Posted on 07/30/2014 11:46:42 PM PDT by expat1000
(CNSNews.com) – The French government says it is willing to grant asylum to Iraqi Christians in the face of a jihadist onslaught against them. “We are assisting displaced persons who are fleeing the Islamic State’s threats and seeking refuge in Kurdistan,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a joint statement this week. “Should they so wish, we are prepared to offer them asylum on our soil.”
In Washington, meanwhile, a leading religious freedom advocate on Capitol Hill slammed both President Obama and Congress Tuesday for their “silence” about the plight of Iraq’s Christians, which he said amounted to “genocide.”
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Vive La France!
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Think we’ll all be moving to France for asylum!
If they can make it across the Mexican border I got no problem with their claim for asylum. ..
/s (obviously)
Nice that Obama is letting and has let ten of thousands Moslems from around the world into the US since taking office in 2009...placing them in northern cities all the way down into Tennessee (Murfreesboro)...but when it comes to bring Christians out of a HIGHLY DEFINED genocidal situation, he goes golfing...I know, some might say it’s a conspiracy....but numbers and mosques being built are there for anyone to see...
Thank you France! You have a much better leadership than the USA.
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