A year after U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish fighters saved Iraq’s Yazidi population from death at the hands of ISIS atop Mount Sinjar, the historic religious enclave is facing death in its homeland and a cold shoulder from America.
FOX News Despite the ongoing threat of execution in Iraq, nearly all Yazidis, a Kurdish monotheistic community that lives throughout Iraq, Syria, Turkey and even Armenia and Georgia, who have applied for asylum in the U.S. have been rejected, FoxNews.com has learned. The reason why is not clear, but advocates say Washington is turning a blind eye on the situation.
“What we are seeing, in real time, is genocide,” said Frank Wolf, a former congressman from Virginia and senior fellow at 21st Century Wilberforce, a nonprofit that seeks to protect Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. “To declare it genocide, that would expedite relief. You can’t allow it to go on.”
The Yazidi religion includes elements of ancient nature-worship, as well as influences from Christianity, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Islam and Judaism.
Of the tens of thousands of Yazidis uprooted from their homes, only 10 families have been granted asylum in the U.S., according to Yazda, an American-based Yazidi advocacy group. None of the visas were issued due to religious persecution faced at the hands of ISIS.
“None of these families [in U.S.] are related to the crisis,” Abid Shamden, who works with Yadza, told FoxNews.com, adding that the visas were given as part of a special program for translators who worked with the U.S. military during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. “But many are still there. They are not given any special status. They are all treated as the same. My family has been waiting since 2012 for visas.”
Shamden’s colleague added that several families who sought help under the translator program have even been denied. Officials for the State Department declined to comment, saying specific cases involving visas are confidential.
Many members of the religious minorities in Iraq and Syria — Yazidi or otherwise — have been seeking asylum in the U.S. since ISIS launched its violent offensive, carving out a caliphate the size of Indiana in northern Syria and Iraq. But the process is arduous, and often fruitless, say experts.
Obama won’t release 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers held in detention here for 6 months while continuing to flood U.S. cities with unscreened Muslims from Syria and Somalia.
For the past six months, 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers fleeing the Islamic State (ISIS) have been locked up in an ICE detention center in Otay Mesa, CA, despite the fact that 20 of the 27 Chaldean Christians have American family members living in Southern California who are willing to sponsor them.
The Yazidi plight is similar to that of Chaldeans, an ancient Christian population routed from its historic home in Iraq. At the outset of the Iraq War in 2003, there were nearly 1.4 million Christians in the country. Estimates today say the total is likely fewer than 250,000.
why would we allow anyone who believes in that type of bible in our country. .I am so ashamed to be an American. .
Nobody did anything about the massacre of Christians in Turkish-controlled land from 1915-1918 either.
and this is how Obama handles those issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPneXZzizqc
Emma is right. Obama imports only muslim so called refugees. They are being used as a tool by Obama’s masters to destroy the United States and her people.
Obama is being used as a tool too, but he is still mainly at fault for favoring Filthy muslims and actually appointing them to positions of authority.
Who is actually directing him may never be known for sure, but they have a willing tool in Obama. He has to go !
Hussein Obammy = muzz sympathiser
NUFF SAID
It’s not just that: “Obammy” (a supposed “Christian”) = Christian hater
I really hope that the present US president is tried and found to be treasonous. Hopefully he will be held accountable. And if the top perpetrator is taken down the rest should follow. EU next.
Just another example of the deceitfulness of Obama who speaks of himself as a Christian, but conducts his affairs and administration as a Muslim.
” A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17
Were Obama indeed a Christian, he would be compassionate to Christians. Truly it has been written, “When the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”
Obama was anticipated by the Founders for the dark horse he is. The nation was to “continue for a time,” until the people became unable to properly rule themselves and upon that , would become subject to tyranny.
A significant percentage of the Congress is evil. Were this not so, this imposter would be gone from the privilege of his power, the presidency. He remains there because the servants of the people have become foolish, and if not foolish, corrupt.
In documents not routinely published in the media, court documents and human services reports, it becomes clear that Muslims are not good candidates for assimilation. Indeed, their culture if not discouraging any opportunity, outright prohibits assimilation.
Women subject to abuses in Islamic dominated lands learn to fear authorities in a male dominated society. It makes those seeking relief from threats of violence on our shores, unable to approach persons able to help them, because they have known only abuse in their countries of origin. It is also deeply ingrained in them by the time of their appeance here, that this kuffr land is hated of the Islamic Allah which they dread the disapproval of.
They know nothing of love, and are unable to receive compassion. What they do receive in human services awards and provisions is considered their due as a form of Jizya. Muslims are prohibited by the sharia from giving zakat to non-Muslims but are free to take the wealth of those whom they intend to subdue.
Most Americans are fools when it comes to any rational discussion regarding Islam. It is dangerous, extremely distructive, and has no good fruit to show for its existence; only pain, humiliation, and suffering.
We know from our history, that Christians, Jews, Irish, Spanish, Japanese and so on will integrate, work hard and add to our ‘melting pot’. We also know that muslums will not integrate or accept our man made laws as they continue to segregate themselves with their rag heads and so on. We must vote for a government that will bring in people who will integrate and not try to turn America into one of the muslum hell holes they crawled out of to come here to take over our country.
Every non-Muslim nation on earth has a MORAL responsibility to do everything in their power to rescue the sex slaves in Iraq and Britain.
Meet The Yazidi Women Enslaved By ISIS
ALL Muslim leaders; the 56 nations of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC); the EU; UN; ruthless British and European leaders and devout Muslim Obama who is one of the leaders, if not the top leader of the Muslim world are DELIGHTED to bar Christians and Yazidis from escaping from demonic ISIS savages.
