Ann Corcoran (activist)

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ann Corcoran (born 1950 or 1951) is an American conservative blogger and activist known for anti-refugee and anti-Muslim views. She runs two blogs, Refugee Resettlement Watch and Fraud, Crooks, and Criminals, and has worked with several far-right and counter-jihad groups.

She grew up in New Jersey, earned a BS in wildlife biology from Rutgers and an MS in environmental studies from Yale, and worked as a lobbyist for the National Audubon Society in the 1970s. In 1985 she moved to a Maryland farm and later led a six-year dispute with the federal government over land near Antietam National Battlefield. She briefly converted to Catholicism in 2002 but left after learning about refugee resettlement funding.

Corcoran’s anti-Muslim activism began around 2007 when refugee resettlement plans were proposed in her county. She has argued that hijra is a form of jihad and warned that Muslim immigration threatens the United States. Her views have been described as fueling anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment by groups like the Anti-Defamation League. She has appeared on Fox News, participated in the Tea Party movement, and worked with Frank Gaffney, the Center for Security Policy, and ACT for America; she has also been linked to white nationalist publications. In 2015 Donald Trump cited her as an expert at a CSP security summit. A 2017 CSP video of her went viral, in which she claimed refugees are part of a Muslim plot to colonize the U.S.