Syrian Refugees Up 675% From 2015, 99.1% Muslims

“For it to tolerate this when Christians and Yazidis are actually facing genocide in Syria and Iraq is a national scandal of historic proportions.”

11.1.2016 

 

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 Mark Tapson 

 

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The Obama administration has resettled 13,210 Syrian refugees into the United States so far this year, which represents an increase of 675 percent over the same 10-month period in 2015, according to CNS News.

Of that total, 13,100 (99.1 percent) are Muslims – 12,966 Sunnis, 24 Shi’a, and 110 other Muslims, while a mere 77 (0.5 percent) are Christians, who are facing actual genocide across the Middle East. Another 24 (0.18 percent) are Yazidis.

During the same ten-month time frame in 2015, the U.S. admitted 1,705 Syrian refugees, of whom 1,664 (97.5 percent) were Muslims while only 29 (1.7 percent) were Christians.

A total of 1,297 Syrians were resettled during the month of October alone – a 593 percent increase over the 187 admitted in October 2015. Sunni Muslims accounted for 1,263 (97.3 percent) of that figure. Another seven were Shi’a Muslims and 12 were other Muslims. Fifteen were Christians, or 1.1 percent: eight Orthodox, four Catholics and three refugees self-described simply as Christians.

CNS News has more:

That comes after last fiscal year saw a total of 12,587 Syrian refugees admitted, of whom 12,363 (98.2 percent) were Sunnis, and 68 (0.5 percent) were Christians, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.

The rest of the Syrian refugees admitted during FY2016 were 103 other Muslims, 20 Shi’a Muslims, 24 Yazidis, eight refugees with religion given as “other,” and one with “no religion.”

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[T]he Obama administration has resettled a total of 12,743 Syrian refugees in the U.S., but only 74 (0.58 percent) of them are Christians, and only 24 (0.18 percent) of them are Yazidis. The vast majority – 12,637, or 99.16 percent – are Muslims, including 12,516 Sunnis.

Administration officials say that the U.S. is not prioritizing any particular religious affiliation when considering Syrians’ applications, but when the civil war began in March 2011, an estimated 74 percent of the Syrian population was Sunni Muslim and an estimated 10 percent was Christian. If the U.S. admitted Christian refugees in proportion to the population, the number would come to approximately 1,260 Christians resettled here in 2016. Just 68 have been.

The U.S. is not alone in admitting such a small proportion of Christians and Yazidis. Data in Britain, released as a result of a freedom of information request, found that 1.9 percent of 2,659 Syrian refugees resettled there between September 2015 and the end of June this year were Christians, and 0.5 percent were Yazidis.

Then-British Prime Minister David Cameron said last fall Britain would take in 20,000 Syrian refugees.

“Whilst the U.K. government points out that it outsources its selection of vulnerable refugees to the U.N., its toleration of this level of discrimination against some of the most vulnerable people in the world is itself morally wrong,” said the Barnabas Fund when the figures emerged this month.

“For it to tolerate this when Christians and Yazidis are actually facing genocide in Syria and Iraq is a national scandal of historic proportions.”

It is a national scandal of our own, as well, and all part of our de facto administration's pro-Muslim, anti-Christian bias.