PBS in Tandem with the State Department Smears Shelbyville to Advance Al Hijra (Muslim Immigration)

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For years I have been writing about the refugee resettlement program here: (here)

More deeply disturbing is the UN decides who gets refugee status. I have recounted the subsequent sometimes violent repercussions of these "religious" communities attempting to advance Islamic supremacism by targeting gays and hurling stones at them, trying to impose Muslim prayer on the public schools, imposing sharia law on these workplaces in America (go here and here and here and here and here and here)….

More on al hijra here.

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Brian Mosely, staff writer for the Shelbyville Times Gazette, contacted me on the topic of Somali immigration in that small Tennessee community. He has written a number of articles over the past three years dealing with the strains and culture clashes that have occurred as a result of that.

In his email, Mosely describes the Islamic supremacist propaganda war being advanced by the notoriously left PBS (your taxpayer dollars at work) and the Arabist State department:

One of these stories took the national stage in 2008 when the Times-Gazette reported that a new union contract at the Shelbyville Tyson Foods facility replaced Labor Day as a paid holiday with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.

Following that, a documentary crew came here and shot  "Welcome to Shelbyville," which will air nationwide, May 24 on PBS..

The film received financing and support from progressive migration advocates, with the hand of George Soros thrown into the mix, and has also been sponsored by the state department as overseas propaganda. The "propaganda" label comes from no less an authority than the New York Times

I am in the film and after seeing it in October, found it a completely biased distortion of what has happened, one that depicts myself and Shelbyville as "unwelcoming." In short, they came to town with a prearranged agenda to link the community with the Jim Crow past and the KKK and then proceeded to stage events with the Soros supported Welcoming Tennessee activist group, but completely edited out important issues like the communality's reaction and resistance to the demands of the Muslims during the Eid al Fitr controversy. The event is not mentioned at all.

Writing about this topic has so far resulted in my appearance in this left wing movie, as well as a right-wing book. I learned last week that I am in Chapter 4 of Erick Stakelbeck's The Terrorist Next Door, which examines Somali immigration and is partly based on my work from 2007-2008. Erick came down an shot a segment for the 700 Club with me in 2009 about our situation.

It even got so nuts for this country-boy scribe in 2008 that no less an authority than Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy flew down here to meet with me personally in order to pick my brain about creeping Shariah.

This morning, our paper published an editorial calling into question the motives of the filmmakers, and my publisher has allowed me to take them to task for the way I am portrayed in my blog. I detail my experiences with the director, who was only focused on arriving a prearranged story, no matter what the facts were.

Times Gazette wrote of the film here.

There is quite a bit of money and media support for this effort by the filmmakers and the state department, but I feel that the other side of the story is not being told. I am just a small town journalist with only one voice, and now I learn that the state department is throwing their weight behind this slanted film:

Look at the email being sent to journalists from the State Department:

Subject: Press Conference Call – U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program – Tuesday May 24 1:00-2:30

Special Conference Call Briefing:

Refugees in Your Town – Nuts & Bolts Briefing on the

Resettlement of Refugees to the U.S. 

The U.S. State Department and the Department of Health and Human Services invite journalists to participate in an on-the-record conference call on the resettlement of refugees to local communities across the United States under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) on Tuesday, May 24 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST.

Eric P. Schwartz, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration; and Ron Munia, Director of the Division of Community Development in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Dept. of Health and Human Services will give brief remarks to explain their agency’s role in the domestic resettlement process, and then will respond to reporters’ question.

The Departments of State and of Health and Human Services play essential roles in the resettlement of refugees to the U.S., including more than 73,000 refugees in FY 2010.  The briefing will provide journalists from around the country the opportunity to speak to U.S. government experts about the domestic resettlement process, including the challenges of local integration, which is the subject of the soon-to-be-released PBS documentary film "Welcome to Shelbyville." The Department of State will host a screening and panel discussion of the film on May 25 which will be open to press (details to follow in a separate Notice to the Press).

