“More training in dealing with traumatized refugees” - of course, that’s the answer

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 27 September 2005 19:53.

From the Norwegian/English language newspaper, Aftenposten:-

Police in the southeastern county of Østfold have been spending lots of time at an asylum center in Våler, where a group of refugees from Chechnya have demanded that strict Muslim laws be followed. Police worry that center administrators have lost control.
Both residents at the center at Nordbybråten in Våler and employees working there have been frightened by the group of around a dozen Chechen refugees, reports local newspaper Moss Avis. The Chechens allegedly are demanding that everyone must pray to Allah, that no one can wear shorts and that they must be allowed to be the first to take their meals.

Employees filed a police report about conditions at the center, which is prompting emergency meetings with the national immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) and management at the Våler.

‘Scandalous’
“We have conditions at Nordbybråten that can raise questions about whether the management at the asylum center has lost control,” Våler sheriff Per Tore Fremstad told Moss Avis.

Police were called to the center yet again over the weekend, when an employee asked a resident refugee to show identification. The employee ended up being physically assaulted.

Fremstad said police have been summoned to the center eight times in the past two months. Police officers responding have described conditions there as “scandalous” and “lawless.” Most of the calls require at least 10 police officers to restore order at the center.

‘Not acceptable’
Ole Morten Lyng, leader of the center, admitted to Moss Avis that conditions “aren’t acceptable” and that he’s been trying to beef up staffing. He said the Chechen refugees now say they’ll cooperate, and admit they’ve been “impulsive.”

He allowed that some of them demand to eat first, but repeated “that’s not acceptable.” He said center staff will also get more training in dealing with traumatized refugees.

Fremstad said UDI needs to take a stronger role at the center, and that residents who cause trouble should be moved to other centers quickly. Many of the refugees can be deported, he said, “but it can take weeks before they can be sent back where they came from,” because of bureaucracy in other countries.

Thanks to Jun Girl for the link.

Tags: Immigration

Comments:

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:38 | #

” ‘it can take weeks before they can be sent back where they came from,’ because of bureaucracy in other countries.”

Weeks? Is that all? You mean ... in only a matter of weeks they can be cleared the hell out of Norway? What are we waiting for then? I’ll take it! Send ‘em straight back!

But all joking aside, it’s unacceptable for refugees to make demands as to the religious atmosphere of the place that’s trying to welcome them. If they’re going to act like this they couldn’t have been all that persecuted in their country to begin with, otherwise they’d show more gratitude to the Norwegians and not be so picky. The correct way to handle their damands in regard to Norway’s being a Christian, not Moslem, country is to tell them plainly that that’s the way it is and if they don’t like it, there’s the door. The correct approach is definitely not to start bending over backwards to Moslemize the place, trying to make them feel more at home. They’re not home. They’re in someone else’s home now and they can either like it or lump it as grown-ups used to say to whiny impertinent kids when I was a child. That’s the way to handle this. And that’s even assuming these Chechens aren’t being brought into Norway in excessive numbers, numbers having the potential to contribute to the forced race-change now going on there thanks to the efforts of the Norwegian élites. If their numbers are excessive in this regard their welcome should be rescinded with humble apologies and financial compensation where applicable, and they should be politely, humanely repatriated via the first available jet or boat.

Posted by Lurker on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:58 | #

Amazing that of the muslim countries in the world to go to these guys from Chechnya chose to go to, er…Norway? Now, why would that be?

Posted by John S Bolton on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:14 | #

This has to be deloiberate, on the part of depraved officials hoping to start a war of religion, having despaired of the class war, the leftist amoralists. Morally filthy officails and their unspeakable professoriate, and craven media, grasp with unclean habds at any chance at causing civil conflicts that could lead to an excuse for dictatorship. Give up, you slime, your leftist ideals are smashed and lying in blood in the sewer, there is no cahnce for your dream of mass murder for the hell of it, for socialism in radical nakedness.

Posted by Amon on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:52 | #

Lurker:

Hungary has a large Vietnamese population. Immigrants—especially South and N.E. Asian ones—choose arbitrary places to immigrate to. Even Suriname has Asians!