Barnabas Aid finally obtained figures proving that the UN has only recommended tiny token numbers of Syrian Christians, Yazidis and other minorities for resettlement in the UK. The overwhelming majority of refugees recommended by the UN have been Sunni Muslims
This gross neglect of peaceful Christians and other minorities has been long discussed, but without any steps being taken to remedy the injustice. Instead, the UK and other Western nations have turned their backs on the most needy groups, who are not only victims of war, but have been persecuted at the hands of jihadists.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, declared that “politically correct officials were institutionally biased against Christian refugees” in the UK; in the U.S., of the 10,801 Syrian refugees who came to the US under Obama in 2016, only 56 were Christian.
Trump once promised that the US would prioritize Christian refugees, but to date, there has been no follow-up.
Most disturbing about the UK was that “ UK officials tried to prevent the release of this information” about its discrimination against Christian refugees, but “Barnabas Aid submitted a freedom of Information request to the UK Home Office” and discovered the ugly truth.
Christians have been abandoned, not only by Western governments but also by the largest Christian organizations globally, which have remained strangely silent. Even the Pope promised to take in Christian refugees in Italy, but then took only Muslims instead; he even called Muslim migrants “warriors of hope”.
Vice President Pence recently offered some hope in a speech when he announced that President Trump had ordered the State Department to stop funding UN relief efforts and “support directly persecuted communities through USAID.” Results are now awaited.
“UK government discriminates against Christian refugees from Syria”, Barnabas Aid, November 2, 2017:
THE UK government and the UN are discriminating against Christians and other minorities in their refugee programmes according to new Home Office statistics, seen by Barnabas Aid an aid agency which works for persecuted Christians.
Last week Barnabas Aid finally obtained figures proving that the UN has only recommended tiny token numbers of Syrian Christians, Yazidis and other minorities for resettlement in the UK. The overwhelming majority of refugees recommended by the UN have been Sunni Muslims who form the majority in Syria. But Christians, and other minorities have been repeatedly targeted for attack by Islamist groups such as IS.
The new statistics, obtained in a Freedom of Information Request to the Home Office by Barnabas Aid, of the religious background of Syrian asylum seekers recommended by the UNHCR for resettlement in the UK revealed:
o In 2015 out of 2,637 refugees there were only 43 Christians, just 13 Yazidis and only one Shia Muslim. In 2016 the statistics were even worse. Out of 7,499 refugees there were only 27 Christians, five Yazidis and 13, Shia Muslims.
o It is widely accepted that Christians made up 10 per cent of Syria’s pre-war population and Shia’s around 1.5 per cent while there are estimated to have been 70,000 Yazidis in Syria.
Disturbingly, UK officials tried to prevent the release of this information. Barnabas Aid submitted a freedom of Information request to the UK Home Office in February. And in spite of being legally required to release it within 28 days, officials failed to do so and repeatedly stalled or simply did not answer correspondence.
Eventually, Barnabas Aid lodged a formal complaint with the Information Commissioner’s office. On 19 September the Information Commissioner issued a formal notice requiring the Home Office to release this information within 35 calendar days or face contempt of court proceedings.
Even then, the information was only released at the very last minute after Barnabas Aid had contacted the immigration minister’s office, alerting him to the situation and asking him personally to ensure civil servants complied with the order.
“This is shocking behaviour by both UN and UK officials. In 2005 the UN formally adopted the responsibility of states to protect citizens from genocide and crimes against humanity. These statistics show that the UN has itself failed miserably and inexcusably in this respect,” said Martin Parsons, Head of Research at Barnabas Aid.
“Christians and other minorities in the Middle East have been treated shamefully by the UN. And the UK government has abjectly outsourced its own responsibilities to the victims of genocide in spite of repeated representations,” he added.
Barnabas Aid obtained these figures just as US Vice President Mike Pence announced that the US government would now directly help persecuted Christians ……
mortimer says
It’s now blatantly obvious that the UN is discriminating against vulnerable Christians and intentionally making them remain vulnerable. The Sunnite Muslim block in the UN defends its Sunnite interests, whereas European and Western countries are reluctant to defend their Christian values and Christian lives. Why? This is no less than a planned genocide from the UN.
Santa Voorhees says
In other words, nothing new from the United Khaliphate.
Les says
Absolutely shameful … this proves beyond a shadow of any doubt that the UN is overwhelmingly subjugated to the Islamic agenda. That the UK and US civil servants and politicians are corrupted by the cancer of political correctness. May God have mercy on these nations that don’t stand up to this madness.
R Russell says
Lord, grant repentance to our nation, stay your hand of judgment and leave your people into prayer and fasting for the nation.
In wrath, remember mercy
R Russell says
sorry it should be lead your people
Lydia says
This was their plan in collusion. They left the persecuted Christians in the Middle East to be martyred, then they let in only the butchering muslims, so they could import the same atrocities in Europe and elsewhere, the massacre of Christians. There were other items on that migration agenda but I went over that already.
So, now we could definitely call them all: CHRISTOPHOBES!!!
Lydia says
Oh, and the same thing happened in the US. A couple of years ago there were some Iraqui Christian refugees being held in a detention center in San Diego under Obama, and from what I recall they were even sent back! Yeah, obama was a total CHRISTOPHOBE! An evil islam loving hater who persecuted Christians at every turn, runner up for the role of Nero in Rome.
