Posted on 11/22/2015 6:45:36 AM PST by HomerBohn
Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as "shameful": "That's not American. That's not who we are. We don't have religious tests to our compassion," loftily added the American president.
Accordingly, the administration is still determined to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees, almost all of whom will be Muslim, despite the fact that some are ISIS operatives, while many share the ISIS worldview (as explained below).
Yet right as Obama was grandstanding about "who we are," statistics were released indicating that "the current [refugee] system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim."
Aside from the obvious--or to use Obama's own word, "shameful"--pro-Muslim, anti-Christian bias evident in these statistics, there are a number of other troubling factors as well.
For starters, the overwhelming majority of "refugees" being brought into the United States are not just Muslim, but Sunnis--the one Muslim sect that the Islamic State is not persecuting and displacing. After all, ISIS--and most Islamic terrorist groups (Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, Hamas, et al)--are all Sunnis. Even Obama was arguably raised a Sunni.
In this context, how are Sunnis "refugees"? Who are they fleeing? Considering that the Obama administration defines refugees as people "persecuted by their government," most of those coming into the U.S. either aided or at least sympathized with the jihad against Assad (even if they only revealed their true colors when the time was right).
Simply put, some 98% of all refugees belong to the same Islamic sect that ISIS does. And many of them, unsurprisingly, share the same vision--such as the "refugees" who recently murdered some 120 people in France, or the "refugees" who persecute Christian minorities in European camps and settlements. (None of this should be surprising considering that Al Azhar--the Sunni world's most prestigious university of Islamic law, which co-hosted Obama's 2009 "A New Beginning" speech--was recently exposed as teaching and legitimizing all the atrocities that ISIS commits.)
As for those who are being raped, slaughtered, and enslaved based on their non-Sunni religious identity--not by Assad, but by so-called "rebel" forces (AKA jihadis)--many of them are being denied refuge in America.
Thus, although Christians were approximately 10 percent of Syria's population in 2011, only one percent has been granted refuge in America. This despite the fact that, from a strictly humanitarian point of view--and humanitarianism is the chief reason being cited in accepting refugees, Obama's "compassion"--Christians should receive priority simply because they are the most persecuted group in the Middle East.
At the hands of the Islamic State, which supposedly precipitated the migrant crisis, Christians have been repeatedly forced to renounce Christ or die; they have been enslaved and raped; and they have had more than 400 of their churches desecrated and destroyed.[i]
ISIS has committed no such atrocities against fellow Sunnis, they who are being accepted into the U.S. in droves. Nor does Assad enslave, behead, or crucify people based on their religious identity (despite Jeb Bush's recent, and absurd, assertions).
Obama should further prioritize Christian refugees simply because his own policies in the Middle East have directly exacerbated their plight. Christians and other religions minorities did not flee from Bashar Assad's Syria, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi's Libya. Their systematic persecution began only after the U.S. interfered in those nations in the name of "democracy" but succeeding in only uncorking the jihadi terrorists that the dictators had long kept suppressed.
Incidentally, prioritizing Christian refugees would not merely be an altruistic gesture or the U.S. government's way of righting its wrongs: rather it brings many benefits to America's security. (Unlike Muslims or even Yazidis, Christians are easily assimilated into Western nations due to the shared Christian heritage, and they bring trustworthy language and cultural skills that are beneficial to the "war on terror.")
Finally, no one should be shocked by these recent revelations of the Obama administration's pro-Muslim and anti-Christian policies. They fit a clear and established pattern of religious bias within his administration. For example:
•When inviting scores of Muslim representatives, the State Department is in the habit of denying visas to solitary Christian representatives.
•When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and then sent back to the lion's den to be enslaved, raped, or murdered.
•When the Nigerian government waged a strong offensive against Boko Haram, killing some of its terrorists, Secretary of State John Kerry fumed and called for the "human rights" of the jihadis (who regularly slaughter and rape Christians and burn their churches). More recently, Kerry "urged Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on Islam."
