Syria was 10% Christian before the war started, and the Christian communities have been targeted for persecution. The May government, however, has its obvious priorities. It must not do anything that might offend its Muslim constituency and lose its votes, after all.
“Just one in 400 Syrian refugees Christian despite ‘horrendous persecution,’” by Camilla Tominey, Express, June 24, 2018:
JUST one in 400 Syrian refugees given asylum in the UK last year were Christians despite them being subjected to “horrendous persecution”. A Freedom of Information request found just 11 of those admitted to Britain under the Government’s flagship Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme (VPRS) were Christian.
This is despite an estimated 10 per cent of the Syrian population being Christian at the start of the civil war.
The number of Christians granted asylum by Britain has slumped considerably since 2016, when 1.5 per cent were Christians.
Last year that percentage dropped to just 0.23 – amounting to 11 of the 4,832 Syrians who were resettled in the UK.
James Dobson, Senior Researcher at Bright Blue, which carried out the research, said: “Christians are being subjected to horrendous persecution in Syria.
“Yet, the figures revealed by Bright Blue today show the Government is failing to offer sufficient Syrian Christians safe harbour in Britain.
“Prior to the Syrian civil war, 10 per cent of Syrians were forecast to be Christian.
“To ensure fair, not special, treatment for Syrian Christians, the Government should commit to 10% of Syrian refugees admitted to the UK through the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme being Christian.”
Bright Blue, a liberal Conservative think tank, has previously called for the Government to ensure that at least 10% of the Syrian refugees that are taken in under the UK’s Vulnerable Person Relocation Scheme are Christians….
No Muzzies Here says
Britain’s future is already determined. We are seeing the last days of what was once a great nation. The Queen is the remaining relic of the former greatness. She is a model of dignity and grace. As long as she is there, Britain will not be submerged. I wish her a long life.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yeah, and what a “Defender of the Faith” she has been. Why, just since 2001 the percentage of Christians in England has gone from 71.58% to 59.49% (as of 2011). Muslims went from 2.75% to 4.41% (according to Wikipedia) I wonder if Charles can top a performance such as that? Now, just remind me. Which faith are they supposed to be defending?
Jean says
The Queen is decent.
But Charles has publicly announced that he will not defend Christianity against Islam:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/3454271/Prince-Charles-to-be-known-as-Defender-of-Faith.html
Jean says
That should be: “has publicly implied”
CogitoErgoSum says
My feelings about wanting to be a defender of all faiths is that to feel that way means you accept the idea that one faith is no better or no worse than any another. That also means you have no faith in your own faith being right because the faith that contradicts your own just might be right while yours is wrong. And that means you really have no faith in your own faith. I’d say the new title for Charles when he ascends the throne should be “Defender of the Wishy-Washy.”
Anne Smith says
The Queen had one of the leaders of Qatar( the supporters of ISIS) in her carriage at Ascot races. She is not quite as above the fray as you imagine – I should think she was hoping for a free nomination to one of their stallions.
Oil money speaks all languages
kouldb says
There’s no decency nor dignity in a queen who swans around in her gilded palaces & surrounds herself & her heirs with extravagances. Dripping with the riches of her nation, she sits self-satisfied on her throne. Pretending she owes not her people for her crown. And after losing the empire & abandoning the Commonwealth. She completes the dereliction of her duties by ignoring the first collective genocide in British history. With mass violent immigration bringing terror to the land & the rape of Britain’s children. She willingly relinquished all moral responsibility to cabals of smug reptilian politicians & corrupt, decaying plutocrats in exchange for banal worship of all that is vile & rotten. Sorry. Never has a monarch betrayed her people like your undeserving queen. Along with her venal, craven son, Charlie. Who will bring the final blow down upon your heads. Sending your people & your nation to hell in a hand-basket. Shame on Queen Elisabeth for what she has done, for the legacy she will leave behind & for her incompetent son.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Corrupt and scandalous. It will be in the annals of history that once a Christian society under Islamic rule, the western Governments, now a secular government, turned their backs on the persecuted Christians and accepted those who murdered, raped, tortured, kidnapped them, then rewarded those responsible, with citizenship of their country.
christianblood says
(..Over 99% of Syrian refugees admitted to UK in 2017 were Muslims, despite “horrendous persecution” of Christians..)
