By Stan Gudmundson
Peterson, MN
Not long ago, there were letters in the Journal criticizing President Trump for his language. And his policies. Except for Somalis, neither one addressed anything important other than highlighting the author’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.
We have long taken for granted that immigrants who come to the U.S. come here to integrate into our “melting pot.” But now, that is not what is always happening. Instead, we have become a “salad bowl” having a wide mix of “ingredients.” And some of those “ingredients” don’t come here to mix and assimilate.
Obviously, who people are, determines our future. If we want to change our culture and our way of life, then bring in immigrants from the third-world who want America to be a version of the country from which they came. Then we can become third-world too. Culture is destiny.
Tom Sowell says that, “The illusion that you can take in large numbers of people from a fundamentally different culture, without jeopardizing you own culture, and everything that depends on it, should have been dispelled by many counterproductive social consequences in Europe, even aside from the fatal angers of terrorists. He also thinks that future historians will be “baffled when trying to understand how Western civilization welcomed vast numbers of people hostile to the fundamental values of Western civilization.”
Except for Poland and Hungary, Europe has a huge problem with Islam. But let us just look at how Somalis are doing here in the U.S. and in Somalia itself.
One observer noted, “Chaos in lawless Somalia is helping to transform East Africa into a major crime hub, with widespread trafficking in illegal drugs and other contraband … Somalia … is becoming a free economic zone for all sorts of trafficking drugs, migrants, guns, hazardous waste and natural resources, in addition to having the world’s most dangerous waterways because of piracy … there has been a ‘steady increase in organized crime’ in much of Somalia due to the inability of Somalia’s … government to enforce the law … conditions could get worse.”
Somalia is a failed state having a largely criminal culture. One cynic described Somalia as having only one major occupation. Piracy. Unfortunately, many Somali immigrants bring the values and habits of that failed culture with them.
Most Somalis are not assimilating. Their overwhelming reliance on public assistance programs is shown in the following:
– Welfare benefits – over 80%.
– Somalis with children – in Minnesota, almost 90%
– Medicaid – 73%
– Food stamps – 54%
– SNAP benefits – around 42%
– Poverty level – more than two-thirds
– Somali families who have been in the U.S. more than 10 years – 78% on welfare
The author concludes, “These statistics reflect the socioeconomic challenges faced by many Somalis in the U.S. The data highlights the need for targeted support and policy adjustments to address the welfare dependency of Somali communities.”
To that I say, BULLFEATHERS! Their “socioeconomic challenges” reflect their culture. A fact also reinforced by the incredible fraud some have committed. How big is it? One-billion, maybe upwards of nine-billion just in Minnesota.
What should we do? For our safety, we need to shut down immigration from Muslim countries and hope that those who are here now and their offspring will eventually fully assimilate.
The problem is that too many Muslims see the world through the lens of Sharia (Allah’s divine law). A Muslim imam affirms, “peace” in Islam is the state that exists when the entire world is under the control of sharia under a caliphate.
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