•When persecuted Coptic Christians planned on joining Egypt's anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution of 2013, the U.S. said no . •When persecuted Iraqi and Syrian Christians asked for arms to join the opposition fighting ISIS, D.C. refused.
•When the UN Security Council held a meeting to discuss the genocide against Christians and other minorities, although "many high level delegations from UN member states addressed the Security Council meeting, some at the Foreign Minister level, the United States failed to send ... a high ranking member of the State Department."
Most recently, as the White House works on releasing a statement accusing ISIS of committing genocide against religious minorities such as Yazidis -- who are named and recognized in the statement -- Obama officials are arguing that Christians "do not appear to meet the high bar set out in the genocide treaty" and thus likely not be mentioned.
In short, and to use the president's own words, it is the Obama administration's own foreign and domestic policies that are "shameful," that are "not American," and that do not represent "who we are."
Yet the question remains: Will Americans take notice and do anything about their leader's policies--which welcome Islamic jihadis while ignoring their victims--or will their indifference continue until they too become victims of the jihad, in a repeat of Paris or worse?
The biggest mistake in our history (and that's ignoring monumental ones) was to elect this half-baked foreign exchange student to ruin our lives, our economy and our nation for decades to come.
Electing a brain surgeon who registered as a Republican just a few months ago would be committing yet another mistake.
A Trump and Cruz team is the best ticket for America.
“...my Muslim faith.”
He told us who he was long ago.
No surprise. Unfortunate that it’s taken so long for people to finally wake up.
When people come to understand that Obama is nothing more than a closeted homosexual, then all his behavior becomes understandable. He is full of rage, humiliation and resentment. He projects his anger and willful intent to harm against those he blames for his vile molestation. In his warped mind, those people are white Christians.
The left, including a Soros-backed Christian group is going all out to “guilt” Americans into accepting these refugees. But the guilt does not have to work. A test for immigration is assimilation, and the fact is, a lot of these dispossessed cannot assimilate here. It is abusive to have them travel this far. They need to be taken in by their “peaceful” brethren in countries closer to home, where they have a chance of their “religion” being understood. The fact is, “Christian groups” have a lot of money to lose, in the form of federal grants and programs under the Refugee Resettlement Act, if those programs are defunded, and that’s why all the screaming. Catholic Charities, the Catholic Bishops, and the Lutherans are used by the feds to spearhead these programs.
Time to take back and rebuid America!
The Christian charities in my area sponsor the refugees for a required brief period of time then cut them loose and they’re on public assistance.
President Trump and Vice President Cruz, I like the sound of that. Here’s wishing you both the best of luck and I sure hope you join forces.
Start from that premise, add to the fact that he hates this country and wants to see it brought down low and everything he has done, does and will do makes complete sense.
If, as too many people do, people start from the faulty premise of him being naive or in over his head, then the things he does is mind-boggling and confusing.
It was, in large measure, the over-the-top ‘outrage’ from the left that accompanied any attempt at vetting or criticism of Obama that suppressed any widespread concern about his agenda and background. Anyone who dared was immediately characterized as either racist or a fringe nut. There was never any room for or tolerance for a discussion about what he believes and what his agenda is. Couple that with the fact that he is very good at using a calm voice and projecting ‘reasonableness’.
It has only been after he's displayed his unyielding ideologically driven self, time and time again, that people have actually started ‘getting it’ on a larger scale. You can bet, however, that if he were running again at this point, there would be ongoing suppression again of any discussion or vetting. Such are the politics of the USA at this point in history.
Thanksgiving is the day to thank someone. Thank all the dumocrats you know for saddling us with this Muslim mutt.
Obama is nothing more than a dorm room bullshit artist, and whenever he speaks something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.
Turkeys all!
We had tests for State Shinto during WWII, and applied them too.
When people come to understand that Obama is nothing more than a closeted homosexual, then all his behavior becomes understandable. He is full of rage, humiliation and resentment. He projects his anger and willful intent to harm against those he blames for his vile molestation. In his warped mind, those people are white Christians.
Yup!
Good research, good article. Thank you.
bfl
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