The same in the US, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia and Norway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmFEt3L4kRM
gravenimage says
It is the same with Russia, I’m afraid:
“Why Russia refuses to give refugee status to Syrians”
Despite playing a major role in Syria’s war, Moscow has granted refugee status to only one Syrian national since 2011.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/russia-refuses-give-refugee-status-syrians-180116095003651.html
The fact is that most of the nations in the world have been remiss in not granting persecuted Christians asylum.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Without Russia, the black flag of the US and Saudi-backed jihadist Buddies would be flying in Damascus today and millions of Syrian Christians and other minorities would be dead or fleeing Syria in their millions! Just persuade the US to stop the crazy regime-change interventions like the one in Iraq, in Libya, in Yemen and in Syria and there would be NO muslim refugees flooding Europe today! Syrian Christians want to stay in their ancient country where they have been safe and thrived for centuries JUST LET THE US STOP SUPPORTING ISLAMIC JIHADISTS AND STOP OCCUPYING SYRIAN TERRITORY ILLEGALLY!
Today, US and its Nato vassals are supporting a muslim Nato led by Saudi Arabia, ISIS and Al-Qaeda that are murdering Shiite minority in Yemen. See it below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtzlOAf5h9k
gravenimage says
I know you have tried to claim before that Jihad was created by the West, and has nothing to do with Islam. This still does not make any sense.
As I have said many times before, Assad is probably the least bad faction in the region. Still hideously ugly, but better than the local alternatives.
The US taking out ISIS as a territorial force actually strengthens his position.
Wellington says
No matter how many times you are refuted, christianblood (especially by graveinimage), you just continue ad nauseam with your litany of hatred towards the West.
Russia good all the time; the West bad all the time. Blah, blah, blah. How tedious. Meanwhile, Putin praises Islam regularly as does the Russian Patriarch. But don’t look at all this. Yes, look at the nasty, nefarious West. Really, christianblood, you convince no one of any sense, only fellow believers in typical-style Russian propaganda.
Go peddle your nonsense in Eastern Europe, countries like Poland, Hungary and Czechia, and see how far you get with Holy Mother Russia being so wonderful.
christianblood says
gravenimage posted
(..I know you have tried to claim before that Jihad was created by the West, and has nothing to do with Islam..)
I never said such a thing! Islamic Jihad existed since the inception of islam but what I constantly point out is the fact that the USA and the West, especially the US are directly and indirectly supporting and backing islamic jihadists. As I said earlier, US is currently operating 19 jihadist training camps in the part of Syria where it illegally occupies. This is above outrageous! See it below:
https://theduran.com/us-operating-19-terrorist-training-camps-in-syria/
gravenimage says
Actually, Christianblood, you have said just that–including repeatedly posting a video that claims that Saudi Arabia is only spreading Wahabbism because the West demanded that they do so. Just absurd.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Please stop distorting my words, Graven!
The Saudi crown prince himself said that the West encouraged Saudis to spread Wahhabism. See his words below and please stop distorting my words!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1399497
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Iraqi Sister who fled Islamic State is denied entry to Britain for the second time.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/06/21/iraqi-sister-who-fled-islamic-state-is-denied-entry-to-britain-for-the-second-time/
Malcolm (South Afric) says
European Immigration: Nuns Out, Terrorists In
DOUGLAS MURRAY
When the same Home Office that forbade Sister Ban even to enter the country discovered that the young male Iraqi was in Britain, he explained clearly that he had been trained by ISIS. He told the Home Office officials that the group had trained him to kill. The Home Office promptly found him a place to live and study, and treated him as the minor he said he was but most likely was not. He subsequently told a teacher that he had “a duty to hate Britain”.
