Refugee Crisis in Syria Raises Fears in South Carolina

By RICHARD FAUSSET SEPT. 25, 2015

DUNCAN, S.C. — The worried citizens gathered in the high school cafeteria, about 200 strong. Patriotic songs played on the stereo, a man in a blue blazer from the John Birch Society hovered by a well-stocked literature table, and Lauren L. Martel, a lawyer from Hilton Head, told the crowd that 25 Syrian refugees were already living among them.

"The U.N. calls it 'refugee resettlement' — the Muslims call it hijra, migration," said another speaker, Jim McMillan, a local businessman. "They don't plan to assimilate, they don't plan to take on our culture. They plan to change the way of American life."

Evan Mulch, the field coordinator for the John Birch Society, told the crowd the resettlements were "part of the New World Order game plan."

The United States, Ms. Martel said, is "a Judeo-Christian nation."

"We are not a Muslim nation, and those two things cannot coexist," she added.

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