What goes unmentioned is that Mo Farah has two immigrant brothers in Britain as well, Omar and Ahmed. I had never heard of them, but commenter Alastair J. Roberts points us toward coverage of them from the Daily Mail:
Ahmed Farah, 25, is facing being deported from Britain back to Somalia
Was jailed in 2010 for his part in a knife raid in Southall, west London in 2010
Reported that he is being held at Dungavel Detention Centre in Lanarkshire
Is now awaiting an immigration tribunal after an earlier case collapsed
Moved to Britain from Somalia 23 years ago with his older brother Mo
And:
Mo Farah’s brother jailed again after he tried to break into an elderly couple’s home – his 20th offence in a string of convictions
Omar Farah admitted one count of attempted burglary with intent to steal
The younger brother of Olympic hero Mo left his fingerprints at the scene
Farah, 21, tried to break into a west London house in March 2013
He was jailed for 15 months at Kingston Crown Court by Judge Jones
Judge Jones described Farah’s 15 previous convictions as ‘unimpressive’
So, you win one, you lose two, I guess …
COMMENTS:
* Like many people, I believe that Farah is just another product of the Alberto Salazar Doping School. The Wada report was v beneficial for him as it derailed the investigation into his links with Salazar. Suspiciously beneficial.
* Mohamed Muktar Jama “Mo” Farah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Farah
It looks like the politically correct style-book demands that Muslim names be obscured if possible with anglicized names to keep sheep asleep.
Just like Munich gunman David Sonboly turned out to be named Ali.
This reminds me of the many years that major media managed to keep BHO’s middle name taboo and unspoken on major news outlets.
I recall it wasn’t until Anne Coulter referred to him as Barack Hussein Obama on Fox News sometime early in 2008 campaign (perhaps late 2007) that I had ever heard it uttered.
A truly remarkable feat considering that he had been in the Senate for years and had been mentioned as presidential candidate since winning his seat in 2004.
* Britain has millions of Indians, Pakis, and Banglas. They’re about 5% of the UK’s population.
How many medals have they won?
* I believe a casual look at Somalia will dispense with the notion that a genetic advantage in long distance running relates to our modern concept of a nation’s “greatness” in any significant way.
These imports will never outrun… a car, a jet, a guided missile. You can put these athletes on a running machine, and it will never power… an Apple computer factory.
* What I hate about the immigration debate is that the open borders side gets to point to a gold medal winning immigrant and proclaim he is representative of immigration, and thus we need more.
When the restrictionists produce many more examples of immigrants gone bad, such as those who’ve committed murder, rape and terror, they are told those are statistically insignificant, and thus are not to be factored into the debate.
If you are going to dismiss murderers, rapists and terrorists as insignificant to any discussion on immigration, then you cannot consider gold medal winners or founders of companies. They are orders of magnitude fewer compared to the former. That this is allowed to take place is proof of who controls the microphone.
* Not only is Barack Hussein Obama America’s first Negro president, he is the first U.S president who does not have a European name. His first, middle, and last name are all of Non European origin. His name does not exist in the WASP, French, or Iberian Conquistador world which is where New World Blacks got their names from.
Will America one day ever elect a Negro president with a European name?
Or will our second future Black U.S president also have an exotic sounding Arabic or African name?
* What I cannot understand is why isn’t Mo Farah happy to represent the land of his fathers, his ancestors, his own flesh and blood, culture, history – everything – Somalia is a unique and special nation, its people being a rare fusion of Arab and African blood, something Mo Farah should be intensely proud of, and instead represent a nation of which he has no connection of blood, soil, birth, history, culture, only happening to alight on that nation as part of generalized scam to increase his material standard of living.
In a way, Mo Farah is spitting on his ancestors.
* Roger Pielke Jr., whose work on climate stuff I very much like, should stick to climate issues. Is Roger going to give up his sweet gig at CU-Boulder and be replaced by an immigrant? Why not? He isn’t a racist is he? Don’t immigrants make our country great? Doesn’t Roger want to make our country great? What kind of American is he, anyway? Roger tell me you aren’t some kind of crazy anti-Trumper? Roger isn’t both anti-immigrant and anti-American, I hope! Why are there so many white guys, and so few immigrants, teaching in academia? It isn’t a big anti-immigrant conspiracy, is it? I am sick of hearing how immigration “makes us great.” This is BS happy PC talk. I’m not an immigrant, my parents and grandparents were not immigrants, my family is not immigrants, I did not go to school with immigrants, and through my career I have worked with just a handful of immigrants. It is decidedly NOT immigrants that make our country great. I believe if you look at the stats (Roger), they mainly impose huge costs on welfare systems, increases in crime, increases in congestion, lowered school scores, lowered wages. There are 50 others that readers of this site are familiar with and that I don’t need to list. WRT the “medal count,” I cannot tell you how inconsequential I view that particular stat. I care as much about that as I care about the current air temperature in Tierra del Fuego. Go back to climate Roger, see what you’ve done!
* So now it’s the Olympic medal count that makes America great? Friends, this is 4th-grade mentality. I am surprised that someone as smart as Roger P J and who should know better, gushes like this. It is embarrassing. The “medal count” is essentially meaningless, I mean, who really cares? It does not a damned thing for jobs, wages, foreign diplomacy, quality of life, blah blah blah blah. It means not one damned thing other than a ‘medal count.’ Hell if it means we imported a zillion east Africans so that we could win an extra medal in the 10,000m run, it probably is a bad thing for most everyone except the east Africans who moved here. These medal count people sound like elementary school children. They seem to think it would be totally cool to have the entire world move here, and then we will win every Olympic medal and show those Russians whose country is Top Dog? This stupidity and childishness boggles my mind, but then again it is connected with our mainstream media types, who generally have a 12-year old girl mentality and are not the sharpest knives in the shed (humor).
