Comment worth noting: “Somali” says westerners are gullible (among other things!)

This is a comment written last week in response to this post from a reader identifying himself/herself only as Abdi and claiming to be Somali.   This category at RRW  (comment worth noting) was originally included to highlight comments that interest us but might otherwise be lost to most readers who didn’t see that particular post.  Here Abdi says Somalis have no intention of assimilating and the Somalia will always come first.    A couple of other commenters would agree we are gullible if we believe the writer, Abdi, is Somali.    Your thoughts?

Abdi (emphasis mine):

Somalis have learned to cope and manage against a hostile majority, to work in cohesive groups, to have ethnocentrism these things are essential in surviving. Westerners don’t have this because they’re bombarded with multiculturalism, liberalism, and diversity. This benefits us but not the majority (White Americans or Canadians), thus if that’s why there’s no such thing as a White Persons Human Rights Group or Advocacy or anything like that because then that would be “racist”.

The only way to kill a country, is to kill it within. Do Mexicans have more loyalty to Mexico than America? Do Afro-Americans think of America as their “motherland” or is Africa? Are Somalis more loyal to Somalia than the Western nations they’re living in? Are Jews more loyal to Israel or to the States? You people need to ask yourselves. Who are you hosting? And are they loyal to you? Nope not all, I love being Somali and I’m working hard to better Somalia most Somalis are proud of their identity as Somalis and identify with being “Somali” than being an “American”, “Canadian”, or “British”. Only White people can’t be proud of their heritage, thus the Jewish invented “White Guilt” and “White Enslavement of Colored Peoples”. So if there today was a White genocide no one would care, but they would if they weren’t.

More than 99.9% of Somalis are proud their heritage and culture, you will rarely see any of them calling themselves anything. And by the way we Somalis hate White Europeans (Adaan in Somali) more than any ethnic group, even though we hate the Natives (Alibeystaan in Somali), Madow (Black), Shino (Asiatic peoples), also because they are also rivals etc. If you don’t know our history well look at Kenya how we control it, how the MP is Somali, how all the Kenyan businesses are owned by us and the companies, how native Kenyans are depraved from it, how we control the northern part of Kenya: called NFD. If you don’t know our history look at how we forced the British and Italian settlers in colonial Somalia to give taxes to us instead of us giving it to them. If you don’t our history look at how we deprived European Somalis in Somalia in colonial times to have children in our homelands but we went to Europe (Cardiff, Wales in the early 19th centur) and we settled there and built our community there. Now the oldest and largest Somali British community there.

If you don’t know our history look at how the British colonials would sympathize with us, and have beocome what is called “Somaliphiliacs” showing us immense love for our strive for independence and freedom yet we didn’t return the same. And the same generals who showed us were slaughtered by our own hands among them are:

Col. Richard Cornfield
Christavao da Gama (the son of the famed explorer Vasco da Gama)
Severly injuring Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke
Incase you didn’t the British themselves have wrote that we were an extremly treacherous group of people who would only befriend to gain something. For if we help the Sheeshaye (non-Somali) that would be an act of hypocrisy and betrayal to the Sha’ab (Nation/Race).

A few minutes later Abdi sent another comment:

The only thing that I suggest to non-Muslims and especially non-Muslim Somalis is to watch because Somalis are here and we will always be here and more of us are on the way, and there’s nothing you people can do about it. Why? Because you can’t even control you’re own borders of Canada and Mexico so how can you control immigration? Once[Until?--ed] you start to promote your own identity and heritage, and once [until?] you start to clean your house nothing is going to happen.

Now go back to the original post on Toronto and note that readers JJ and RRWHAT? both suggest that Abdi is not Somali, here.   RRWHAT? said this:

Yeah, “Abdi” reads like a Tea Partier with too much time on his hands, Wikipedia, and an online word translator.

So, what do you think?

Whoops! UN tries to hide the nonexistent 50 million climate refugees

This is hilarious.  Anthony Watts at the Daily Caller has a piece called The UN ‘disappears’ 50 million climate refugees, then botches the cover-up.

