Posted on 05/10/2015 6:17:56 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Nestled in the heart of Virginia and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies an Evangelical Mecca, where Christianity and Country music are as indigenous to the region as the seven hills of Lynchburg and thousands of students make their annual pilgrimage, every fall, to study at the largest Christian University in the world. But in the ‘buckle of the bible belt,’ some residents answer a different call to prayer.
And if Obama has his way, many of the 100,000 Muslim refugees expected to arrive this year will be dumped right in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, transported and supported on the backs of hardworking US taxpayers.
WSET: The Muslim community in the Lynchburg area is made up of around 50 families. Like many of those families, Mohammad and Asma Rahman moved here to seize a better opportunity.
Going only on his word, Asma, Mohammad, and their two sons made their way to Lynchburg in 2006. “We knew about Liberty and Jerry Falwell.”
Asma Rahman says she had reservations and was a little scared. “Here when we came at first, I was a little bit, because I knew there weren’t that many Muslims” said Asma Rahman. “We didn’t have a mosque at the time,” added Mohammad Rahman.
A stark contrast to the mosque in New Jersey where their kids attended Islamic school– or their native Bangladesh — home to some of the largest mosques in the world. “People in the Boonsboro area and the Lynchburg area were praying in people’s homes on Fridays,” said Mohammad Rahman.
So a group of Muslim families, including the Rahmans, formed the Greater Lynchburg Islamic Association and raised enough funds to buy and repurpose a home. “Alhamdullilah, we’ve been very grateful,” said Mohammed Rahman.
At the same time GLIA was constructing Lynchburg’s first mosque — tensions overseas were escalating as the U.S. entered its 7th year in the “War on Terror.” And Al-Qaeda militants and its subsidiaries’ claims to be fighting in the name of Islam, were further changing perceptions of Muslims at home.
9/11 put Islam in the national and international spotlight, often in the context of terrorism. But Asma Rahman can recall an incident that predates the attacks. “When my children were young, I was in New Jersey, my son came home a couple of times even before 9/11 and said mom why do they talk about that we are terrorist?” said Asma.
Since, headlines have been filled with Islamic extremist claiming responsibility for a number of attacks — the Boston Marathon bombings, the Charlie Hebdo attack, brutal beheadings. But how can a religion many of its believers argue is peaceful… be used to justify such atrocities?
“In any religious text out of its content, it becomes a pretext. You can use it for whatever you mean,” said Liberty University professor and Theologian Dr. Chris Gnanakan. Dr. Gnanakan says terrorism justified by religion is often rooted in power and politics.
“Religion was never meant to be volatile. I think peace is what all religions seek. Muslims will say that, Hindus live that and Christians pursue peace,” said Gnanakan.
Many Muslims in the U-S have publicly condemned and disassociated themselves from extremist views. “We are non-violent people… Sometimes people get scared because of hearing all the news. And sometimes that may lead to something but fortunately for me I haven’t been exposed to any of that,” said Mohammed Rahman.
The Rahman family has now lived in Lynchburg for 8 years. They say from the start, their neighbors welcomed them with open arms. “As they interact with us, they see what we are, so I never felt any kind of discrimination,” said Mohammad Rahman.
To see the ABC Special Report Video of this story click HERE
Tennessee alone will get up to 10,000 Somali Muslims this year. As crime rates soar in every city in America that has a significant Somali Muslim population, home values drop like a stone.
Muslim butchers are simply pawns being used by the New World Orderites.
Radical Islam is an insane murder cult.
“Moderate” Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.
violent muslims cut off heads
nonviolent muslims let them do so without a murmur (after all, look at what the infidels did during the Crusades)
BOSTONIANS WERE KEPT IN THE DARK ABOUT THIS, AS WELL:--- Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials, and Muslims, in Boston called each other to offer assistance......just in case THE MUZZIES suffered backlash or threats.
REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....
Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/
This site is constantly updated, keeps track of most refugee news and has tons of reference material.
Another naive Infidel who doesn't know anything about Islam. -tom
It has been going on longer than Obama has been president.
GHWBush transplanted many muslim military and government officials. Many of them landed in the Kansas City area.
Clinton. More.
GWBush. Many more.
But, hey, the influx has been bi-partisan.
With the complicity of Congress.
I think, deep down, most conservatives realize that, but are unwilling, out of politically correct weakness, to shoot the damned horse.
That weakness will be our downfall, until another 9/11 incident.
I am amazed that so many people have forgotten.
I am Southern Baptist by denomination, I follow the Bible, not a bunch of people in a board room making rules of what we follow. We have many "leaders" in the SBA that are sliding into the liberal side of things of doing the liberal thing. I am not following that line. I am with my LORD Jesus Christ and Him crucified and RAISED from the dead!!!
Our church is basically dying. No young people, mostly old folks. I don't even see our church open in 5-7 years as we all die off anyway. No new people, unless we get an old couple not wanting to drive to their old church and comes to ours because we are closer for them, or something like that. But, I am starting to see more of the women with the head dress on around here. Here in the DEEP South!!!
Hey there is no Mosque in the UP of Michigan. The only portion of the US that is Mosque free. See it really is God’s Country! probably too damn cold for the Muslims to live there and the would have to fight the Native Americans who have too many Casinos already all over the UP. there are also numerous open mines that would be a good place for something neferaious for the other states to know.
For Jade Helm, Texas is designated as hostile so it’s a given the usurper dumps tens of thousands of islamofreaks here. His intention is to start 9/11s in most conservative states. Hope and change.
When the story is told how things descended into hell, the media will be the number one culprit, the number one creator of the bloodiest wars in human history. Hiding the facts, presenting happy talk dog and cat stories instead of stories about the take over of city community centers to serve as mosques and islamic cultural centers.
The news industry needs a wake up call - the media is controlled by those who would destroy Christianity and create a new world order of plutocrats, kleptocrats and moslem enforcers.
Thanks for posting the link again.
This should not surprise Christians because barry the bathhouse degenerate wants moose slime in place to take over for Islam when The Lord sends His Angel to call out the Christians in the Rapture. The devil’s own know time is short, that the forces of satan must position their blades to take control after The Rapture of believers, and the South is full of believers who will suddenly be missing, explained by a great lie. We have the consummate liar in the White Hut, so why do we not see how soon is the snatching away?
This link (along with the video) should be posted on as many ‘resettlement’ threads as possible...they ought to post the video on the fundraising thread for maximum exposure.
Miss Romney yet?
The enemy invasion is bring rushed into high gear by the enemy within our Casablanca. He’s winning too. Soon we will have to fight in the streets of USA to defend our homes families friends and churches. Get prepared and pray for America. We’ve never been sold out like this before
America is reaping decades of murdering unborn children, embracing the vile sin of homosexuality, and generally spitting in the Creator's face concerning all that is holy. Our collapse is not without precedence.
Joshua 23:11-13 is one of many such warnings. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
The Old Testament prophets, major and minor, underscore the fulfillment of these warnings.
I am of the opinion that America has for decades spat in God's face and now He's giving our country to our enemies. IMO.
It has already suffered so badly that the Constitution is just about destroyed.
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