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Raymond Ibrahim: Obama’s ‘Traditional Muslim Bias’ against Christians

Nov 7, 2016 5:48 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Obama at Islamic Society of Baltimore, Allah

Reprinted from the Gatestone Institute

Almost a year ago, President Barack Hussein Obama described the suggestion that the U.S. give preference to Christian refugees over Muslim refugees as “shameful.” “That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion,” he loftily added.

Now, WikiLeaks has released a 2008 email discussing who should fill top staff positions should Obama win the presidency.  It clearly proves that the Obama administration is the one that has long used “religious tests”—but to discriminate against Christians in favor of Muslims.

The email was sent from Former New York Solicitor General Preeta D. Bansal to Michael Froman, a classmate of Obama’s at Harvard and a member of the 12-person advisory board for the Obama campaign’s transition team.  The key passage reads:

In the candidates for top jobs, I excluded those with some Arab American background but who are not Muslim (e.g., George Mitchell). Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian. In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian).

In other words, those Arabs from nations with large Christian populations or with obviously Christian names need not apply, for they fail the “religious test.”

But the discrimination is not limited to hiring for top jobs.  Even in life and death scenarios, the Obama administration massively favors Muslims over Christians.  Despite the U.S. government’s acknowledgement that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians in Syria—meaning that Christians, not Sunni Muslims, are being targeted for torture, slavery, death and worse due solely to their religious identity—statistics repeatedly show that the Obama administration has taken in vastly disproportionate numbers of Sunni Muslims into the U.S.

When war erupted in Syria in 2011, approximately 75 percent of the population was Sunni and 10 percent Christian. Accordingly, if the U.S. were to admit Christian refugees in proportion to their population in Syria, about 1,260 Christians would by now have been resettled in America—when in fact only 68 were.  Similarly, that Sunni Muslims are 75 percent of Syria’s population yet 99 percent of those received by the U.S. indicates that they are overrepresented.

Even the 1951 Refugee Convention lists five criteria that qualify applicants for refugee status: persecution for reasons of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group. Christians very clearly fit one of the criteria—religious persecution—whereas the overwhelming majority of Sunni Muslims entering America do not.  That’s because ISIS is a Sunni organization and does not target fellow Sunnis who mind their own business.

The discrepancy is no secret.  Most recently, in an FOIA lawsuit filed by a federal appellate court against the Department of Homeland Security, Judge Daniel Manion expressed his “concern about the apparent lack of Syrian Christians as a part of immigrants from that country….  Perhaps 10 percent of the population of Syria is Christian, and yet less than one‐half of one percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year are Christian….To date, there has not been a good explanation for this perplexing discrepancy.”

Far from being an aberration, the WikiLeak revelation is simply the latest indicator that the Obama administration clearly favors Muslims over Christians:

  • When inviting scores of Muslim representatives, the State Department has been called out at least twice for denying visas to solitary Christian representatives.
  • When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and then sent back to the lion’s den to be possibly enslaved, raped, or murdered.
  • When the Nigerian government went on the offense and killed some terrorists from Boko Haram—another Islamic group like ISIS that regularly slaughters and rapes Christians and burns their churches—Secretary of State John Kerry fumed and called for the “human rights” of the jihadis, even though he says little about their countless Christian victims.
  • When Egypt’s persecuted Coptic Christians planned on joining Egypt’s anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution back in 2013, the U.S. said no.
  • When persecuted Iraqi and Syrian Christians asked for arms to join the opposition fighting ISIS,C. refused.
  • When the UN Security Council held a meeting to discuss the genocide against Christians and other minorities, “many high level delegations from UN member states addressed the Security Council meeting, some at the Foreign Minister level, [however] the United States failed to send … a high ranking member of the State Department.”

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of all this is that the Obama government’s bias against Mideast Christians closely resembles the traditional bias Christian minorities experience at the hands of Muslim governments.  This is understood in the context of active and passive persecutors of Christians in the Muslim world.  Muslim criminals, mobs, and terrorists actively persecute Christians, while Muslim governments passively enable them.  Muslims kidnap, rape, rob, and/or kill Christians precisely because they know Muslim authorities will rarely if ever do anything about it (it is against Islamic law to side with “infidels” against Muslims).  Christian minorities in nations such as Egypt and Pakistan know this well.  Similarly, Muslim governments seldom if ever hire Christians to positions of authority (Islamic law bans the intentional placement of an “infidel” over Muslims).

Whether by discriminating against Christians and favoring Muslims for positions of authority, or whether by welcoming into America a disproportionately large number of Sunni Muslims, while barring the true victims of genocide, Christians—the Obama government’s bias is a tradition that Christian minorities living in the Muslim world have long been familiar with.

To use the president’s own words spoken last year, it is the Obama administration’s discriminatory policies and “religious tests” that are “shameful,” “not American,” and not “who we are.”

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  1. billybob says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 6:12 am

    “Whether by discriminating against Christians and favoring Muslims for positions of authority, or whether by welcoming into America a disproportionately large number of Sunni Muslims, while barring the true victims of genocide, Christians—the Obama government’s bias is a tradition that Christian minorities living in the Muslim world have long been familiar with.”

    Now that you have identified this bias, I’m sure the MSM will pick up the call for justice and carry it forward, and the Administration will correct their oversight….

