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Syrian refugees admitted into US since Paris jihad murders in November: 525 Muslims, 1 Christian

Jan 27, 2016 4:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Relax, kaffir. What could possibly go wrong? Barack Obama and John Kerry have magic powers that shelter them from the consequences of their actions. They need not be concerned about the fact that in February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister recently said that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have recently come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all.

So why are they claiming to be Syrian and streaming into Europe, and now the U.S. as well? An Islamic State operative gave the answer when he boasted in September, shortly after the migrant influx began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had already entered Europe. He explained their purpose: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.” These Muslims were going to Europe in the service of that caliphate: “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.” We are waiting in the U.S. as well.

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“Syrian Refugees Admitted Since Paris Attacks: 525 Muslims, 1 Christian,” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, January 25, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(CNSNews.com) – The United States has admitted 526 Syrian refugees since Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists attacked Paris last November, and just one (less than 0.2 percent) is a Christian.

Sunni Muslims account for 512 (97.3 percent) of the 526 Syrian refugees approved for resettlement in the U.S. since the Nov. 13 attacks, which prompted fresh concerns that terrorists could use refugee admission programs to enter Western countries.

The remaining 13 comprise three Shi’ites and ten refugees identified as “Moslem,” according to data from the State Department Refugee Processing Center.

The lopsided proportion of Sunni Muslims to Christians admitted since Paris largely mirrors that since the beginning of fiscal year 2016:  Over that period, which began Oct. 1, 817 Syrian refugees have been admitted, of whom six (0.7 percent) are Christians and 798 (97.6 percent) are Sunnis.

Looking further back, of the 2,690 Syrian refugees admitted into the U.S. since the civil war started in March 2011, 54 (2.0 percent) are Christians and 2,517 (93.5 percent) are Sunni Muslims. (The remainder are other minorities, including Shi’ites, heterodox Muslims, Zoroastrians and atheists.)

In contrast to those Christian/Sunni ratios – 0.19 percent/97.3 percent since the Paris attacks; 0.7 percent/97.6 percent in FY 2016; and 2.0 percent/93.5 percent since the conflict began – Christians account for an estimated 10 percent of the Syrian population, and Sunnis for an estimated 74 percent.

Whether fleeing from the Assad regime, ISIS, other opposition groups, airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition or by the regime-supporting Russians, or from violence and collapsing services and infrastructure in general, more than 4.5 million Syrians have fled their homeland since the civil war began and are registered with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

President Obama has pledged to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees during FY 2016.

Administration officials have said that while persecution on the grounds of religion is one of five grounds for determining whether an applicant should be granted refugee status, the U.S. admission program does not and should not prioritize one religion over another.

(The criteria, as per the 1951 Refugee Convention, are persecution for reasons of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.)

One senior State Department official told lawmakers last month that Christians were underrepresented among U.S. Syria refugee admissions because fewer Christians were leaving – because they feel safe (in some cases because they support the Assad regime).

However, the international Christian charity Barnabas Fund estimates that some 600,000 Syrian Christians have fled their homes so far.

In a recent op-ed in a British daily George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury – the titular head of the world’s Anglicans/Episcopalians – decried the response from Western governments and churches to the targeting of Christians in particular at the hands of ISIS.

“So serious is the problem that you might expect the nations of the West would come to the rescue of these historic Christian communities, or that the Church would be demanding the world act now,” he wrote. “Far from it.”

Carey went on to quote Barnabas Fund’s observation that “[w]hile displaced Muslims may find safety in neighboring areas controlled by their own faction and armed forces, or escape to friendly areas, Christians do not have these options.”

He urged British Prime Minister David Cameron Carey [sic] to find ways to admit “a good number of Christian Syrians” among refugees to be allowed to resettle in Britain. Cameron has pledged to welcome up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years.

The Australian government, meanwhile, pledged last September to prioritize among 12,000 Syrian refugees it will take in “those most in need – the women, children and families of persecuted minorities.”

Australian Muslim groups complained, but the government is unrepentant. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last week reiterated that persecuted minorities will be prioritized, saying that while the U.N. can make referrals Australia will ultimately decide who to accept….