The piece I posted about on April 14, What happened to the climate refugees? has been picked up by several media outlets, and the UN has tried to take the map of “at-risk” places off the internet. The Daily Caller relates their failure, and ends its piece thusly:

And there you have it, folks, another bogus climate claim rubbished by reality, followed by an inept cover-up attempt.

Thanks to the reality of census numbers, followed by the UN’s handling of this, we can now safely say that the claim of “climate refugees” is total fantasy. Be sure to leave comments on any website that makes this claim, and link to this and the Asian Correspondent website.

Kudos to Gavin Atkins for asking this simple question after six years of this fantasy being used to push an agenda.

Update: The UN now says that there will be 50 million climate change refugees by 2020. [The date was originally by 2010. I suppose they can keep postponing the date into eternity.--Judy]

Temporary Protected Status is NEVER temporary

I want pro-migration advocates to show me and our readers any case where we granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to a group of immigrants and then returned them to their country later.  We even have El Salvadorans here on TPS!    I’ve been writing about the Liberians for two years (first post is here). They were granted TPS many years ago and each President* simply extends the deadline for their return to Africa. Eventually they have homes and businesses and the plea is made that we couldn’t possibly uproot them now.

Now (hat tip:Lynn) we learn that Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) have submitted a bill to give Liberians who were sheltered by us (through TPS) permanent residency.

From the Daily Planet:

Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison introduced the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2011, H.R. 1293 in March, and Senator John Reed (RI) introduced the companion bill, S.656, in the Senate. The bills would allow Liberians to finally adjust their immigration status from temporary to permanent.

For years, immigration advocates have been making the case for permanent US residency for Liberians who are in the US on temporary immigration status. They argue that while Liberia is now post-civil war and on its way to recovery; it cannot handle a sudden influx of returnees. Additionally, they argue that Liberians have established new roots in their adopted homes including Minnesota which is home to over 30,000 Liberians.

Ellison says they enrich communities in Minnesota, yes, like the Somalis in St. Cloud?  In reality these are the voters who will keep the likes of Ellison (our first Muslim Congressman) in office.

In a statement supporting the bill, Ellison said, “Liberian-Americans enrich our communities in Minnesota and we owe it to them to finally resolve their immigration status.”

Will Libyans be next?   I would not be surprised if this is the program through which we will bring Libyan “refugees” from Obama’s war with Gaddafi!

* Note here that George Bush did say it was time to go home to Liberia, but ultimately Obama extended their “temporary” stay in America.  And, also note that Liberians participated in the amnesty demonstrations in Washington, here.

Feds settle dispute in St. Cloud school district case involving Somalis

Looks like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial, succeeded in getting another school district in hot water with the federal departments of Education and Justice.     You might want to review what precipitated the problem for the district here and see here that CAIR got involved.

From Minnesota Public Radio this week:

St. Paul, Minn. — The Departments of Education and Justice have reached an agreement with the Owatonna Public Schools involving allegations of race and national origin harassment.

The federal agencies became involved after tensions between white and Somali students escalated into a fight in 2009 at Owatonna High School involving 11 Owatonna students.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Departments of Education and Justice said an investigation found Owatonna public schools “meted out disproportionate discipline for the students involved in the November 2009 incident and that the district’s policies, procedures and trainings were not adequately addressing harassment against Somali-American students.”

After a 17-month investigation, the district has agreed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that students enrolled are not subject to harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin. The district also agreed to respond promptly and appropriately to all reports of harassment.

[....]

Tapper [Superintendent Tom Tapper] says the district is in the process of training all faculty, staff and students on discrimination and harassment. Officials also agreed to meet with high school Somali students to discuss their concerns about harassment.

What!  Federal investigation over not providing a WELCOMING environment!

About 17 percent of the Owatonna school district is minority students.

The district must report back to the Justice Department by Aug. 1 on the steps it has taken.

The St. Cloud school district is also the target of a federal investigation over accusations of not providing a welcoming environment for minority students.

Check out more strife in St. Cloud, here.  And, learn  more about Muslim agitators in St. Cloud, here.

