If Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s alleged July 16 attack on the Chattanooga Navy Reserve Center brought anything to light, it is the elite’s hypocrisy in demonizing southern heritage while protecting radical Islam.

After all, no photos have emerged of Abdulazeez holding a Confederate flag, but his Islamic ties are there for anyone who wants to see them.

Yet the same elitists who seized on a photo of a Confederate flag as quasi-causal in the rampage against church-goers in Charleston have yet to say a word about Abdulazeez’s belief system. They are suddenly mum in the same way they were mum after Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi struck Garland, Texas, on May 3, after Faisal Shahzad’s foiled Time Square bombing attempt in 2010, and after Nidal Hasan’s mass shooting of fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in November 2009.

It is common knowledge that elitists responded to the Garland attack by blaming Pamela Geller for holding a cartoon contest. That’s right—Geller and those who joined her were drawing pictures, and when two Islamists responded by opening fire, it was Geller’s fault.

CNN reported that President Obama responded to the failed Times Square bombing by saying:

This incident is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live. Around the world and here at home, there are those who would attack our citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women and children in pursuit of their murderous agenda. They will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life.

Note—not the slightest mention of radical Islam.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/16/elites-hypocrisy-demonizing-southern-heritage-protecting-radical-islam/

TAMPA — Florida is no stranger to out-of-towners as anyone can see when the state’s population swells each winter. But the state also leads the nation in the number of people moving here after fleeing war-torn or politically unstable countries around the world.

Florida leads the nation in the number of refugees moving into the United States, more than double the number settling in second-place California. Since 2013, according to the federal government, 43,184 refugees resettled in Florida, compared to 16,714 in California, 15,002 in Texas and 8,879 in New York.

And one of every 10 refugees who resettles in the Sunshine State ends up in the Tampa Bay community, government and immigration officials say. Here, they find decent weather and an established system through which they learn the culture, find jobs and get on with the rest of their lives as either permanent residents or citizens.

Predictably, most are from Cuba, a number that increased when travel restrictions were lifted earlier this year, but Florida-bound refugees also come from other parts of the Caribbean and various Central and South American countries. Many come from the Middle East and Africa.

According to the federal government, 2014, Florida accepted 2,177 refugees from Cuba in 2014. Between Oct. 1, 2014, and May 31, 2015, statistics show, 2,236 Cuban refugees moved into Hillsborough and Pinellas counties alone.

Refugees are defined as people forced to flee their home country because of persecution or a legitimate fear of persecution. Their status as refugees gives them a more defined path to citizenship than immigrants.

Of the 67 counties in Florida, about 40 receive refugees on a regular basis, state officials say, with new arrivals resettling mostly in Miami-Dade, Hillsborough, Duval, Palm Beach, Broward, Orange, Collier, Lee, and Pinellas counties.

Last year, 3,147 refugees and asylees resettled in the Tampa Bay area, with a majority moving into Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, according to numbers provided by the Florida Department of Children and Families’ Refugee Services. All get permanent resident status and most eventually seek citizenship.

The path to citizenship is the same for immigrants and refugees. http://tbo.com/news/breaking-news/not-all-florida-visitors-are-tourists-many-are-refugees-20150710/