Last year the Institute of St Anselm (a Catholic training institute for priests and nuns, based in Kent) closed its doors because of problems it had getting the Home Office to grant visa applications for foreign students. One nun last year was apparently denied entry to the UK because she did not have a personal bank account.
So, those who flee ISIS are turned away, while those who are trained by ISIS are welcome.
http://www.europereloaded.com/european-immigration-nuns-terrorists/
Malcolm (South Afric) says
While on the subject of immigration which can be emotive, the difficulty is the standard of fake news which the MSM spreads, as to what influential people say on the subject. It can take days to find the truth.
This might be of interest to the case, in point.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/23/reuters-fake-news-spins-pope-against-trump/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/06/24/reuters-misrepresentation-of-francis-remarks-on-trump-will-fuel-further-distrust/
J D S says
The Holy Bible tells of all that is happening today…one just has to fret it out with study and prayer to see the ever unfolding trauma that is upon the world…..At present,as predicted, there is a “falling away” but one must look farther to see a “coming back” and then a little farther to the end times….where every knee will bend and recognize Jesus as Lord of all.
Walter Sieruk says
This “Theresa May government ” in the United Kingdom which has admitted into Britain many Syrian Muslim “refugees” and not so many Christian refugees. Who are the people who really should be admitted in England because they are the real ones who are so persecuted in Syria by Muslims. In addition this folly of policy of allowing so many Muslim migrants into England is nothing but an Islamic time bomb of deadly jihad violence of Islamic terrorism waiting to go off.
Some Westerners of reason and common sense might wonder about he irrational foolishness of this governmental blindness and even madness of this current may government. One of the answer to this willful ignorance of such “politics” is that this reflect that Theresa May is in strong mental denial about the true essence of Islam and the violent ways this religion influences its followers .
For example, this prime minster of England, Theresa May, when makes public statements about those violent and vicious terrorist attacks on London Bridge and nearby Borough Market. She has declared this heinous religious terror attack as the outcome of “an ideology that is a perversion of Islam,” That statement shows that she didn’t do her homework. For those jihadist Muslims were putting in the practice the instruction of real, actual, non-watered down hard core Islam. As the Quran in, for example, Surah 9:123 instructs “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” Running over non-Muslims with a van and then stabbing them is a very effective way of showing people who are not Muslims harshness. Also Surah 9:111 teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed…” The whole foundation for the ideology of Islamic terrorism is the theology of the Quran. As seen in those two, just sited, verses from the Quran and other verses well, such as, Surah 4:89. 5:33 47:4. Teresa May also denounced “Extremism.” This type of “Extremism” is based on the Quran.
boocat says
So, Sharia May is shown to be a complete fool. Surprise!
6woods says
She is not a fool. She, like the majority of ‘leaders’ today, is something much more nefarious.
boocat says
Just like with Barry Obummer. Didn’t he let in something like half a million moslems, and – in the interest of fairness – about 14 Christians? Something like that; my figures may be slightly off…
Special place in Hell for Sharia May. (England has its own, modern version of Axis Sally in that quisling.)
Lydia Church says
Yes, they should have brought in the Christians but instead they let them die over there, and brought in the muslims, so that they could kill off more Christians and wreak more havoc in the West in multiple ways…all that and more…. which fits the globalist agenda.
Sad.
R Russell says
The Conservative party is funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. It shows, doesn’t it.!
Quite frankly, unless the UK has a Christian revival, judgement will befall us.
Theresa May has no children to worry about so the influence of these 2 countries as far as her family is concerned will end with her.
Barnabas Fund has an online petition ‘Our Religious Freedom’. It is open to all countries.
It gives real examples of what has happened to some Christians in the UK.
