UK ‘ discriminates against Christians fleeing IS’
CHRISTIANS fleeing Islamic State in Syria are being discriminated against by Britain and the United Nations, it is claimed.
Figures obtained by the Barnabas Fund – an agency which helps persecuted Christians – show that the Government and UN have prioritised Sunni Muslims over Christians for asylum.
Of 8,136 given shelter in the UK in 2015 and 2016, only 70 were Christians.
A mere 22 were Yazidis, a religious group that combines Christianity, Islam and Judaism. There were 33 Shi’ite Muslims and the rest were Sunni.
Of 10,801 resettled by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between October 2015 and September 2016, only 56 were Christians, 20 Shi’ite and 17 Yazidis. The rest were Sunnis.
This is despite IS efforts to wipe out Christians and Yazidis. In 2014 10,000 Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in a few days, with Christians murdered in their thousands by IS.
IS has published photos of beheaded Christian men and slave markets with prices for Christian and Yazadi women.
Barnabus Fund’s Martin Parsons said: “This is shocking behaviour by the UN and UK officials.
“In 2005 the UN adopted the responsibility of states to protect citizens from genocide and crimes against humanity. These statistics show that it has failed miserably in this. Christians and other minorities have been treated shamefully by the UN. And the UK has outsourced its own responsibilities in spite of repeated representations.”
The Home Office said: “Our scheme will prioritise the most vulnerable refugees.
“That is why under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees identifies people using established vulnerability criteria.”
THE warped values of the British liberal establishment have long confounded common sense yet they have now reached a point that is beyond parody. The Home Office has quietly proposed a programme called Operation Constrain, designed to forgive terrorists and reintegrate them into society.
Under the scheme jihadis returning from the collapsing Islamic State would be placed in the hands of social services, given counselling, helped to find a job and offered council housing – even being bumped up waiting lists ahead of needy families.
Yes, adults of full mental capacity who willingly left Britain to join and fight for a murderous regime that beheaded people for the “crime” of refusing to follow its religious strictures and threw gay people and smokers from tall buildings. Not only will they be allowed their freedom but prioritised for state help above ordinary, non- violent people who have lost their jobs or suffered some other misfortune.
It is offensive enough when delinquent teenagers are offered treats and financial help which is not available to their well- behaved peers but to bestow help and benefits on agents of an international terror organisation defies belief.
It would be hard to underestimate the danger which these people present to society. All of them knew full well what they were doing. They knew they were throwing in their lot with a regime which was committed to trying to destroy Britain and its way of life.
AS FOREIGN Office minister Rory Stewart made clear a fortnight ago the only safe way to deal with these people is to kill them in combat in Iraq or Syria. Indeed the Government has been engaged in a policy of doing just that via drone strikes. Perversely, though, if those same British IS fighters survive our missiles and manage to make it back to Britain they are treated as if they were victims of IS: to be taken into the arms of the welfare state and smothered with love to help them overcome their ordeal.
Many, unfortunately, have already made it home. Of the 800 Britons who are believed to