Refugees to U.S.: 27 percent self-identify as Muslims

4^th in a series on the US border and immigration

Have you ever asked yourself why US academics rarely talk about the issue of women and minority rights in repressive Middle Eastern Countries? Nevertheless, even progressive publications like The New York Times have urged the federal government to accept “persecuted women who flee to the United States…”

Women and others who seek asylum from Islamist governments made up about 27 percent of “arriving refugees self-identified as Muslim,” according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

CIS published a backgrounder disclosing this, Refugee Resettlement, A System Badly in Need of Review.

Why are scholars and legacy media hesitant to cover human rights issues in repressive countries when they are only too glad to cover such issues in the U.S.?

One reason is money. Middle East studies programs in the U.S. are often funded by what Dr. Walid Phares calls “petrodollars” in his book ‘The Coming Revolution.’ For instance, the Georgetown Center on Christian-Muslim Understanding is, said Phares, “heavily funded by Prince Talal Ibn al Waleed.” Waleed is from Saudi Arabia; he is a donor to “a number of American Universities.”

Also out of favor in the political class is the concept of assimilation. Now Ethnic Community Based Organizations push the idea of adaptation. CIS said these taxpayer supported organizations “provide little meaningful assistance” to refugees once they settle here. CIS describes the organizations as “exclusive ethnic clubs with close ties to the home country.”

Little is said in legacy media or in scholarly circles about such matters.

A moment of supreme naiveté is reported by Dr. Phares in his groundbreaking book. In the decade prior to Sept. 11, Phares writes about the group think of organizations like The Middle East Studies Association—scholarly presentations on politically incorrect topics like the Lebanese Christian community would only be accepted if the theme was critical of that community and in line with Arabist thinking. Political correctness prevailed to the detriment of innocents who were persecuted in countries like Afghanistan. That political correctness helps to expand the number of refugees.

“By the end of the decade,” said Phares, “apology reached its zenith when a Harvard group extended an invitation to a Taliban delegation to lecture students about their good achievements in Afghanistan…”

The invitation was sent, wrote Phares, “one month before the 9/11 attacks.” (Commentary by Kay B. Day/June 9, 2011)

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The US Report series on immigration and border security:

Pt. 1: Could Bennett’s immigration amendment protect terrorists?

Pt. 2: Why do Mexico’s children seek US ‘social justice’?

Pt. 3: UN, NGOs control refugee admissions says CIS