Please sign it.
https://www.barnabasfund.org/en#
gravenimage says
Over 99% of Syrian refugees admitted to UK in 2017 were Muslims, despite “horrendous persecution” of Christians
………………..
Yes–appalling.
Elizabeth L says
It seems to me that any sane person with half a functioning brain cell can read into these revelations two major conclusions. Anti Christian activity and sentiment is flourishing not only in the Middle East, but in the EU at large. Even with all the information of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East by incoming Muslims -and their brethren back home, the largely Leftist European political talking heads chose to ignore their suffering – while simultaneously sympathizing ( and enacting legal restraints on those who expressed discontent with the Muslim rapes, murder etc.) with these barbarous immigrants, and closing their eyes to the atrocities that they were committing at home and in Europe. Clearly, the new immigrants, protected by their Islamaphobia cloak, were favoured by political heads all across Europe. I conclude what most of us have known for some time. Leftist ideology is intolerant of religious faith, and in particular, the Judeo Christian faith. Recall history and the atheism of Joseph Stalin. Poland and Hungary each have faith populations, and I suspect, their respective leaders are persons of faith as well. These sensible and morally upright countries do NOT want potential rapists, murderers, nor genocidal assassins in their countries – but the rest of Europe does. They will pay the price that their conduct in this matter will exact. My sympathies to the innocent future victims – but only to them.The details of European Muslim immigration are sickening given the backdrop of Christian genocide perpetrated by these same ideologically motivated populations. Payback for such morally bankrupt conduct will descend – doubtles swiftly and severely. I wish that I could express my sorrow for those future victims who enabled this appalling state of affairs, but I cannot.
MFritz says
Muslim migrants split the population and breed like rabbits. EXACTLY what the globalists want.
tim gallagher says
It’s disgusting. The Christians are the persecuted people who you would expect to be brought into the UK as genuine refugees from Islam and yet it is the persecuting Muslims who are let in. It’s insane. I wonder if the Muslims in charge in Syria work to make sure that only the Muslim invaders ( pretending to be “refugees”) get the chance to leave in order to keep the Muslim invasion of the UK going. The UK government must be naïve fools to let this happen. The UK should be accepting 100% Christians and other non-Muslims and zero MUslim refugees. The UK does indeed seem to have had it.
Rufolino says
Interesting that Pope Francis has acted in just the same way. He visited a refugee camp with both both Moslem and Christian refugees on a Greek island.
He invited a group of Moslem refugees to return with him to Rome ! He did not invite any Christian refugees to accompany him, leaving them utterly stunned.
tim gallagher says
How disgraceful is that, Rufolino. The Pope, whose job or vocation or whatever you want to call it, is to work for Christianity and to support and defend his Christian brethren, ignores them and chooses Muslims, the enemies of Christianity, instead. What a traitor this Pope seems. Words fail me. I agree with your comment about the attitudes of the left wing Islamophiles, DHazard. They endanger us all.
DHazard says
Common sense and leftism are mutually exclusive. Also left in the dust by leftism are logic, fairness, facts, and the expectation for Muslims to take responsibility for their own actions.
Debra says
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
IanB says
Shameful.
Even more shameful is Christians in the UK not protesting about this and actively encouraging more moslem so-called refugees into the country.
It would be interesting to know how many Christian Syrians have been allowed into the USA.
DHazard says
When will Europe start admitting the non-Muslim victims of Islam instead of just the Muslim victims of their own religiously inspired brethren?
Matthieu Baudin says
“… The May government, however, has its obvious priorities. It must not do anything that might offend its Muslim constituency and lose its votes, after all…”
The Muslim constituency votes overwhelmingly for Labour, so there are probably other things at play with more weight. My guess is that agency staff involved in screening, prioritisation for selection and so on are overly influenced by personal orientation and prejudice against middle eastern Christians whom they perceive to be allied to western interests and social norms.
Save Europe says
Which begs the further question – how many of the (cough) ‘refugees’ admitted into the UK in 2017, were actually Syrian?