Posted on 09/02/2009 2:36:16 PM PDT by lizol
White South African Claiming Racist ‘Persecution’ Is Granted Asylum in Canada
By Robert Mackey
South Africa plans to ask Canada to review a ruling last week by an immigration board in Ottawa granting asylum to a white South African carnival worker who claimed that he was forced to flee his homeland after being attacked seven times because of the color of his skin.
As The Ottawa Sun reported on Friday:
A Canadian immigration and refugee board panel ruled Thursday that Brandon Huntley, 31, could stay in Canada because he presented “clear and convincing proof of the state’s inability or unwillingness to protect him.”
“I find that the claimant would stand out like a ’sore thumb’ due to his color in any part of the country,” tribunal panel chair William Davis said in his decision to grant Huntley refugee status.
Mr. Huntley, 31, claimed that he was called a “white dog” and a “settler” by black assailants while being mugged seven times during the years he lived outside Cape Town. According to The Globe and Mail, Mr. Huntley said that he had failed to report any of these attacks to the police in South Africa because he “did not trust them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thelede.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I am glad Canada did this, it is about time.
Can’t have that dirty secret of the existence of black racism and nationalism exposed, can we?
Yes, we can! ;-)
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