Why couldn’t there be 80,000 persecuted Christians from these same countries who suffer the tyranny of Islam?
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Why couldn’t there be 80,000 persecuted Christians from these same
countries who suffer the tyranny of Islam?
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My inexpert understanding is that for decades The State Department
and immigration authorities basically never considered persecuted
Chrisitans for admission as refugees.
But I think that softened up after a lawyer named David Horowitz
(not the consumer advocate or the commentator) made some noise along the
lines of “why don’t Christians in America provide sanctuary for Christians
that are being exploited, abused, raped, etc. in their home countries?”.
Horowitz couldn’t understand why American Christians didn’t fight for
Christians persecuted in foreign countries.
I think Horowitz’s criticism pushed forward admission of Christians
like the “lost boys” of the Sudan. They were profiled by NBC soon after
9-11. One of their sponsors was a banker in Kansas City and he said that
after his “lost boy” explained how they were treated by Muslims,
he really understood how cruelly they had been treated.