Wouldn’t it make sense to stop Muslim immigration? Funny how that strategy is not even mentioned.

Europe is becoming ‘Islamised’ warns Vatican official as he urges Christians to have more children, Daily Mail, September [...]]]> In Europe, a Vatican official fears the Islamization of the continent. Father Piero Gheddo’s suggested solution is for Christians to have more children.

Wouldn’t it make sense to stop Muslim immigration? Funny how that strategy is not even mentioned.

Europe is becoming ‘Islamised’ warns Vatican official as he urges Christians to have more children, Daily Mail, September 8, 2010

European Christians should have more children to stop the continent becoming ‘Islamised’, a senior Vatican official has suggested.

Father Piero Gheddo said the low birth rate of indigenous Europeans combined with a huge wave of Muslim migrants with large families would ’sooner or later’ see Europe dominated by Islam.

Italian Father Gheddo is a highly respected figure from the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, a society of missionaries.

He blamed Christians for failing to live up to their own beliefs and creating a ‘religious vacuum’ which was being filled by Islam.

‘The challenge must be taken seriously,’ he said.

‘Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year because of abortion and broken families – while among the more than 200,000 legal immigrants a year in Italy, more than half are Muslims and Muslim families, which have a much higher level of growth.’

He added: ‘If we consider ourselves a Christian country, we should return to the practice of Christian life, which would also solve the problem of empty cradles.’

In addition, photos like the one below suggest that the Islo-newbies are not exactly friendly to Western values.

I’ve been listening to the John and Ken show for updates; one report was the [...]]]> In Los Angeles, the shooting of a drunk Guatemalan national with assorted IDs who was threatening people with a knife has resulted in two days of rioting. The drunk was shot dead after he lunged at a cop with the knife.

I’ve been listening to the John and Ken show for updates; one report was the guy (Manuel Jamines is but one of his several names) threatened a woman with a stroller (2pm hour, Sept 8).

Is the reaction of the city to clamp down on an area that has become a third-world enclave of illegal aliens unlawfully vending on the sidewalk?

Of course not. The aliens are being coddled with a warm and wonderful community meeting to hear their complaints about the police. The foreigners demonstrated their ire against law enforcement officers by throwing eggs and bottles (heh) at the Ramparts LAPD station.

Sensitive hispanic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has assembled a stellar line-up for the complaint-fest, including PD Chief Charlie Beck, Councilman Ed Reyes and consul generals of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico.

Wouldn’t an ICE strike force be more appropriate? Oh, wait, I forgot that LA is a sanctuary city where foreign lawbreakers are pampered, and public safety is NOT job #1.

Another point of interest is how illegal aliens are like catnip to cop-hating communists:

Self-styled communists helped fuel Westlake clash with police, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2010

When the Los Angeles Police Department faced hundreds of protesters on the streets of the Westlake District, some were people drawn to the event from other parts of the city for political reasons.

Twenty-two people were arrested Tuesday night after protesters clashed with police near a vigil for Manuel Jamines, a Guatamalan-born day laborer fatally shot Sunday by an officer who said Jamines refused to drop a knife.

Among those arrested was Jubilee Shine, 40, a South Los Angeles activist who heads the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police. Shine said he was arrested on 6th Street near Bonnie Brae Street just before 10 p.m.

He said he arrived in the area about 9:30 p.m. and was walking toward a crowd of demonstrators at the corner of 6th Street and Burlington Avenue when the crowd bolted toward him.

“People just started to split,” Shine said.

He said he turned to run but was ordered to the ground and handcuffed. Police have not released the names of those arrested, but Shine said the protesters with whom he shared a jail cell Tuesday night were all Central American or Mexican immigrants who live in and around Westlake.

“From what I could tell, everyone there was local from that neighborhood,” he said.

Some of the earlier unrest appeared to have been fueled by political activists from other parts of the city. About a dozen people who appeared to be affiliated with the Revolutionary Community Party handed out literature about its beliefs and other cases of officer-involved shootings, and chanted messages over bullhorns about a communist revolution.

Meanwhile, demonstrators from the neighborhood chanted, “Police are racists and killers!”

Ahem. When bystanders were threatened by a dangerous armed drunk, they phoned the police, not a commie community activist.

Continuing. . .

As the night wore on, protesters clashed with police. Some, including a boy who appeared no older than 13, hurled rocks, bottles and eggs at officers and at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart station building.

Some debris was thrown at officers from apartment house roofs. Other people burned trash bins in the street. Several said they planned to continue their demonstrations in coming days.

“We’re not going to stop,” said a man who on Tuesday night was standing in a crowd of about 200 chanting protesters near the corner of Union Avenue and 6th Street.

Police are hoping a community meeting near MacArthur Park, planned for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, will help defuse tension after a second consecutive night of violence in the neighborhood. The meeting is to be held at John Leichty Middle School at 650 S. Union Ave. [. . .]

