The backlash against President Barack Obama's refugee policies has intesified after it was revealed that only just over 1 percent of Syrian refugees taken in by the Obama administration in 2015 were Christian. According to reports, out of the 2,089 Syrian refugees resettled in the United States in 2015, just 31 identified as Christian.
The statistics have sparked outrage among a growing number of Americans who disagree with the Obama administration's policies towards Syrian and Muslim refugees.
Author Pamela Geller is one of those who has spoken out, and in her Christmas Eve blog she wrote, "The perpetrators of the worst genocide in the 21st century are being welcomed into the West, while the victims (Christians and non-believers) are left to perish under unspeakable conditions of brutality and torture."
Geller and other conservative pundits charge that although Obama stated recently that it would be un-American to apply a "religious test" for refugees seeking a safe haven in the United States, his administration is in fact applying such a test favouring Syrian refugees who are Muslims.
The proof is in the numbers, they say. In the latest census available, Christians made up about 10 percent of the total Syrian population. About 350,000 of them have reportedly been forced out of their homes, their property stolen by Muslims affiliated with ISIS, al-Nusra Front and other Islamic factions. It has been widely reported that men have been beheaded or summarily shot simply because they are Christian. Their women have been raped, kidnapped and forced into submission.
Yet, since January 2015, the U.S. has resettled only 31 Christians—a paltry 1.4 percent of the 2,192 total Syrian refugees taken in by the Obama administration this year, according to the federal database for refugee resettlement.
Among those resettled and given benefits are 2,149 Muslims (98 percent of the total). Of these Muslims, 2,089 belong to the Sunni sect, the same branch of Islam adhered to by terrorists from the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, al-Nusra and other radical Islamic groups. Only eight of the Muslim refugees are from the rival Shiite sect, the federal database shows.
What is even more ironic, according to WND, is that the U.S. government is getting support from Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, evangelical and Jewish organisations in resettling the overwhelming Muslim refugees. These organisations are being paid by the U.S. government millions of taxpayer dollars to resettle Muslims into 180 U.S. cities and towns.
Geller noted that "of the recent wave of Syrian refugees brought into the U.S., none were Christians."
All the while, the numerous incidents of extremist Muslims persecuting and actually murdering Christians worldwide are increasing. Christians are being wiped out in Iraq, brutalised in Pakistan and Sudan, and attacked in Kenya, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia and the Philippines, WND has reported.
On Christmas Eve, Islamic militants raided a Christian village in the Philippines, abducting and then mercilessly killing at least seven Christian farmers, according to a report by Agence France-Presse.
