We had a women that appeared to be if Arabic descent visit our church several months ago. She appeared to be in her 40’s and was ‘too pleasant’ to the point it made my antenna ho up. She didn’t say much and left without saying a word to anyone afterwards. A few days later I saw her at a Walmart and said hello. I noticed that she was in Muslim styled garb but with no Hijab (head covering). She was apparently nervous and I told her thanks for visiting our church and she said she had been visiting churches in our area; her manner was odd and it didn’t seem that he meant she was looking for a church to say at. Naturally this piqued my curiousity so I brought this up to my pastor who said that there have been other pastors that he knows that have noticed one time visits by women of Middle Eastern descent. I startd checking around and this appears to be happening in other parts of the country as well. Before you say I’m being paranoid and connecting dots that aren’t there let me say this is just an observation; a Watchman ringing the bell to alert others to report it if they see it too. An inbound missle is just a dot on the radar screen until its confirmed.
You’re not paranoid when you are simply wary.
Our Catholic parish has been “hijacked” on Mission Sunday when the second collection is for impoverished missions all over the world when for three years running it was a Christian Arab priest begging for donations to rebuild churches in the West Bank & Gaza that were “dynamited by the Israeli Army as suspected terrorist depots & hideouts”. The “intolerance” of the Israeli “occupiers” was the main factor making life miserable for Palestinian Christians in those areas. WTF!!!!!!!??
Every now & then I’ve noticed a gimlet-eyed Middle Eastern male in the church lobby after Mass. Makes more sense to send in female Muslimahs; less suspicious & off-putting. I wish our priests had more to say about the death & destruction rained down on ME Christians by muzzies in Egypt, not by the IDF.
Fortunately I live in the South which is teeming with gun toting Bible thumping rednecks (no sarc but true). I feel safer & our local muzzies stay vewy vewy quiet.