Simon Deng: no one tells the truth about Darfur—Arab Muslims are the enslavers

….and the UN is an accessory!

I’m still taking a break, but thought this was important to post without comment.

From Simon Deng writing about Durban III:

Like you, I came to this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance to protest this third Durban conference which is an effort based on a set of lies, and organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.

Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has lost its way. Its obsession with the Jewish obvious: . For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state – Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.

Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies, the Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people know that.

But friends, I come here today to make a different case. I come with what you might at first think is a radical proposition: I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN’s anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.

By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.

For over fifty years the indigenous black African population of Sudan — Christians and Muslims alike — have been the victims of the brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.

In South Sudan, my homeland, Sudan, about four million innocent men, women and children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005. Seven million were ethnically cleansed, and they became the largest refugee group since World War II.

Everybody at the United Nations is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees. They dedicated a separate agency to provide for them; this agency, UNWRA, treats them with a special privilege.

Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and enslaved, are relatively ignored. The UN even resisted using the word “slavery” to describe the enslavement of tens of thousands of my people. Why? Because slavery is a crime against humanity, apparently no one committing it wanted to end up before an international court. When Khartoum insisted that the term “abducted people” be substituted for the word “slaves,” the UN, caved to Arab pressure and agreed. Try that in America. Try calling Frederick Douglas an “abducted person.” It is outrageous.

The UN refuses to tell the world the truth about the root causes of Sudan’s conflicts. Take Darfur, for example. Who knows really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a “tribal conflict.” It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism, as it has typically been practiced in Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan everybody is Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam In the eyes of the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And they also do not want to be Arabized. They like their own African languages and dress and customs. They resist Arabization. The Arab response is genocide. But nobody tells the truth about Darfur.

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Taking a break!

Judy and I began Refugee Resettlement Watch in the summer of 2007 and now it’s time for a break.

We are entering one of the most critical political years in American history and there is much to do elsewhere.   Don’t get me wrong, this issue is still a very very important one and we aren’t going away completely.  From time to time, we will post things that interest us, but we don’t have time to read comments and sort through them—like (LOL!) the comment from ‘American Boy’ yesterday who speculated that we only write this lousy blog because we probably got fired from a resettlement agency for committing a felony.  Yeh, that’s it!  How did he guess!

Until we return full time, there is still lots of good information posted here.  We have written almost 4000 posts and you should be able to track any subject we’ve written about by using our ‘search’ function (it is really good), or check out our various categories.

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No sympathy for the Catholic Bishops

The whining continues from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) about being cut out of the federal largess via those lucrative Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) human trafficking grants awarded at the start of the new fiscal year.

I told you about the controversy, here, two days ago.   The USCCB is saying those secular agencies that did get the millions of taxpayer dollars have no experience in the field, AND that the ORR was responding in advance because the ACLU had filed suit claiming the Catholic agencies weren’t offering the “full range of reproductive services” (code of course for birth control and abortion).   On whose side did you think the Obama Administration would be?

From Catholic Culture:

The director of media relations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is charging that the new recipients of a federal grant to assist victims of human trafficking lack experience.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement declined to renew a grant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) to aid victims of human trafficking–likely because of the agency’s refusal to offer trafficking victims a “full range of reproductive services.” MRS has assisted 2,700 victims since 2006.

Bishops, when you take money from government it’s a form of sleeping with the devil and, if you have a conscience, the consequences are usually not happy ones in the long run.  There is no law against helping victims of trafficking all by yourself you know!

UK’s Cameron wants to put a halt to excessive immigration

Hey, good luck with that.

From the Law Enforcement Examiner:

According to Cameron [British Prime Minister David Cameron], illegal immigration has brought “real pressures on our communities up and down the country. Pressures on schools, housing and healthcare, and social pressures too.”

No kidding and we have reported previously on how Somalis are among those breaking into the UK.

Many of the immigrants who’ve recently entered the United Kingdom emanate from Middle Eastern and north African countries with Muslim majorities. Unlike in the United States, Muslim immigrants — legal or illegal — remain segregated by their own choice.

That made me laugh, I guess the author hasn’t been to Minneapolis, Seattle, San Diego, Columbus or even Lewiston, ME to see the cities within cities.

In England demonstrators get it that large numbers of immigrants are hurting the British economy, but our author wonders why the “occupy Wall Streeters” don’t get it.

The U.K. isn’t the only European nation considering a tough immigration policy. The Netherlands’ legislature is seeking tougher measures to curb rampant illegal immigration.

