White South African granted asylum in Canada after 7 violent attacks from blacks - Ruling blacks in South Africa say ruling is "racist"

Remember that old proverb..."The jew cries out in pain, as he strikes you."

The negroes have learned something from their jewish masters.

White South African granted asylum in Canada after attacks from blacks

A white South African has been granted refugee status in Canada after an immigration board ruled he faced persecution from black people if he returned to his native country.

By Ian Evans in Cape Town
Telegraph
Published: 31 Aug 2009

Brandon Huntley, 31, originally from Cape Town, said he was attacked seven times, including three stabbings, by black South Africans during muggings and robberies before he moved to Canada.

He claimed he was called a "white dog" and a "settler" by black people in a reference to South Africa's colonial and apartheid past.

The Ottawa Sun newspaper reported that the immigration board last Thursday granted him refugee status allowing him to stay in Canada.

"I find that the claimant would stand out like a 'sore thumb' due to his colour in any part of the country," tribunal panel chair William Davis was quoted as saying.

Mr Huntley first travelled to Canada on a six-month work permit in 2004 to work as a carnival attendant. He returned to South Africa and then went back to work in Canada in 2005 for a year and stayed illegally for an additional year until he made a refugee claim in April 2008.

It is thought to be the first time a white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming he was the victim of black aggression.

Speaking about black on white violence in South Africa, Mr Huntley said: "There's a hatred of what we did to them and it's all about the colour of your skin."

South African ANC Says Canada’s Refugee Ruling Racist

bloomberg
By Paul Richardson and Greg Quinn

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s ruling African National Congress branded as “racist” a ruling by Canada’s immigration board that gave a white South African citizen refugee status.

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“Canada’s reasoning for granting Huntley a refugee status can only serve to perpetuate racism,” Brian Sokutu, the ANC’s spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. “South Africa is a constitutional democracy with organs of state fully in place to fight crime without any reference to race of a victim or perpetrator.”

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German family moves to Tennessee and seeks asylum in the United States to homeschool their five children

ABOVE: Hannelore Romeike works with Damaris Romeike, 3, at their home Friday, March 13, 2009 in Morristown, Tenn.

By ROSE FRENCH | Townhall.com | Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Homeschooling is so important to Uwe Romeike that the classically trained pianist sold his beloved grand pianos to pay for moving his wife and five children from Germany to the Smoky Mountain foothills of Tennessee.

Romeike (roh-MY'-kee), his wife Hannelore, and their children live in a modest duplex about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville while they seek political asylum here. They say they were persecuted for their evangelical Christian beliefs and homeschooling their children in Germany, where school attendance is compulsory.

When the Romeikes wouldn't comply with repeated orders to send the children to school, police came to their home one October morning in 2006 and took the children, crying and upset, to school.

"We tried not to open the door, but they (police) kept ringing the doorbell for 15 or 20 minutes," Romeike said. "They called us by phone and spoke on the answering machine and said they would knock open the door if we didn't open it. So I opened it."

Romeike, like many conservative parents in the U.S., said he wanted to teach his own children because his children's German school textbooks contained language and ideas that conflicted with his family's values.

He had to pay fines equivalent to hundreds of dollars for his decision, and he's afraid that if he returns to Germany, police will arrest him and government authorities will take away his children, who range in age from 11 to 3.

The Romeike asylum case is expected to go before an immigration judge in Memphis on Thursday, according to Michael Donnelly, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association representing the family.

Bernadette Meyler, a Cornell Law School professor who has studied differences in religious liberty between the U.S. and Europe, said she's never heard of another case like this in the U.S.

Ana Santiago, a regional spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the agency is barred from discussing specific political asylum cases and doesn't keep track of the reasons asylum is granted.

Donnelly says the Romeikes saw more freedom to homeschool in the U.S.

"Germany sticks out in the midst of Western Europe for having this harsh repression against parents," Donnelly said. "They have this notion that homeschool creates this parallel society and they deem that as dangerous."

Lutz Gorgens, German consul general for the Southeast U.S., said he's not familiar with the Romeikes' specific situation but believes the claim of persecution is "far-fetched." He defended Germany's requirements for public education.

"For reasons deeply rooted in history and our belief that only schools properly can ensure the desired level of excellent education, we (Germany) go a little bit beyond that path which other countries have chosen," Gorgens said.

Germany's approach to homeschooling is starkly different to the U.S. and other European countries. Homeschool students have been growing by an estimated 8 percent annually in the U.S. and as of 2007 totaled about 1.5 million.

Only about 500 children in Germany are taught at home, experts estimate.

Romeike took his three oldest children out of school in Bietigheim-Bissingen in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2006.

His oldest child, Daniel, had a health textbook that used slang terms to describe sexual relations _ including the German equivalent of the "F-word." Other schoolbooks taught disrespect of authority figures and had images and tales about the occult, that included vampires and witches, Romeike said.

"It's really different in public schools today than when I was in public school," Romeike said. "They (the state) believe children must be socialized and all kids must grow up the same and act the same, otherwise they wouldn't fit in society."

German state constitutions require that children attend school. Parents who don't comply face punishment ranging from fines to prison time. Germany's highest appellate court ruled in November 2007 that, in severe cases, social services officials could remove children from their parents' care.

Not long after the Romeikes removed their children from school in September 2006, the principal talked to the parents about their concerns but urged them to send their children back to class. A letter from town mayor said the couple would be fined 30 euros per child each day they weren't in school. When the Romeikes didn't comply, police went to the home the following month.

Susanne Neib, spokeswoman for Baden-Wuerttemberg's Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports, said that when authorities learn of cases like the Romeikes, they visit the home to explain the benefits of public school.

She said the state tries to intervene against homeschooling very rarely, though she declined to estimate how often such cases arise.

The Romeikes went before a German district judge in 2007 to defend their homeschooling but lost, and higher courts refused to look at the case.

Donnelly's group helped the family move last August to Morristown, where the Romeikes say numerous other families homeschool their children.

Meyler said the U.S. is more tolerant of homeschooling because of religion's prominence in the country's founding. Germany is more concerned about educating students equally, she said.

"The idea is homeschooling might lead to the emergence of separate societies that would not share the same vision of the (German) state," Meyler said.

But interest in homeschooling hasn't died out. Elisabeth Kuhnle of the Network for Education Freedom, a German homeschool advocacy group, says as many as 50 families attended a recent meeting in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

The consul, Gorgens, and other officials maintain that most parents in Germany believe it's most appropriate to send children to schools.

"If you put that to a vote, I'm sure that the obligation to send kids to school would be overwhelmingly accepted. It's a popular thing, which does not say that every single parent is happy about it."