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发帖数: 6571 | 1 Non-Muslim Syrian refugees have been virtually locked out by the Obama
administration, according to current data from the State Department.
According to the Refugee Processing Center, of the 6,877 Syrian refugees
that have arrived in 2016 through July 31st, 6,834 of those are identified
as Sunni, Shia, or generic Muslim. Only 43 (0.7 percent of total) refugees
admitted have been non-Muslim.
That 0.7 percent of refugees arriving this year represents a statistically
insignificant fraction of the more than 2.6 million Catholic, Syriac,
Assyrian, and Greek Orthodox Christians, as well as Yazidis, other religions
, and atheists living in Syria.
Yet all of these groups are being targeted by Islamic extremists -- indeed,
Secretary of State John Kerry himself has claimed these groups are facing a
genocide.
Just yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he is opposed to any
religious test for entering the United States:
A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's
fundamental values. I reject it. pic.twitter.com/DdsYj2XoLS
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) July 31, 2016
Despite Ryan's rejection, the State Department's own numbers reveal active
discrimination targeting non-Muslim Syrian refugees.
According to The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University, the religious
breakdown of the Syrian population 2008-2009 shows that 15.98 million are
Sunnis (73 percent of the population) while 3.29 million are Shiites (14.7
percent of the population). Christians account for 2.04 million people, or 9
.3 percent of the population, while other religions account for 590,000
people, or 2.7 percent of the population.
This past March, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged at a State
Department press conference that minority religious communities in Syria
were being targeted for genocide:
My purpose here today is to assert in my judgment, (ISIS) is responsible
for genocide against groups in areas under its control including Yazidis,
Christians, and Shiite Muslims.
So why haven't we heard Speaker Ryan's outrage over active religious
discrimination against non-Muslim minority Syrian refugees?
And why is Kerry overseeing the systematic religious discrimination of
Syrian refugees in his own State Department?
I've witnessed this discrimination by the State Department against Mideast
Christians first-hand. Two years ago, I was introduced to an Egyptian Coptic
Christian man who had fled Egypt and made it to the U.S. after he was
threatened by the Muslim Brotherhood following the July 2013 ouster of
Mohamed Morsi. The introduction was made by my friend, Father Anthony Hanna
of the St. Mary and St. Mina Coptic Church in Concord, California. In August
2013, he escorted me into Upper Egypt to survey the destruction of Egypt's
churches and monasteries carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood.
This man's wife and children had been attacked in their village near Minya,
where attacks against Christians continue to this day. They were in hiding
with family members elsewhere in Egypt, and had hoped to visit their husband
and father in the United States.
With the assistance of several members of Congress who had given the family
members letters of support, the family applied to visas with the U.S.
Embassy in Cairo.
And yet, the State Department denied their visa requests.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/08/01/obama-admin-already-
discriminates-against-syrian-refugees-on-basis-of-religion-theyre-just-
christians/ |
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