Bellingham, Washington is a small city of less than 100,000. Its name is now linked to three Muslim terrorists. And some of the most notorious ones too.
Before Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan Muslim, drove from Bellingham to kill 2 members of the National Guard in D.C. as part of an Islamic terrorist attack, John Allen Muhammad and his protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo, terrorized D.C. with sniper attacks.
How did a small Washington city harbor 3 Muslim terrorists who then went on to attack D.C. all the way across the country?
Let’s start with why the Afghan Muslim terrorist was in Bellingham, Washington.
In a 2023 report from the Immigration Research Initiative, Washington State ranked 8th among the nation for refugees per capita. Per the report, in the past ten years, Washington has welcomed 20,454 refugees – making 264 refugees per 100,000 state residents.
The number one origin point of ‘refugees’ in Washington? Afghans. Around 500 Afghans invaded Washington in just one year.
Refugee resettlement in Bellingham is handled by World Relief.
Southeast Washington’s only refugee resettlement agency was forced to furlough 30% of its employees this week, staff told the Tri-City Herald.
The furloughs at World Relief Tri-Cities come as the Trump administration’s immigration policies rocked refugee and immigrant service organizations.
World Relief – with offices in Tri-Cities, Olympia, Bellingham, Spokane and Seattle – is a global Christian humanitarian organization with a mission to mobilize local churches to support refugees and other immigrants.
While World Relief is more legitimately Christian than some refugee resettlement charities like the Lutheran groups that just pump Muslims in America, it claims credit for helping over 2,000 Afghans invade America.
John Allen Muhammad was not a Muslim migrant, but Bellingham is fairly liberal and he and Malvo were staying in a homeless shelter there.
People talk about blue cities and states self-destructing with their social policies, but we’re one country. What Bellingham does, doesn’t stay in Bellingham.
