No Room At The Inn: Obama Administration Welcomes Hundreds of Thousands of Muslim Refugees but says There is “No Room” for Christian Refugees!

Obama Administration Welcomes Hundreds of Thousands of Muslim Refugees but says There is “No Room” for Christian Refugees!

From The Hill:

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.