Verbatim from the AgapePress:
A Christian homeowner in Michigan says Muslims in his area are involved in a calculated effort to take over the once largely Polish Catholic community where he and his wife have lived for years. Bob Golen says the neighborhoods in his hometown of Hamtramck have drastically changed over the past few years as Muslim immigrants have transformed them into increasingly Islamic communities. The city is already embroiled in a controversy over its council's vote to exempt local Mosques from a noise ordinance so they can blast calls for prayers over loudspeakers -- this in a place where the Ten Commandments or other Christian displays are considered politically incorrect. And now Golen feels the Muslim newcomers are engaging in what area realtors call "block busting." In other words, he says, "They came in, paid outrageously high prices for some of our homes that you wouldn't give $20,000 for, paying 60 and 70 thousand, which then entrenched a number of [Muslim families] on every block." Golen believes this is part of a "concerted effort" on the part of Muslims to use their financial power take over the city, and he says, "they're doing a heck of a job because nobody's standing up to them." Now that area homeowners are unable to sell without bringing their prices far below what they have invested in their homes, Golen says the Muslims will try to bring the rest of their people in to stabilize the housing market for themselves.For those who don't know, the AgapePress is a religious right news service used to provide online newsfeeds to most of the top religious right Web sites.
