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* Raymond Ibrahim: The West Turns Back on Persecuted Christians, Embraces Radical Muslims
* Amir Taheri: What Iranians Want From Washington


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by Raymond Ibrahim • October 23, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* Although the U.S. government had acknowledged that ISIS was committing genocide against Christians in Syria due solely to their religious identity, it took in only those who by definition were not in any way being targeted by ISIS — Sunni Muslims, with whom ISIS, a Sunni organization, identifies and does not attack.
* "You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have been 'genocided,' they can't even get into the U.N. camps to get the food. If you enter and say I am a Christian or convert, the Muslim U.N. guards will block you [from] getting in and laugh at you and mock you and even threaten you.... [saying] 'You shouldn't have converted. You're an idiot for converting. You get what you get,' words to that effect." — Paul Diamond, British human rights lawyer, CBN News, December 4, 2019.
* [The UK Home Office] ridiculed an Iranian female asylum seeker in her rejection letter by writing, "You affirmed in your AIR [Asylum Interview Record] that Jesus is your saviour, but then claimed that he would not be able to save you from the Iranian regime. It is therefore considered that you have no conviction in your faith and your belief in Jesus is half-hearted."
* She later said... her Home Office interviewer, "was either chuckling or maybe just kind of mocking when he was talking to me.... [H]e asked me why Jesus didn't help you from the Iranian regime or Iranian authorities."
* Meanwhile, as the few Christians who seek asylum are highly scrutinized and presented with obstacles, millions of Muslim asylum seekers are taken into the West without any difficulties, and most without even being vetted.
* Once Pakistanis in Britain learned that the UK was going to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, they rioted en masse. As a result, then-Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked Bibi's asylum application, "despite UK playing host to [Muslim] hijackers, extremists and rapists," to quote from one headline.
* Meanwhile, as usual, the Home Office allowed a Pakistani cleric who celebrated the slaughter of a politician because he had defended Bibi — a cleric deemed so extreme as to be banned from his native Pakistan — to enter and lecture in British mosques.
* "It's unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the UK is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians." — Dr. Martin Parsons, human rights activist, The Express, December 4, 2016.

As the few Christians who seek asylum are highly scrutinized and presented with obstacles, millions of Muslim asylum seekers are taken into the West without any difficulties, and most without even being vetted. The UK's Home Office not only denied entry to three Christian leaders — archbishops celebrated for their heroic efforts at aiding persecuted Christians in Syria and Iraq who had been invited to attend the consecration of the UK's first Syriac Cathedral, an event attended by then-Prince Charles — but also mockingly told them there was "no room at the inn." Pictured: St Thomas, Britain's first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral. (Image source: John Salmon/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Western authorities appear committed to discriminating against Christian asylum seekers, while welcoming Muslims ones.

Most recently, Germany — which has taken in millions of refugees from the Muslim world, including many, non-vetted, from Afghanistan — denied refuge to an Iranian convert to Christianity, known by the initials "H.H.," whose brother-in-law had been imprisoned, tortured and killed after converting in their native Iran. According to a report from August 2:

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by Amir Taheri • October 23, 2022 at 4:00 am
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* [W]e also know that Henry Kissinger, peddler of detente, helped prolong the evil empire's life by providing it with easy credit and undeserved prestige.
* In the case of Iran, Obama and his entourage invented a false choice between "doing another Iraq", which meant a full-scale invasion that a majority of Americans wouldn't support, or putting a moribund regime on life-support in the hope it might stop mumbling "Death to America!"
* Did Obama betray America?
* That is also hard to answer because I am not persuaded that Obama was ever a true friend of America. Reading his various books it is hard not to notice a ressentiment that goes beyond a mere chip on the shoulder. I may be wrong but I think he tried to prolong the Khomeinist regime's life precisely because he shared its anti-American posture.
* A study by a Swiss-Iranian researcher shows that over 400 former Islamic Republic and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials are employed in US universities, media and think tanks.
* Last September, Khamenei spelled out his four principles for what he called "The New Islamic Civilization based on the Spirit of Ashura" that he hopes to build for mankind as a whole. The first of these was "Fighting America" followed by "Islamic unity", "Strict morality" and "Economic self-reliance".
* Iranians don't ask the US for any material or military help in their struggle to build a different Iran. All they ask is for the US to be true to its professed principle of never siding with oppressors.

Iranians don't ask the US for any material or military help in their struggle to build a different Iran. All they ask is for the US to be true to its professed principle of never siding with oppressors. Pictured: An anti-regime protest at Amirkabir University in Tehran, Iran, on September 20, 2022. (Image source: Darafsh/Wikimedia Commons)

A Persian proverb says: "The stew was so over-salty that even the Khan frowned." This means that a situation has become so bad that even the "chief", a prisoner in a cobweb created by a flattering entourage, realizes how bad things have become.

The proverb came to mind the other day when former US President Barack Obama admitted that he had been wrong in trying to prop up the Khomeinist clique by refusing to even verbally support the 2009 Iranian uprising.

At the time, some of us argued that Obama was wrong and that his policy of "bringing the Islamic Republic into the fold" would never work.

This did not mean that we shared the narrative that the US is powerful enough to reshape the world, let alone a remote country paralyzed by schizophrenia.

We knew that no power alone could change another nation's destiny without the at least tacit consent and support of that nation or a good part of it.

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