The
following excerpts are from AINA.org.
All emphases
are mine:
At
the end of World War II, the Jewish survivors of Europe's Holocaust
found that nearly every door was closed to them. "Tell Me Where
Can I Go?" was a popular Yiddish song at the time. Decades
later, the Christians of the Middle East face the same problem, and
the Obama administration is keeping the door shut.
America
is about to accept 9000 Syrian Muslims,
refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its
Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other
militias. That number is predicted to increase each year.
There are no Christian refugees that will be
admitted.
Why?
Because the Department of State is adhering
with all the rigidity of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that
only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for
refugee status. The
rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do
not count.
No matter how moved Americans were this
Christmas season by the plight of their fellow Christ
followers in Syria and Iraq, no matter how
horrific the visuals of beheadings, enslavement, and mass murder, the
Christians fleeing death do not engender the compassion of this
president.
The Christians are being raped, tortured,
and murdered by militias, not by
the Syrian government.
This technicality condemns them to continue to be victims without
hope.
And this technicality is being adhered to with all the tenacity with
which President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department manipulated
quotas and created subterfuges to keep out the Jews fleeing the
oppression of Nazi Germany. Obama no more
wants the Middle East's Christian refugees than Roosevelt wanted
Europe's Jewish refugees.
We
have seen in the last several weeks that President
Obama has no difficulty using his "phone and his pen," as
he dramatically boasts, to circumvent the law. When it
comes to immigration, he had no difficulty
enacting an amnesty that a federal judge subsequently
ruled unconstitutional. He has had no problem circumventing Congress
to change the relationship with Cuba. This
president has shown that he will push back on the constraints of law
when he wants to get something done.
But
there are not even such constraints when it comes to the Middle
East's Christians fleeing the brutality of ISIS and Al Qaeda.
The Department of State chooses to adhere to a definition
of refugees as people persecuted by their own government.
What difference does it make which army imperils the lives of
innocent Christians? Christians are still be
slaughtered for being Christian, and their government is incapable of
protecting them. Does some group
have to come along--as Jewish groups did during the Holocaust--and
sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?
The
Christians would barely have to be vetted
for ties to terror organizations, which by their very
nature do not take Christians.
Meanwhile, there is the uncomfortable issue that among
the Sunni refugees there are some in league with the Sunni terror
militias. And beyond that there is the equally
uncomfortable question of
the acculturation
of segments of the Muslim community.
...it
is time for all people of good will to say
to the Obama administration that telling Christians awaiting death
that there is no room for them in the inn is not only unacceptable,
it is also, to use President Obama's own words, "not who we
are." This season, Christians
need to make their voice heard. They should not act as the Jews did,
waiting for a president who had no intention of doing anything, to do
something.
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No Room in America for Christian Refugees
