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Obama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions [deported back to Syria]
Human Events ^ | Sep 28, 2015 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 10/09/2015 11:32:16 AM PDT by SJackson

Originally published by the Gatestone Institute

The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United States has finally been decided by the Obama administration: they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they will likely be persecuted if not slaughtered like so many Iraqi Christians before them.

Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are being charged with immigration fraud.

Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diego—including U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugees—had hopes that they would eventually be released. Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that “They’ve escaped hell [IS]. Let’s allow them to reunite with their families.” One of the detained women had begged to see her ailing mother before she died. The mother died before they could reunite, and now the daughter is to be deported, possibly back to the hell of the Islamic State.

Why are Christian minorities, who are the most to suffer from the chaos engulfing the Middle East, the least wanted in the United States?

The answer is that the Obama administration defines refugees as people “persecuted by their government.” In other words, the only “real” refugees are those made so due to the actions of Bashar Assad. As for those who are being raped, slaughtered, and enslaved based on their religious identity by so-called “rebel” forces fighting Assad—including the Islamic State—their status as refugees is evidently considered dubious at best.

As Abraham H. Miller argues in “No room in America for Christian refugees”: “What difference does it make which army imperils the lives of innocent Christians? Christians are still be[ing] slaughtered for being Christian, and their government is incapable of protecting them. Does some group have to come along—as Jewish groups did during the Holocaust—and sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?”

In fact, from the start of Western meddling in the Mideast in the context of the “Arab Spring,” Christians were demonized for being supportive of secular strongmen like Assad. In a June 4, 2012 article discussing the turmoil in Egypt and Syria, the Independent’s Robert Fisk scoffed at how the Egyptian presidential candidate “Ahmed Shafiq, the Mubarak loyalist, [and rival to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi] has the support of the Christian Copts, and Assad has the support of the Syrian Christians. The Christians support the dictators. Not much of a line, is it?”

More than three years later, the Western-supported “Arab Spring” proved an abysmal failure and the same Christian minorities that Fisk took to task were, as expected, persecuted in ways unprecedented in the modern era.

Even without defining refugees as people “persecuted by their government,” the Obama administration never seems to miss an opportunity to display its bias for Muslims against Christians. The U.S. State Dept. is in the habit of inviting scores of Muslim representatives but denying visas to solitary Christian representatives. While habitually ignoring the slaughter of Nigerian Christians at the hands of Boko Haram, the administration called for the “human rights” of the jihadi murderers. And when persecuted Copts planned on joining the anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution, Obama said no. Then there is the fact that every Arab nation the Obama administration has meddled in—especially Libya and Syria—has seen a dramatic nosedive in the human rights of Christian minorities.

The Obama administration’s bias is evident even regarding to the Iraqi Christians’ illegal crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border, the occasion on which they were arrested. WND correctly observes: “At the same time the Obama administration [is] deporting Christians, it has over the years allowed in hundreds of Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East who crossed the Southern border the same way the Chaldeans did.”

Meanwhile, as the Obama administration nitpicks at the definition of refugee and uses it against severely persecuted Christian minorities, it turns out that four out of five migrants—or 80 percent—are not even from Syria.

And while Christian minorities pose little threat to the United States—indeed, they actually bring benefits to U.S. security—Muslims all around the U.S. are supporting the Islamic State and Muslim clerics are relying on the refugee influx to conquer Western nations, in the Islamic tradition of Hijra, or jihad by emigration.

As Koran 4:100 puts it: “And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him—his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.”

In Islamic usage, the “cause of Allah” is synonymous with jihad to empower and enforce Allah’s laws on earth, or Sharia. In this context, immigrating into Western lands is a win-win for Muslims: if they die in the process somehow, paradise is theirs; if they don’t, the “locations and abundance” of the West are theirs.

All the while, true Christian refugees, fleeing the same hostile Muslim forces being allowed to enter Europe and America by the thousands, are thrown back to the lions by the Obama administration.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: SJackson

The rape and slaughter of thousands of Christians must be laid at the feet of the US president, Obama. He has overseen and demanded as a matter of policy the death of Christians at the hands of Muslim terrorists.


21 posted on 10/09/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: SJackson

Roman EMPEROR NERO the 2nd?


22 posted on 10/09/2015 12:03:18 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SJackson

Obama is lower than the Planned Parenthood murderers.


23 posted on 10/09/2015 12:04:30 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: XenaLee

Caligula comes to mind ...I wish Zero’s Praetorian guard would see him for what he is and treat him the same way.


24 posted on 10/09/2015 12:05:33 PM PDT by clamper1797 (If stupidity hurt ... liberalism would be agonizing)
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To: SJackson

From the article, it seems these people DID cross into America illegally through TX. And they have families here. But for some reason Obama wants to deport these particular people, saying they don’t count because their country is not persecuting them.

I guess Mexico must be persecuting its people, or else Obama would deport all of them also...

Obama is a foreign enemy combatant who was put into office through the crimes of his Islamist and communist masters who took our system hostage. I keep saying it; by the time the world acknowledges the truth of this, it will be too late.


25 posted on 10/09/2015 12:09:45 PM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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To: SJackson

Shades of FDR and the Jews. Had a boatload of Jews turned back where they subsequently were murdered in Nazi concentration camps.


26 posted on 10/09/2015 12:16:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SJackson

Throw Christians out, then release 6,000 criminal aliens out of prison to walk the streets, how cool is that? I fear God has truly withdrawn His Blessings of the once great nation.


27 posted on 10/09/2015 12:32:37 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: SJackson

A self proclaimed true christian would not do this.


28 posted on 10/09/2015 1:05:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SJackson

Doing this while consiring to import muslims. What a scoundrel!


29 posted on 10/09/2015 1:07:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (A Free Man!)
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To: SJackson

Pretty obvious they want “refugees” who they can arm to kill US. Christian refugees not much use there.


30 posted on 10/09/2015 2:00:11 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: SJackson

He’s still standing on the side of his muzzy bros.


31 posted on 10/09/2015 2:21:41 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SJackson

I wonder how sanctuary cities would treat these Syrian Christians should they escape and take up residence in one of them?


32 posted on 10/09/2015 3:09:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SJackson
Bump to the top!

You may want to repost this in light of Obama and the Syria Refugee debacle.

Obama is an embarrassment.

33 posted on 11/23/2015 11:39:58 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

Hopefully I’ll see some other articles. Please note, these Christians are not refugees, they are illegal immigrants which the administration welcomes. Just not middle eastern Christians. Worse than an embarrassment, he has peoples lives on his conscience. Which functions differently than mine.


34 posted on 11/23/2015 3:36:30 PM PST by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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