Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diegoâincluding U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugeesâhad hopes that they would eventually be released. Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that âTheyâve escaped hell [IS]. Letâs allow them to reunite with their families.â 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 âpersecuted by their government.â In other words, the only ârealâ 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 ârebelâ forces fighting Assadâincluding the Islamic Stateâtheir status as refugees is evidently considered dubious at best.
As Abraham H. Miller argues in âNo room in America for Christian refugeesâ: âWhat 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 alongâas Jewish groups did during the Holocaustâand sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?â
In fact, from the start of Western meddling in the Mideast in the context of the âArab Spring,â 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 Independentâs Robert Fisk scoffed at how the Egyptian presidential candidate âAhmed Shafiq, the Mubarak loyalist, [and rival to the Muslim Brotherhoodâs 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?â
More than three years later, the Western-supported âArab Springâ 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 âpersecuted by their government,â 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 âhuman rightsâ 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 inâespecially Libya and Syriaâhas seen a dramatic nosedive in the human rights of Christian minorities.
The Obama administrationâs bias is evident even regarding to the Iraqi Christiansâ illegal crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border, the occasion on which they were arrested. WND correctly observes: âAt 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.â
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 migrantsâor 80 percentâare not even from Syria.
And while Christian minorities pose little threat to the United Statesâindeed, they actually bring benefits to U.S. securityâMuslims 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: âAnd 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 himâhis reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.â
In Islamic usage, the âcause of Allahâ is synonymous with jihad to empower and enforce Allahâs 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 donât, the âlocations and abundanceâ 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.
Source: Human Events