{"id":7328,"date":"2012-05-07T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2012-05-07T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:45:13","slug":"7328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/7328\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamification of Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best special-interest bloggers is Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch. \u00a0She knows her territory well and comes up with some amazing stories. \u00a0The importation of refugees &#8212; a high proportion of them fraudulent (90 percent according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/NationalQuestion\/kindness.html#refugees\">Don Barnett<\/a>) is an appalling racket that cries out for reform; but of course, any politician who said so aloud would be accused of wanting to slam the nation&#8217;s door in the faces of the homeless, tempest-tost, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/07\/buffalo-ny-christians-and-jews-declining-in-number-muslim-population-increasing\/\">Ann&#8217;s post today<\/a> is about the sensational growth of Islam in western New York state. \u00a0Huge loser from that growth? \u00a0The Catholic Church. \u00a0Major enabler of that growth?\u00a0\u00a0The Catholic Church. \u00a0You can&#8217;t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>[I note that the region Ann&#8217;s writing about belongs to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burned-over_district\">burned-over district<\/a>&#8221; of the early 19th century.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The name was inspired by the notion that the area had been so heavily evangelized as to have no &#8220;fuel&#8221; (unconverted population) left over to &#8220;burn&#8221; (convert).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something in the water up there, perhaps.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best special-interest bloggers is Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch. \u00a0She knows her territory well and comes up with some amazing stories. \u00a0The importation of refugees &#8212; a high proportion of them fraudulent (90 percent according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/7328\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7331,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}