Why Isn't the West Trying to Rescue Mideastern Christians?

And I'm supposed to take your word for it? Is that you Trump? "Believe me."

 

Because they are the victims of religion-based genocide.

 

Obama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions
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So Far: Syrian Refugees in U.S. Include 2,098 Muslims, 53 Christians
Report: Obama Administration Denying Visas for Christians Seeking Asylum

 

You know some in here will not recognize this as sarcasm, and will believe it justifies their thinking........?

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Yet another argument for the (I hope) Trump monkeywrench.

 

because Christians usually are conservatives and Obama doesn't want to add any more conservatives to the voting rolls

 

No; but we have too many atheists and Marxist progressives that are.

 

No money in it?

 

Michelle Obama was in charge of the US foreign policy at the time. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/10/michelle-obama-nigeria-presidential-address

 

From Fred's link:

"By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Less than 3 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far are Christian and 96 percent are Muslim, the result of a referral system that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton says “unintentionally discriminates” against Christians.

State Department figures released Monday showed that the current system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim, the Christian News Service reported.

Mr. Cotton and Sen. John Boozman, both Arkansas Republicans, called Monday for a moratorium on resettlements, a White House report on vetting procedures, and a re-evaluation of the refugee-referral process.

“[T]he United States’ reliance on the United Nations for referrals of Syrian refugees should also be re-evaluated,” said Mr. Cotton in a statement. “That reliance unintentionally discriminates against Syrian Christians and other religious minorities who are reluctant to register as refugees with the United Nations for fear of political and sectarian retribution.”

The current system relies on referrals from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Syria’s population in 2011 was 90 percent Muslim and 10 percent Christian, CNS said.

Sen. Tom Cotton. (Associated Press)
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At a news conference Monday in Turkey, President Obama described as “shameful” the idea of giving religious preferences to refugees, apparently referring to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s suggestion that the United States should accept Christian refugees while Muslim refugees are sent to majority-Muslim countries."

Boldface mine...our very own President justifying genocide in the guise of "fairness".

 

Wait...so you want Syrian Christians to get NO vetting and Syrian Muslims can't come here no matter what?

By the way...how many Syrian Christian refugees are there compared to Syrian Muslims?

 

See Fred's post # 49.

 

Any more, probably not that many, since the genocide by ISIS has been going on for over a year now, and that in the rest of the Mideast and Africa on and off again for centuries.

 

Only 10% of the Syrian population is Christian. Most of them live in Damascus and a few other large cities.

Is ISIS in Damascus?

No?

Syrian Christians shouls be treated exactly like Syrian Muslims and I see no evidence that they aren't.

That's not what you want though is it?

You want preferential treatment of Christians.

As if there's no danger of a Christian being a terrorist convert...right?

 

Because the current administration hates Christianity almost as much as they hate traditional American values.

 

That's totally ignorant post. You haven't got a clue who lives where in Syria and what happened since 2011. Educate yourself a bit on the topic.

 

This opens up a huge can of worms. Do you take children away from their parents? Are the enough resources? Should Asians countries be doing this as well?

Western countries are letting in Middle Easterners but sadly too many of them are Muslims. Unless and until we rid the world of Islam efforts like rescuing the women and children will be a a fool's errand.

If we did rescue Middle Eastern kids and took them from their parents Muslims would use this as a recruiting tool to attract more terrorists.

 

Okay. Italian police arrested the assailants. This incident does not support your thesis that the West isn't helping Christian refugees. Indeed, it proves you wrong.

 

Neither does the author of the article. The article was completely biased with nothing to support its claims. The application process is handled by the UN. The percentages mean nothing. If the author had proof of religious discrimination, he would have cited it. Instead, he uses meaningless statistics to gin up anger, anxiety and hatred. Three percent of refugees have been Christian. That proves that we are helping Christians, and if we took a look at Europe, we'd see more Christian refugees being rescued. The premise of the OP is false. If we read between the line, though... (Fear and anger are very difficult to cover up with the appearance of rational thought.)

 

If a muslim were to "act christian" to get in and then follow thru with it to keep up the charade that would go a very long way towards him integrating with society. Particularly since to keep up the charade he has to go to church etc.

 

Oh no, it's been established that Sunni radical Muslims deliberately commit genocidal acts and ethnic cleansing against Alawites, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Yazidis etc...etc...as a matter of their policy. It's their policy to target all those minorities under their control. As such those minorities should be prioritised. The fact is that they are not. They are left to their own devices. The USA has done nothing whatsoever to help Christians in the Middle East. Neither in Iraq nor in Syria. U.S foreign policy makers allowed Sunni radicals to slaughter them.

 

This is true, but the OP mentioned refugees. If you want to talk foreign policy, that's fine. What do you suggest? I don't have any answers. War and occupation would not be my first choice. We do need to come up with a plan for the refugees, though. 4 million from Syria alone.

 

LOL, you're probably right.