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  1. DP111 says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Muslims are ‘not like us’ and we should just accept they will never integrate, says former racial equalities chief Trevor Phillips

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418620/Muslims-not-like-just-accept-never-integrate-says-former-racial-equalities-chief-Trevor-Phillips.html#ixzz3yTvIGhc9

    Leftists are in a hissy fit as they cant accuse of Trevor Phillips of racism.

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 5:56 pm

      (…Syrian refugees admitted into US since Paris jihad murders in November: 525 Muslims, 1 Christian…)

      This is yet another prove of the fact that America and its political establishment is profoundly Anti-Christian and deeply pro-islam. Shame!

    • Rhondakelly07 says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 6:17 pm

      Come for 2 reasons. Invading for white and Christian genocide

    • Ralph Statum says

      Jan 29, 2016 at 11:23 am

  2. Champ says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    And of course the far-left will be focused on the “1 Christian” who’s entering the US …

    • Peggy says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 11:31 pm

      I hope that 1 Christian remains invisible. His or her safety is priority and if Muslims find out they haven’t killed that one person they will try. So many are being thrown into the sea.

      • Christianblood says

        Jan 28, 2016 at 8:28 am

        Peggy

        hundreds of Christians were drowned in the seas by muslim immigrants who were given assylum by the E.U. countries and today I am hearing that muslims in Calai France are persecuting and trying to expel a small number of Christian refugee in Calai which is a make-shift French camp for the temporary refugees.These Christians should have been getting support from the French society but the French society is mostly atheistic secularists who hate Christianity. Read it below please:
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12124977/Religious-tensions-spark-gunfight-in-French-migrant-camp.html

  3. DP111 says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Christians leaving the protection of the Syrian government will be killed, either in the refugee camps in Turkey, or thrown into the Adriatic sea. If they still manage to get to Europe, they will be murdered in the refugee camps.

    Staying in Syria under the protection of the government, is way better then anything on offer by the West.

    • Ronie Peterson De Lima Silva says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 5:27 pm

      Your suggestion is quite meaningless, if you must know, because look at this: if by chance Assad is being able to provide support and protection to Syrians fleeing, with the magnanimous Czar Putin, then, why they keep running away? It was Putin himself who said he would save Christians? Why has not a boat to greet them? And most importantly, why Russia does not receive these Christians? Do you see the inconsistency in what you said? You say that they may be under Assad’s protection, but it also says in the same breath that Assad is failing to provide protection to them as they are running away! And by logic, Putin is who should be responsible for it, if not, why it was giving military support to Assad?

      Christians died without Assad, and now die with Assad as Vladimir Putin, the Czar, is not to attack the sudden flight of Christians from Assad wings. Neither Assad nor Putin are concerned about Christians, Assad is now the dhimmi Iran, under the command of Russia, and depend on both, Christians will die in bulk.

      • Christianblood says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 6:20 pm

        Ronie Peterson De Lima Silva

        You are wrong! The fact is Russia is supporting and backing the legitimate Syrian secular government which is protecting Christians and other minorities whereas America and its Saudi, Turkey and Nato allies are funding, training, arming and supporting barbaric islamic jihadist groups who intend to massacre the 1.8 million Christians in Syria and millions of other minorities if Assad falls. Shame on America and the West! They are backing pure genocidal EVIL. Please watch the findings of this independent investigative American journalist on the short video clip below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVL5Vibm0M

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 27, 2016 at 6:38 pm

          Ronie Peterson De Lima Silva

          Watch as nearly half a million Syrian Christians celebrate Christmas in the streets of Damascus just a few weeks ago under the protection of the president Assad and his heroic Syrian Army. Imagine what would happen to these Christians if the American-backed barbaric islamic jihadists succeeded in toppling president Assad’s government as America and their Saudi-Qatar-Turkey allies were expecting. Watch the video please:
          https://www.rt.com/news/327064-christmas-celebrate-syria-damascus/

        • Ex-muslim says

          Jan 27, 2016 at 10:06 pm

          Christianblood

          You are right because I am from the M.E. and I am telling you that most Christians and other minorities in that region regret the American wars of intervention in that region because those wars only strengthened muslim jihadists and destroyed secular dictators and religious minorities, especially Christians. In Iraq alone, there were about two million Christians who were living peacefully in that country and today about two hundred thousand or less remain and if the jihadists backed by America win the jihad war against Assad the same thing would happen to Christians in Syria as well. The point is America is only pursuing its selfish agenda there and is in bed with murderous fundamentalist jihadists such as Saudis and has NO care what happens to Christians and other minorities there and even as you pointed out American and Western “Christians” only care about muslims and would not even allow Christians to become refugee in their countries. It is a crazy and evil world my friend. Keep it up!