“Political leaders in the United States seem to always want to replicate European policies such as socialized medicine and other progressive public policy. So why don’t they wish to replicate what is now a hot topic in Europe? Why not replicate British immigration policy?” asks former NYPD detective Mike Snopes.

“President [Barack] Obama’s British counterpart mentioned pressures on schools, housing and healthcare, and social pressures that have resulted from Britain’s current immigration rules. Those are the same pressures the U.S. faces, as well,” claims economist Jerry Bendecker.

British cities, especially London, have endured violent protests by a population that is similar to the people in New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement. However, a growing number of British protesters place part of the blame on uncontrolled immigration that reduces wages and lowers living standards.

My answer is that because it’s really not about jobs (or banks), the Wall Streeters are the dupes of Socialist/Marxist revolutionaries and at this time they see the immigrants as fellow Leftists.  As I have said before, if a majority of immigrants who entered the US said, you know I’m going to vote Republican, immigration (legal and illegal) would be stopped in a heart-beat.

Crime rampant in Clarkston, GA

Refugees and immigrants are targets says police chief of “Fugees” fame.

From Champion News:

Refugees and immigrants living in Clarkston are considered easy prey by criminals, said the city’s police chief during a recent meeting about crime prevention.

“All of our violent crimes that we’ve dealt with in the past five years have been [by people] from southwest and southeast Atlanta,” said Clarkston Police Chief Tony Scipio to a group of apartment managers, refugees and community leaders who want to reduce the crimes against refugees and immigrants.

“What we’re finding out from interviewing these suspects and perpetrators is that all eyes are on Clarkston because of the large influx of refugees and immigrants,” Scipio said. “They are easily preyed [upon].”

Scipio said that 69 percent of the crimes within the city limits are committed by nonresidents, many of whom live in the city of Atlanta.

Many criminals “plan their crime; they look at the area, they watch what you do every day,” Scipio said. “If you are not aware of your surroundings and your environment, and if you are not taking the necessary precautions, then eventually you’re going to become a victim, especially late at night.”

Scipio said many of the victims in Clarkston during the past three months were out late at night, small in stature and carrying large sums of money.

Hmmm! Out at night with large sums of money, what is that all about?

Catholic Bishops lose anti-trafficking grant, blame it on their anti-abortion stance

Update October 14th:  More boohooing from the Bishops on losing some of their cut of your money, here.  And, more here!

According to Catholic News Service the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has lost a LUCRATIVE federal grant for their CHARITABLE WORK to help victims of human trafficking.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Since 2006, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services has helped more than 2,700 victims of human trafficking obtain food, clothing and access to medical care.

That service came to an abrupt halt when the agency recently learned that it would no longer receive a federal grant for this work from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.

MRS officials had no immediate comment on the contract’s discontinuation.

Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told Catholic News Service Oct. 11 that she hoped the Catholic Church’s “position against abortion, sterilization and artificial contraception has not entered into this decision, especially since this administration has said it stands fully behind freedom of conscience.”

She noted that the MRS’s anti-trafficking program “ran quite well without these services” and said it would be “tragic if abortion politics harmed the men, women and children already at risk because of the crime and scandal of human trafficking.”

$5 Million dollars per year per group!

Three groups were awarded federal grants for anti-trafficking programs. The groups are Tapestri, based in Atlanta, Heartland Human Care Services in Chicago and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants based in Washington. The groups have each been awarded $5 million contracts per year with the possibility of adding two additional years.

By the way there are critics of this program who contend this is just one more racket for non-profits to get taxpayer dollars, that there aren’t even that many people being trafficked in the US!  But, that is a story for another time.

Here is an idea for the Catholic Bishops!

Maybe if you did your charitable good works WITHOUT A FEDERAL GRANT then the federal government would in no way have its hooks in you, your conscience and your good people.   Wasn’t there something I recall from the old days—something about Caesar and taxes and not mixing government and God—who said that?  Of course, rendering unto Caesar was about paying taxes, but I suspect that the church taking peoples’ money indirectly by taking taxes from the unwilling might be viewed similarly.

New readers should know that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops gets many millions of dollars from taxpayers every year and then uses the money, not just for refugees, but to promote their many political agenda items.  Here is just one of many posts on the subject.

Seattle Somalis suspended by Hertz for praying on company time…

…..and the Somali spokesman is paid for by you—the taxpayer!  What a racket!

