Tel-Chai Nation

In this new Weekly Standard article, Gary Bauer talks about how "persecution" of Muslims in America is simply absurd. Yet this same article brings up some problems, how people who practice Islam are being allowed to immigrate to the US otherwise unexamined:

The years of highest immigration from the Middle East, moreover, have occurred since 9/11. Nearly 96,000 people from Muslim countries became legal permanent U.S. residents in 2005, the highest number in any year in the previous twenty years.

Some immigrants from the Middle East are Christians escaping persecution (about which more later). But the vast majority are Muslims. Plausible estimates of the number of Muslims in America vary widely, from 1.3 million to five million. But there is a consensus that Muslim Americans’ share of the population is climbing.

And if it's climbing, so too is the potential of shari'a and demand for religious accomodations, something that's been a problem over the past decade, to say nothing of dhimmitude, if you look at Michigan and Dearbornistan in private as an example.

Now, onto what I alluded to at the top:

Consider Iraq. As America’s “combat mission” concludes there, life has improved for many Iraqis. Yet conditions have deteriorated for Iraq’s Christians, mostly Chaldean Catholics and Protestant Assyrians. They have seen their churches destroyed and their leaders kidnapped, murdered, or both.

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have been killed because of their faith over the last seven years. They have been forced to pay higher taxes than Muslims and been barred from voting. Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Emil Nona recently said, “We are seeing another, the umpteenth, attack against Christians. The violence continues without relief.”

The Iraqi constitution, ratified in 2005, institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims. It states, “Islam is the official religion of the state and is a foundation source of legislation” and that “No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam.”

The so-called constitution of Iraq also forbids Jews from residing there, not unlike how Jordan doesn't allow Jewish resident either. Yet this article makes no attempt to suggest that Dubya's administration had a fault, that it failed to do anything proper to defend Christians. In fact, it doesn't even mention that Obama's administration has a fault for not making improvements. Sometimes it's just totally ironic that an allegedly conservative government can be even more guilty of disaster than a liberal one can, or caused the problems beforehand.

Labels: Christianity, dhimmitude, immigration, Iraq, islam, racism, United States