    Crickets…

  2. David says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Lets face it; obama has committed Treason so may times, I’ve lost count! That man is the most Criminal/treasonous person ever to sit in the Oval Office! There must be a noose with his name on it somewhere!
    I’m hopeful that President Trump will begin prosecuting him on day one! That “creature” must be brought to Justice!

    • T.L.CLARK says

      Nov 8, 2016 at 8:37 am

      And the RINO congress who WILL NOT charge him for these treasons is every bit as guilty-even more because he could have been stopped.
      I despise this congress!

  3. Gary says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 9:31 am

    If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
    1 Peter 4:14

    • JIMJFOX says

      Nov 7, 2016 at 11:53 am

      “blasphemed”
      Oh yeah, nice one Gary… just what the world needs right now.

  4. Paul Clark says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Obama is not just bias. He is a treacherous muslin. He is a traitor to America and a hater of all other religions He is also a racist which has promoted the largest moral segregation of blacks and whites since Jim Crow: murder of the innocent unborn and same sex marriage. As a socialist he is like many other socialist: lazy and doesn’t have a clue. But it is highly likely the gays, muslins, blacks, hispanics, females, hollywood freaks, big business will elect another Obama known as Crooked Hillary. They love perversion and corruption. That leaves the average white male without a voice and without a country.

    • David says

      Nov 7, 2016 at 10:18 am

      And the public thinks the so called “Survivalist” are nuts!
      If EVIL, VILE CROOKED Granny Clinton gets elected, this nation will continue right down the pipe towards the SEWER!
      I will be heading for the backcountry as fast as I can! You can keep your islamic puke!
      I’ll have had quite enough, thank you.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Most recently, in an FOIA lawsuit filed by a federal appellate court against the Department of Homeland Security, Judge Daniel Manion expressed his “concern about the apparent lack of Syrian Christians as a part of immigrants from that country…. Perhaps 10 percent of the population of Syria is Christian, and yet less than one‐half of one percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year are Christian….To date, there has not been a good explanation for this perplexing discrepancy.”

    Who is handling the refugee camps and deciding who is a refugee and who isn’t? The UN, where the OIC is the largest voting block. Where are most refugee camps located? Muslim countries. Who staffs them? Muslims.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 11:18 am

    Obama hates Jesus. All Muslims do.
    Obama is a racist too.

    After 9-11 where most of the victims were (non-Muslim and white) Obama sided with the Muslim enablers and encouraged a Muslim victory mosque in order to stick it to ‘whitey’

    After the Charlestown, SC killings where the victims were black, did Obama promote a Confederate cultural museum across the street? Of course not because that would be insensitive and uncouth. In fact, Obama even went one step further in the other direction and promoted banning of the flag from the SC Statehouse in the name of tolerance.

    Mosques are hate-speech centers of intolerance.
    Therefore, is it not unreasonable to ban a mosque at Ground Zero, all of New York City, anywhere in the State of New York, or in the great country of USA?

    • Shmooviyet says

      Nov 7, 2016 at 11:55 am

      Please correct me if I missed it– but, has he YET offered anything about the 2014 OK beheading, other than a ‘workplace violence’ remark and a ‘note of thanks’ to the murderer’s mosque for their community aid after a terrible tornado– a note which came about a year later?
      I realize this is repetitious.

  7. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Didn’t the Madam respond to Trump during a debate with a drama-class face, and some remark about religious tests being “not our values”? (It was laughable hearing her use the word ‘values’, more so because she was parroting BO’s line from just days before.)
    Naturally it depends on who “our” is, and BO wouldn’t have gone almost hoarse for genuine “values”.

  8. Cretius says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    Remember Wahhabism is Sunni = radical Islam = Daesh

    Therefore, Sunni Muslims are the Fifth Column in the Muslim invasion of the West.

  9. Dexter L. Wilson says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    If Obama is a ‘Christian, I am a turtle and not human. This man does not know Jesus as savior but acts more like the Muslim that he really is.

  10. CrankyWW says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    I’m pretty sick of this creature saying “that’s not who we are.” Who’s he talking about when he says “we”? Does he have a mouse in his pocket? He most certainly does NOT speak for me.

    • Laura says

      Nov 8, 2016 at 8:43 am

      Just what I think when I hear that “we” crud. Whose values??? Argh.

  11. gravenimage says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    Excellent piece from Raymond Ibrahim. Grim but true.

  12. The Mayor says

    Nov 8, 2016 at 3:56 am

    These documents again bring up the question: is Obama muslim? As I`ve previously mentioned, there is only one acid test to know this: did Obama ever recite the shahada? If he did, he is muslim. If he did not, he may be taking actions to further the domination of islam, but, he`s doing so for reasons other than fulfillment of mohammed`s dictates to all believers. These reasons could range from his hatred of the west and western values (except for golf) to carrying out the plans of the NWO, which appear to involve destroying the sovereignty of all of the developed nations.

  13. IvotedTrump!today says

    Nov 8, 2016 at 9:59 am

    U.S. President #44 Barack Hussein Obama is America’s Captain Obvious!

  14. underbed cat says

    Nov 9, 2016 at 2:14 am

    If this the election brings Trump to the WH, the public will soon learn about the genocide that has occurred under the even-tempered, dignified man who so worried about dark clouds, which apparently in his mind was more important than the suffering of unbelievers….bleach bit …from the sharia mind.

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