        • Godwin says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 5:07 am

          American leadership has qualified itself to be the great Satan. No wonder the Iranians had been chanting that.

      • Peggy says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 11:35 pm

        Assard is doing what he can considering the mighty US is training, supporting and financing Islamists. It was Assard forces who liberated a Christian village.
        Russia has just entered into all this. Give them time to make a difference. Don’t forget they had a lot of resistance from the west and Turkey when they joined the fight.
        At least they are trying to save the Christians. What is US doing? Helping ISIS, that’s what.

        • Godwin says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 5:09 am

          The great Satan is helping the smaller ones.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 8:31 am

          Peggy

          US+Nato+Turkey+Saudi Arabia+Qatar=ISIS

        • Carolyne says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 11:40 am

          Wait a minute! Didn’t John McCain say that the anti-Assad fighters are freedom loving Muslims and not part of a Jihad? Didn’t he say he knew this because he had lunch with them and they told him so?

          Didn’t he say that pigs can fly?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 5:39 pm

      While Assad has not actually targeted Christians, the idea that he is a great defender of them is–with all respect–absurdly over-estimated. Even before the terrible Jihad incursions of the past few years, Christians were increasingly at threat in Syria.

      Many Christians have wound up in parts of Syria that have fallen outright to the Islamic State, but they are also regularly targeted by Jihad groups in Syria proper. Assad is not exactly allocating many of his resources to protecting Christians.

      • Christianblood says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 6:25 pm

        gravenimage

        Not only the US government is favoring muslims and discriminating against M.E. Christians but even so-called American Christians are doing the same thing: Read it on the link below how American “Christians” and “Churches” are favoring muslims and discriminating against suffering Christians. Shame! Shame! Shame!

        Read it here please:
        http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261302/us-christian-groups-support-muslim-refugees-ignore-raymond-ibrahim

      • Peggy says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 11:39 pm

        It wasn’t because Assard was not protecting Christians. Islamists were running wild and hard to control when they were being encouraged and supported by the west.
        Assard’s forces saved a whole Christian village from being slaughtered. They risked their lives to save Christians. That’s a huge thing over there.
        I belive that they are doing what they can, both Assard and Russia. They have a strong enemy now and that’s all thanks to the west.
        Please don’t misunderstand. I don’t mean the people. I mean our tretcherous governments.

        • Carolyne says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 11:46 am

          Peggy, I agree with all you say. In fact, I do nor think it should be our business to be changing governments we don’t like around the world. It seems that our government wants radical Islamist governments installed where moderate governments exist; witness Obama and Hillary Clinton’s “Arab Spring.”

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 6:06 pm

      DP111 posted:

      (…Christians leaving the protection of the Syrian government will be killed, either in the refugee camps in Turkey, or thrown into the Adriatic sea. If they still manage to get to Europe, they will be murdered in the refugee camps…)

      So TRUE DP111. So True!

      Let us hope and pray that Syria becomes a new Stalingrad for the “Regime Changers” and their barbaric islamic jihadist allies!

  4. Jaladhi says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    This is expected from an administration which openly anti christian and Muslim friendly!

    Elections have consequences – does the US electorate understand it even now?? I doubt it!1

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 6:10 pm

      Jaladhi

      True. Obama is a by product of the American society that elected him twice as their president and he is simply following what most of the Americans who elected him want him to do: Love and support muslims, including muslim jihadists but hate and undermine Christians and Christianity.

