US Accepting Only 28 Christians vs. 5,435 Muslim Refugees, Despite ISIS' Unstoppable Genocide

The United States government is processing an
unbelievably low number of Christian refugees
despite the ongoing genocide at the hands of the
Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the
American Center for Law and Justice reports.
The conservative law group cited numbers from the
Refugee Processing Center, noting that while the U.S.
has processed 11,086 Muslims from Iraq since the
beginning of 2015, only 433 Christians have been
added to that number. And in Syria, there have been
5,435 Muslims welcomed and only 28 Christians.
"In an attempt to justify this astounding discrepancy,
the Obama administration and congressional
Democratic leadership continue to maintain that the
U.S. should not consider a refugee's religion in
deciding whether to grant refugee status," the ACLJ
said on Tuesday.
They argued, however, that religion should definitely
be a consideration when granting refugee status,
given that IS targets Christians and other religious
minorities in the region.
The law group said Secretary of State John Kerry
admitted in March that IS kills Christians because of
their religion.
"So, we know that ISIS targets Christians in Iraq and
Syria because they are Christians. Christians are
being slaughtered, tortured, raped and displaced
because they are Christian. We also know that under
U.S. and international refugee law, religion is a
criterion for granting refugee status," the ACLJ added,
warning that unless serious action is taken to protect
minorities, they will be wiped out at the hands of IS.
Reports from last year, such as the Worldwide
Refugee Admissions Processing Systems, have also
suggested that the U.S. is taking in very few Christians
as part of its refugee program.
The November 2015 report stated that Christian
refugees made up only 1.6 percent of total arrivals in
2015, while Muslims made up 97.8 percent of the
total.
For comparison, close to 10 percent of the Syrian
population is Christian, and at the time more than
700,000 Syrian Christians had been displaced and
driven out of their homes because of IS.
The ACLJ has spoken out against IS' genocide of
minorities on a number of occasions, but back in May
said that recognizing the genocide, both on the part of
the U.S. and the U.N., is an important step toward
addressing the crisis.