Posted on 08/22/2016 7:35:49 AM PDT by xzins
With less than six weeks of the fiscal year to go, the Obama administration is speeding towards meeting its target of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States, and is currently fewer than 900 refugees away from the goal.
A total of 9,144 Syrian refugees have now been resettled in FY 2016. Of these, 9,077 are Muslims.
Among the 9,144 refugees, 47 (0.5 percent) are Christians and 14 (0.15 percent) are Yazidis--like Christians, a non-Muslim minority targeted specifically by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) for persecution.
Meanwhile the administration has admitted 8,984 Sunni Muslims – 98.2 percent of the total number admitted this fiscal year – according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.
The remaining refugees resettled since October 1 last year are 20 Shi’a Muslims, 73 other Muslims, five refugees identified as “other religion,” and one as having “no religion.”
Admissions for August follow a similar pattern: Of a total of 1,593, 12 (0.75 percent) are Christians, 1,552 (97.4 percent) are Sunnis. Another 23 are other Muslims, four are Yazidis, and two are adherents of “other religion.”
The 12 Christians admitted so far this month comprise four Protestants, four Orthodox, one Catholic, and three refugees described simply as “Christian.”
The denominational breakdown for the 47 Christians admitted in FY 2016 is seven Catholic, six Orthodox, four Protestant, one Greek Orthodox and 29 “Christian” refugees.
Since 2011 millions of Syrians of all religious and ethnic backgrounds have fled the civil war, whose antagonists include ISIS, al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra and other Sunni Salafist groups, moderate/nationalist Sunni rebels, Kurds, Shi’a Iran and its Hezbollah ally, other Shi’a militia, and the Assad regime, dominated by the Shi’ite Allawite sect.
Still, the number of Christians among refugees admitted into the U.S. remains disproportionately low, and the number of Sunnis disproportionately high:
--About 10 percent of the Syrian population is Christian, and yet Christians account for just 0.5 percent of refugees admitted to the U.S. in FY 2016, and 0.8 percent of the total admitted since March 2011 (95 out of a total of 11,017).
--Some 74 percent of Syrians are Sunnis – or were when the war began. The proportion of Sunnis among the Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. in is 98.2 percent, and the proportion since March 2011 is 97.1 percent (10,703 out of a total of 11,017).
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR plays an important role in the early stages of applications for refugee status in the United States.
But many Christians and other minorities fleeing Syria have avoided registering with UNHCR, for reasons that include – in the agency’s own admission – “fear that registration might bring retribution from other refugees” in its camps.
Because of this, refugee advocates say Christians and other minorities may be unintentionally disadvantaged in the process of seeking refuge in the United States. (UNHCR says living in a camp is not a prerequisite for refugees to be registered with the agency.)
The Obama administration says it will not prioritize any faith community when considering Syrian refugee applications, despite its own finding that ISIS’ actions against Christians, Yazidis and other minorities in both Syria and Iraq amount to genocide.
U.N. investigators, too, have determined that ISIS is carrying out genocide against the Yazidis.
We should note that the administration thinks our muslim allies in Syria are NOT supporters of Assad’s regime but are members of the opposition. We now know the opposition is an alignment of muslim brotherhood type groups. Some have affiliation with al Qaeda and the muslim brotherhood with real lines of connection.
Given taqiya, the muslim holy obligation to lie if it advances islam, we can’t really trust that a person’s saying they are Christian is proof that they are Christian.
Therefore, the Trump solution is the best...protected zones within Syria for those needing protection.
Hey Obama, this religious discrimination in favor of Muslims certainly qualifies as a “disparate outcome.”
What are you going to do about it?
Nothing, if its your favorites that are getting the benefits.
It is such a glaring prejudice against Christians that you have to wonder why they don’t doctor the numbers.
I’m just excited that my tax dollars will go towards helping these poor individuals help commit jihad against our country. /s
10,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to the quarter MILLION Moslems we import ANNUALLY, completely under the radar. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/14/federal-data-u-s-annually-admits-quarter-of-a-million-muslim-migrants/
On the other hand, maybe when folks went out there and asked “Do you want to be a refugee? (Nod/wink)” almost no Christians said yes.
Where are all these Moose coming from? What is their ostensible business?
IIRC, identifying yourself in Syria, even in the so called refugee centers, as a Christian is a great way to get targeted.
A lot has to do with the circumstances of “becoming refugee” alright.
Interesting to see Russia isn’t taking any Christian Syrian refugees either:
http://news.sky.com/story/syrians-have-no-chance-of-asylum-in-russia-10269912
A sane policy....they’re not taking anyone.
They had some kind of report on it a couple of years back in which a group like Voice of the Martyrs was charging that the UN (or US? ) was running their programs in such a way that actually threatened the Christians. The result was that the Christians wouldn’t go near them. The pro-Christian group was charging that the UN? was doing it intentionally. I wish I could remember the article, but it’s all hazy.
Maybe they did doctor the numbers. OTOH, who in this administration would want to be subjected to an investigation on how 47 Christians managed to make it through.
:?)
47 Christians? Are they all the survivors?
“47 Christians? Are they all the survivors?”
They are probably communist atheists, who just happen to have been born to Christian families.
It wouldn’t serve the Party’s interests to have more real Christians in the USA.
‘course not. Too damned many of those people already. What would they want with a shipload more of them that can’t even speak Spanish./s
Saving the Muslims and letting the Christians die—Obama should be tried as a war criminal for genocide.
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