Endangered Christians in Middle East May Not Get Enough Help From Biden

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Stopping the persecution of Christians in the Middle East was a priority for the Trump administration but now religious freedom advocates are concerned it won’t be a high priority for President Joe Biden, just at it wasn’t as high a priority in the Obama administration. The advocates want an expansion of the steps President Trump took to protect Christians everywhere.



By Marisa Herman | Friday, 22 January 2021 01:06 PM
 
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Thus leaving everybody more susceptible to Russian propaganda.

Putin loves to position himself as Christianity's contender, but he's just a more powerful version of Mark Foley with borscht. Or so my Ukrainian friends tell me.
 
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CS1 said:
Stopping the persecution of Christians in the Middle East was a priority for the Trump administration but now religious freedom advocates are concerned it won’t be a high priority for President Joe Biden
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Why would it be a high priority for Biden when he is actually planning the persecution of Christians in America? He has already hired a pro-abortion scoundrel who wants to see pro-life advocates jailed for their beliefs.
 
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CS1 said:
Stopping the persecution of Christians in the Middle East was a priority for the Trump administration but now religious freedom advocates are concerned it won’t be a high priority for President Joe Biden, just at it wasn’t as high a priority in the Obama administration. The advocates want an expansion of the steps President Trump took to protect Christians everywhere.
By Marisa Herman | Friday, 22 January 2021 01:06 PM
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The facts suggest otherwise

Sept. 12, 2018, 8:33 AM UTC
By Dan De Luce and Julia Ainsley

WASHINGTON — Despite vowing to help vulnerable Christians around the world, the Trump administration is making it harder for Christian refugees to enter the U.S., including a group of Iranian Christians who remain in legal limbo in Austria awaiting a decision on their fate expected as soon as Wednesday.
The number of Christian refugees granted entry into the U.S. has dropped by more than 40 percent over the past year, a decline of almost 11,000 refugees. They have been caught in the wider net of President Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration and refugees, which has lowered overall refugee admissions by the same percentage.

Even Christians from the Middle East who have lived in the U.S. for years have been caught in the administration’s wider crackdown on immigration, with dozens of Iraqi Christians now in detention and facing the threat of deportation.
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The plight of 87 Iranian refugees illustrates how Trump’s tough line on refugees from mostly Muslim countries has also closed the door to Christians and other religious minorities trying to flee to safety in the U.S.

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CS1 said:
Stopping the persecution of Christians in the Middle East was a priority for the Trump administration but now religious freedom advocates are concerned it won’t be a high priority for President Joe Biden, just at it wasn’t as high a priority in the Obama administration. The advocates want an expansion of the steps President Trump took to protect Christians everywhere.
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Not so fast there.

Middle Eastern Christians are Trump’s pawns

Jan. 30, 2017 at 2:21 p.m. UTC

Daniel Williams is author of “Forsaken: The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East.”

President Trump dropped a sectarian bombshell on Friday into his quick and confused order to curb refugee and immigration flows. He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that “if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible” to enter the United States as a refugee from Syria, adding that “we are going to help them.” The order mandated preferences for minority-religion members in future immigration, which suggests that Christians could be privileged.

Never mind that Trump’s current executive order bans all refugees from Syria, including Christians, indefinitely. Over the weekend, two Christian immigrant families were turned away from Philadelphia’s airport and flown back to the Middle East.

What’s worse is that Trump’s new refugee policy uses the Middle East’s embattled Christians as props. It is less a show of concern for Christians than a shot at his predecessor, Barack Obama. Less than one percent of the 12,600 Syrian refugees admitted by the Obama administration last year were Christian, though Christians make up about a tenth of Syria’s population.

Trump could fix that imbalance simply by saying that he will seek out Christian Syrians along with their Muslim co-nationalists, who both are trying to flee the country’s civil war. But that’s not what Trump is trying to do. Instead, he is using Christians to show that he cares more about them than Obama did, presumably to please some of his American Christian supporters, and to show that he cares about them more than he does Syrian Muslims, whom he has tarred as harboring a nest of “radical Islamic terrorists.” (That many Muslims oppose both the radicals and the government of Bashar al-Assad, which has killed many more Syrians, goes unnoticed by Trump.)

Full story:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...0/middle-eastern-christians-are-trumps-pawns/
 
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The facts suggest otherwise

Sept. 12, 2018, 8:33 AM UTC
By Dan De Luce and Julia Ainsley

WASHINGTON — Despite vowing to help vulnerable Christians around the world, the Trump administration is making it harder for Christian refugees to enter the U.S., including a group of Iranian Christians who remain in legal limbo in Austria awaiting a decision on their fate expected as soon as Wednesday.
The number of Christian refugees granted entry into the U.S. has dropped by more than 40 percent over the past year, a decline of almost 11,000 refugees. They have been caught in the wider net of President Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration and refugees, which has lowered overall refugee admissions by the same percentage.

Even Christians from the Middle East who have lived in the U.S. for years have been caught in the administration’s wider crackdown on immigration, with dozens of Iraqi Christians now in detention and facing the threat of deportation.
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The plight of 87 Iranian refugees illustrates how Trump’s tough line on refugees from mostly Muslim countries has also closed the door to Christians and other religious minorities trying to flee to safety in the U.S.

Source
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Lol, you beat me to it.
 
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