Please help us start a new life!

Aisha’s family is among 3,400 war-ravaged Iraqis in Britain seeking asylum in Britain and she is terrified that her claim will be rejected and her war traumatized babies will be forced to return to a country that has been devastated by war.

"It is not myself that I care about," says Aisha, "it is my children who have seen terrible things that no little child should see."

"They have nightmares every night and my husband and I are exhausted. We are not well ourselves -- I cry all the time and I am in constant pain, and my husband suffers deep depression, too  -- and I worry all the time about what will happen to my babies if we die here, or if we are forcibly returned to Iraq."

"How can we help our babies overcome the terrible things they have seen and been through when we are victimized in this way?"

"Our misery is seen by them every day and because they never see us happy they are not happy themselves," cries Aisha. "But how can I pretend to be happy when I am crushed with sadness about the terrible life we left and have been given no hope for the future?"

"Is it that your country hates Iraqis or hates Muslims so much that you would send two little babies back to Iraq to get killed?"

"Everyone helps tsunami and earthquake victims," sighs Aisha. "Why is nobody helping the terribly traumatized people of Iraq -- especially the little children?"

"We are here; please help us start a new life."

Read more by Aisha on this issue:

• Go back where you came from?
• limbo immigrants
  

racism and the religious balance

In pointing out that interracial relations are edgy because too many of one race coming into an area upsets the existing religious balance, Poppy is stating the bleeding obvious – but it is always denigrated as racism.

"The first newcomers in our neighborhood were Catholics from Lebanon and Korea and we welcomed them,” says Poppy. “And then came the Vietnamese – and we welcomed them – and all was harmonious until the second generation when we realized we had become minority second class citizens in our own town because we were Protestants.”

"And then, in the early nineties,” says Poppy, ‘a trickle of Muslims arrived during the Middle East conflict and although they are still a minority group in relation to the Catholic population, they now completely dominate everyone else in their demands.”

“Our antagonism has nothing to do with the color of the immigrants skins,” says Poppy. “Instead, it has everything to do with religion.”

“Our community was predominantly Protestant sixty years ago,” says Poppy. “Now it is predominantly Catholic, and within sixty years it will be predominantly Muslim.”

“Protestantism is a North European religion, separate and distinct from South European Roman Catholicism – for very good historical reasons,” says Poppy, “and Islam doesn’t belong here at all.”

“I believe that the rapid social disintegration and interracial tension we are experiencing is directly related to global wars designed to shift the religious balance at home (with immigrants) and abroad (with conversion).”

Read more by Poppy on this issue:

engineered demographics

the fate of indigenous populations

demographic engineering

religiously motivated wars

the curse of the katholikos ethos

katholikos is Greek for global

the enemy within