can’t they just wait it out a little longer and be resettled back in Iraq?   Or better still, some other Muslim country!

Oh, I forgot, no Islamic country wants to take their fellow Muslims—that is Muslim charity for you.

Rosett again:

In Iraq, meanwhile, conditions for the Palestinians have been looking up. In a report last month, the UNHCR noted “the general improvement of the security situation in Iraq,” including “a marked decrease” in the number of attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods and individuals. Nonetheless, the UNHCR report went on to say that “Palestinian refugees continue to experience a deep level of uncertainty with regard to their place within the fabric of Iraqi society.”

Whether these Palestinians, once the favored guests of Saddam, will meld better into the fabric and values of American society is not a question explored by the U.N., nor does the U.S. administration appear interested in supplying much in the way of illuminating detail.

The fabric of American communities never matters to refugee advocates because by golly we all need a tolerance lesson whether we like it or not!

NumbersUSA expose’: it is all about cheap labor and votes for the Democratic party

Note to humanitarians:   I can’t help it, I gotta say it!  We told you so!!!  

NumbersUSA has an incredible scoop on a secret meeting in DC last month where big business lobbyists and open borders activists plotted strategy on how to get more immigrants into the US.   As Glenn Beck would say, “blood was shooting from my eyes” as I read the revealing report on how to trick the public and shaft American workers.   Called “Storming the Hill National Summit,”  you must read the account of the meeting at NumbersUSA website, here.   The cynical discussion by the assembled elitists and powerbrokers will blow your mind.   Hat tip:  Blue Ridge Forum.

The setting? The Marriott convention hotel in the fashionable Dupont Circle district of Washington, D.C. Date? June 15, 2009. Participants? A coalition of big-business oriented, pro-Open Borders dedicated groups, corporations, and lobbyists. Organizer? Tamar Jacoby and her newly-formed ImmigrationWorksUSA lobbying group.

The doors were closed. Reporters and members of the public barred. Confidence that their words were private and their plans secret loosened the tongues of most speakers. Embarrassing admissions were made. Several preposterous claims were forwarded. Numerous shameful methods and motivations admitted to.

The “Storming the Hill National Summit” was predictable in its “backstab the workers” sentiment. Nonetheless, the following makes for some fascinating reading. One of the attorneys present took copious notes and turned up with a conscience. We got the notes.

Read on.

Tamar Jacoby (Pres. of Immigration Works USA) had this to say at the outset:

We are having the conference because we failed last time [to pass amnesty in 2007] and we must change. We did none of the things the opposition did. Opponents sent over a million faxes. We need to learn to leverage grass roots power. The basic goal is to promote the free flow of labor into the USA.

Republican traitors.

Near the end of the story, NumbersUSA VP Jim Robb asks this question:

Why are Republican activists Tamar Jacoby, Grover Norquist, and several other long-time GOP hacks at this meeting so excited about building a permanent Democratic Party majority by “locking in” Hispanic votes?

Why indeed?  We don’t know who Tamar Jacoby is, but we have written on many occasions about Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, lobbying for more Muslim immigrants.   We first learned about him when he promoted the resettlement of thousands of Iraqis to the US.   Start with this post and follow links to other posts on Norquist working against the best interests of taxpayers and average American citizens. 

Fascism and Corporatism

Please go revisit Judy’s post in early June where she discusses Jonah Goldberg’s hypothesis about ’fascism and corporatism’ to better understand how and why the Left has gotten into bed with big business.

CIS: US Illegal immigrant population declining, but legal still on the rise

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has a new report out yesterday that indicates that illegal immigrant numbers in the US are down this year most likely due to enhanced enforcement of immigration laws and the declining economy.   Yet, they note that legal immigration numbers continue to rise.

Here is the opening paragraph of the report (A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population):

Monthly Census Bureau data show that the number of less-educated young Hispanic immigrants in the country has declined significantly. The evidence indicates that the illegal population declined after July 2007 and then rebounded somewhat in the summer of 2008 before resuming its decline in the fall of 2008 and into the first quarter of 2009. Both increased immigration enforcement and the recession seem to explain this decline. There is evidence that the decline was caused by both fewer illegal immigrants coming and an increase in the number returning home. However, this pattern does not apply to the legal immigrant population, which has not fallen significantly.

And here is what they say about the increasing number of legal immigrants.   I can tell you from the standpoint of refugee numbers coming into the US, that there has been no let-up due to the lack of jobs for refugees—-the State Department is keeping the spigot wide open and I guess they assume the refugees will just need more welfare.

