The Democrats' travel ban no one likes to talk about (How 1 Christian escaped from Iran)

Worldnet Daily ^ | 1 Feb 2017 | Leo Hohmann

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Shahram Hadian still remembers what it felt like to be 9 years old, living in an apartment in Atlanta and waiting for his mother to return from Iran.

The weeks turned into months, the months into years. He thought he might never see her again.

“It’s a part of my story I don’t share a lot,” says Hadian, whose family fled Iran in December 1978 to escape the Ayatollah Khomeini’s uprising against the Shah of Iran.

His father was a military man who saw the writing on the wall, as Khomeini was manipulating and agitating against the U.S.-backed Shah, gaining popularity among college students and rural Iranians who saw the country as becoming too secular and too Western.

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U.S. Christians largely asleep about Islam

The Christian community is largely asleep and devoid of accurate information about Islam, Hadian says.

“To me right now, our biggest struggle is within the Christian community. It’s all in. You’re either all in for the refugees or you’re nothing,” he said. “We need to expose the groups like the evangelical World Relief, the Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities. That’s an issue we’re not talking about.

“These church-related organizations are getting close to $2 billion a year between them, and the biggest bulk of funding is coming from the federal government,” he said. “And we need to expose the fact that their contract with the U.S. State Department forbids them from proselytizing the refugees. You’re not evangelizing them. You’re more worried about let’s feed them, clothe them and get them a translator and a tutor than about how we reach out to them with the gospel.

“If we don’t figure out how to do that, they will not assimilate. And they will end up attacking us like in Europe. We’re not haters. We’re not wanting to have a lifetime ban, but tell the other side of the story.”

After the Muslim bombing of the St. Mark’s Coptic church in Egypt, there was no weeping in America for the Christians, notes Hadian.

“I think it was Tucker Carlson on Fox News who said, ‘I don’t hear Christian pastors talking about the persecution of the Christians.'”

In the 35 years since the Refugee Act of 1980 was signed by President Jimmy Carter, there has never been a year in which more Muslims were accepted as U.S. refugees than last year. More than 46,000 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. as refugees in fiscal 2016, with 12,600 of them coming from Syria.

Less than 1 percent of those Syrian refugees were Christian.

“It is hypocrisy and selective outrage by the left,” he said. “They’re outraged we’re putting a temporary ban on seven Muslim countries, but not outraged by the effective ban on Christians from Syria. They are running for their lives and can’t even go to the safe zones without being attacked by Muslims.”

Hadian is planning to make his first visit to Israel in March as part of a pastors’ group hosted by Christians United for Israel.

“They sat me down and kind of sheepishly told me that if your passport says you were born in Iran, expect to be detained for about four-and-a-half hours, and I’m like, ‘OK, no problem. I understand given the security of their country and that they don’t trust the Iranian government. I’m expecting it; I’m not offended. But we’ve lost our collective minds in this country. Why should I get offended that the Israeli government is doing its job? Is it my right to go to Israel, or is it a privilege?

“So they were like, ‘Expect to be extremely vetted,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, vet away.'”

Yet, liberal Western Christians are in many cases so thin-skinned they can’t even hear the truth, let alone receive it.

“Christ said, ‘I’m sending you out to be as gentle as doves but as wise as serpents.’ They are refusing to be as wise as serpents, and that’s why they’re falling victim to the lies and the deceptions of Islam,” Hadian said. “They are sacrificing themselves to Islam, just like in Europe.”

Because of the propensity of modern-day Western Christians to fall into the trap of becoming “snowflakes” and actually side with the left and Islam, Hadian believes Trump will have his work cut out on many flash-point issues – including Muslim immigration, moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

“I’m telling people the darkest days are still ahead of us. Trump is getting serious about this. He’s got enough of an ego if he decides to do something, I don’t think anything can sway him, and that’s exactly what you need to go against this monster,” Hadian said. “The Muslim Brotherhood groups, like CAIR and ISNA, are going to use the liberal left as useful idiots. That’s why we see women wearing hijabs in solidarity with Muslims when they don’t know what the hijab means for Muslim women living in Muslim countries. You want to know what a hijab means? Go ask a woman in Iran. It’s pure stupidity on their part, but CAIR will cover for them and say the hijab has nothing to do with domination of women. The toughest days are still ahead of us, and it is going to be an all-out war. At some point, as Christians, we need to go about understanding the spirit of Islam and where it comes from.”

At its heart, Islam is made up of an anti-Christ spirit, Hadian said.

“It denies Him as the Son, and it denies his Father. So what do you have left? What you are seeing is a deception,” he said.

He believes the next step in the Islamization of America is a massive growth in conversions. Young, secular women who have rejected Christianity will flock to Islam.

“How many liberal Christians are going to get converted to Islam after going down the road of Chrislam for a while?” he said. “So really the only explanation we can come to as believers is a spiritual one. It is a blindness, a deception at its root. But I just sure hope this administration goes full force ahead against the Muslim Brotherhood.”