{"id":37131,"date":"2018-07-30T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=37131"},"modified":"2023-07-30T03:20:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T01:20:49","slug":"united-kingdom-closes-the-door-to-syrian-christian-refugees-only-admits-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/07\/30\/united-kingdom-closes-the-door-to-syrian-christian-refugees-only-admits-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom Closes the Door to Syrian Christian Refugees: Only Admits Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barnabas Fund, an NGO that helps persecuted Christians, published a report a few weeks ago that reveals that the British government is privileging Muslim refugees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/07\/05\/genocide-in-nigeria-over-6000-massacred-christians-and-media-silence-in-the-west\/\">Genocide in Nigeria: over 6,000 massacred Christians and media silence in the West<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/02\/25\/the-roman-colosseum-was-illuminated-in-red-for-the-persecuted-christians-these-are-their-numbers\/\">The Roman Colosseum Was illuminated in red for the persecuted Christians: these are their numbers<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The UN marginalizes Christians and Yazidis in their reception recommendations<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/barnabasfund.org\/en\/news\/no-christians-at-all-among-1112-syrian-refugees-resettled-in-the-uk-this-year\">a statement posted on its website<\/a>, this NGO reports that the UK Home Office responded to a request from the Barnabas Fund to publish statistics on Syrian refugees sheltered there in the first quarter of 2018, in compliance with the Law of Freedom of Information. <em>\"<strong>The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) recommended 1,358 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the UK of which only 4 were Christians<\/strong>, representing a tiny fraction of just 0.29%\"<\/em>, that NGO denounces, and adds: <em>\"<strong>No Yazidis at all were recommended by the UN.<\/strong>\"<\/em> even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2016\/04\/29\/esta-nina-yazidi-cuenta-lo-que-le-hizo-el-isis-mientras-el-mundo-miraba-hacia-otro-lado\/\">Christians and Yazidis are precisely the two religious minorities that are being further massacred by the terrorists of the Islamic State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><big>90% of refugees recommended by the UN are of the same religion as ISIS<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, and as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/07\/29\/syrian-muslim-uk-rejects-christians\/\">noted<\/a> by Breitbart London, <strong>90% of the refugees recommended by UNHCR (1,226) were Sunni Muslims, which make up 65% of the Syrian population.<\/strong> The favoritism of the UN towards the Sunnis is especially surprising if we consider that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/06\/30\/sunni-militants-declare-islamic-state-in-iraq-and-syria.html\">they belong to the same religion as the terrorists of ISIS.<\/a> In contrast, 127 of the refugees recommended by the UN (9.5%) were Shiite Muslims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/internacional\/abci-abunda-terrorismo-sunies-contra-chiies-y-no-contrario-201511140545_noticia.html\">considered as heretics by the Sunnis<\/a> and who have been the target of numerous attacks by ISIS.<\/p>\n<p><big>The British Government denied all requests of Syrian Christians<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As if the marginalization of the UN from non-Muslim refugees was not enough, the British Government ended up excluding the others: <em>\"<strong>The Home Office agreed to resettle 1,112 of these (82%), all of whom were Muslims, and refused all recommendations of Christians<\/strong>\"<\/em>, according to the Barnabas Fund complaint, and that despite the brutal persecution suffered by Christians at the hands of the Yihazid. This NGO has indicated, likewise, that <em>\"<strong>of the 7,060 Syrian refugees the UNHCR recommended to the UK in 2017 only 25 were Christians (0.35%). However, the Home Office only accepted 11 of these<\/strong> \u2013 meaning that Christians made up only 0.23% of Syrian refugees resettled in the UK last year.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnabas Fund accuses the British Government of discriminating against Christian refugees.<\/strong> The figures speak for themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnabasfund.org\/en\/news\/UK-government-discriminates-against-Christian-refugees-from-Syria\">A statement<\/a> published by the NGO in November 2017 indicated that <strong>in 2015, out of 2,637 Syrian refugees accepted in the United Kingdom, only 43 were Christian and 13 were Yizidis<\/strong>, being the other Muslims of different faiths. The situation worsened the following year: <strong>in 2016, among the 7,499 Syrian refugees admitted, there were only 27 Christians and 5 Yazidis.<\/strong> These figures do not even correspond to the presence of each religious minority in the country of origin of these refugees.<strong> Before the war in Syria 10% of its population (about 2.3 million) was Christian and there were about 70,000 Yazidis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The British Government has been hiding this information for a year and a half<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To this brazen favoritism towards Muslim refugees, there is a policy of opacity on the part of the British Government. \"For the last 18 months, <strong>Barnabas Fund has had to go to considerable lengths to obtain these figures in the face of what appeared to be a sustained attempt by Home Office officials to avoid their release<\/strong>\", the NGO complains. <em>\"After prolonged delays, we finally had to take the extreme step of obtaining an order from the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office <strong>threatening the Home Office with contempt of court proceedings in the High Court.<\/strong> Even subsequent to this action, the figures were only released just before the deadline, when we asked the immigration minister personally order their disclosure\"<\/em>, Barnabas Fund adds.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>(Main photo: Carole Al-Farah. A girl holds a candle during a preparatory mass before Christmas at the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church of Al-Zaytoun, in Damascus, Syria, on December 13, 2012)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnabas Fund, an NGO that helps persecuted Christians, published a report a few weeks ago that reveals that the British government is privileging Muslim refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[11926,10713,10976,794,10678],"class_list":["post-37131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-barnabas-fund","tag-christianism","tag-christianophobia","tag-islam","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}