Iraqi immigrant sentenced to 34 years for “honor” killing of daughter

Thanks to Arizona for sending this strong message to Muslim immigrants—we have values and laws that we plan to uphold in America.  We are not shariah compliant yet!   Here is one of several previous posts we wrote (this one from Judy) on this case from back in 2009.

From CNN (Hat tip: Ed):

An Arizona judge sentenced an Iraqi immigrant* on Friday to more than 34 years in prison, about two months after his conviction for running over his 20-year-old daughter because he claimed she’d become “too Westernized.”

A Maricopa County, Arizona, jury in February convicted Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, of one count of second-degree murder in the death of Noor Faleh Almaleki. He was also found guilty of aggravated assault for causing serious injuries to Amal Edan Khalaf, the mother of Noor’s fiance, as well as two counts of leaving the scene.

In America we believe that parents have an awesome responsibility to nurture and protect our children.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery applauded the judge’s decision, saying “Mr. Almaleki will have an appropriately long time in prison to ponder this truth.”

“The killing of one’s own child is more than just a violation of the law,” Montgomery said in a press release. “It is an offense against parenthood itself and the awesome responsibility parents have for nurturing and protecting their children.”

Then here is something I don’t remember from our earlier reporting on the case.  The murderer tried to escape to that multi-cultural mecca—the UK, but they didn’t let him in!

After the incident, Almaleki drove to Mexico, abandoning his vehicle in Nogales, police said. He then made his way to Mexico City and boarded a plane to Britain, where authorities denied him entry into the country and put him on a plane back to the United States.

* It is not clear which legal immigration program the murderer used to get into the US in the first place.

Addendum: Phyllis Chesler, a scholar who tracks the issue of honor killings, has a good piece at FrontPage Magazine today. — Judy

Those poor oppressed Palestinian refugees in Gaza execute peace activist

Here is something for the American Left to ponder as they protest in support of the oppressed Gazan refugees.

A kafir is a kafir no matter if he is a Leftist or not.  Our friend Jerry Gordon has the story here at the Iconoclast.

Italian peace activist killed in Gaza.

The abduction and execution of hapless Italian ISM [International Solidarity Movement] advocate Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza illustrates the dangers of misguided liberals, academics and Jewish communal leaders in Orange County, California and elsewhere in the US who believe that dialoging with the enemy will hone your skills in combating hate. As illustrated in the Arrigoni case, it will make you dead. His shaved head bearded Salafist abductors had their kafir to kill, regardless of whether he was pro-Palestinian or not.

Read it all.  Makes me think about Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn and their role in last year’s Gaza Flotilla (coming up again in mid-May).   Hey, Palestinians!  Heads up!  More kafirs on the way!

Remember the climate refugees?

For a while we heard a lot about climate refugees. Ann put up 18 posts on the subject — see the category in the list to the left.  Here’s a recent post from Gavin Atkins at Asian Correspondent.com, What happened to the climate refugees? He begins:

In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.

He links to a map that shows the places said to be at risk for producing climate refugees. Then he goes down a list of at-risk places that have had censuses since 2005 and shows that their populations have grown since then. Some are islands — the Bahamas, the Seychelles etc.  And –

Meanwhile, far from being places where people are fleeing, no fewer than the top six of the very fastest growing cities in China, Shenzzen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Puning and Jinjiang, are absolutely smack bang within the shaded areas identified as being likely sources of climate refugees.

Similarly, many of the fastest growing cities in the United States also appear within or close to the areas identified by the UNEP as at risk of having climate refugees.

In fact, in general those places identified as at-risk for producing climate refugees are growing fast.

The first comment is from the Spokesperson for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), who says it wasn’t his agency that projected the 50 million figure. But –

That does not mean there are not environmental refugees including climate ones. But we do not have any projections ourselves.  There are however quite a lot of universities/research centres around the world trying to unravel this complex issue.

The second comment is more entertaining:

Fortunately, in January 2009, the oceans began to recede and the planet to heal.