Hertz had an agreement with the EEOC that Muslims would clock out to pray, but many refused.   Always pushing, pushing, pushing—that is the stealth jihad.  BTW, seventy per cent of Hertz shuttle-bus drivers at the Seattle-Tacoma airport are Somali Muslims (silly Hertz, really silly!).

From the Seattle Times:

In the three years she’s worked as a shuttle driver for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Zainab Aweis, had always taken time out of her shift each day to pray.

An observant Muslim, she prays five times a day — with one, sometimes two of those prayer times falling during her shift.

“That was the one benefit of the job,” the 20-year-old*** said.

On Friday, she and 33 other drivers — all of them Somali Muslims — were suspended indefinitely from their jobs after they took religious breaks to pray while at work without first clocking out.

A spokesman for Teamsters Local 117, which represents the workers, said it is trying to get the workers back on the job.

Both the company and the union late Thursday said they were waiting to hear back from the other.

While the drivers were allowed two, 10-minute breaks during their work shifts during which they could pray, Teamsters officials said managers had agreed in negotiations that workers would not have to clock out and in, though the contract itself does not address the matter.

And the workers and their union said Hertz had previously not required that workers clock out for prayer. The union said it has filed an unfair-labor-practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Hertz for failing to notify the union in advance of what it called a policy change.

But Hertz said the rules aren’t new; that it had been trying for some time to enforce the terms of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlement it reached with the workers two years ago that required them to clock out.

A Hertz spokesman said the workers had been repeatedly told they needed to clock out and that the 34 suspended workers had not complied.

To add insult to injury, you pay the salary of the Somali mouthpieces.

Mohamed Hassan, of the Somali Community Services Coalition, said the workers cannot afford to be away from their jobs. “They need to pay rent and buy food for their children.”

I’ve reported previously about Ethnic Community Based Organizations (they are called ECBOs in government mumbo-jumbo language)—-we have a whole category on ECBOs here.   You can think of these organizations as mini-ACORNs geared specifically to particular ethnic groups.  The Somali Community Services Coalition is an ECBO.  They are funded almost exclusively by you!  Then they teach their people how to access social service benefits and get jobs and if a political issue arises the mainstream media runs to them first for comment (as they have done here).

I just checked the Somali Community Services Coalition’s most recent Form 990, here.  Although the IRS has changed the forms making it extremely hard sometimes to find the government share of an organizations income, it appears that this ECBO had an income of $282,830 that comes from government grants (federal for sure and probably some local or state grants).   They paid out $193,363 in salaries ($40,000 plus of that went to an EX-director) and another $22,500 in some sort of contractor payment and $46,389 in rent (probably some inside deal with a landlord there too!).

Note that over $100,000 of their income in 2009 came from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, here.

So what did you pay for?  You paid for a political mouthpiece organization.

*** Check out the strict driving requirements for teen drivers in Washington State, here.  How on earth has she been driving a shuttle bus for three years if she is only 20 now?

That Muslim spring thing—ain’t it great!

Over the weekend we learned that Salafist (read extremist) Muslims were clashing with minority Christians in Egypt and scores have died or were injured.  By the way, Wade Rathke and his commie union boys went to Egypt the week before last (and missed all the killing this week!) to see about “community organizing” the “democracy movement” there—how’d that work out?  (More later).

From Reuters:

In the worst violence since Hosni Mubarak was ousted, armored vehicles sped into a crowd late on Sunday to crack down on a protest near Cairo’s state television.

Online videos showed mangled bodies. Activists said some people were crushed by wheels.

Tension between Muslims and minority Coptic Christians has simmered for years but has worsened since the anti-Mubarak revolt, which gave freer rein to Salafist and other strict Islamist groups that the former president had repressed.

Then here is more of the good news for Africans in Libya thanks to NATO and the Obama Administration’s great “responsibility to protect” adventure.

Tripoli/Washington, D.C. – More than 600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are effectively stranded at a port just outside the Libyan capital, and have been left to fend for themselves by Libyan authorities. Despite repeated attacks, harassment, and arbitrary arrests by Libyan gangs over the course of four months, they have received no protection from the National Transitional Council (NTC). Refugees International calls on the NTC and all local authorities – including the civilian councils in Janzour and Tripoli, and the Tripoli Military Council – to intervene immediately to protect the population at Sidi Bilal port and ensure their safe relocation to a temporary site.

“The men in these camps are routinely harassed and accused of being pro-Gaddafi mercenaries, the women are targets of sexual abuse. All face intimidation by armed Libyan thugs who drive into the port at night firing guns into the air,” said Matt Pennington, an advocate for Refugees International currently in Libya. “Of course, many migrants told us they don’t really want to leave Libya – since they have nothing to return to in their home countries. But even for those who want to stay in Libya, their situation is becoming intolerable.”

