When most people think of Lancaster County, they think of the Amish, but that was before the Biden administration began importing Afghans into Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
The Afghan invasion of Lancaster left it with the second-highest ratio of foreign ‘refugees’ in America. An estimated 500 Afghans have been ‘resettled’. Once as American as the apple pie that the Amish sell at fairs, over 1 in 10 residents in Lancaster are now foreign-born and the raucous calls of mosques pierce the formerly peaceful air where church bells once sounded.
And where Afghanistan goes, Islamic violence swiftly follows.
On a Sunday morning there was a confrontation between several Afghan Muslim men headed not to one of the many churches in the county, but to the local Islamic Center. Two of the men were soon bleeding. The alleged perpetrator, Mohammad Abdul-Rashid, stabbed the two Afghan men after accusing one of them, in the Pashto language, of being an “American spy.”
While the details are still being pieced together, the violent incident follows several other Afghan stabbings in Michigan and Texas after disgruntled Afghan refugees assaulted their caseworkers bringing fresh scrutiny to the controversial practice of refugee resettlement and the high price being paid for the migrant dumping practice by local communities and even resettler staffers
Pennsylvania has become the fifth largest target for refugee dumping and Afghanistan was among the top locations from which ‘refugees’ were coming to the Keystone State.
Under Obama, refugee resettlers and the media rebranded Lancaster County from a tourist jumping off point for visiting Amish country to the “refugee capital of America”. Out went the Amish and in went Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Somalis and every other possible enemy national. In the last year of the Obama administration, over 400 ‘refugees’ were resettled in the city at a rate of 23 more times that of the nation. Refugee resettlers applauded this as an achievement. Some even claimed that they were fulfilling a ‘Christian mission’ by Islamizing Lancaster County.
The Islamic Community Center of Lancaster where the Afghan stabbing occurred is located in downtown near what has been described as the oldest farmer’s market in America, but has become better known for rallies opposing President Trump’s Muslim migration reforms.
And has now been stained by the violence of the beneficiaries of these open borders efforts.
After Biden’s surrender to the Taliban, former Gov. Tom Wolf bragged that he was “in contact with federal and local partners to coordinate resources to resettle Afghan refugees.” The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services partnered with ‘resettlers’ including Catholic Charities, HIAS and other groups to inflict as dreadful a toll on Pennsylvania as possible.
The growing toll of Afghan violence is falling on smaller communities that were targeted by the refugee resettlement industry including Lancaster County. The Church World Service Lancaster, an arm of the massive refugee resettlement operation resisting resettlement reform, played a major role in resettling Afghans in the area and has taken a leading role in fighting Trump.
CWS went to war against the Trump administration’s refugee reforms, joining a lawsuit by members of the resettlement-industrial complex, including HIAS and Lutheran Community Services, to force the United States to keep its borders open for the ‘refugee’ invasion. One of the plaintiffs in the CWS lawsuit is an Afghan named Ahmed who lives in Germany. The lawsuit,
Pacito v. Trump, claims that Ahmed must be brought here because “he does not know the German language, which prevents him from working in Germany to support himself”. And it’s somehow easier to dump him in America than spend 10 Euros on a DuoLingo subscription.
After Trump’s pause on the ‘refugee’ invasion, local media and the Philadelphia Inquirer featured stories about Afghans, those already resettled and others still inbound, complaining about Trump’s pause and the invasion and asserting their entitlement to live in Lancaster.
None of the stories discussed the pattern of violence that had followed Afghan arrivals in America or addressed any of the concerns expressed by critics about Islamic terrorism. Despite the fact that most Afghans were only able to leave with the approval of the Taliban, every single Afghan was depicted as a sworn enemy of the Taliban and sure to face execution in Afghanistan.
Tere were sob stories about Church World Service Lancaster, an arm of an organization which has pulled in over $200 million in revenues annually, having to furlough staff, leaving behind, in the words of the Inquirer story, “empty desks” and a “darkened work area” and “calls for help — even though there’s no money to pay.”
Presumably though Church World Service CEO Rick Santos still has his desk and an annual $338,596 salary plus another $36,472 in additional compensation to keep the lights on.
Meanwhile the real burden of dealing with the mass invasion has fallen on local taxpayers. Last year, Lancaster warned of an 8% property tax increase, and the same media that profiles every sympathetic Afghan family won’t be there to profile American senior citizens losing their homes.
The Afghan Muslim stabbing has been covered only by local media outlets and they have tried to argue that the assault outside an Islamic Center was some sort of coincidence.
But state and local authorities were well aware that there was a threat.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services maintains a special Afghan Crisis Response Team and lists a Wellness Helpline for Afghan refugees with “mental or behavioral” issues.
The violence incident at the mosque shows that the Afghan resettlement project poses a threat to Americans from coast to coast, whether in Texas and Michigan, where two recent stabbings occurred, and even in the least likely of places, in Amish co