Ann over at Refugee Resettlement Watch posted this:

Those comments are from reporter Mosely (whose words and deeds were twisted for the film) from the Shelbyville Times-Gazette yesterday in advance of this week’s debut of a Leftwing propaganda film (Welcome to Shelbyville) to be released widely throughout the US with the help of the US State Department.  The reporter and the newspaper are attempting to fight back against monstrous lies perpetrated by the federal government and George Soros sponsored film makers. 

RRW Editor:  We have followed the making of this propaganda film from the first arrival of the team in Tennessee (led by Kim Snyder) and have posted many times on it.  Please return for a moment to read this post in January with background information and links to earlier posts.


It is very important that after you learn the truth about the film that you send the Times-Gazette link to your local reporters and to everyone you know who might see the film.  I was told by a reader last night that it will be shown in Emporia, KS this week which long-time readers know was a town embroiled in the Tyson’s /Somali issue in 2007 as well (we have a whole category here at RRW about Emporia).  In that city, Tyson’s pulled the plug on the controversial meat packing plant and moved Somalis from the town clearly in response to the upheaval in that city.

It has been my contention from the early days of RRW that the US State Department and its federal refugee contractors are working to supply cheap immigrant labor to the meatpacking industry, as well as to import third worlders to change the political landscape of middle America.  They hide behind the cover of  a “humanitarian” agenda.

The film’s purpose is to smear Shelbyville as a racist town and shame any other town into silence that might have a problem with third worlders, especially Muslims, flooding their communities.

Know that the US State Department will be promoting this film in a conference call to reporters on Tuesday. 

It is so awful (and so scary) to see the lengths our own government will go to to promote lies, and a political/crony agenda.


Here is the opening to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette story yesterday:

As many of our readers are aware, in late 2007, I wrote a five part series about the impact that the introduction of Somali refugees were having on Bedford County. The stories focused on how the refugees got here, their traditions and beliefs, and took an honest look at the many cultural clashes that were taking place between the locals and the newcomers.

The series provoked a huge controversy, along with much discussion and debate from members of our community.

Then, in August 2008, the Times-Gazette reported that a new union contract at the Shelbyville Tyson Foods facility replaced Labor Day as a paid holiday with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.

That story put Shelbyville on the national stage, with the topic touching off coverage from the national news media, as well as massive attention on the issue from talk radio hosts, websites and blogs, some of which continues to this very day.

The controversy the stories created led a documentary crew to Shelbyville in late 2008 to shoot “Welcome to Shelbyville,” which will air nationwide, May 24 on PBS at 9 p.m.. The film received financing from progressive migration advocates, and has been sponsored by the state department as overseas propaganda. The “propaganda” label comes from no less an authority than the New York Times.

I viewed the film twice in October of last year during its local premiere, and found the filmmaker’s depiction of myself and the stories published by the T-G to be a monstrous distortion, with an incredible series of blatant omissions and dishonest misrepresentations that was obviously designed only to advance the political agenda of the filmmakers and the progressive organizations that funded and supported its production.

While the filmmakers certainly have a right to express their views, in the process, I feel they have engaged in a completely unfair character assassination of both myself, the Times-Gazette, not to mention how the entire city of Shelbyville is depicted.

They have told their story. Now, I shall tell mine.

Read it all!

I was planning to give readers more excerpts, but I want you to go to the original story and read the whole thing (with links)—it is so shocking!   And, as I said in January, someone should write a book about this—about the making of Marxist/Socialist propaganda in the modern day.

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elizabethreed
elizabethreed
12 years ago

Up is down, down is up. Right is wrong, wrong is right. Good is bad, bad is good. Dear god let me teach my children well.

