By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post.
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The United States government is processing an unbelievably low number of Christian refugees despite the ongoing genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the American Center for Law and Justice reports.
The conservative law group cited numbers from the Refugee Processing Center, noting that while the U.S. has processed 11,086 Muslims from Iraq since the beginning of 2015, only 433 Christians have been added to that number. And in Syria, there have been 5,435 Muslims welcomed and only 28 Christians.
“In an attempt to justify this astounding discrepancy, the Obama administration and congressional Democratic leadership continue to maintain that the U.S. should not consider a refugee’s religion in deciding whether to grant refugee status,” the ACLJ said on Tuesday.
They argued, however, that religion should definitely be a consideration when granting refugee status, given that IS targets Christians and other religious minorities in the region.
The law group said Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in March that IS kills Christians because of their religion.
“So, we know that ISIS targets Christians in Iraq and Syria because they are Christians. Christians are being slaughtered, tortured, raped and displaced because they are Christian. We also know that under U.S. and international refugee law, religion is a criterion for granting refugee status,” the ACLJ added, warning that unless serious action is taken to protect minorities, they will be wiped out at the hands of IS.
Related article: Religion is a Legal Ground for Refugee Status Determination – Stop Ignoring Christians Fleeing ISIS
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I’ve kind of wondered about this myself, since it’s the Administration that has control over who comes in, and the fact is that we don’t whose coming, while Christians are getting slaughtered, this doesn’t seem right or fair.
And since the US destabilized this region, we have an obligation to take in Christians especially since Obama was against the Iraqi invasion to begin with, yet he doesn’t, and I don’t get that.
The May report of the State Department Refugee Processing Center is even more stark in its anti-Christian bias. Out of 1037 Syrian refugees admitted to the USA in May, 1035 were Muslim and 2 were Christian. I blogged about this two weeks ago:
https://wordpress.com/stats/post/1033/mateenelass.wordpress.com
There is no excuse for such blatant bias!
Just so you are completely aware. The federal law forbids a religious test for admission as a refugee. Hence, Christians are not favored over Muslims, Hindus or any other religious group.
Very OBVIOUSLY Chrisitians are not favored…..