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Raymond Ibrahim: U.S. State Dept. Invites Muslim Leaders, Denies Christians

May 14, 2015 10:40 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Sister Diana MomekaGatestone Institute

Late on the evening of May 8, Newsmax TV announced that pressure from Americans acquainted with Sister Diana Momeka’s visa rejection has just caused the State Department to reverse its decision and permit her entry into the United States. Until then, however, she and others were barred.

After inviting a number of foreign religious leaders, mostly Muslim, the U.S. State Department, for the second time in a row, had denied the sole Christian representative a visa — despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that Christians are the ones being persecuted by Muslims.

Sister Diana, an influential Iraqi Christian leader and spokeswoman who was scheduled to visit the U.S. to advocate for persecuted Christians in the Mideast, earlier this month was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department, even though she had visited the U.S. before, most recently in 2012.

Sister Diana was to be one of a delegation of religious leaders from Iraq — including Shia and Yazidi — to visit Washington, D.C., to describe the situation of their people. Every single religious leader from this delegation was granted a visa — except for the only Christian representative, Sister Diana.

Similarly, in March 2014, after the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) brought together the governors of Nigeria’s mostly Muslim northern states for a conference in the U.S., the State Department had also blocked the visa of the region’s only Christian governor, Jonah David Jang, an ordained minister, citing “administrative” problems. The USIP confirmed that all 19 northern governors were invited, but the organization did not respond to requests for comments on why they would hold talks without the region’s only Christian governor.

According to Emmanuel Ogebe, a Nigerian human rights lawyer based in Washington D.C., the Christian governor’s “visa problems” are due to anti-Christian bias in the U.S. government:

The U.S. insists that Muslims are the primary victims of Boko Haram. It also claims that Christians discriminate against Muslims in Plateau, which is one of the few Christian majority states in the north. After the [Christian governor] told them [U.S. authorities] that they were ignoring the 12 Shariah states who (sic) institutionalized persecution … he suddenly developed visa problems. … The question remains — why is the U.S. downplaying or denying the attacks against Christians?…

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  1. noellsq says

    May 14, 2015 at 10:45 am

    It is time to realize that our Christian Judea society is run by anti semetec and anti christian people.

  2. mortimer says

    May 14, 2015 at 11:03 am

    The anti-Christian bias in the U.S. government is becoming generalized in the Western world.

    75% of Americans self-identify as Christian so this is not only unjust and discriminatory on principle but unacceptable to the majority of Americans.

    • katherine says

      May 14, 2015 at 6:17 pm

      katherine

      This is shockingly blatant, outright discrimination against Christians in an international conference. Does the media which attacks P. Geller viciously have anything to say about the Muslim extremists already embedded in the State Department ?

    • Pork Rind Addict says

      May 14, 2015 at 7:09 pm

      It’s like Obama is actively trying to turn the USA into a Muslim country.

      • particolor says

        May 15, 2015 at 11:17 am

        Go On !! He isn’t is He ?

  3. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 14, 2015 at 11:39 am

    How much MORE PROOF do Americans need, to FINALLY understand that America is “Ruled” by a Pro Islam, Pro Muslim, Anti Christian (as well as Anti America, Anti Constitution), “Imperial Potus”, who will NOT be satisfied until America is an Islamic “Caliphate”, with Sharia Law replacing the Constitution, and the “Black Flag of Islam” flying over the White House, replacing the American Flag.

  4. JamesonRocks says

    May 14, 2015 at 11:43 am

    It is fascinating that the U.S. State Department and the current administration have such fear of one Catholic Nun.

    • John C. Barile says

      May 14, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      I know–this again confirms–that our government, most particularly our executive branch, is thoroughly infested with enemies of freedom.

    • Mirren10 says

      May 15, 2015 at 9:56 am

      ”t is fascinating that the U.S. State Department and the current administration have such fear of one Catholic Nun.”

      It’s not fear. It’s contempt.

  5. Ayatrollah says

    May 14, 2015 at 11:54 am

    If Christians from the west has not gone into Muslim lands and bribed the poor to accept Christianty the Middle East would not have problems today.

    Oh wait, Christianty is a local religion, not imported from anywhere. In that case it is the Jews fault

  6. Ricky Black says

    May 14, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    I got your Jihad and sharia right here, ssshhhhkkk ssshhhkkk come and get it.

  7. pongidae rex says

    May 14, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    The current occupant of the White House is an open and unapologetic Islamist. The next election will be the most critical in American history. The political path this country is on is not sustainable. Within a generation the people directly descended from the founders of this nation will be an ethnic minority, replaced by an immigration floodtide of those who share nothing of our history and care nothing for our beliefs.

  8. Angemon says

    May 14, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    As if we needed more evidence to where sheik Hussein’s sympathies, if not allegiances, lie…

  9. Ricky Black says

    May 14, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    Galatians 4;22-31 Abraham had two sons, one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. Ishmael was born of the flesh, Isaac was born of promise from God. 4;29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

  10. Marco says

    May 14, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Imam Obama and his gang are importing the army they will use for the planned genocide of American Christians.

  11. jewdog says

    May 14, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    The State Department is playing the game of cultural moral equivalence in studiously trying to not appear to be biased in favor of one party or another because all cultures are equal – except some are a little more equal than others. Besides, committed Christians tend to be Republicans, as we all know. Have they been audited? Inquiring IRS bureaucrats want to know.

  12. Lioness says

    May 15, 2015 at 10:18 am

    What can you expect from a country like the US which is lead by a radical Muslim president? Of course priorities are given to Muslim jihadis, while persecuted Christians are denied entry. Where are the churches screaming to Heaven on this? I guess they’ve sold their souls to socialism, just look at the Pope and weep.

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