The American Center for Law and Justice is pressing the Obama Administration to act swiftly to stop the genocide of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East, highlighting the administration’s inaction on several fronts. But action is unlikely to be forthcoming. As Raymond Ibrahim has shown, reporting of Muslim persecution of Christians does not fit “The Narrative” which the Obama Administration holds to, that Islam is innocent and there is no religious dimension to the strife in the Middle East and Africa. Therefore the plight of Christians will likely continue to be ignored by the U.S. government as a matter of Obama’s anti-Christian, pro-Islam policy.
“ISIS is ‘beheading, raping, and selling’ Christians while Obama does nothing, Justice group asserts,” by Thomas D. Williams, PhD, Breitbart News, August 21, 2015:
The American Center for Law and Justice is urging President Barack Obama to defend Christians who are suffering intense persecution from Islamic State terrorists, especially by naming an ambassador to fill the vacant mission of Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.
The ACLJ has drafted a petition appealing to the Obama Administration to act swiftly to stop the genocide of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. The petition has already garnered more than 93,000 signatures.
The organization reminds the administration that ISIS is “beheading, raping, and selling Christians” and that hundreds of thousands of Christians have been forced to flee or die. But while ISIS tracks down Christians for sale and slaughter, the Obama Administration and other Western leaders stand by idle.
For more than a year, the justice group states in an article on Thursday, “President Obama has failed to appoint an Ambassador to lead a Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.”
“While Christians and other religious minorities are decimated in that region, the Obama administration leaves this vital position unfilled. This is why the ACLJ has urged them to fill this spot and will continue to do so,” it said.
Just this week, in fact, the Catholic relief agency Aid to the Church in Need announced that “Christians have become a form [of] currency in this tragedy.” They report that many Arab Christians are being abducted and held for ransom as a means of funding ISIS. One priest’s family managed to scrape together the $120,000 ransom put on his head, but once they paid the sum, they were mailed his cut-up body parts in a box, the ACLJ notes.
The Islamic State has seized significant territory across Iraq and Syria, and for more than a year now has been heavily targeting Christians and other religious minorities.
“Despite President Obama’s insistence that there is no need for greater U.S. involvement with ISIS,” the letters states, “these jihadists continue to gain more influence, money, and power. Every day, we see new accounts of Christians & Yazidis begin captured, women being enslaved, and mass murders being committed by ISIS.”
“If this is not the kind of evil that our government is established to stop, then one must ask what is,” the ACLJ said. “This evil must be stopped.”
When the Obama Administration when it intended to appoint a special envoy to protect religious minorities in the Middle East and South Central Asia—even though Congress passed legislation over a year ago creating the post—the White House responded that it does not know.
“We have no personnel announcement to make at this time,” said Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council told CNSNews.com in response to queries as to when the post will be filled and why there has been such a long delay in filling the position.
Angemon says
Unfortunately, Obama is doing something. He’s making as hard as possible for Christians to get help while whitewashing the ideology responsible for their plight.
Dr. Divinity says
We all know that the religion of peace is the religion of Jesus the Christ NOT Islam, but do we know why God is allowing the persecution of so many Christians???Seems to me I remember Jesus saying something to that effect they would be persuaded for His sake.
Shane says
Obama is bringing in hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees, while turning away Christian refugees. If that does not tell people where his loyalties lie, than they are just not intelligent.
Jay Boo says
— Tell Obama to let Russia have all of Ukraine and do as it pleases on its southern Muzzie land borders even if Turkey objects.
— Boot Turkey out of NATO so Obama will no longer have an excuse for ignoring their covert and overt support to the Islamo-caliphate haters.
Raju G. C. Thomas, Ph.D, says
Obama has done nothing about this because there is nothing that Obama can do about this. The murderers are unidentifiable individuals who live in larger civilian communities that cannot be bombed altogether. The EU and the UN have have done nothing about this either. Why not? Difficult situation. The mass murderers know they can get away with mass murder. Tragic and most unfortunate.
Jay Boo says
During a prayer breakfast, Obama said, “As a Christian, I am supposed to love. And, I have to say, that sometimes, when I listen to less than loving expressions by (Muslims) I get concerned.”
Oops!
He said Christians (of course )
deja vu says
“As a Christian, I am supposed to love…”
How telling. ‘Supposed’ to love, yes (and sacrifically at that) – but he is emphatically *not* a Christian so feels no upswelling of Christlike love for them.