Then we have the World Socialists complaining about the Italian government shutting down the refugee camp at Lampedusa after the “refugees” burned it down.  Now, surprise! the migrants are being deported back to Tunisia.

Here is the World Socialists web site’s spin on Lampedusa:

The Italian government is preparing to deport hundreds of North African refugees. According to an interior ministry report of October 2, more than 600 Tunisians were to be flown from Palermo in Sicily to Tunis over the past few days. The refugee camp on the Italian island of Lampedusa was completely cleared 10 days ago.

On September 20, some 800 refugees escaped from the camp following the outbreak of a large fire. They were then hunted by police throughout the whole island, rounded up, and eventually evacuated on ferries, naval vessels and air force planes within a few days.
Some 200 Tunisians were deported immediately, and the rest taken to other Italian refugee centres. For a whole week, 352 people were detained on two ships in Palermo harbour, without being allowed any contact with the outside world. The last of them have apparently now been deported.

These people, who had already suffered dire deprivations on their Mediterranean odyssey before reaching Lampedusa, have been held in refugee camps under inhumane conditions for weeks and even months.

The camp, located in a valley behind the town of Lampedusa, was initially completely closed off from the island’s community. No journalists were allowed entry, and Carabinieri stationed on the surrounding hills made escape over the fence impossible. The people spent their time mainly waiting in cramped conditions, where they were provided with very little food and extremely poor sanitary facilities.

The site, designed to hold up to a maximum of 850 people, had been hopelessly overcrowded for years; often as many as 3,000 were crammed into it.

I guess it remains to be seen whether all this Islamic chaos will produce a positive outcome for anyone but the Muslim Brotherhood, but it sure is good for creating more refugees in need of resettlement…..

Finns continue Somali terrror probe

Here is an update of the story I posted here at the end of last month.

From AP at ABC News:

Finnish police have released a Somali woman arrested on suspicion of financing terrorism but are holding a Somali man as they further probe allegations that he recruited potential terrorists, authorities said Friday.

The pair’s arrests Sept. 7 were the first known terror-linked arrests in the Nordic country. Police said the two are suspected of links to the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaida.

Detective Inspector Kaj Bjorkvist said the 28-year-old woman, who is a student and arrived in Finland in late 2008, has been ordered not to leave the country.

“Our suspicions have not changed, but we no longer felt it necessary to keep her in custody,” Bjorkvist said. “The man asked to be released, but the police objected and he remains in detention.”

Bjorkvist declined to give more details about the suspects.

The National Bureau of Investigation said earlier that the 34-year-old male detainee is suspected of recruiting at least one person abroad to commit an act of terrorism, linked to al-Shabab, “in the direction of Somalia.” He has lived in Finland since 2005, has a residency permit and has held several jobs.

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Sen. Rand Paul holding up benefits for refugees until audit of program is completed

Most readers don’t know that we bring elderly refugees to the US and then give them Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Apparently many senior refugees are not becoming citizens within the proscribed seven years, but refugee advocates want their Social Security extended anyway.

Here is an editorial at the New York Times ranting against Rand for placing a hold on an extension of benefits bill.  He first wants an audit of the Refugee Resettlement Program that allowed Iraqi alleged terrorists to be admitted through the program and resettled in his state.

The New York Times:

Here’s an addition to the file marked “Extreme Dysfunction: Congress Edition.” A bill that would extend life-saving cash assistance to 5,600 disabled and elderly refugees — a bill whose support is so broad that it includes Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a bill that would pay for itself and even raise a bit for deficit reduction — can’t get through the Senate.

The bill is stalled because Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has placed a hold on it. He is upset because a separate, unrelated refugee program gave benefits to two Iraqi men who were arrested in Kentucky on terrorism-related conspiracy charges. The two Iraqis never received any benefits under the program in question — Supplemental Security Income — and they were not old or sick. But Mr. Paul seems to have concluded that the country can’t give any aid to a small group of highly vulnerable refugees — including survivors of terrorist violence, torture, dictatorships and war — because of the off chance that some terrorists might get the help, too.

Mr. Schumer’s bill, which was expected to pass in a voice vote until Mr. Paul blocked it, is the latest extension of S.S.I. benefits to refugees who missed a deadline to become citizens.

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Good for you Sen. Paul, the whole program is in need of a financial audit!