Police showed photographs of the bloodied knife, with blade that is about 6 inches long when opened, that they say Jamines, 37, was holding at the time of the shooting. Investigators are testing the blood to see whose it is, the LAPD said.

Beck said the area where the incident occurred “is not an easy place to police,” in part because of its large immigrant population and widespread illegal vending.

Why not clean out the lawbreaking behavior then? Once again, authorities have two different systems of law enforcement: the one for responsible citizens is strict, while treatment of lawbreaking foreigners is permissive, like they were children.

The result is a growing sense of entitlement despite their illegal status, as the riots illustrate.

Below, local aliens lovingly memorialized the violent drunk who threatened women and police with a knife.

Rancher Gary Thrasher says he never sees any Border Patrol agents [...]]]> The Fox News video below is an update on the situation in southern Arizona, and yes it is the same old, same old, despite the Obama administration’s declarations that the borders are secure — and are locked down sufficiently to begin legislating that comprehensive amnesty.

Rancher Gary Thrasher says he never sees any Border Patrol agents in the area. That circumstance shouldn’t be a surprise, since Sheriff Larry Deaver has remarked that the officers have been withdrawn from regions considered too dangerous. (See On the Border: Retreat? for details.)

Another notable remark comes from Pew Hispanic Center researcher Jeffrey Passel, “Once a migrant makes a decision to set forth for the United States, they ultimately get in.”

Of course. There is no punishment for breaking into this country, so foreigners keep trying until they succeed.

Los Angeles County [...]]]> “They only come to work”… oh wait, maybe not so much. Illegal aliens routinely use their US-born anchor babies as meal tickets to provide access to a trough of welfare benefits. No wonder that hispanic aliens have such strong family values: they benefit directly from having the highest fertility rate of any group.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich has an eagle eye for the rip-offs committed by illegal aliens and periodically issues press releases about the worsening theft at the welfare office (see Price of Cheap Labor Toted Up in Lost Angeles).

L.A. County welfare to children of illegal immigrants grows, Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2010

Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families.

The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWorks welfare program, according to county figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

The new figure represents an increase of $3.7 million from July 2009 and makes up 23% of all county welfare and food stamp assistance, according to county records.

Last year, welfare and food stamp issuances totaled nearly $570 million, and the amount is projected to exceed $600 million this year. In addition, county taxpayers spend $550 million in public safety — mostly for jail costs — and nearly $500 million for healthcare for illegal immigrants, Antonovich said.

“The supervisor is very concerned,” said Antonovich spokesman Tony Bell. “He believes we have an economic catastrophe on our hands.”

Shirley Christensen of the county Department of Public Social Services said the number of households with illegal immigrant parents and U.S. citizen children receiving welfare increased by 7% from January to June of this year.

“With the economy the way it is, a lot of people have had to avail themselves of programs they may not have needed before,” Christensen said. “Everyone is taking a hit, including undocumented immigrants.”

Amid continued economic gloom, debate has intensified over the public cost of providing benefits to illegal immigrants and their U.S. citizen children. In recent months, calls have grown for a constitutional amendment that would effectively deny citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, whose numbers increased from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

Currently, U.S. citizenship is automatically granted to children born on U.S. soil. Last month, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he might introduce a constitutional amendment to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants. Antonovich and several legal scholars, however, argue that a federal statute would be sufficient to change the law.

But even some immigration hawks are wary of such a move. Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research organization that supports immigration restrictions, said ending birthright citizenship would harm children for their parents’ misdeeds, require new federal registration systems and create other problems. The solution, he said, is to continue driving down illegal immigration with tough enforcement.

How, pray tell, does it “harm children” for them to have non-US citizenship? Billions of people manage to have adequate lives without American nationality. On a planet rapidly approaching seven billion human residents, people need to stay home and make their own country work.

In addition, according to a spring Rasmussen poll 58 percent of Americans disapprove of citizenship for anchor babies — in case that matters to anyone.

Obama’s new and improved government [...]]]> In a California city where at least 80 percent of residents are Hispanic, parents no longer need to concern themselves with the annoying task of feeding the children: the taxpayer will handle that expensive chore. (Redistribution of funds conveniently means more cervesa money left over for dad, as it works out.)

Obama’s new and improved government envisions more services and less responsibility for residents. Just relax and let welfare experts distribute food stamps and free chow.

Free meals for all at 18 Santa Ana schools, Orange County Register, September 3, 2010

Every student at 18 of Santa Ana Unified’s campuses will receive a free breakfast and lunch for the entire school year regardless of whether they qualify for the federal free and reduced-price meal program.

For the third consecutive year, the district will participate in a U.S. Department of Agriculture program aimed at improving nutrition among students in schools serving the neediest populations.

