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THE INVASION OF BUFFALO

Destroying America city by city.
September 8, 2016

Daniel Greeneld

Daniel Greeneld, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer
focusing on radical Islam.
Millard Fillmore was born in a log cabin in upstate New York. Fifty years later, he took oce as
the thirteenth president of the United States. Around that time he sold o a piece of land. That
land became the neighborhood of Lovejoy in the city of Bualo.
Lovejoy was named after Sarah Lovejoy who had been killed defending her home during the
War of 1812. British forces had assaulted American towns once again by using their Indian
allies as a terror weapon. Bualo, now a major city, was burned to the ground with only four
buildings left standing.
Mrs. Lovejoy told her son Henry, a 12-year-old boy who shouldered a musket too heavy for
him to bear, to ee into the woods. She stayed behind. When the savages invaded her home,
she tried to defend herself. The invaders killed her with a tomahawk and scalped her body. A
neighbor described how her long Black hair reached to the Floor clotted with Blood. Other
families ed on sleds into the snow.
When the locals returned a few days later, the only living thing in Bualo was a cat. There were
no other survivors. Only corpses.
But within a week they began to rebuild. By the time Fillmore sold his land, it was a city of
40,000. By the time Lovejoy was a neighborhood, it had surpassed 100,000. German, Polish,

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Jewish and Italian immigrants quickly lled Lovejoy and clung to it with the same tenacity that
Sarah had.
And then another savage invasion began.
In the past decade, Erie County resettled nearly 10,000 refugees. Most of them have been
inicted on Bualo and Black Rock, the same targets as that original invasion two centuries
ago that claimed Sarahs life.
Bualo has four resettlement agencies
(https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/bualo-ny-christians-and-jewsdeclining-in-number-muslim-population-increasing/) working to bring as many Muslims as they
can. Among them is the International Institute of Bualo which was set up after WWI to bring
war brides to America, but which now specializes in bringing Muslims here instead. Tickets
to the Institutes big event, Bualo Without Borders, run as high as $10,000 a piece, and it is
billed as A Party Only the IIB Can Throw.
One of these parties featured chocolates inspired by Iraqi Muslim migrants.
In Lovejoy though the price ranges are a little dierent. Like Sarah Lovejoy, the residents of this
area, once Polish and Italian, are under siege.
A few months after September 11, Frank Scalisi passed away
(http://www.cheektowagabee.com/news/2012-0112/Obituaries/Frank_Scalisi_owned_supermarket.html) at the age of 92. For 50 years, Frank
and his wife Edith had run Rosatis Supermarket. Frank had presided over the Bualo Retail
Food Dealers and served as deputy sheri for the Marine Division of Eric County. He coached
a softball team in the sixties that became known as "The Goosport Phenomenon".
And then Rosatis was no more and in its place was the IGA Community Express Mart run by
the Alshami clan. The Alshamis were part of the ood of Yemeni Muslim migrants who had
washed up in Bualo.
And the Muslim Yemeni population has a way of making headlines.
Six Yemenis made up the infamous Bualo Cell, who had attended the Al Farooq training
camp in Afghanistan, met with Osama bin Laden and were convicted for providing material
support to Al Qaeda. The seventh member of the cell, Jaber Elbaneh, is a fugitive still wanted
by the FBI, which describes him as armed and dangerous.
There is a $5 million reward on his head.
The Alshamis were not quite so ambitious. There were no suicide bombings. Rosatis
Supermarket went from a neighborhood institution to a rats nest. There were illegal cigarettes
(http://www.bualonews.com/city-region/lovejoy/trouble-at-lovejoy-store-upsets-neighbors20160824) for sale, building code violations, glass pipes and blunts
(http://www.twcnews.com/nys/bualo/news/2016/08/16/lovejoy-corner-store-ludington-davey-

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bualo-owner-responds.html), sales of secondhand merchandise without a license, cars

