The order applies to all citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan and Yemen. It does not specify Muslims. The indefinite hold on
Syrian refugees
will affect Christians and Muslims alike,'' not to mention people of
every other religion and people of no religion.
``As Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner points out, the largest
Muslim-majority countries in the world are not named in the Executive
Order.
``More countries may be added to the moratorium in the days to come,
as the Secretary of Homeland Security has been instructed to complete a
30-day review of nations that don't provide adequate information for
vetting applicants.
``It is also noteworthy that the ban is not absolute. Exceptions for
`foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-
1, G-2, G-3 and G-4 visas' are expressly made in the order. The
Departments of State and Homeland Security can also grant exceptions on
a `case-by-case basis' ''--that is all in the executive order--``and
`when in the national interest, issue visas or other immigration
benefits to nationals of countries for which visas and benefits are
otherwise blocked.'
``There is a provision in the Executive Order that says applications
based on religious persecution will be prioritized `provided that the
religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's
country of nationality.' ''
And so it is important to note here, I think from the executive
order, that it says applications based on religious persecution. That
means that people that have applied for visas or immigration benefits
to come into the United States who, themselves, raise their religion as
a reason to let them into the United States, those need to be
prioritized based on whether or not their religion is actually being
persecuted, those holding those religious beliefs are actually being
persecuted. And I think that is a rather intelligent way to approach
things. But in those cases, it would be the applicant that would raise the
issue of religion, not the Trump administration, not the State
Department, not Homeland Security. It would be the foreign applicant
trying to come into the United States who would be the one to raise
that issue. Now, the article goes on: ``This has been denounced as a `stealth
Muslim ban' by some of the very same people who were conspicuously
silent when the Obama administration pushed Christians--who are the
most savagely persecuted minority in the Middle East, with only the
Yazidis offering real competition--to the back of the migration line.''
So it is important to note that, for years, this administration has
been part of the discrimination and persecution against Christians in
the world against whom there has been a genocide in progress. So when the head of the U.N. was in charge of the refugee program and
was asked why is there not a similar percentage of Christians coming in
as refugees to other countries to the percentage that Christians make
up in that nation they come from, basically, the man who is now head of
United Nations said, well, it is important to leave them where they
have this historical presence, basically. So in other words, yes, there is a genocide going on. They want to
kill off every Christian in those areas, every Christian in the Middle
East, and so the U.N. now Secretary General says let's leave them in
the area where they are being wiped off the map, brutally killed.
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