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.
they were laughing then but soon the smiles will be replaced with bitter tears.
Thats Obie’s Uncle Obongo Mohammed Mobongo’s Wedding Gift to the Last Couple .
Its reputed to be a kenyan sign of humility,,,,
I too voted for Rommney ,because of Obama.
Too bad we can’t get the republican senate to pull their faces out of the pig trough long enough to stop some of Obama’s destructive and unconstitutional immigration programs for illegals.
It is very sad for Free America that we have “leaders” of both parties who are traitors, who break their oaths to defend this country and who are dishonest. May Justice find them all...soon.
They will do their destruction on election day.
If their snouts aren’t shoved in the hog slop trough they’re buried up Skeeter’s arse.
That lemon-sucking asswipe referred to as Senate leader takes the cake.
Extremist views such as worshiping a murderous pedophile? They're ALL extremists -- there's no such thing as a "good Muslim"...
They’re in on it with him.
What conservatives have to come to grips with is that the top of the RNC/GOP has the same agenda as the DNC.
Flood the country with foreigners to overthrow the Constitution.
And yet Skeeter Mommyjeans keeps larding up our disgraced, pitiful nation with more negro Muslims. A powder keg in the works.....a big one.
The only safe muslims are the ones who don’t practice their “religion”.
The rest are all jihadis in waiting.
Remember who and what liberals consider extremist and this statement makes some sense in a bass-ackwards way.
To liberals the real extremists are not muslim killers, bombers and rapists.
The people liberals consider extremists are military vets, TEA part members, preppers, Christians, gun owner, NRA members, patriots, constitutionalists, flag wavers, home schoolers and pro-lifers.
A “good” moozlum doesn’t exist. Those who feel they do suffer from the Stockholm syndrome and are fooling themselves.
(1) foreign nationals must at least avoid crime and stay off public assistance, and,
(2) the govt would be disinclined to grant "asylum" (free ride on the US gravy train) to “fearful refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions, and,
(3) forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for these "fearful foreign nationals" to travel back and forth to their supposedly hostile homelands.
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ISLAM IS ALL ABOUT TRIUMPHALISM Bostonians better prepare for the US govt subsidizing the building of a mosque close to the Boston Marathon finish line b/c Islam is all about "triumphalism"......they'll get lotsa help from Democrat Obomba, Democrat Secy of State Kerry, and the Democrats currently running Boston govt.
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Then-US Sen Kerry's "credentials," presented to Ohaha when the Secy of State job became available.
BTW, this is the mosque where the Tsarnaev's worshipped.
High Point, NC with nary a peep from the MSM.
For example: Cong. District Nbr 1 in AZ. It snakes all over the eastern part of the state like a drunken diamondback. A couple of miles wide and 300 plus miles long.
BACKSTORY Immediately after the Boston bombing, then-Democrat Mass Gov Deval Patrick ordered Massachusetts govt agencies to conceal welfare documents from taxpayers. But sources who saw 500 pages of welfare documents (requested by a state legislator) told News Center 5 that the entire Chechnyan immigrant Tsarnaev family collected upwards of $100,00 tax dollars free and clear. MA taxpayers financed the killing and maiming of their own friends and neighbors.
Taxpayers footed the bills for the entire buck-sucking Tsarnaev's for a long, l-o-n-g time. When these immigrants get to the US they claim "asylum" b/c that triggers endless monthly Social Security checks ......that's just for starters.
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MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS WERE UNKNOWINGLY FORCED TO FINANCE THE TSARNEV BROTHERS' DIRTY DEEDS BIGTIME ---After the Boston bombing, Massachusetts Democrat Gov Deval Patrick refused to divulge info WRT massive public assistance to the bomber killers/Chechen immigrants.
But state welfare officials were forced to come clean b/c the info is available to lawmakers. State Rep David Linsky called on the Mass Dept of Transitional Assistance to provide the info..... issuing an ultimatum, giving them 24 hours to provide the info.
The Boston Herald published the state's response: 'My office is working to fully comply with your request,' DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan wrote, saying they were only providing a summary 'given the great interest in this matter.'
Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents----were eligible as legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria for DTA, DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan said in a letter to David Linsky, Chairman of the Mass House Post Audit and Oversight Committee.
Multiple state agencies, on orders from Democrat Gov Patrick, refused to comment on the bomber brothers' welfare haul.
<><> WRT Tamerlan receiving UI benefits, Labor dept spokesman Kevin Franck refused to comment....
<><> Univ of Mass-- Dartmouth spokesman Robert Connolly refused to comment on the financial aid app of 19 -year-old soph Dzhokhar. 'It is our position - and I believe the accepted position in higher education - that student records including academic records and financial records (including financial aid) cannot under federal law be released without a student’s consent.'
<><> The FCC would not discuss whether the suspected bombers had govt-paid Obamaphones.
<><> Cambridge housing officials would not comment on if the brothers had Section 8 rental subsidy offered by the HUD to low income households.
<><> Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents--were legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria for endless SS checks.
<><> In sum, while planning the bombing, the Chechneyan immigrants received every conceivable tax-paid public benefit available out there.
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