Posted on 12/27/2011 7:01:06 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Persecuted Christians are fleeing from the Middle East in increasing numbers. The United States should open its doors to them as a guaranteed safe haven.
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The Christian population in Iraq is one of the most at risk. Around half of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since 2003, and those who remain expect growing challenges, given the U.S. military pullout. Christians have suffered periodic waves of violence, including bombings, assassinations and church burnings. When Iraq's government said in 2010 it would issue a license to carry firearms to any Christian family that wanted one, it was simply acknowledging the reality that followers of the faith had to arm or die.
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Pakistan's 20 million Christians face a variety of threats, including forced conversion and attacks on churches and worshippers. The Pakistan Christian Congress has appealed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to award them refugee status, but the U.N. so far has been reluctant to recognize there is a crisis.
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Christian refugees from Muslim-majority countries who can reach the United States should be given the same special status that asylum-seekers from communist countries were accorded during the Cold War. Precedent exists: The definition of a "refugee-escapee" in the 1957 Immigration and Nationality Act included not only those who had fled "from any Communist-dominated, or Communist-occupied area" but also those "from any country within the general area of the Middle East, and who cannot return to such area, or to such country, on account of race, religion or political opinion." Christians and other religious minorities are increasingly unwelcome in the Muslim world; they should be given sanctuary in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Also, there are a handful of FReepers who continually complain of "persecution" because their faith is questioned....this article points out what real persecution looks like. I recall the old adage..."Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Like we have to the muslims and other satan worshipers?
When Iraq’s government said in 2010 it would issue a license to carry firearms to any Christian family that wanted one, it was simply acknowledging the reality that followers of the faith had to arm or die.
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It also gave them a list of armed Christians.
A list you wouldn’t want to be on.
Registration of guns is the first move toward confiscation of guns.
Unfortunately I lost all of my registered firearms in that hunting accident.
Unfortunately I lost all of my registered firearms in that hunting accident.
“Boating”, man! “Boating accident”! Bottom of the lake! Gotta keep your story straight...
;-)
We send $3 billion a year to Egypt’s government.
Maybe we should take another look at this...
Huh? You are equating middle eastern Christians who have kept the faith for 2,000 years, with muslims and pagans? Just what would they have to do to qualify as “good enough” in your eyes?
Being Christian is a death sentence
I do believe we’re told it would be...it is the after-life that is the promise.
The interesting aside here is that in times of persecution, the Christian Church flourishes and grows.
NOT that I advocate persecution of Christians by anyone, ever.
Pope Benedict XVI was right on target at his lecture in Regensburg which can be found here: http://www.zenit.org/article-16955?l=english
I can’t imagine this administration doing one damned thing to help any of these people.
Could you imagine it? A bunch of Christians with first-had accounts of the true, brutal nation of Islam?
No, can’t have those sorts of people reinforcing our nation.
Nonsense. If that old canard were true, the middle east would still be Christian.
First you read, then you comment,
No, I am saying that we should do the same for Christians as we have done for satan worshipers.
We have opened our doors to every form of idolaters, every form of religious adultery. Now it is time to do likewise for the CHRISTians.
Now do you understand?
It was a duck hunting accident!
“To live is Christ and to die is gain.”
I think those who choose Christianity in non-Christian countries understand fully well the dangers they are under. Many choose to stay not because they have no place to flee but because they feel compelled to offer Christ to others.
Their courage has my great respect as I would guess many in today’s church pews in North America would lie rather than be killed.
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