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Christian teen whose father and brother were murdered by Boko Haram denied U.S. visa

May 15, 2014 12:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Deborah PetersMeanwhile, the U.S. is importing whole communities of Muslims from Somalia and elsewhere, and dropping them down in American communities without any attempt to discern if any of the immigrants thus brought in have jihadist tendencies, and without equipping the host communities to deal with what they might encounter from the newcomers. To take any such precautions would be “racist” and “Islamophobic.”

“Christian Teen Whose Dad, Brother Slain by Boko Haram Was Denied U.S. Visa,” CNS News, May 14, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

(CNSNews.com) – A 15-year-old girl who witnessed the murder of her father and teenage brother at the hands of Boko Haram terrorists says she decided to tell her story after the group kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls last month in the same village in northern Nigeria where she grew up.

Deborah Peters, speaking Tuesday at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., recalled how in 2011 members of Boko Haram came to her home in Chibok, where she lived with her brother and father, who was a pastor of a local church.

“Three men knocked on our door, and then my brother opened the door for them,” Peters said. “And they asked him, ‘Where is your dad?’ And he told them, ‘My dad is in the bathroom taking a shower.’

The men said her father was “wasting their time.”

“So when they take [sic] him out of the bathroom, they told him that he should deny his faith,” Peters said. “He told them that he can’t deny his faith, so they told him that they were going to kill him if he didn’t deny his faith.

“But he told them that he should rather die than to go to hellfire,” Peters said. “So my dad refused to deny his faith, and then they shoot [sic] him three times in the chest.”

The Islamic terrorists also shot her brother three times, then tied up Deborah and left her lying between the two corpses.

“I was in shock,” Peters said.

Emmanuel Ogebe, the human rights attorney who helped Peters come to the United States, said that visa requests filed on Peters’ behalf were denied “multiple times,” with the State Department citing no family ties in the U.S. as the reason.

But Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, said the State Department only designated Boko Haram as a terrorist organization in November of last year and that the Obama administration claimed poverty, not religion, drove the group’s ideology.

“One of the problems is that the State Department has been reluctant to even talk about this in terms of religious persecution,” Shea said. “And, in fact, I’m thinking back to the Assistant Secretary for Africa and his speech in 2012, where he said that this was a problem of poor delivery of government services—that’s what was motivating Boko Haram—and that it was poverty.

“And then the response of the U.S. was all economic at that time,” Shea said, adding that the administration doesn’t recognize what’s happening in Nigeria “as the human rights crisis that it is. Maybe this incident and the Chibok girls will change that,” Shea said.

As the event concluded, Peters held up a sign and smiled broadly for the first time. It read “ #Bring Back My Sisters.”…

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  1. eib says

    May 15, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    The Istanbul Process at work, Madam Hillary?

  2. Reality Check says

    May 15, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Obama and Obama’s administration are the curse of America and the entire world. In less than eight years, they have managed to pervert everything that America stood for. America is no longer the guardian of human rights worldwide – it is the guardian of one religion’s reputation and everything immoral that it stands for.

    • Larry A Singleton says

      May 15, 2014 at 5:09 pm

      “Obama and Obama’s administration are the curse of America and the entire world…”

      JW needs a “thumbs up” feature.

    • Kepha says

      May 15, 2014 at 6:43 pm

      I echo Larry Singleton’s reply.

      • EYESOPEN says

        May 16, 2014 at 9:53 pm

        Ditto Larry & Kepha’s reply!

  3. eib says

    May 15, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    Quote:
    “One of the problems is that the State Department has been reluctant to even talk about this in terms of religious persecution,” Shea said.
    end

    Why, yes, Hillary, it is the Istanbul Process, and your treason, at work.

  4. Jaladhi says

    May 15, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    It is sad that our State Dept. lies just like Muslims and in concert with Muslims. They protect Islam and Muslims and refuse to call Muslim terrorists a terrorist, and deny Islamic ideology is the reason for Islamic terrorism. Is this country USA or ISA(ISlamic States of America)??

  5. Margaritha says

    May 15, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    America denies refuge for persecuted Christians world wide, while President Obama looks the other way, and never opens his mouth when ever this topic is raised. Obama was so much concerned when Muslims in Mayenmar (Burma) were driven out by Buddhists. It is shame America to have such a President.