God will judge him harshly for aiding and abetting the persecution of Christians while speaking with a forked tongue. Does he not know that Jesus equated the persecution of His followers to persecuting Him personally? (Acts 9:5)
Peggy says
He can do a lot. He got plenty of friends to join him when he attacked Iraq. He knows where IS ghouls are and even when they are traveling in convoys he ignores it.
He is aiding the IS.
Shane says
Total BS coming from an ally of the Islamofascists. Obama could destroy ISIS if he wanted to and restore order to Iraq. Obama would rather let the Christians be slaughtered than tarnish his legacy. Obama should stop letting in Muslim refugees and bring in more non-Muslim refugees. Every Muslim immigrant is a potential jihadists or a future parent of a jihadist.
Lynn says
“It is the nature of islam to dominate not to be dominated; to impose it’s law upon all nations and to extend it’s power to the entire planet.” Hasan Al-Banna founder of the muslim brotherhood.
BHO is caught in the dance of islamic slander. He knows what slander means in English to English speaking Americans and he knows what it means in islam. 2 directly opposite meanings. Now how’s our boy to respond? He’s given a new reference point to the phrase Catch -22.
We’ve heard him circumlocute his answers around not saying what we are screaming at him. Calling islamic terrorism work place violence is one of his dose-dos; never forget he said the world would not belong to those who slander islam. Which slander does he mean? Somebody should ask him. Like Major Garrett or Ed Henry…SOMEbody ask him.
He’s not going to help any innocent people. He was outraged at the “kiIIing of innocents” he says in one speech after the slaughter of some muslims. So slight a change of syntax but the muslims around the world caught what he said. Innocents are only muslims. Innocent people are everybody else. Our potus said he condemned (I think that’s what he said) the kiIIing of innocents. Subtle, yet telling. He didn’t say innocent people or the innocent. He said innocents; making it a pronoun, a particular group. And guess what that’s what islam calls muslims: Innocents.
He will not lift a finger to help Christians. He will however, do what he can to thwart the efforts of others compelled to help Christians and Yazidis. He is after all doing what he can for the caliphate; it’s the least he can do in the struggle to destroy the USA and a few other countries along the way.
David, Thailand says
Obama’s safest haven against charges of treason is on ISIS turf.
Cecilia Ellis says
“The ACLJ has drafted a petition appealing to the Obama Administration to act swiftly to stop the genocide of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. The petition has already garnered more than 93,000 signatures.”
I just signed it and the number was 112,302.
Charli Main says
Imam Obama has no intention of locking horns with his spiritual brothers.
The elimination of Christianity in the lands of its birth, is currently the fundamental objective of muslims, ably supported by the gang working out of the White Mosque in Washington DC.
Matthieu Baudin says
Obama’s legacy as the President that had Bin Laden brought to justice will be grossly overshadowed by his administrations failure to deal with the larger beast – the international Islamic Jihad and it’s Mongol style orgy of rape and murder across the middle east and north Africa.
Dan says
“Decimate” is the wrong word.
It originally meant only 10% of a population was killed.
We’re lucky if there’s 10% of these populations LEFT!
It’s time to add another stanza to the anthem of the Marines.
GEORGE McADOO says
They could start right here in America.
Dr.G. de Porras says
¿Aun no se han dado cuenta de que Obama es un musulmán encubierto, que prectica la “Taquilla” y del que no consta que esté bautizado. En resumen oculta su islamismo y no es cristiano
Richie says
Not just that, but floodgatres are being opened for Muslims to move to America is staggering numbers. Thousands of untrained, uneducated Somali Muslims are being dumped into my state.
but Christians who are being persecuted by Muslims are being blacked. I really wish someone would ask Obama why he gives such preferential treatment to Muslims, and has such a policy of discrimination against Christians?
SoCalMike says
Doing nothing?
He’s helping the enemies of Christianity since the first day he came into office and has none stopped since.
WE are the ones in denial. Not Obama.
Leith Wood says
” Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
richard courtemanche says
The whole world does nothing.
Evelyn Kanter says
And where is the Vatican? What is the Vatican doing to stop the murder? Do you think the Vatican would care more if it were Catholics being murdered, raped and sold into slavery, and not just Coptic Christians, Orthodox Christians and Yazidi Christians?
This is the same Vatican that turned its back in the 1930s and 1940s when millions of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals were exterminated, and now the Vatican wants to canonize Pope Pius XVII and make him a saint.