The 18 schools each have at least 85 percent of students already qualifying for free or reduced-price meals. Officials say the program will also help reduce administrative costs by freeing up district staff from processing thousands of free and reduced-price lunch applications.

“Success in education is directly linked to teaching students who are not hungry, said Judy Pollock, interim food services director.

Federal officials have also said the program hopes to capture all needy students who don’t always apply for subsidized meals because of the stigma attached to receiving a free lunch, while friends and fellow classmate pay.

The USDA began the program at districts across the country two years ago. Santa Ana Unified, the county’s largest district with 55,000 students and 55 campuses, is the only one participating in Orange County. [. . .]

In Santa Ana Unified, a full-priced elementary school breakfast or lunch costs between $2 and $3 per meal. Breakfast dishes include cereal, English muffins with egg and ham, and breakfast burritos with potatoes, cheese and egg. Lunches include spaghetti with meatballs, crispy turkey filet sandwiches, and teriyaki beef with brown rice.

Many parents in Santa Ana welcome the program as a way to promote health for children who instead may eat fast food, or other less nutritious meals. At the same time, parent say the program allows families to save money in tough economic times.

“For many of students in this community, the school lunch might be the best meal they receive each day,” said Rosa Macias Robles, a parent at Washington Elementary. “Besides a good education, giving low-income children a good meal free of charge is one of the best services a school can provide.”

Hey, Rosa, those nutritious meals aren’t “free of charge” to the taxpayer, who is forced to pick up the tab.

Below, moocher parents line up with kids in Ventura County for their free-to-them feeding (For details, see California Free Food Gets Many Takers).

Anyway, Muslims apparently have noticed that Americans don’t like them very much. The Muslim response in [...]]]> When I go to the fair, I want to see the piggies and cows and the trotting horse races. I sure don’t want some hostile Islamics hawking their violent, misogynous religion — which doesn’t even permit music, for pete’s sake.

Anyway, Muslims apparently have noticed that Americans don’t like them very much. The Muslim response in this instance is to embody the idea that not every son/daughter of Allah kills infidels every day. They intend to accomplish this goal by shoving an informational card about Islam into the hands of people attending a non-religious event.

Talk about sensitive outreach. Woo hoo.

Muslims take to Minn. State Fair to repair image, AP, September 4, 2010

Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.

Each time a new wave of people exited, the young Minneapolis residents — who hadn’t eaten all day — tried to press into their hands a small, glossy card that read “Islam Explained” on one side. On the other, it had about 180 words of background on a religion whose adherents fear is being misunderstood by too many Americans as violent and depraved.

“You just want people to take the card, spend a minute reading it and say, ‘Oh. They’re not terrorists,’” said 27-year-old Zuleyha. She and her husband, like other Muslims, were fasting during daylight hours for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

For most fairgoers, the last thing on their mind is religion — particularly the renewed controversy over Islam in America amid tension over plans for an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York City’s ground zero. But volunteers with the Minnesota chapter of Islamic Circle of North America saw the mostly white, Christian fair crowd as just the type of audience that might benefit from greater understanding.

Perhaps Americans believe that already know as much about the Religion of Peace as they care to, and would prefer that traditional events be Islam-free. Just a thought.

“Look, I’m not beheading you. You want a free Koran? Allah Ackbar!” *

* Not a real caption.

East County blaze caused by illegal immigrants setting signal fire, San [...]]]> In California, the end of summer has brought an increased danger of wildfires, and two witless Mexicans who actually started a fire so they could be rescued got a bigger signal than they wanted. Unfortunately, the arsonists didn’t hang around to be arrested, er saved.

East County blaze caused by illegal immigrants setting signal fire, San Diego Tribune, September 3, 2010

EAST COUNTY — Update: The Cowboy Fire, which has burned 827 acres, is now 65 percent contained. Cal Fire said full containment is expected on Sunday evening and full control is expected on Tuesday evening.

A fire that had burned more than 800 acres by Friday night was caused by two stranded illegal immigrants who set a signal fire for help, Cal Fire officials said.

Dubbed the Cowboy Fire, the blaze began about 1:15 p.m. Thursday near the Pacific Crest Trail southwest of Lake Morena. It burned in an area between Campo and Potrero.

The two illegal immigrants called C4, Mexico’s emergency distress system, on Thursday and said they had been lost for two days and were dehydrated, said Cal Fire spokeswoman Roxanne Provaznik. They said they were going to light a signal fire to be rescued.

There was evidence in the area where the fire started, including empty food cans, that people had been there, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Nick Schuler said.

Cal Fire officials and U.S. Border Patrol agents searched but were unable to find the two people, who may have made it safely out of the area, Schuler said, adding that no human remains were found.

