U.K.: PRO-TERROR IMAMS
WELCOME, PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS BANNED, Investigation
demanded of government decisions to banish archbishops from Syria, Iraq, by Bob
Unruh, 12/24/16, WND
A Christian outreach organization
that works to support persecuted Christians around the world is demanding to
know why the U.K. government has rejected plans by archbishops from Iraq and
Syria to visit Britain.
The government decisions come at a
time when persecution of Christians by Muslims in those parts of the Middle
East is surging, and even persecution of Christians in other European nations
by Muslims who come there as “refugees” has become an issue.
Officials
with the Barnabas Fund have posted the question online. “Why is the Home Office [in the U.K. government] denying
visas to Christian leaders from countries where Christians are persecuted when
they have been invited to the U.K. to speak about persecution?”
It has been an issue for some time
already, and the organization’s supporters have contacted their lawmakers about
the problem. The answers they’ve gotten reveal the government’s position that,
“There is no problem – it was right to deny the archbishops from Iraq and Syria
visas to visit the UK.”
Fund officials wrote, “There are
three possible explanations: There is a deliberate U.K. policy to deny visas to
Christian leaders from such countries (if true this would be the direct
responsibility of ministers). U.K. government policy, for whatever reason,
indirectly discriminates against such Christian leaders (i.e. the problem is
government policy, again the responsibility of ministers). The civil servants
in the Home Office are making visa decisions that discriminate against
Christian leaders – either on an individual basis or because of a culture
within the Home Office (i.e. the civil servants not ministers are to blame).”
They wrote, “Barnabas Fund are not
suggesting it is a deliberate policy of the U.K. government to discriminate
against church leaders from countries where Christians are persecuted (i.e.
explanation 1). In fact, we suspect ministers are privately somewhat
embarrassed about the situation.”
But by claiming, “every application
is considered on its individual merits, in line with U.K. immigration rules and
guidance,” government officials are saying the rejections of the Christians is
somehow correct.
“This implicitly blames ministers
(explanation 2) for a policy that blocks U.K. visit visas for church leaders,
including bishops and archbishops, from countries where Christians are
persecuted – but perversely grants them to Islamists who advocate that very
persecution. Clearly, ministers should never have allowed civil servants to
respond to this situation by writing letters in their name claiming in effect,
‘There is no problem,'” the group said.
The national government should set
up immediately “an inquiry into anti-Christian prejudice within the
government,” the group said.
That there could be a deeper problem
remains possible, they ministry explained. “The Home Office has allowed the
scandalous situation to continue whereby the percentage of Syrian Christians
among those admitted to the U.K. under the government’s Vulnerable Persons
Relocation Scheme has now fallen to less than 1 percent of all referrals,
despite Christians in Syria facing genocide. Whilst the U.N., to whom the Home
Office outsources its selection of refugees, is almost certainly largely to
blame, it is the Home Office that has allowed this situation to continue,” the group
said. That same issue also has developed
in other European countries as well as in the United States.
Barnabas Fund officials said just
this month, senior Egyptian Christian clerics complained their bishops were
denied visas to visit the U.K. Last month, rejections were handed out to the
archbishop of Mosul in Iraq, the archbishop of St. Matthews (in Iraq), and the
archbishop of Homs and Hama in Syria.
They had wanted to attend the
consecration of the first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral, made up of many refugees
who have fled Christian persecution by Muslims in Iraq and Syria. In October, it was a church leader
from Zimbabwe who has had his house petrol bombed and has rescued people from
torture camps. Gift Konjana had been invited to speak in London. And Evan
Mawarire, another Zimbabwean pastor, had his visa refused just hours before his
scheduled departure to the U.K. to speak.
In September, a pastor that Barnabas
Fund itself rescued from Iraq, was refused permission to part of the group’s
speaking tour. Other rejections date back to February, the group said.
“At the same time, Islamists who
advocate the killing of Christians have been granted visas for preaching tours
of mosques, with a Scottish Sunday newspaper exposing another example earlier
this month. Even if these are regarded as mistakes, official Home Office
guidance recommends that senior members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should be
considered for asylum, despite the fact they have been involved in inciting
large-scale violence against Egyptian Christians since the overthrown of their
Muslim Brotherhood government three years ago – with more than 80 churches
attacked.
“In fact, only last week President
al-Sisi accused fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leaders who fled to Qatar, of
training and financing the bombing of St Peter’s Church adjacent to Cairo
cathedral which killed 27 Christians and wounded dozens more on 10 December,”
the report said. The facts need to be dealt with by an official inquiry, the
organization said.
Comments
The UK needs to admit that political
correctness has prompted them to disarm their law enforcement capabilities and
have these guys tied up in the back room.
They have also bought the myth that you need to be nice to Muslims or
they will kill you. The UK needs to break up the “no-go” zones and deport all
radical Imams.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
Leader
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