Linda Rivera
Linda Rivera
12 years ago

One of the very great tragedies and injustices of our day is that the many non-Muslim victims of Islam are NOT helped. Instead of bringing into Western countries severely persecuted non-Muslims who live in daily fear in Muslim countries, the West have instead brought in many millions of Muslims.
The U.S. disarmed Iraqi Christians rendering Christians defenseless prey for barbaric Muslims. The U.S. government then went out of its way to make it extremely difficult, even impossible for Christians to emigrate to a safe, non-Muslim country. A war on terror? It appears more like a WAR on Christians.
The Plight of Christians in Iraq
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 24, 2008
Immediately after the American invasion of Iraq, the Christian militias were disarmed. They were the only militias to be disarmed. Christians fled from Baghdad. In Jordan and Syria the American embassies told Iraqi refugees to go to the United Nations because their plight “was not an American problem.” Excuse me?
Meanwhile the official position of the State Department under Condi Rice is that Christians are harassed by “criminal elements” in Iraq and that no persecution exists. That attitude has caused even greater persecution and led our embassies and other nations to be unhelpful.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32478
There must be a MAJOR investigation over the venomous HATE and excessively cruel discrimination against Christians.

Linda Rivera
Linda Rivera
12 years ago

A few days ago, a Christian from Egypt, told me he had applied for asylum here in America, three times and each time had been turned down. In Egypt, the Christians live in daily fear from Muslims. In Egypt, Christians are attacked and murdered. Their churches burnt down. Christian Egyptian female children are constantly kidnapped, violently converted to Islam and married/raped to adult Muslim males. THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP THEM. G-D help the non-Muslims in this world!

Mac-101
Mac-101
12 years ago

How can the name of George Soros be associated with every EVIL plot to undermine the US and Israel. That this NAZI colaborater who has done more to weaken the state of Israel still exist proives to me that the Mossad is a New World Order tool just like the CIA is!

Mac-101
Mac-101
12 years ago

If our country continues to exist, which I do not beleive it will, ALL these clowns who undermined the US and Israel nd to be tried for TREASON,

Xavier823
Xavier823
12 years ago

Its especially sad that the main Christian churches in the US have not said squat about the persecution and the blind eye the US government has shown.

Xavier823
Xavier823
12 years ago

I can not image what Washington and the rest of this countries founders would thought about this.

Gazelle
Gazelle
12 years ago

Oh yes, it’s much worse than so many are willing to admit. I used to work for the NVC (National Visa Center), which is just a “processing” facility toward green cards and had the opportunity to speak with many folks. I would speak with many Muslims who were in the processing phase of getting their family members an interview at the appropriate embassy. It was the most difficult job I ever had and it morally bankrupted me, so I had to leave. The straw that broke the camel’s back was talking with an Egyptian living right here in the US working on getting his family here. His email address was jetplane911. I didn’t give much notice as God gave me the biggest sign to leave. Reporting this incident was a laugh. I was told we were just the processing stop and someone else at the embassy would surely pick up on it. No, not so much. There are already plenty that came over here legally who wouldn’t think twice about offing a bunch of “infidels” and much more. I guess many in the Dept. of State haven’t read the Koran or are even aware of what taqiyya is. The Christians from Muslim countries would tell horrifying stories and the fear they had for their family members still overseas was heartbreaking. Some lose their lives trying to get to the U.S. embassy for the interview. Our whole “legal” immigration process needs an overhaul. It’s more than disgraceful.

Steve
Steve
12 years ago

THANK YOU for posting this!
I’m glad I found your blog and will be back!
Steve
Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

sheik yer'mami
sheik yer'mami
12 years ago

Replacing native middle Americans with a Mohammedan proletariat, because it worked so well in the UK?

chuckh
chuckh
12 years ago

Just what is our immigration policy in this country? The President says it most be reformed. Why must it be reformed? As the great intellectual Nancy Pelosi once said, we have to pass it so that you can read what is in it. Of course I am paraphrasing Ms. Pelosi’s stupid comment. But how many of you are really aware of what our immigration policy (if any) really is? Darn few, I’ll bet.
I do not believe in multiculturalism. I believe if you grant citizenship to someone, that person is obligated to assimilate into the American culture. If they can’t then they should receive only a temporary visa. I heard this morning that the department of Homeland Security does not know where 1.6 million foreigners on visas are? Now that is a comforting thought!
What are we doing to ourselves? Can our government be so stupid or inefficient to grant visas to that many people and totally be unaware of what has happened to them? We do need reforms. We need to reform and improve who we are allowing into our country and how long they are staying. This is shocking to me. I hope that it is to you as well.

