Ann Corcoran

Ann Corcoran (born ) blogger and political activist known for the anti-refugee and anti-Muslim blogs Refugee Resettlement Watch and Fraud, Crooks, and Criminals. She has collaborated with several far-right organizations and publications. She has a Bachelor of Science in wildlife biology from Rutgers University and a Master of Science in environmental studies from Yale University.

Corcoran converted to Catholicism in 2002, but left the church after learning that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was being paid tens of millions of dollars per year for resettling Muslim refugees.

Views and activities Corcoran's focus on Muslim immigration was sparked by plans to resettle refugees in her rural county in western Maryland, and she started her blog Refugee Resettlement Watch in 2007. She has maintained that the Muslim concept of hijra (migration) is a form of jihad to take over the Western world, and warned that the greatest threat to the United States is legal Muslim immigration.

According to Religion News Service, the blog "spurred a large movement to ban Muslim refugees in particular, claiming they wanted to impose Shariah law in the U.S," which "eventually morphed into a broader anti-immigrant movement that came to view faith groups that aid immigrants or refugees with suspicion." A Republican, Corcoran has appeared in interviews on Fox News, She has collaborated with Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy (CSP), and ACT for America, In 2015, she was cited as an "expert" by Donald Trump, who was given a copy of her book, Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America, at a CSP national security summit in Iowa where the two briefly met.

Corcoran has been accused by the Anti-Defamation League and others of promoting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Her description of hijra as an Islamic doctrine of immigration has previously been seen in the book Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration by Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi.