Posted on 09/10/2015 7:01:43 PM PDT by robowombat
Illinois is a leading state for Syrian (Muslim) refugee resettlement
Posted by Ann Corcoran on September 6, 2015
This is a longish article at the Chicago Tribune that anyone concerned with Illinois should have a look at. Any ‘pockets of resistance’ in Illinois?
Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch says Syrian Muslims figure low on the list of asylum seekers. Has he ever looked at the stats? Or is he helping promote a victim narrative for the Leftwing media? https://www.hrw.org/about/people/bill-freli
But, this whining bit (below) jumped out at me and I want to bring it to your attention.
The article implies that Syrian Muslims are not getting into the US in the refugee stream, but that just isn’t true. In 2015, 97% of the Syrians arriving in the US through the State Department’s Refugee Admissions Program are Muslims (the vast majority are Sunnis) coming from UN camps.
We know this from the US State Department’s own Refugee Processing Center data base (if you don’t believe me, see for yourself) where the State Department tracks nationality and religion!
Last week we reported, here in that same post, that Illinois had the 4th highest number of Syrians resettled so far.
Here is a snip below from the Chicago Tribune story. Is Frelick ignorant or purposefully being deceptive and why don’t reporters at these big papers try to find out the truth—that we are bringing mostly Muslim Syrians and NOT the Christians.
Incidentally, we wouldn’t have such a difficult time screening Christians, would we?
But Syrian Muslims figure low on the list of asylum-seekers designated as being of “special humanitarian concern” when U.S. politicians consider applicants from among the world’s 60 million refugees because of fears that would-be terrorists from Islamic State, also known as ISIS, occupying much of northeastern Syria, might slip in among those trying to escape the violence, said Bill Frelick, director of the refugee rights program at Human Rights Watch.
And, what the hell does he mean when he says ‘when US politicians consider applicants.’ What politicians? Does he mean Obama because it is the Administration that actually considers applicants. Sad to say, Congress doesn’t have much of a role in the final decisions (LOL! assuming Congress would have the guts to stop anything anyway).
They talk big—like Rep Michael McCaul, here, but he really doesn’t have much authority to stop Obama short of legislation that could stall the whole process.
We will be watching to see if there is any action by McCaul or other House leaders responsible for refugees—Reps Goodlatte and Gowdy—in the coming weeks.
The Chicago Tribune goes on to tell us more of what Frelick said:
“If there is even a whiff of a security concern, no consular officer or security officer (from the multitude of U.S. agencies vetting applicants) wants to be the one that has his name on the bottom of a form where someone turns out to have done something horrible,” Frelick said of the asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim countries in conflict. “There is every incentive to say no and very few incentives to say yes. This stigma of terrorism, the fear of a needle in the haystack, tends to hold the whole haystack back.”
That is all fine and dandy, but always remember that history tells us that the Jihadist tendency is more likely to rear its ugly head in the next generation as we have seen innumerable times with the Somalis. The parents aren’t the Jihadists, it is the youths that we helped raise with our tax dollars who are radicalized in neighborhood mosques who have turned to Islamic terrorism. It might be 10-15 years before we see the Syrian refugee kids make their move. Why gamble? Save the Christians first.
Continue reading here and listen to a Syrian Muslim doctor whine.
One final funny note (NOT)! The family which serves as the star of the story (there is always a heartwarming refugee story) has a three-year-old name ‘Osama.’ I think if someone named their kid ‘Hitler’ it would send a message wouldn’t it? Same goes for Osama!
South and west sides of Chicago?
There’s an estimated 50,000 ISIS forces in the ME, so why are there 4 million refugees?
Thanks for your posts, robowombat. BUMP!
Troops for NOI?
Congressman Adam McKinzinger (R-IL) loves the Assad-haters.
K-Street Errand boy.
Primarily the Southwest suburbs of Chicago. Burbank and Bridgeview have high muslim poplulations as does Orland Park. There's also a small pocket right around the southern part of Midway airport.
I don't live in Orland Park but drive into it every day to catch my train into Chicago to go to work. Over the last 5-7 years I've seen more and more muslims getting on the train to go into the city.
I do my best to make sure I'm in a passenger car w/o muslims in it and that's getting harder to do.
The overwhelming majority of muslims going into the city on the train I take are women (unless the men have taken to wearing traditional muslim head scarves. I've not seen a single burka on the train yet.)
From the frying pan into the fire. Proof that they definitely didn’t come here to escape the violence.
What the hell...might as well just take her on down to a crash and maybe...just maybe some patriotic, freedom loving Americans will step up and help restore our nation.
How sad!
Right down town would be great. Sprinkled about, near old churches which will be converted to mosques.
"...Col M is in perpetual spin mode..."-robowombat...well, this revert (spit) Col M began spinning the desert moon God tale over a century ago in Chicago, DC, Philly, Cleveland etc.
While working for the Missouri Republican, he was appointed (in September, 1887) by President Cleveland to be Consular Representative to the Philippines at the U.S. office at Manila. According to the editor of his book The Three Lectures, he had given up any concept of religion at least fifteen years before that point.
Webb was the main representative for Islam at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. On September 20 and 21, 1893, he gave two speeches. His speeches were entitled: The Influence of Social Condition and The Spirit of Islam and were published in the large two volume proceedings of the Parliament called The First World's Parliament of Religions (1894).
For the rest of his life he was the main spokesman for Islam in America. Many of America’s most prominent thinkers heard him speak on the Islamic Faith, including Mark Twain.
On Broadway, in Manhattan, he founded a short-lived masjid (Mosque). The reasons for the termination of this Masjid are unknown, but it could be due to a lack of financial support from India. Throughout the rest of America he started study circles, i.e. in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Newark, Manhattan, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. They were named Mecca Study Circle No. I (NYC), Koran Study Circle, Capital Study Circle No. 4, etc. Each using an Islamic city or reference in its title. It is likely they studied Webb's works and those he suggested. The last meeting was in 1943 in Manhattan and was attended by his daughter Aliyyah.
Hehe. We ignore him around here.
And pull their legs off so they can’t walk out.
OK Let me get this straight...Illinois is 5toobroke to pay their lottery winners, but they can afford to take in thousands of refugees...who are probably 90% muslims and no telling how many will be sneaking in to cause havoc in this country with the blessing of ISIS...
Your tax dollars at work.
doesn’t Illinois already have enough 7-11’s and gas stations???
And welfare, and crime, and debt...
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