PAY-TO-PLAY?

If you have contributed to the Clinton Foundation, you have bought access to the State Department. You pay-to-play. However, access to God has already been paid for, on behalf of all, through Jesus Christ:

·       “Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Romans 5:1-2) 

The Clinton Foundation does not grant access to all but only to the few who can pay for it. However, our Savior has paid the price for any who are willing to place their trust in Him.

And once the rich and powerful gain access to the State Department, there is no guarantee that they will receive what they had hoped for. Instead, their uncertainly will continue. However, in Christ, we are guaranteed winners. Therefore, we rejoice in the assured "hope of the glory of God."

Paying-to-play through the Clinton Foundation only provides a temporary favor. There is no guarantee that the doors of the State Department will remain open to even the most generous contributor. However, in Christ, we have the assurance that access to our heavenly abode will never be denied. 

Why aren’t the most Brutalized (and Innocent) Refugees Receiving Sanctuary?

In 1998, the United States passed the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), the legislation mandated that the protection of religious freedom abroad would be a “cornerstone of American foreign policy,” and that it would create the position of "ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom."

• Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background. President Obama left the ambassador-at-large position vacant for almost a year and a half after taking office. That same position was left vacant later in his second term for nearly a year before recently being filled.

• Further, the House and Senate passed a bipartisan bill last summer creating the special envoy for religious freedom in the Middle East. A year later, Obama has yet to nominate someone to fill the position.

At the same time, this administration has directly or indirectly supported Middle East terror by undermining Presidents Khadafy, Mubarak, and arming the worst elements in the region in an attempt to remove President Assad from Syria.

Meanwhile, Obama has done next to nothing to shelter the region’s Christians from the most barbaric treatment. Instead of compassion, the Obama administration has imprisoned Assyrian Christians trying to enter the USA:

• “In Iraq, they only had three choices: convert to Islam, death by the sword or leave the country,” said Mark Arabo, head of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation. “They’ve refused to convert, escaped slavery and death – only to be imprisoned by our broken immigration system.

• “These aren’t people who woke up one day and said, ‘Let me walk to America.’ They were forced out of their homes because of our inaction in the region. Because of our troop withdrawal. These are people who were sentenced to death because of our involvement in the country.”

• They escaped near-certain death, but not the U.S. court system.

• “The disheartening thing is it seems that our border is open to anyone unless you’re a Christian fleeing genocide"

• Arabo said he’s met with President Obama and multiple officials in his administration, pleading for large-scale evacuations of the Christians that remain in Iraq. At the outset of the Iraq War in 2003, there were nearly 1.4 million Christians in the country. Estimates today peg the total at fewer than 250,000.

• “There’s been a genocide in slow motion since 2003, but since the troop withdrawal there’s been a systematic ethnic cleansing,” Arabo said. “We’ve tried all these diplomatic approaches, but in the absence of Washington’s leadership we’ve created an ‘underground railroad.’” 

While this administration wants to grant amnesty to the illegal aliens, those who have suffered most and have nowhere to go are turned away:

• The United States is the largest home to Assyrians, many of them driven out starting a century ago during the Armenian genocide. Yet the Obama administration has made clear it won’t shelter the Assyrian refugees forced from Syria or Iraq by ISIS.

• “This administration will not issue visas for Syrians based on Christian faith.”

• That was the word given to Anglican bishop Julian Dobbs by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. As a board member of Barnabas Fund, one of the largest relief organizations working in Syria and Iraq, Bishop Dobbs appealed to the State Department earlier this summer on behalf of the Assyrian Christians. The State Department said no.

Raymond Ibrahim, a Coptic Christian, has extensively researched the plight of the persecuted Christians in the Middle East. He writes about the plight of the Iraqi Christians:

• Discussing the ongoing plight of these Iraqi Christians, San Diego's East County Magazine concluded: "Why the federal government has failed to take steps to expedite such reunification in cases where family and religious leaders are willing to vouch for and help those seeking asylum here, then, remains an unfathomable mystery."

