Politicians keep pretending: But refugees pose a death risk

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still they won’t shut the gate. Still our politicians and security bosses pretend we can keep importing refugees without anyone getting hurt.

Less than three weeks ago ASIO boss Duncan Lewis told a Senate committee on oath: “I have absolutely no evidence to suggest there is a connection between refugees and terrorism.”

But last Sunday Somali- born Yacqub Khayre became the latest refugee to prove him wrong.

Khayre murdered a worker at a Melbourne apartment, held a woman hostage and shot three police after telling Channel Seven: “This is for IS, this is for al Qaeda.”

That makes four terrorist attacks in a row here by Muslim refugees, after Man Monis killed two people in the Lindt Café siege, Farhad Jabar murdered police accountant Curtis Cheng and Numan Haider stabbed two police in Melbourne.

But did Khayre’s rampage finally shock our politicians into admitting the truth?

Did they finally concede they’d run a refugee program that put Australians in danger?

As if. Here is the response of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: “There are some very, very grave questions… How was this man on parole?”

Wrong. The gravest question of all is this: why was this jihadist in Australia in the first place? Why did our politicians let in Khayre and hundreds, even thousands, of people much like him?

Our politicians have been wilfully, dangerously, recklessly blind to the danger they’ve imported in their narcissistic urge to seem kind, no matter what the cost.

It started in the 1970s, when Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser ignored the warnings of his own Immigration Minister and brought in refugees from Lebanon’s civil war who were Muslim, poorly educated, badly skilled and clannish. This was the nucleus of a community that has since had high levels of imprisonment and welfarism, and produced more than half the Muslim terrorists since jailed here for terrorism.

The Keating and Howard governments then opened the gates to Sudanese and Somalian refugees — to more poorly educated and tribal people from a Third World war zone.

Those refugees included the seven- year- old Khayre. Khayre and another Somali refugee, Saney Edow Aweys, were among five Muslims charged with plotting a jihadist attack on Sydney’s Holsworthy army base. Three were jailed, but Khayre was found not guilty. BUT

if he wasn’t guilty of terrorism then, he was guilty of much more – stabbings, thefts and a violent home invasion, which put him in jail yet again until six months ago.

Police statistics show the Sudanese- born are an astonishing 128 times more likely than other Victorians to commit violent robberies and 68 times more likely to stage home invasions.

On it went. Our refugee program also imported Afghans from another Third World civil war. And again, a Department of Immigration survey in 2011 found just 9 per cent had work here after five years.

Among those refugees was Mohammad Ali Baryalei, the Islamic State’s top recruiter here until he went to Syria to fight and die.

Wouldn’t it be both safer and cheaper to help refugees where they are right now — overseas?

Please ignore the politicians’ spin that they now vet our refugees more carefully. How can they vet the refugees’ children, some of whom seem even more likely to turn to jihad?

Yes, yes, yes – most refugees fit in well and make good citizens. One is even the governor of South Australia. But it won’t do much good to tell the family of Kai Hao, newly married and a dad, that most refugees aren’t at all like Yacqub Khayre, who on Sunday shot the poor man dead.

Shut the gate.