Trump added to the comments he made about refugees coming into the country. Opinions expressed in “Perspectives” columns published by OneNewsNow.com are the sole responsibility of the article’s author(s), or of the person(s) or organization(s) quoted therein, and do not necessarily represent those of the staff or management of, or advertisers who support the American Family News Network, OneNewsNow.com, our parent organization or its other affiliates. “We’re saddened and shocked about what happened in Paris”, said Matthew Soerens, spokesman for World Relief, the association’s humanitarian arm. How severely persecuted is the group? In that period, conditions for religious minorities in the Middle East have seriously deteriorated. Although the agencies won’t reveal much detail for security reasons, the process can take years, which leaves many legitimate refugees in a legal limbo. Reporter: Jon, can you say radical islamic terrorism.
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The report suggests the government is influenced by a November 12 paper by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
Economic anxieties and fears of threats overseas have stoked a wave of nativism in the presidential campaign.
They have with poetic irony played into the Islamic State’s strategy, which, as detailed in its Dabiq magazine, is focused on destroying Muslim and Arab coexistence with the West and political pluralism.
Tapper asked Bush how screeners would be able to tell which refugees are Christians and which ones are not.
“There’s no magic button that can fix this”. It is – as the president has said, it is going to be long, steady progress here until we can reach the kind of goals that we want.
The Home Office has highlighted a previous conversation between the Prime Minister had in Parliament with other MPs regarding which Syrian refugees get selected to come to Britain.
“All refugees go through a vigorous screening process before they are admitted into the US”, Wadhia said. These individuals were USA citizens who were inspired by ISIS, though, in contrast with Abaaoud, they were unsuccessful in their attempts to travel to Syria before the attack.
Since the Syrian civil war began, 2,184 Syrian refugees have been admitted into the U.S. Only 53 have been Christian (2.4 percent) while 2,098 (96 percent) have been Muslim.
The religious test for refugees originated, as nasty things often do, in the mouth of Donald Trump, who proclaimed in July – falsely – that Christians fleeing Syria “cannot come into this country” but Muslim refugees from Syria “can come in so easily”.
In September, George Carey – former archbishop of Canterbury – wrote that “the Christian community is yet again left at the bottom of the heap”. Carey also said Syrian Christians are unable to safely stay in United Nations camps and that the small minority should be given a special priority by Britain.
“They are facing an existential threat that Muslims are not”, said Seiple, whose father, Robert Seiple, was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for global Religious Freedom at the State Department. Soon after, however, reality became more complicated for those interested in the truth: AFP reported that the owner of the Syrian passport, who had been loyal to Bashar al-Assad, had died months before the attack. In the United States, politics looms, he said. And while most – but not all – of the Syrian refugees so far are Muslim, this makes sense because “it’s a mostly Muslim country and most of the victims are Muslim”.
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“We can’t roll the dice with the safety of Americans and bring in people for whom there is an unacceptable risk that they could be jihadists coming here to kill Americans”, Ted Cruz said Sunday.