• Such "unfathomable mysteries" are reminiscent of the U.S. State Department's habit of inviting Muslim representatives but denying visas to Christian representatives. Since the start of 2015, 4,205 Muslims have been admitted into the U.S. from Iraq, but only 727 Christians. For every one Christian the U.S. grants asylum, it grants asylum to five or six Muslims -- even though Christians, as persecuted "infidel" minorities, are in much greater need of sanctuary, not to mention more assimilating to American culture than Muslims.

Why this disparity, especially in light of the fact that Muslims want to turn this country into an Islamic State? Many have stated, “In the heart of every true Muslim is the desire for a worldwide Caliphate.” Even worse, a recent Al Jazeera poll found that 81% of Muslims are favorably disposed to ISIS. Ibrahim continues:

• Faith McDonnell, of the Institute on Religion & Democracy, said regarding the detainment of Iraqi Christians in San Diego:

• This follows the disturbing pattern that we have seen from the State Department of ignoring the particular targeting of Christians by ISIS while giving preferential treatment for asylum to other groups with expedited processing -- like Somalis, Iraqis, and Syrians, some of whom could very well be members of jihadist movements.

We might think that the Muslim refugees, after experiencing violence at the hands of fellow Muslims, might show compassion to their fellow refugees. Instead, there have been numerous reports that Muslim refugees have killed their fellow Christian refugees. Ibrahim continues:

• Meanwhile, many of those Christians who are granted asylum in Western countries arrive there only to be further persecuted by Muslim asylum seekers -- indicating, once again, who does and who does not really need asylum; who does and who does not assimilate in Western culture.

• Most recently in Sweden, two small families of Christian asylum seekers from Syria were recently harassed and abused by approximately 80 Muslim asylum seekers, also from Syria.

• The Christians and Muslims -- described by one Swedish newspaper as "fundamentalist Islamists" -- resided in the same asylum house. Among other humiliations, the Muslims ordered the Christians not to wear their crosses around their necks and not to use the communal areas when in use by Muslims.

• After continuous harassment and threats, these Christian refugees, who had managed to escape the Islamic State, left the Swedish asylum house "fearing for their own safety." A spokesman for the government migration agency responsible for the center they had been staying in said:

• "They dared not stay. The atmosphere became too intimidating. And they got no help... They chose themselves to organize new address and moved away without our participation because they felt a discomfort."

What motivates President Obama? In so many ways, he has promoted the radical Islamic agenda:

1. Undermining Muslim leaders in favor of more radical elements.
2. Supplying arms to the radicals while refusing to arm the victims, like the Kurds.
3. Appointing Muslims with radical ties to top positions in his government.
4. Betraying Israel, our only Middle East ally.
5. Forbidding the reference to “Islamic violence” in favor of “Workplace violence.”
6. Pushing “common core” and its promotion of Islam.
7. Not declaring war against ISIS and not going against Islamic training camps in the USA.
8. Always speaking highly of Islam while criticizing the Christian faith.

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and The Truth About Muhammad, is troubled by Obama’s actions:

• His fulsome praise of Islam, his refusal to call Islamic jihad terrorism by name, his statements such as “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” his aiding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al-Qaeda in Syria; and so much more.

Twice, President Obama has been videoed calling himself a “Muslim.” Perhaps this might explain his behavior. But it certainly doesn’t explain why our Republican presidential candidates are not crying out about this.

REFUGEES AND MURDERERS

The resettlement of 3000 Christian “lost boys of Sudan” in the USA in 2001 has been called perhaps “the most successful resettlement in U.S. History.” Seeing their villages destroyed and their sisters sold into Islamic slavery, they fled by foot to a refugee camp in Kenya. Here’s how 60 minutes describes it:

·       Twelve years ago, 60 Minutes aired a story about Lost Boys from Sudan who fought off unspeakable dangers and then flew off to the United States. It all began in the 1980s, during Sudan's civil war in which more than two million people died. The boys' parents were killed; their sisters often sold into slavery. Many of the boys died too. But the survivors, thousands of them, started walking across East Africa. Alone.

·       Five years later they walked into a refugee camp in Kenya. That's where we first met them, when many were hoping to go to the United States. Well 3,000 did, as part of the largest resettlement of its kind in American history. We followed the boys for more than a decade and couldn't resist revisiting them, to see how they're doing… Springtime 2001.

