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| Hundreds of Assyrian families, some of them recently arrived from Islamic State controlled areas of Syria, attend Easter Sunday service at St. Georges Assyrian Church of The East in Sed El Baouchrieh, a working class suburb of Beirut. |
Non-Muslim
Syrian refugees have been virtually locked out by the Obama
administration, according to current data from the State Department.
According
to the Refugee Processing Center, of the 6,877 Syrian refugees that
have arrived in 2016 through July 31st, 6,834 of those are identified
as Sunni, Shia, or generic Muslim. Only 43 (0.7 percent of
total) refugees admitted have been non-Muslim.
That
0.7 percent of refugees arriving this year represents a statistically
insignificant fraction of the more than 2.6 million Catholic, Syriac,
Assyrian, and Greek Orthodox Christians, as well as Yazidis, other
religions, and atheists living in Syria.
Yet
all of these groups are being targeted by Islamic extremists --
indeed, Secretary of State John Kerry himself has claimed these
groups are facing a genocide.
Just
yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he is opposed to
any religious test for entering the United States "A religious
test for entering our country is not reflective of America's
fundamental values. I reject it."
Despite
Ryan's rejection, the State Department's own numbers reveal
active discrimination targeting non-Muslim Syrian refugees.
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more by clicking below:
Obama Administration Discriminates Against Syrians -- If They're Christians