In contrast to the likely illegal immigrant population, the top line in Figure 1 for the likely legal immigrant population does not show a decline. It shows a continual and relatively steady increase in size until the last few months, when the population fell slightly. Between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 the population of likely legal adult immigrants grew 2.9 percent and over the same period in 2008 and 2009 it grew almost 1 percent. Whatever factors affect the likely illegal population, they do not seem to be impacting legal immigrants in the same way. While the economic downturn must have some impact on legal immigrants, there is no indication that their numbers have fallen in the way that that those for illegal immigrants have declined. Since only illegal immigrants face enforcement, this tends to support the idea that enforcement accounts for some share of the decline in illegal immigration.

As I have said before this idea of flooding the welfare system with angry poor people is the strategy first outlined by Saul Alinsky and then Cloward and Piven at Columbia University and carried on by Obama and his friends like Wade Rathke at the SEIU.  One must create chaos to bring about change in our form of government.  They must have the immigrants to do that!   I predict as illegal immigration declines, legal immigration will be stepped up.  And, I also predict, the Obama Administration will lighten up on enforcement (they already are!).

So for all of you having anxiety attacks over why they don’t follow common sense and slow all immigration until there are an adequate number of jobs for the newcomers, they don’t want to!  The agitators must agitate! 

There is an extra added bonus!  The big business supporters of the Obama Administration get to keep labor costs low—-a win-win for Obama!

To new readers:  We have 66 previous posts in our “community destabilization” category if you would like to better understand community organizers!

Comment worth noting: more questions from Bhutanese refugees

Two days ago I told you about the murder of Hari Adhikari in Jacksonville, FL.  Hari was 21 years old and in the US for only 5 months when he was shot and killed for his wallet and phone in the parking lot of his apartment building.  Here is the post I wrote where several other refugees have written to comment.

I encourage other refugees to write to us and give us more facts about this murder and about your lives in Jacksonville or elsewhere.   This blog is one of the few places where your story will reach the publics’ attention.  You probably can’t understand this, but the politically correct mainstream media and the US government and its contractors (resettlement agencies) do  not want the public to know the unhappy side of refugee resettlement.  They all want to feel good about themselves (that includes most reporters!) and showing any of the problems with the program brings their goodness, their humanitarianism, into question.   Thus, there is never any real effort made at reform and as a consequence refugees suffer.

Here is the comment to us last night from Bhutanese refugee Yadu Subedi:

This horrifing news of the death of one of the promising Bhutanese refugee youth has created an environment of truauma among the many Bhutanese Refugees already resettled and will be resettled in USA.

One thing I am unclear is why are Bhutanese refugee resettled in such a neighbourhood knowing it is dangerous since it’s the no.1 in relation to the crime in florida and Hari is the 19th refugee to be killed in Jacksonville in the last five years.Are the resettlement agencies only after the Gov. money and donot bothher about the safety of the people being resettled by them.

I am also one of the Bhutanese refugee resettled in Texas who is living a life full of frustration and trauma of being insecure. I came here with great expectation but all my hope sattered after I face the reality of the place.

I am helpless to help Yadu except that I will send this story to every reporter I know and hope that someone will help him get answers and maybe eventually there will be a groundswell of public disgust and a demand that the program be reformed.  That is my fervent wish!   And, maybe, just maybe, Hari’s life and death will help other refugees.

For reporters and new readers:  We have written extensively on how the Bhutanese have come to be in the US.  Please use our search function for “Bhutanese refugees” for all of our previous posts.

Iraqi refugees in bad Chicago neighborhood are trying to change their community

Apparently a crime-ridden neighborhood for 40 years, this section of Chicago is becoming increasingly diversified and refugees are trying to get it under control.

From the Chicago Tribune:

On a typical evening in Edgewater, dozens of young men linger along the sidewalks of Thorndale Avenue near the elevated train stop. Their presence is intimidating, say many in the community, and sometimes there is drug dealing and theft.

But on Monday evenings, the scene changes. Sidewalks fill with children playing board games and adults engaged in cards and chatting over grape leaves, courtesy of local Iraqi refugees.

The organized gatherings — called Neighborhood Nights — take aim at a more than 40-year history of gang activity along the business district in the 1100 block of West Thorndale Avenue.

I hope it works out for the refugees placed in this bad neighborhood.  At least this woman is taking the initiative and not just complaining about America not taking care of her.

The diversity of Edgewater, with about 64,000 residents, is obvious on just about any street: Iraqi women in head scarves, the colorful dress of African immigrants, Bosnian men smoking, young couples pushing strollers, and active senior citizens.

Together, Edgewater and Rogers Park are home to about 3,000 Iraqi refugees, according to Ahlam Mahmood, 44, of the Iraqi Mutual Aid Society. Mahmood said Neighborhood Nights allow the community an opportunity to meet their refugee neighbors.

“We are here to say to the neighborhood that you have Iraqi refugees,” said Mahmood, a humanitarian activist who fled to Chicago seven months ago with her two children. “We are in your neighborhood. Please welcome us.”