Christian Refugees Merit Priority Status
By Bill Donohue | January 31, 2017 | 4:19 PM EST
Members of the Jouriyeh family, who are Syrian refugees headed to the U.S. from Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
In November 2015, President Barack Obama told a G20 press conference that proposals to give priority status to Christian refugees from Syria were “shameful.” He said, “We do not have a religious test for our compassion.” Now he is criticizing President Donald Trump for making good on this initiative.
What is really shameful is Obama’s hypocrisy, and that of his supporters. According to the logic of Trump’s critics, Obama employed a religious test to keep Syrian Christian refugees out of the United States, something that Trump is now seeking to rectify. Moreover, those refugees were created, in large part, by Obama’s failed Middle East policy.
Obama’s policy of giving priority status to Muslims was so blatant that it caught the attention of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Daniel Manion.
In November, he voiced concern over the almost complete absence of Christians among the Syrian refugees. He noted that “of the nearly 11,000 refugees admitted by mid-September, only 56 were Christian.”
He further observed that “Perhaps 10 percent of the population of Syria is Christian, and yet less than one-half of one percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year are Christian.”
cnsnews.com/commentary/bill-donohue/christian-refugees-merit-priority-statusIt is not persuasive to say that Obama did not explicitly employ a religious test against Christians. His defenders cannot have it both ways. If Obama didn’t have a religious test, then neither does Trump—there is no “Muslim ban.” . . . .
Yes, I could see that being put forth.I’m not sure if CNS News is a viable source for the News Forums.
Good point Ion.The fact is that Christians are abused by Muslims in those countries.
Muslim boat captain accused of murdering six Christian refugees by throwing them overboard
Prosecution claims Alain N.B. targeted migrants wearing crosses and blamed them for a storm
Gabriel Samuels @gabs_samuels Wednesday 21 September 2016 14:21 BST
A Muslim boat captain has been put on trial for the murder of six Christian refugees, after he was accused of pushing them overboard as their craft travelled to Spain.
independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/muslim-boat-captain-murder-christian-refugee-accusations-threw-overboard-a7320531.htmlThe Cameroonian captain, identified as Alain NB, was guiding the craft from Morocco and allegedly “blamed the rough seas which were rocking the boat on the prayer led by a Catholic pastor” and “believed that the weather worsened every time they prayed” . . .
That’s part of the whole point here ErrolFlynn.People in need of protection, are people in need of protection, regardless of the prayers that they happen to have been brought up to say.
From the article . . .The criteria is the level of danger that they are facing in their home countries period.
Should Christian refugees be given priority status? Absolutely. **There is one overriding reason: they are the most persecuted people on earth.
Did you not read the article? That was one of the main points.It is not compassionate to treat every religion equally when the distribution of the victims of religious persecution, and the reasons for it, are so egregiously unequal.**
. . . . There is one overriding reason: they (Christians) are the most persecuted people on earth.
It is not compassionate to treat every religion equally when the distribution of the victims of religious persecution, and the reasons for it, are so egregiously unequal. Millions of Christians were murdered under Hitler, but they were not targeted for genocide the way 6 million Jews were. That makes a difference. . .
. . . (Worldwide) one Christian is killed every six minutes.
. . . it was in Muslim-run nations where Christians were most likely to be victimized. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan [note the name] killed more Christians because of their faith in 2016 than any other country.
And the intense persecution against Christians is almost certainly UNDERestimated . . . .The U.S. State Department’s Commission on International Religious Freedom . . . detailed the violence of Muslim-run nations against Christians.
The international “Refugee Camps” are disproprtionatly “Hades Holes” for Christians. In some of these Refugee Camps, Christians just plain no longer exist!Political scientist Abraham Miller notes that the State Department still uses an antiquated calculation when assessing the victims of persecution: it limits its study to state oppression, wholly ignoring terrorist entities such as ISIS. This means, he says, that “their brutal persecution of Christians does not give Christians special consideration as refugees.”
U.N. refugee camps are dominated by Muslims, many of whom brutalize Christians. “In the refugee camp in Jordan,” he says, “there are no Christians. In the camps Christians are murdered, raped, and even kidnapped and sold into slavery.”
The left would give out a howl one could hear from Mars, including the leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which felt Trump’s preference for religious minorities is “discriminatory”.The fact is that Christians are abused by Muslims in those countries. Maybe proof should be gathered and the exec order amended such to give priority to Christians…