They want the Christian and Yazidi innocents to suffer great agony at the hands of ISIS monsters.
Please God, help the desperate Christians and Yazidis to escape their Muslim persecutors.
http://www.breitbart.com
‘Jewish Schindler’ Saves Dozens of Yazidis and Christians from Islamic
8 Aug 2015
A Canadian Jewish businessman has spearheaded efforts to rescue Iraqi Yazidi and Christian girls from slavery after the girls were captured by ISIS troops, using money donated privately by business contacts.
The businessman has cited Oskar Schindler, who rescued Jewish children from the holocaust, as his inspiration.
Last summer the world looked on in horror as ISIS swept through north Iraq, home to Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, and Yazidis.
Hundreds of thousands fled before them, but thousands more starved to death in the desert, or were captured by Islamic forces. Girls in particular were bartered for in the markets, standing naked while men bought them as sex slaves.
But while most of the west turned off their TV sets, Canadian entrepreneur Steve Maman decided to take positive action. Making contacts in Iraq who could negotiate the release of the girls, Mr Maman raised thousands of Canadian dollars to finance a rescue operation, The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq (CYCI).
Initially he turned to business contacts, mainly fellow Jews who he thanked as being “remarkably generous”, who donated tens of thousands of Canadian dollars to fund the efforts. Last month, he turned to GoFundMe in a bid to raise half a million. So far 120 girls have been freed, but around 2,700 are still being held.
“I said to myself: ‘I cannot, and will not stand idle. I will not look at the daily reports and stay passive’,” Mr Maman wrote in a statement on the website.
“The price of a child’s life to remove them from the hands of ISIS is between $1000-$3000. We, as avid consumers, spend that money on gadgets and tools. Why not spend that money to save a life?”
Most of the girls and women held by ISIS are being used as sex slaves, raped up to 30 times a day by both Islamic fighters and local men, he explained.
“Some of these children are as young as 8 years old. Not only are they at the mercy of the fighters, but also of the men still residing in Mosul; men of various ages, in some cases over 60 years of age.
The rapes, abuse, and brutality they suffer at the hands of their captors are beyond imagination.
“There are many reports of owners that have decapitated innocent children and women because they refused to perform certain sexual acts.
Those who comply are repeatedly beaten and serve as sex slaves to their owners, as well as their friends and guests, hardly ever limited to one predator at a time.
“Many young adolescents are sold to brothels, where they are raped 30 to 40 times a day by ISIS fighters.
The U.N reports that ISIS militants have forced overly abused sex slaves to undergo virginity restoration surgery, up to 20 times after being raped and sold.
This type of female genital mutilation is gaining popularity as these young girls may command premium prices on the market.”
Mr Maman has cited Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved dozens of Jewish children from the holocaust by buying them from the Nazis to work in his munitions factory as his inspiration.
“What if someone had told Oskar Schindler that what he tried to do in the time of the Holocaust was incomprehensible and impossible?” he asked, adding: “Nothing is impossible.”
So far CYCI has raised nearly C$120,000, and freed 120 girls, with more being released each week. But while the campaign’s donations page has been shared more nearly 3000 times on Facebook alone, just 152 people have actually donated cash.
And Mr Maman has told The Tablet that his appeals to more than 60 church organisations in Canada, including national bodies and parishes in Montreal, have failed to secure a single donation.
“This is a finite problem that can be solved with money,” he said. “We need Christians to open up at the same rate as my Jewish friends have.”…
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/08/08/jewish-schindler-saves-dozens-of-yazidis-and-christians-from-islamic-state/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
https://www.facebook.com/CYCIFoundation
http://www.gofundme.com/liberationcyci
A VIDEO BY STEVE MAMAN – THE LIBERATION OF CHRISTIAN AND YAZIDI CHILDREN OF IRAQ SOLD AS SEX SLAVES
This is why you need to support the Daesh Nashra i am pretty sure they are called, the Iraqi Christian Militia , they are in the Nineveh area and fight alongside the Pershmerga , Many western volunteers , problem is volunteers must fund themselves and buy weapons there at inflated costs, a Kalishnikov costs 3,000 US there . Plus its hard to get to the front as they dont want westerners captured and x box warriors have been going, If you are a US vet and feel like making a difference and have some cash then they are who to join. Do i sound like i have done some research lol . There will be no help from the US till the Muslim in charge is out of office and the Christian militia obviously is on no terror lists so you can return home if you choose to ever return, ISIS needs flat out killed and I have had enough myself .
Not even surprising anymore. Supreme Leader Hussein wants a socialist America with restrictions on all freedoms and a ruined economy that leaves us a dhimmi nation submissive to the global caliphate.
Obama, the EU and UN are intentionally enforcing what might be characterized as a ‘hijrah-geddon’ – the invasion of muhammedan ‘refugees’, ‘asylum seekers, immigrants which will inevitably result in war. Throughout history, there is not a bit of evidence of muhammedans living peacefully side by side with any non-muhammedan civilization.
that is simple , Yazidis are no benefit to him and his mob , Question so I can understand your political system , as refugees are they allowed to vote , and in Australia we have tempory protection visas , these allow protection to persecuted people but when the threat runs out they must return home at our expense, do the USA have the same system
And psychobama’s go to line will be that he signed a bill, passed by both houses of Congress to institute a special envoy to assist persecuted minorities in those regions with the asylum process. What he will NOT say is that this was signed in Aug. 2014 and has not been initiated a year later because he has not appointed anyone to the position. It would have looked bad if he refused this legislation, so sign it he did. But, he has willfully nullified it by failing to carry out the Executive Duties of the potus. Too busy playing golf and banging his head on the ground. Another case of this pos ignoring the will of the people.
what due diligence to hundreds of thousands of muslims?