·       Please see this incredible set of videos: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lost-boys-of-sudan-12-years-later-02-04-2013/

Given the fact that these boys had made such a successful adjustment to the U.S., the question must be asked: “Why is the West resettling in their midst many thousands of Islamic refugees and hardly any Christian refugees?”

In 2011, Jewish activist Pamela Geller wrote:

·       Christians are in imminent danger across the world, and yet they are being refused refugee status, while Muslim refugee immigration goes on unimpeded. U.S. policy regarding refugee resettlement would shock most Americans if they only knew. The United Nations picks who gets to come to the U.S. as a refugee. The mandate of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is to determine which of the world’s huddled masses comes to the U.S. as humanitarian refugees. And predictably, this U.N. body is favoring Muslims. Christians from Muslim lands are being refused refugee status. This is occurring despite the fact that in their home countries, under the Shariah, Christians face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs. At the same time, whole Muslim communities are entering the U.S. by the tens of thousands per month, despite the fact that in their home countries they face no religious persecution. http://www.wnd.com/2011/11/372525/#OF96g0qkqTLC5m6a.99

CBNNews reported:

·       Christian Syrian refugees have found temporary shelter in Jordan, but their immigration requests have been rejected by Western countries. Some of them have spoken to the Associated Press, but want to remain anonymous for safety reasons. One Syrian refugee said, "Everyone sold whatever they owned in Syria in order to get here, so that we could apply for visas at an embassy. We were all surprised to be rejected on the basis that there was no reason for us to go to Europe. Their reasons were all false - nothing correct in them." Another man said that western countries "were supposed to support us, and they were supposed to facilitate our immigration process as Christians, and I'm very sad that they haven't." http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/December/Christian-Syrian-Refugees-Denied-Visas-to-West/

Meanwhile, in June 2015, the Examiner wrote:

·       President Barack Obama … is unilaterally bringing thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States.

·       Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul, R-Texas, wrote the letter directly to President Obama and voiced his reluctance to supporting Obama's plans to resettle another 2,000 Syrian refugees in the United States in 2015.

·       In his letter, McCaul reminded the Commander in Chief that radical Muslim terrorists are boasting about their plans to exploit any international refugee program in order to help terrorists to enter the nations of the European Union and the U.S. homeland. Congressman McCaul addressed the potential national security threat Obama's compassionate sounding refugee program poses to the United States and the American people whose money is paying for the housing, food, healthcare and other benefits given to refugees.

·       “Despite all evidence towards our homeland’s vulnerability to foreign fighters, the Administration still plans to resettle Syrian refugees into the United States," McCaul said in his letter to the President.

·       According the Combat Veterans PAC, some of the Syrian immigrants pose a serious risk to American national security and public safety. In addition, the Obama administration is paying at least $10 billion to resettle this new wave of immigrants, the PAC informed the Examiner.

·       "Why are American citizens putting up with this insanity? We have millions of illegal immigrants being fast-tracked for citizenship by an administration that believes a large number of American citizens are 'extremists,' and citizens seem blind that our children's and grandchildren's inheritance is being squandered by anti-American politicians or feckless leaders," said former U.S. Marine and police detective Sid Franes. http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-s-muslim-refugee-program-endangers-american-people-lawmaker

And how about Christian refugees who face extermination, rape and forced conversion at the hands of Muslims? Abraham H. Miller writes:

·       America is about to accept 9000 Syrian Muslims, refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other militias. That number is predicted to increase each year. There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted. Why? Because the Department of State is adhering with all the rigidity of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status. The rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count. https://theflyingcameldotorg.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/obamas-america-no-room-for-christian-refugees/

This is worse than insanity. It is treason to resettle those who want to destroy the West and to impose Islamic rule, ala ISIS, to which many are going for training. Meanwhile, our leaders are refusing to acknowledge the problem, continuing to call Islam “a religion of peace,” even after a poll conducted by Al Jazeera determined that 81% of Muslims approve of ISIS. I guess they must regard them as Islamic.

Why not insist that Muslim nations take in Muslim refugees, and “Christian” nations take in Christian refugees, those who are willing to make a positive adjustment?