Archive for May, 2008

Rohingya really want to be resettled in a third country

This is additional news on the visit to Bangladesh by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees that I reported on earlier this a.m.    Antonio Guterres says that he would like the Rohingya Muslims to return to Myanmar (Burma), but it looks like many are saying ‘no thanks’. 
The repatriation program for …
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Somali refugee workers file suit over work uniform

Here we go again, another example of Somali Muslims refusing to assimilate,  wanting special treatment by not following the rules of their workplace.  Thanks to a tip from Eric, here is the story today at Hotair:
A group of Muslim workers at a tortilla factory have filed suit for religious discrimination after …
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Swedish (Iraqi) churches are resettling Christian Iraqi refugees

We’ve posted on the Iraqi refugees in Sweden several times — see this post and the links it gives at the beginning. An article today in the Christian Post describes how important the churches there are to refugee resettlement. Most of the Iraqi refugees in Sweden are Christian. Iraqi Christians …
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Sudanese family in the Quad-cities—Part II

Here is the more indepth story about African refugees having a difficult time in a black American neighborhood.   See my post yesterday from the Quad-City Times, Part I here.
A refugee agency spokesperson quickly tells us that this isn’t a hate crime (of course we all know that hate crimes can never …
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Equitable PCI Bank TWR Mrs. Adina F. Agana Scam

This sounds real exciting! Imagine how excited I was when I received this email. A chance to get my hands on all those millions! A chance to get scammed and have an exciting tale to tell my Grand children.
The time Grandpa got scammed by them …
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Dr. Simeon Nyachae Real Estate Investment Scam

This is a dead give away scam. Old Doc Nyachae wants me to contact him at his “private and personal” email address at yahoo.co.uk. Everyone and their uncle should know that there is nothing private about a free email address that even a four year old can get.
Think …
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Assimilation and multiculturalism in Britain

The always-interesting Theodore Dalrymple has an article in the current City Journal called A Confusion of Tongues: Why Britain struggles to assimilate immigrants. It’s long and thoughtful and not easily summarized, but I’ll give it a try.
Britain is full of immigrants from different places; London is the most multicultural city …
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees visits Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya

Antonio Guterres is arriving in Bangladesh today to attempt to resolve the Rohingya Muslim refugee “crisis.”  Many Rohingya fled Burma (Myanmar) in the 1990’s and are camped in Bangladesh.   We have written many times on the Rohingya because there is political pressure on Western countries to accept the Rohingya for …
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A tale of a Sudanese family in the Quad-cities–Part I

First I came across this article from the Quad-City Times about a Sudanese refugee family who came to America in 2004.    The next day Chris sent me an article that actually preceded it which I’ll post on in Part II.
Both articles are so instructive on an important theme we’ve been writing about …
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Some Iraqis come home

The International Herald Tribune has a better-than-usual piece on Iraqis who left their homes during the war. It is oddly called “Feeling safer, Iraqis come home.” Oddly because it is more about Iraqis who haven’t gone home. But the optimistic title reflects the relative lack of doom-and-gloom in the article. …
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