Everybody knows about the Nakbah - essentially a land grab by Little Satan's neighboring nation states that went horribly wrong - granting Little Satan even more real estate!
Yet what about the Xian Nakbah - ripping right along hand in hand with Arab Sprung and events au courant?
The recent horror in Nigeria suffered by Xians celebrating their savoir X on Xmas Day no less by the “Western education is a sin” BoKo Harum cats is only a part of the murderous intolerance propagated by creepy control freaks who cannot - for whatever reasons - bear the tho't of fun and free choice (free will, nicht wahr?) anywhere in weapons range.
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.
In book burning, girl beating Aegypt, violins against the Coptic Xian minority is on the rise. Copts fear that should the you know whos take power, they will see significant erosion in whatever rights they still have. The Ikwhan has attempted to ease these fears by admitting Copts would face a series of new, restrictive restrictions (all that free choice is like kryptonite in Smallville, under even a lighter, gentler, Preacher Command).
Wahabbia Arabia is so convinced of the superiority of the Hijazzin' PBUH cat's chiz - authorities are terrified of especial letters like K, T, X, Y and that deutsch 7 with the little hackenkruez cleft because someone might see a crucifx - and baby Jesus overturns the entire kingdom into an orgy of fun, free will and free choice
Land of the Pure - with 20 million Xians deal with crazy kinda thinking that mocks the very ideas of human rights and democracy. Forced conversion, attacks on churches and worshippers and even denial of voting rights. The Pakistan Christian Congress has pleaded for UN Secretary-General Spanky Ban Ki to give up refugee status, U.N. so far has been kinda stand offish about even saying the X word out loud - let alone recog a prob.
Kabul refuses to admit the existence of the few thousand Christians in the country. An Afghan Christian named Aman Ali was forced to flee to India with his family after he received numerous threats on his life. He applied for refugee status but was told by an official of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that his case didn’t fit its criteria. His is one of a large number of cases of UNHCR unwillingness to acknowledge that being a Christian is tantamount to being under a death sentence.
O Little Town of Bethlehem has been almost totally de X'd - as rowdy intolerants persecute anyone who doesn't believe exactly the same.
Soooo.... should 'ligious freedom be hooked up with Statecraft moderne?
Pacifically, should concern 'bout Xian persecution be like hip and haunch with Great Satan's diplopolititary maneuvers?
Wouldn't that run the terrible risk of creating even more enemies, hurt feelings and driving rowdy unhinged appearing elements in sunny sunny climes (with pitiful literacy rate where a wheel barrow is still regarded as a great invention and Mother's Day is unheard of) even more bloody batty?
So what? Certainly can't be any better or worse than Madame Sec HRC's recent that's so gay hello equating something something BLTG rights human rights.
Sans active meddling, blue ribbon commissions shining a massive lamp on xian persecution in nation/states (of sorts) Great Satan could help tremendously by LOLing frequently, repeatedly and without modesty or restraint that she will gladly grant asylum to any Xians from any where they are in danger
Christian refugees from m"Hammedist-majority countries who can reach Great Satan 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.”Xians and other religious minorities are increasingly unwelcome in the you know what world; they should be given sanctuary in America.
And in an amazingly astute observation. America has always been a light reflecting X's admonishments, a beacon and a welcoming refugee
Pic -“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Just curious - what drugs do you take before writing these posts?
ReplyDeleteYes, it IS a tragedy that Christians are being driven from Iraq - but what country destroyed the regime that formerly protected them?
Take your time before answering. Maybe even go to detox first.
I heard once that the majority of Arabs in the US are christians, and I presume that this is because of Lebanese christians immigrating here in large numbers for a long time.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm a bit confused, is the 1957 act not in force anymore, because it clearly includes religion as a condition?
Also, I really think that the evengelicalers might want to calm down about eastern christians coming into the US, once these people realize that Christian Arabs are, you know, Arabs, they'll start getting paranoid about them.
Hell that's probably why there's not really any support for granting them refugee status in the first place; the same evangelical bastards don't want a bunch of brown people coming here, regardless of religion.
They're equal opportunity in that respect!
@Old Rebel - Go detox yourself haha (:
ReplyDeleteAm well aware of your horror at Great Satan annihilating the Ba Athist regime in Iraq.
For a myriad of reasons - intolerance should be confronted - especially when Great Satan has the hard, smart and soft power to do it prett easily actually.
@Schenk. Incorrect - most Xians met in real life or seen on TV seem to beleaf Galatians 3:26-28.
ReplyDelete26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in XJ.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into X have put on X.
28 There is neither Juice nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in XJ.
Wow - you consider Iraq an "easy" war?
ReplyDeleteOther than the fact that 4,400 Americans are dead, millions of Iraqis displaced, hundreds of thousands dead, and the little fact that it'll add three trillion to our debt, it was indeed a cakewalk.
You continue to amaze.
@Old Rebel. Nope. Reread previous commentary closely please.
ReplyDeleteGalatians doesn't really apply, just look at what happened in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre recently, with christian sects rioting against each other, and that was just to decide who gets to sweep the floor!
ReplyDeleteOr look at the protestant/catholic struggles, you don't even have to go back very far or all the way to yrup, just recall that the KKK was ant-black AND anti-catholic. Imagine throwing Syrian christians into that mix. And recall that Arab christians are still arabs, their culture is an arabic one, their clothes, food, family structure, etc, that stuff doesn't change because they worship Jesus and Allah, which is of course the arabic word for god, even when it's "God the Father". Hmmm, does that make him Jesus bin Allah? Actually, they tend to not even call Jesus "Jesus", but rather Issa/Essa. SO imagine trying to explain to an Alambamer Baptist that some bearded doode in a robe and skullcap mumbling about Allah and Essa are christians. Don't think it will go over too well.
Now, in case I've been unclear, I don't have a problem with christian Arabs, or any kind of Arab, and maybe it'd make sense to accept christians in /some/ parts of the middle east as refugees, like we used to with the USSR. But I /really/ don't think that the stumbling block to this is anything but the evangelical types in the US objecting to foreign-looking "fereners".