Stephen D
Stephen D
12 years ago

I recall when there were “refugees” from S.E. Asia that resettled after the Vietnam War. Though there were difficulties, I know of no community that treated them as “less than.” It seems we are always put on the defensive and must “prove” ourselves with the world. Does anyone question the attempts (or lack thereof) of the new “refugees” to assimilate into the American culture? Even the S.E. Asian communities I spoke of did this as best they could, adapting to our dress, our schooling, even our music and sport. Does the Somali or any other Islamic dominated peoples do this? America welcomes everyone that goes through the LEGAL processes. We however, expect, rightly so, that YOU assimilate to OUR CULTURE and not the other way around.

LTC (Rt) Ray Burke
LTC (Rt) Ray Burke
12 years ago

Our country is being overrun by mostly undesirable and often very dangerous immigrants. Our own government is responsible for this outrage. How can we even hope to save ourselves and what is left of our country when our own government is, in fact, our worst enemy?

qr
qr
12 years ago

it is sad to see that we are sending millions of dollars to countries like God damn Turkey, who has slaughtered millions of Chrsitian Armenians, yet we do not help the only christian country left in that region, Armenia, who is blockaded by all Muslim countries except Iran, around it.
Most of Americans are not aware of the true face of Arab religion. Bin Ladin was a true muslim who was following their prophets’ direction. All other muslims that claim that he was fenatic, they do not know much about their religion. Everyone should read their book to see how we, the infidels, are portraied there. Do not believe their claims of religion of peace. Islam is not a religion. It is a political party. Wake up.

John P.
John P.
12 years ago

About 10 or 11 years ago Canada’s CBC network did a a long reportage on Somalis in Toronto who had practically taken over a whole apartment building. For the other residents life had become hell.
What’s strangest about the Somali resettlement programs is that they’re necessary because of what the Somalis themselves have done to their homeland. The country hasn’t had a working gov’t in nearly two decades. The place imploded as diffrent tribes and clans got into endless rounds of warfare. The country’s only economic activities all seem centered on piracy. Why should we now reward these fools with U.S. citizenship? They’ve destroyed their country and now expect us to take them in.

Vietnam Vet
Vietnam Vet
7 years ago

When clinton was governor of Arkansas and his wife was a lawyer, hillary made a $1,000 investment in futures. She made a profit of around $90,000 on her investment.
Her financial adviser on the investment was Don Tysons’ lawyer.
While clinton was governor there was a big problem with the meat packers polluting Arkansas waterways. Cliton came down hard on the beef packers but left Tyson alone.
When clinton was president he brought 6,600 plus basnian muslim refugees into some of the slaughter houses and meat packing plants in Iowa.
hillary wants to bring 100,000 syrian muslim refugees into the U.S. in 2017 and 110,000 in 2018. A section in the Farm Bill was drafted by obamas’ U.S.Chamber of Commerce and the AFL/CIO,
(tefere gebre the muslim ethiopian refugee who came here in 2008 and became executive vice president of the afl/cio badly wants to unionize the south. Is the union brotherhood now the muslim brotherhood?)
Anyhow. The afl/cio wants the Farm Bill to make it Federal law that all farm and dairy workers in all of the United States become union members and that the union has the right by federal law to place union workers in all farm and dairy workers job positions.
Are these the jobs clinton states she will create and are the jobs going to be filled by the unions with the muslim refugees she wants to bring into our country?
If clinton gets elected you better put staircases in your silos so you can call your farm and dairy workers to prayer 5 times a day.

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