present without license plates and piles of trash (http://www.bualonews.com/cityregion/lovejoy/lovejoy-corner-store-may-face-loss-of-license-in-city-of-bualo-inspectionscase-20160829). There were multiple complaints about drug dealing
(http://www.bualonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
avis=BN&date=20160823&category=CITYANDREGION&lopenr=160829729&Ref=AR&utm%C2
%A7campaign=puma&utm%C2%A7medium=social&utm%C2%A7&prole=1134&template=pri
ntart) and accusations that the Yemeni shop attracted drug dealers and possibly even sold
drugs (http://www.bualonews.com/city-region/lovejoy/trouble-at-lovejoy-store-upsetsneighbors-20160824).
On the corner of Ludington and Davey, where the small modest houses y American ags, this
outpost of Yemen had become a malignant sore for the community.
Councilman Rich Fontana said, Frank Scalisi would be turning in his grave if he knew what
was going on there now.
Theres little doubt of that.
Ahmed Alshami, the grim patriarch of the clan, was arrested with crack cocaine in his car
(http://wivb.com/2015/08/20/lovejoy-store-owner-apologizes-for-facebook-rant/). He was
accused of making drug deliveries
(http://www.twcnews.com/nys/bualo/news/2016/08/16/lovejoy-corner-store-ludington-daveybualo-owner-responds.html) and berated neighborhood activists by posting a picture of
himself (http://wivb.com/2015/08/20/lovejoy-store-owner-apologizes-for-facebook-rant/)
raising the middle nger and boasting, Long stay the Arab stores.
Then he smashed someone over the head (http://www.bualonews.com/cityregion/lovejoy/trouble-at-lovejoy-store-upsets-neighbors-20160824) with a bottle.
Finally he was charged with massive food stamp fraud for buying
(http://www.bualonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
avis=BN&date=20160823&category=CITYANDREGION&lopenr=160829729&Ref=AR&utm%C2
%A7campaign=puma&utm%C2%A7medium=social&utm%C2%A7&prole=1134&template=pri
ntart) food stamp cards from customers for pennies on the dollar and then going to Walmart to
stock his shelves. Not to mention a spot of burglary.
Ahmed Alshami skipped out on Bualo City Court, announcing that he was too busy. So his
bail was set at $2 million (http://www.bualonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
avis=BN&date=20160823&category=CITYANDREGION&lopenr=160829729&Ref=AR&utm%C2
%A7campaign=puma&utm%C2%A7medium=social&utm%C2%A7&prole=1134&template=pri
ntart). His wife shouted (http://www.wkbw.com/news/man-accused-of-trading-food-stampsfor-money), Weve got the million dollars! and F___ America.
The family, whose patriarch had ten previous arrests, and whose presence in Bualo has been
a source of trouble, have done that already. There is talk of deporting Alshami to Yemen if hes
convicted, but considering that Yemen is currently little more than a battleeld between Shiite

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and Sunni Jihadists, that seems highly unlikely. Without major reforms to our immigration and
criminal justice system, they are here to stay.
The Alshami antics of shouting F___ America made their case go viral, but theyre not the
exception.
Just last year, Samir Hassan of City Market & Deli in Bualo pleaded guilty to buying food
stamps, Bandar Alsaidi and Talal Alsaidi were (http://www.bualonews.com/cityregion/bualo/two-east-side-grocers-plead-guilty-in-300000-food-stamp-fraud-scheme20150731) busted for buying food stamps at Big Boys Food Market also in Bualo to the tune
of $300,000, just as their parents before them had back in 2003 when it was known as Als
Food Market.
This year, Alie Hassan of Bualos Broadway Mart and Deli was given two years probation for
buying food stamps. A few years ago, Riyadh Almadrahi of Zips Food and Beverage made
over $140,000 by buying food stamps. The year after it was Nasser Ali Ghanem and Yousef
Yafai of the Hollywood Nights Prime Shop. The crimes echo each other and they are
ubiquitous.
When politicians promise us that Muslim migration will create small businesses and produce
jobs, they forget to mention who will be paying for them. There are some 5,000 Yemeni Muslim
settlers in Bualo. Population numbers have increased as much as 242%.
(https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/bualo-ny-christians-and-jewsdeclining-in-number-muslim-population-increasing/) While the traditional population in the area
declines, with Christian and Jewish populations falling, the Islamic population continues to
grow, fed by refugee resettlement.
Cheerful news stories celebrate how refugees are bringing Bualo back.The question
raised by the Alshamis and so many of their compatriots is what is Muslim migration doing to
Bualo?
Large numbers of Muslims have been dumped in the area from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia,
Sudan and Yemen. Bualos heritage and its working class roots are being traded for the
Koran and the hijab.
Bualo is listed by the State Department as a preferred community for resettling migrants.
Sizable numbers of Syrian Muslim migrants are headed there now. Its even been studied by
European advocates for migrants. But the cost to ordinary American neighborhoods like
Lovejoy has been overlooked. Media accounts trumpet the Iraqi markets opening up, they
dont look at what those markets are up to. There are celebrations of ethnic food accompanied
by the decline of local American communities.
Bualo has faced catastrophe before and recovered. But the question is how long will it take to
salvage it from this latest invasion. America is being targeted, invaded and carved up town by
town and city by city. Much as two centuries ago, Bualo is being invaded. But the invaders
are not a weapon being used by a foreign government against Americans. Instead this weapon
is being wielded by our own government.

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ABOUT DANIEL GREENFIELD

Daniel Greeneld, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer
focusing on radical Islam.

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