Hollow Sanctuaries: When Churches Become Mosques
As churches empty, mosques take their place across the West.
Nowhere is that shift clearer than in Buffalo, New York, where the Diocese sold the former St. Ann’s Church and Shrine — a Gothic landmark completed in 1886 — to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, a company associated with the Downtown Islamic Center. The purchase price was $250,000, far below the tens of millions required for structural repairs. There was no scandal — only a quiet transfer of a building one faith could no longer sustain to a community that could. Renovation has begun, with plans to establish the site as an Islamic center. (RELATED: Trivializing Religion Left Us Unprepared for Political Islam)
Ilhan Omar’s loyalty is questioned, but her bank account is not. How does someone like Ilhan Omar get so rich in such a short amount of time? Why does her district elect her when she’s out and proud about her loyalty to Somalia and not America? How is she not indicted for being involved in the $6 billion grift machine in Minneapolis?
The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay call out Omar for her disgusting comments about Stephen Miller. Who’s the Nazi, again? (RELATED: Ilhan Omar’s Father Served a Communist-Islamist Regime Before Becoming a Refugee in Minnesota)
Ilhan Omar’s loyalty is questioned, but her bank account is not. How does someone like Ilhan Omar get so rich in such a short amount of time? Why does her district elect her when she’s out and proud about her loyalty to Somalia and not America? How is she not indicted for being involved in the $6 billion grift machine in Minneapolis?
The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay call out Omar for her disgusting comments about Stephen Miller. Who’s the Nazi, again? (RELATED: Ilhan Omar’s Father Served a Communist-Islamist Regime Before Becoming a Refugee in Minnesota)