  6. Larry A. Singleton says

    May 15, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
    http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/05/dhs-emails-reveal-u-s-may-terrorist-hands-list/

  7. Larry A. Singleton says

    May 15, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    I just lost my whole comment because I misspelled my email. Nice. And I thought my info was “saved”. Oh well.

  8. Kepha says

    May 15, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    Don’t get me wrong, but I’m utterly sympathetic to young Deborah Peters. But my guess that what was in the back of the mind of whoever denied any non-immigrant visa for her was that Nigeria is, alas, a country that has a considerable population of overstayers and illegals already in the USA.

    But the point about importing large numbers of Muslim “refugees” (such as Joker Tsarnaev and his late unlamented brother) is also well-taken.

    I would also urge JW to keep pressing this issue of why Shrillary Shrooo’s State Department and the rest of the O administration were so reluctant to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. For my part, I hazard the guess that too many of its big guns are still living in the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies with their romanticisms about “Third World” revolutionaries. They may even take assaults on African Christians as a kind of anti-colonial “revolutionary catharsis”.

    • Salah says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:04 am

      “I would also urge JW to keep pressing this issue of why Shrillary Shrooo’s State Department and the rest of the O administration were so reluctant to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.”

      Just like al Qaeda, Boko Haram is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Masters in the White House!!!

      “If the decision of the interim government of Egypt is to consider the organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, then the United States should follow.” (Michele Bachmann)
      http://bachmann.house.gov/daily-news-egypt-michele-bachmann-writes-muslim-brotherhood-history-terror

  9. enwhitenment says

    May 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    Deborah’s story is one of many who have suffered at the hands of those that carry evil desire in their hearts & minds.
    She survived to tell the world the truth.
    The question of immigration of many groups means me must ask ourselves why would a muslim want to move to America when the country they wish to leave provides everything islam has to offer.
    I wish Deborah all the best in her future life.

  10. Jay Boo says

    May 16, 2014 at 1:17 am

    Who are you?
    What is your name?
    I am talking to you, the unknowable (100 name) Allah hiding behind 99 aliases.
    Tell the whole world your true name الله.
    Tell the truth or I will say it for you.
    I am not your unscrupulous false prophet slave who stooped so low.
    Nor am I one of Muhammad’s Friday fools who gather to kill and follow.
    It is a crying shame all the evil they have done.
    Yet, still you to be honest and speak your one true name.

    What is your name serpent from hell?

  11. enwhitenment says

    May 16, 2014 at 2:43 am

    n punos! (google it)
    There is a smaller spiral galaxy behind messier 101 that can not been seen from an earth bound perspective.
    No one can risk a species as savage as humans be let loose in the universe so why not stifle human evolution with a microbe, after all they are what make us us.
    Why not just wipe out the human species ?
    Because the risk of technology falling into the wrong hands is too great.
    512()4255k6 or” bagasis” feature in our future.
    The cure is on offer but as sometimes the cure can cause more damage than the cause it is most important to think wisely before accepting help from strangers.
    Every action has a motive but first you must find out the motive for the action.
    Of course if you were not talking to me jay boo just disregard this answer as that of a man drunk on life.

    • Mirren10 says

      May 16, 2014 at 8:30 am

      Well, you’re certainly drunk on *something*, mate !

    • Jay Boo says

      May 16, 2014 at 9:15 am

      @enwhitenment
      peace
      Thanks for the reminder enwhitenment that people often skim before commenting. My comment was only directed only at the unknowable (100 name) Allah hiding behind 99 aliases names.
      I should have began with @ Allah

      • Jay Boo says

        May 16, 2014 at 9:17 am

        Allahs real name?
        Hint:
        Allah’s real name also has five letters

  12. Clare says

    May 18, 2014 at 2:08 am

    “…poor delivery of government services—that’s what was motivating Boko Haram—and that it was poverty.” Though Books Bad is now designated a terrorist organization, Kerry trotted this out even so. It’s astounding.
    I never forgot “Jihad causes poverty” from Robert years ago because this was then and is now clearly the predictable and devastating results of jihad, not the motivating factor.

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