Below, the San Diego County “Cowboy Fire”

One straight-forward opinion grabbed headlines, that “radical” Islam (there’s another kind?) is the biggest threat to mankind. For a former world leader, it’s a major statement that violates the elite [...]]]> Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has recently published his memoir, A Journey, so he has been out and about for interviews and general book flacking.

One straight-forward opinion grabbed headlines, that “radical” Islam (there’s another kind?) is the biggest threat to mankind. For a former world leader, it’s a major statement that violates the elite doctrine to Say No Evil about Islam, even with the “radical” qualifier.

Radical Islam is world’s greatest threat – Tony Blair, BBC, September 3, 2010

Mr Blair told the BBC his view of foreign policy had changed as a result of the 9/11 attacks: “After 11 September, rightly or wrongly, I felt the calculus of risk had changed.

“There is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if they could, they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

“You can’t take a risk with that happening.”

Mr Blair said he agonised over how to respond to radical Islam and still had doubts that he was right.

These are really difficult issues, he said, but added: “This extremism is so deep that in the end they have to know that they’re facing a stronger will than theirs.”

Yes, and the extremism is widespread, given the instruction of the Koran to slay the infidels when they will not submit to Islam.

Thilo Sarrazin, a former finance minister, published a book this week critical of the effects of Muslim immigration in Germany titled Deutschland Schafft sich ab ["Germany [...]]]> Hearing the truth spoken in public about Islam is not popular among Europe’s elites, even after all the violence and other hostility, so the messenger is likely to get punished.

Thilo Sarrazin, a former finance minister, published a book this week critical of the effects of Muslim immigration in Germany titled Deutschland Schafft sich ab ["Germany Does Away With Itself"]. (See my blog Muslim Immigration Condemned in Germany for details.)

An uproar exploded among officialdom about the book, with Prime Minister Angela Merkel leading the call for his expulsion, and the Bundesbank voted in a couple days for Sarrazin to be fired from his position on the board.

Bundesbank official to be sacked after controversial Jewish and Muslim comments, Daily Telegraph, September 3, 2010

The Bundesbank said in a statement that its six-member board “unanimously agreed” to ask Christian Wulff, the German President, to remove Mr Sarrazin, 65, from his post. It said the bank’s corporate governance commissioner “unreservedly supports” the decision.

Mr Wulff’s office said he had received the request from the Bundesbank and was considering it. It did not say when he was expected to make a decision.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and several members of her government have indicated they would like Mr Sarrazin to go, amid fears that his comments were damaging to the central bank’s reputation.
Following the Bundesbank’s announcement, a government spokesman signalled Mrs Merkel’s satisfaction with the move.

At least in the video below, Sarrazin the banker emphasized the economic impact on German society of so many unproductive immigrants, specifically the Muslim ones who refuse to assimilate, unlike other immigrant groups of which he approves. “In every country, the Muslim immigrants — on the basis of their lower participation in the work force and looming recourse to social support — cost the state more than they bring in,” he reads from his book.

For more of Thilo Sarrazin speaking out in his own defense, see a Bild article translated in Gates of Vienna: Strangers in Our Own Country.

An occasional observation of the [...]]]> Foreign organized crime has captured and now controls huge tracts of land in Arizona — why is this not major news? Americans driving on the roads within the surrendered territory are told to keep moving, that it is not safe to be there. Whatever happened to the Land of the Free?

An occasional observation of the MSM is that Mexican drug crime “might spill over” into the United States. But it already has.

Actually, the Mexican incursion isn’t new news (see On the Border: Retreat?), but one hopes that the general public might learn the truth about the level of border anarchy that Obama permits.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues its program of harassment against Arizonans who defend sovereignty and borders: this week it sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a “civil rights probe.”

Why are billions of our tax dollars spent to defend Iraq and Afghanistan when we are losing American territory to a bunch of criminal Mexicans? Citizens should be able to travel highways in southern Arizona without fearing for their lives. Ranchers and other residents should be able to live safely on their property — which they do not.

Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers, Washington Times, September 2, 2010

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.

They warn travelers that they are entering an “active drug and human smuggling area” and they may encounter “armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to “use public lands north of Interstate 8″ and to call 911 if they “see suspicious activity.”

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.” [. . .]

Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican and a member of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, said the federal government’s new border security plan apparently is to “erect some signs telling you it’s not safe to travel in our own country.”

“If you are planning on loading up the station wagon and taking the kids to Disneyland, the federal government doesn’t advise going through Arizona – it’s too dangerous and they can’t protect you,” said Mr. Poe. “These signs say to American citizens, the federal government has ceded this area to the drug cartels. Don’t come here; we can’t protect you.”

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, called the signs “an insult to the citizens of border states.”

“American citizens should not have to be fearful for their lives on U.S. soil,” he said. “If the federal government would do its job of enforcing immigration laws, we could better secure the border and better protect the citizens of border states.”