      • Rhondakelly07 says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 6:22 pm

        Musliums worship a black man. Murdering because of a black child rapist. They worship a black man. His SKIN. Add this to black culture. Black history month

        • Angemon says

          Jan 27, 2016 at 6:34 pm

          Muhmmad was not black. He was pasty white and owned slaves. If black Americans were consistent, they’d denounce him as racist and try to get reparations from the Arab oil-rich states. Of course, the Arab oil-rich states would tell them to go eat a d*** – they have no shame in their history of slavery because they were simply obeying orders from above, and they don’t consider blacks as human beings of equal status.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 8:37 am

          Rhondakelly07

          Islam is not about skin color but about an evil hateful ideology.
          Boko Haram who is a black Nigerian jihadist organization murdered this past year more people than Älqaida and ISIS combined. islam is not about race or skin color and mohamed was an Arab who owned black slaves as they still do in Saudi Arabia.

      • Peggy says

        Jan 27, 2016 at 11:41 pm

        I don’t belive that. I really think that majority of Americans are good people who were duped.
        They belived their corrupt politicians and media and really thought that what the US was doing was bringing democracy and properity to people.
        Now that it’s obvious what the west was doing, I think Americans will be different.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 28, 2016 at 8:39 am

          Peggy

          I agree. The majority of Americans are good people but they are really, really ignorant and detached from reality

  5. bruceph says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Are they not prisoners in their own land?

  6. wildjew says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    All funded by Speaker-elect Paul (“It’s not who we are”) Ryan.

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    “Barack Obama and John Kerry have magic powers that shelter them from the consequences of their actions.”

    Actually it has nothing to do with any magic. Or rather their magic is very practical and is called the SS guardsmen (secret service guys and gals) with whom they are surrounded all the time wherever they go. But they should be reminded that it will not always work. Example: what happened to the PM of India, Indira Gandhi, when she relied on her guardsmen too much?

    • Judi says

      Jan 28, 2016 at 2:01 am

      Don’t forget the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    Syrian refugees admitted into US since Paris jihad murders in November: 525 Muslims, 1 Christian
    ……………………………

    *Disgusting*. Christians are the most threatened group in Syria–murdered by Sunni insurgents and killed and enslaved by the Islamic State.

    And this is not only morally indefensible–we know from Europe what a severe danger these Muslim “refugees” represent to us.

  9. Angemon says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    1 Christian was allowed in? Wait until Sheik Hussein learns about this – heads will roll…

    • Peggy says

      Jan 27, 2016 at 11:45 pm

      Heads will roll? Surely Obama isn’t like that?
      Just imagine him in black with a black flag in the background. Shall we call him JihadiO?

  10. Dan Jones says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    olama has reshaped the country…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    Is there a second agenda at play in current U.S. immigration policy and if so can anyone shine a solid light on it for all to see?

  12. Hansel says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    I Christians are being slaughtered and they getting in the people who are slaughtering them.. What could possibly go wrong.. Morons

  13. madmemere says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 3:02 am

    Let the scum come; I need some serious target practice. For those in other countries that are not allowed to have guns, then buy throwing knives and bows and arrows and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!

  14. Rita says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 4:38 am

    I am very very surprised how that ONE Christian made it to America – firstly how did he get on the boat at all (probably had to pay 10 x the prize that Muslims pay, then, he was either very strong or very lucky not to have been killed on the way by his muslim co-refugees – that’s what they do to Christians – if they dont get them before they get to Greece, they hound them in the Refugee Centres …. and thirdly, how did this one Christian get through the biggest hurdle: Obama, I understand he tries his best to reject them ….. Christians and Jews.

  15. Baucent says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 5:10 am

    They don’t want Christians as they might start talking about persecution by muslims back in Syria. And that would not be good for community cohesion.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 28, 2016 at 11:50 am

      Or ex-community organizers.

  16. duh_swami says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 5:34 am

    Fundamentally changing America includes fundamentally changing the national ident9ity.The plan is working perfectly….

  17. Robby says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 9:04 am

    They will never ever flood our streets with their BS and we will not take it. The next president will surely stop this and thats why we need Trump, he will stop these people from coming into our country, and further, and will send back all of the ones who are not legal. As far as them trying to put their religion, and try their sharia law, that will never happen, if they try it, there will be blood shed, and not from them from the people of the USA, we are waiting. This will never happen here.

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