Graeme Howarth says
I heard the head of Barnabas Fund speak the other night. He mentioned this. He also mentioned that our New Zealand government has committed itself to only taking in those refugees referred by the UN. This means there will be only Sunnis coming to New Zealand. The reason is that any other religious group face persecution, intimidation and violence at the Refugee Camps.
So we are taking in predominantly those Sunnis who were fighting for al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, the IS and similar groups because we are bowing to the UN and taking a high moral position of not discriminating between groups of supposedly equally needy people. Even when those suffering most due to discrimination are begging to come in.
Nauseating.
Rob says
N.Z. needs to get its head out of the sand and officially recognize that UNHCR is blatantly Islamist and doesn’t give a rat’s a** about any non-Muslim refugees.
makmorn says
And my dear Christian grandpa went over there to save them from the Nazis, if he could only have known then what they would become, he’d of said the hell with em.
gravenimage says
UK government discriminates against Christian refugees from Syria
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*Just appalling*–these poor people are the real refugees.
Anne Smith says
It is appalling and at the same time the UK Government and its foolish and smug Chief of terrorism law, one Max Hill QC, is saying that we must welcome back jihadis and give them Council House and welfare benefits to encourage them to behave in future. Never mind trying to rehouse the 7,000 Army veterans currently sleeping rough on the streets or unable to get help with PTSD symptoms following their service to our country.
It seems the motto of our governing officials is, if you’re foreign we will lean over backwards to do everything for you but if you are English – get stuffed, we don’t want to know.
The sooner we get shot of Sharia May and her band of total incompetent the better. The stupid cow is ruining our country.
A persecuted Christian says
It saddens me greatly that the western countries that were founded on humanism and Judeo- Christian values have turned their backs in the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. If they accept Christian refugees they will find them law abiding, willing to integrate in contrast to some of the moslems . Christians who immigrated to the west never flew commercial airline planes into buildings, never committed the atrocities that some moslems commit
John Forbes says
SURELY NO ONE BELIEVES FOR A MOMENT THAT THE MUSLIM NATIONS ARE ABOUT TO HELP MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANS WHOM THEY HAVE BEEN ATTACKING & RAPING & KILLING FOR CENTURIES ?
ISLAM HAS NOT CHANGED IT “SPOTS:” & HAS NO INTENTION OF DOING SO IN THE WEST OR ANY TIME SOON !
IT IS AN VISCOUS , INTOLERANT IDEOLOGY THAT TEACHES & PREACHES IN BOTH MOSQUES & ISLAMIC SCHOOLS UTTER HATRED OF THOSE OF OTHER FAITHS !
BUT STILL & REPEATEDLY & POSSIBLY BY LAW WE WILL ALL BE COMPELLED TO NOT ONLY PARROT BUT BELIEVE THE GREAT LIES —– ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE & VIOLENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM !
IT IS ONLY HUNGARY , SLOVAKIA & THE CHECKS ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP & STEPHEN HARPER WHO HAVE STATED THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM ! TRUMP STATED THAT THEY HATE US & HE IS RIGHT & HARPER LOST HIS JOB IN PART TO MUSLIM JUSTIN FOR THIS BECAUSE CANADA HAS NO STOMACH TO LOOK AT THE TRUTH & THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE OF THE MAJORITY OF THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES !
THE INTENT IS TO WIPE MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH !!
MUSLIM JUSTIN & HIS WAHABI MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE COMPLICIT HERE AS WELL & AGREE ! SOROS COULD NOT CARE LESS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER !
Bob says
John – the mucklims have no intention of stopping at the wiping out of Christians in the ME…their intention is to destroy Christianity altogether and wherever! And our weak-kneed western politicos’re helping them in every way possible!
WorkingClassPost says
It is very difficult to grasp the thinking behind this.
I can understand how Western governments could collude with arab states to remove the ‘problem’ of having Christians living in muslim dominated countries.
However callous it may seem, their existence in those countries is a constant reminder of the cruel and discriminatory nature of islamic supremecism, and with big oil revenue assured, their value as providers of jizya is no longer sufficient incentive for the islamic states to tolerate their presence.
But why let them die?
Why enable the slow, but relentless genocide of Christians and extinction of Christianity in this way?
When we couple this treatment of Christians abroad, with the modern abuses and restrictions imposed by our domestic governments, it is clear that the Soros/Saudi conspiracy theories may not be so far off course as we might have otherwise assumed.
Rob says
The only reason that Christians and Jews are minorities in Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Crete, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan and the Arabian Peninsula IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN KILLED OFF OR DRIVEN OUT BY ISLAMISTS!!! Remember (if you know history) that Christianity and Judaism were both originally EASTERN religions, not Western religions. But 1400 years of vicious Islamic assault have driven Christianity and Judaism to minority status in the birthplace of both religions. Islam a “religion of peace”…my Aunt Fanny’s behind.! And the politicians, “celebrities” and news men/women who spread that lie are either ignorant or fellow travelers.
A persecuted Christian says
I am thankful that our president Donald Trump acknowledged the plight of the Christians of the Middle East. Mr Trump is a brave man who calls things by their true names, a rarity in this age
Mirren10 says
” Mr Trump is a brave man who calls things by their true names, a rarity in this age”
Words are cheap. Trump needs to put his momey where his mouth is.
Mirren10 says
*money*