 

Actually it’s more than entertaining; it’s pretty perceptive. It’s amazing how many problems became non-problems as soon as Barack Obama took office.

 

Hat tip: James Taranto

 

Still no sign of those missing ORR Annual Reports to Congress

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is required by law to send an annual REPORT TO CONGRESS by January 31st of the year following the previous fiscal year (fiscal years end on September 30th).  So, by my calculation the Office of Refugee Resettlement (that is in the Department of Health and Human Services) is now three years behind!

Christopher Coen at Friends of Refugees is reporting (based on correspondence with a US Senator) that there is still no sign that that 2008 Annual Report is anywhere near being ready to release to the public!

Readers not familiar with these reports should visit the 2007 Report (here) and see how valuable these are to taxpayers wishing to see how their money is being spent (it’s filled with lists of grants and handy charts on such things as refugee employment and welfare usage).  

The ORR obviously doesn’t want Congress (or us) to know the truth about how much money is going into the program through contractors over the last three years!

And, apparently Congress doesn’t care if ORR is breaking the law!  What else can we conclude?

To new readers:  please visit our category ‘where to find information’ —-it includes links to reports, documents and other places to find useful information on immigration.

Comment worth noting: you are inflicted with chronic cynicism

Reader Mary posted this comment to my post yesterday on the immigrant court system in the US.

You appear to have fallen off the cliff to chronic cynicism. People are desperate and are forced to leave children behind. Who are we to judge? I, for one, have never been faced with these decisions.

Yes, I admit, the more I learn about the worldwide refugee industry, the more cynical I get.  But, Mary, please answer my questions, and the questions in the minds of many who read the story about the poor woman from Cameroon who spent 5 years wrangling with our court system before being granted asylum.

First and foremost, how does a poor third worlder (not just this woman, but all of them!) with virtually no English manage to acquire the tens of thousands of dollars required to make a trip halfway (or more!) around the world, through several countries that you and I couldn’t easily get into to arrive on the US border and know to ask for asylum?

Who is paying the trafficker, the airlines, the passport forgers, the lawyers?

And, I suppose I shouldn’t make a cultural judgment, but I will!   What mother leaves her children alone in a country she now claims is dangerous for her family to take a risky trip halfway around the world on the off chance she will be granted asylum in the US?  Was she just trying to save her own skin?  Who told her that asylum might be possible; who put her up to it?

Mary, you suggest I’m a chronic cynic.  Tell me how can you be so chronically gullible?

P.S.  Mary, I am sure you are a decent well-meaning and good-hearted person, but it’s time to see that “humanitarianism” is merely a smokescreen for, in my view, a devious political plan that uses poor people (and people with good hearts) to accomplish its goals.

Italy threatens to leave EU over refugees, Ireland says it may take some

I need to get some other writing done at my other blog, but this morning refugee stories keep coming.  I’ve been reporting the problems front-line nations like Italy and Malta are having with all those North African men leaving that continent on boats and trying to reach Europe.  Now here is a story from the Irish Times about how Italian leaders are saying if we can’t get help with the refugee crisis then why bother being in the European Union.

“Italy has been left alone,” its interior minister Roberto Maroni said. “I wonder if it makes sense to continue to be part of the European Union in this situation.”

Yes Italy!  Save yourselves, get out of the EU!

Meanwhile Ireland says it might take some political refugees:

The EU authorities are pressing other member states to help Malta deal with 1,000 Libyans who have arrived there since the uprising began against Muammar Gadafy.

“They’re political refugees from Libya,” Mr Shatter [Ireland's Minister for Justice] said.

“In the context of Malta, the issue is: are there a small number of people that we can accommodate in solidarity with Malta bearing in mind that other European countries are willing to do so?”

He declined to say how many people the Government might take in but noted that Germany, whose population is 20 times greater than Ireland’s, has pledged to take 100 individuals and said an offer from a small country would be proportionate to the German offer.

Oh well, say good-bye to Ireland too—a little country that has already taken too many Somali and Rohingya Muslims.  What’s a few more Muslims, eh.

And US readers, be watchful of any news about the US airlifting Libyans to America, here.