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.
You’d do yourself good by getting out of that church and never returning. Vanilla sermons and multiculturalism is exactly what brought about rampant decline and apostasy during the 6th century that led to Islam rising.
Satanic infiltration (can’t beat em’ so join em’) is what is really destroying our modern church. I won’t have a thing to do with WOF or merging of religions with anybody. I used to go to a SBC church too. You guys are really headed in that direction. Want to know something sick? Read up on Russell Moore and what kind of socialism/communitarianism he’s bringing about at the SBC.
Target rich environment
The purpose is to change the voting in these states from red to blue.
Hope. Change. Racism (somebody dropped a hat).
Obama is in office because Romney and his ilk
attacked Gov. Palin. Did you?
Then Romney 3.0, in 2012, gave up like an insulted monkey.
ROmney did so for his friends Soros and Obama.
Put the blame where it deserves to go.
On ROmney and his corrupt RINOS for Obama
who STILL support the Treason.
I’ve heard of this Moore guy. Read something about him a while back. It is sad that the last of largest domination, the SBC, is falling into apostasy. But, that is what Scripture warns us of. We are deep down that path. It is here and the Christian faith falling away, Bible companies writing homo Bibles, taking Jesus Christ out of those Bibles, denying the Holy Spirit, removing the homo stuff. We are there. Jesus is coming for His Bride and I simply am ready to go. I am sick of this Satanic world. The new muslim led apostolic religion of the end times with the Warrens, Osteens, Meyers, etc., leading the way. Maranatha, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!!
And then, all this stuff about “Invasions”, the war exercises, alarming and I’m not a conspiracist type. There is probably no conspiracy, just gross incompetency.
Like entitlements too, once they are here, hard to get rid of them.
Ping
The video of Ann Corcoran is on this article along with sound cloud files.
Author exposes the ‘cabal’ of leftists and corporatists unwittingly supporting jihad through U.S. refugee resettlement
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PzT8vEvYPg&feature=share
Ann’s home page
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/
Ann is very good with loading articles about ‘refugees’, I’ve e-mailed her a few articles from my neck of the woods.
I post her site at every opportunity online - Get the word out.
Her site is very detailed and helpful to figuring this all out.
All of us here should be sending her info, and any info we call help dig-up and investigate.
We’re FReepers!
Barak Obama is flooding the USA with 100’s of thousands of Muslims each year, for a grand total of millions of Muslims. that’s an invasion.
Also Obama is about to take over the Internet with his FCC government agency
Those are just 2 crimes out of thousands this monster has done against America and freedom
One other thing, if these are Somalians, I understand in some places where Somalis have been placed, there is friction between the African-Americans and Somalis in the high-schools, it’s a high-school thing.
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“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.”
Actually, it is very sad for Free America that it’s People don’t even know what their own Constitution says.
Walk down Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, and you will see the future of the USA.
I’ve said for years people in KY are incapable of voting in anyone much good at all.
What you call a monster, the American people call their secular patron saint.
Mitch McKY admitted he is as useless as a one-legged clothespin, but not in that analogy.
The left wages demographic warfare on America and no one says a damn thing about it in the media?
Elections will have consequences.
The brand “racis” should be worn as a badge of honor.
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