Posted on 07/01/2015 8:15:07 AM PDT by george76
A long-standing refugee welcoming center in conservative Idaho has found itself at the center of a campaign by adversaries seeking to force it closed, citing fears that the immigrants it hosts could include Islamist extremists.
The backlash comes amid an uptick in anti-Islamic protests and advertising campaigns in the United States, including a high profile May rally outside an Arizona mosque that saw more than 200 protesters, some armed, berate Islam and its Prophet Mohammad.
The newly formed Idaho group, whose 100 members plan a door-to-door information drive in July to win support for closing the refugee center in Twin Falls, said it was concerned the center will welcome Syrians displaced from that country's civil war who may not have been adequately screened by the U.S. government for security risks.
"Bringing in Syrians, who are predominantly of Muslim background, may be opening the door to terrorists pretending to be refugees," said Rick Martin, head of the so-called Committee to End the CSI (College of Southern Idaho) Refugee Center in nearby Buhl, a conservative agricultural area.
"We're not against legitimate refugees. They need to be treated with dignity and respect. But it would be easy for someone to lie about their background," he added.
U.S. authorities have arrested numerous individuals, including a number of U.S. citizens, in recent months over accusations of supporting Islamic State militants operating in Syria and Iraq.
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The CSI Refugee Center, mostly federally funded, has in the past three decades helped resettle several thousand refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Sudan and
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Sad fact is — Muslims are either terrorists or terror supporters.
That’s just the nature of their “religion.”
GOP_Raider does not appear to be active.
Who runs the Idaho ping list?
Followers of Mad Mo are supposed to be killed if they deny the Koran.
Scum slime lying Reuters needs to have a nice bacon pork and fatback dinner
The sad truth is that Obama doesn’t care if terrorists are among the refugees. He is comfortable with a certain level of terrorism in the US.
I'm not sure we have one any more.
The followers of Mad Mo are being intentionally sent to Idaho and elsewhere as part of Islamic invasion Jihad.
Their goal is not to fit in.
GOP_Raider hasn’t been active for quite a while, so that list probably needs updating.
The fears of terrorists infiltrating using this ridiculous refugee program are certainly legitimate, but what we have here is a taxpayer funded societal suicide, regardless of individual terrorists.
Obama has made no secret of his wish to see the end of America’s status as a Christian nation. How better to accomplish this than suddenly infusing millions of Muslims into our population. The fact that these people tend to be government-dependent and comfortable with Leftist totalitarianism is icing on the cake.
And all of you are paying for it!
You are correct = needs updating.
That shouldn't be much of a challenge for them.
Idaho does have voter ID requirements, but the residence requirement is only 30 days. There is a certain concern that if they are granted U.S. citizenship as a part of this program they could quickly overwhelm the existing voters, and I'm not sure how the local farmers would take it to come into town to discover a large mosque, a dry county, and women in burqas. I'm guessing not well.
Eternal vigilance might run it, but I’m not sure.
Nope.
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