MID-EAST CHRISTIANS ARE DEPENDING ON AMERICA - DO NOT FAIL THEM

Submitted by: P McMillan

Thanks to Congressman Rohrabacher for this essential Bill that will save the lives of Christian and Jewish innocent men, women, and children who are caught in the midst of repeated attacks on them.  These people are being targeted for extinction … the proof is that over half of that population has been exterminated in Iraq.  Where is the USA leadership on this issue or any other for that matter?  Please call YOUR officials in D.C. and ask them to support Rohrabacher’s bill.  America can save these people from complete extinction.

PRESS RELEASE

Rohrabacher Bill Tags Christians, Yazidis as Genocide Victims

WASHINGTON – Over President Obama’s objections, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on Monday introduced legislation designating Christians and Yazidis in the Middle East as targets of genocide. The bill, nearly identical to one he introduced more than a week ago, provides for the expedited processing of immigrant and refugee status for these vulnerable people.

In a news conference Monday morning in Turkey, President Obama called efforts to single out members of one faith for protection “shameful.” Yet Christians and Yazidis, a minority sect living primarily in Kurdish parts of Iraq, have been singled out. They have been forced from their homes, tortured, raped, and murdered by fanatical Islamists throughout a region spanning Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, and Libya.

“President Obama has demonstrated a callous disregard for the genocide of Christians that is taking place at this moment,” said Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.

“Yes, there are wars and terrorist attacks conducted by various people in various parts of the world toward various targets. But not to prioritize the group that is targeted for mass extermination, as in the case is Christians in many Middle Eastern countries, is a shameful example of the president’s lack of leadership and compassion.”

Reports have surfaced that the State Department is poised to add Yazidis to those designated as targets of genocide, but not Christians. Rohrabacher’s bill corrects that glaring omission.

“It would have been legally and morally right,” said the congressman, a California Republican, “had the U.S. prioritized Jewish immigration refugee status in 1938. Would this president have sent them back to Europe’s death camps?

“The president is showing how out of touch he is with the negative side of Islam. We know he is fully aware of the positive elements of Islam, which he seems to repeat to us regularly, but there are negative sides as well. We see that in the terrorist attacks and in the torture, killing, and rape of those of a different faith.

“The Save the Christians from Genocide Act is not aimed at excluding other people of other faiths but instead to recognize that Christians have been singled out and are facing a horrible onslaught that deserves America’s attention and priority. The president suggested that many of us came from somewhere else seeking refuge, but how many of those decided to blow up a marathon or support terrorist attacks on Americans overseas? And for the president to bring Muslim men into our country before they are vetted, especially when there are Christians in the crosshairs of genocidal maniacs, is shocking.

“The events in Paris should be proof enough that we need to examine closely those we permit to flood into our country. The president has already violated the trust of the American people as well as his constitutional responsibility to secure our country from hostile threats.  

“The president complains that Christians should not be singled out for rescue. But our bill, The Save the Christians from Genocide Act, also prioritizes Yazidis, a non- Christian ethic group targeted for extinction – so the president has no legitimate complaint at all. “