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Home Front: WoT
Obama's New Asylum Decree Favors Muslims Over Christians
2014-02-26
As President Obama offers asylum to "minor" terrorists providing "limited" material support to terrorism, he's slamming shut the door on thousands of Christians fleeing terrorism in Muslim lands like Egypt.

In another end-run around Congress, President Obama has unilaterally eased immigration requirements for foreigners linked to terrorism. He ordered the State Department and Homeland Security to ignore a post-9/11 law barring entry to those giving political or charitable aid to Hamas and other known terrorist groups.
How exactly does ordering a government agency to "ignore the law" square with the constitutional responsibility for the executive to "faithfully execute" the law?
A dozen years after the horrific attacks on our nation by foreign Islamic terrorists, the Obama administration has decided a little support to foreign Islamic terrorists is OK.

Treasonous as it sounds, the president is following through on a little-noticed overture he made to Muslims in his Cairo speech of 2009, when he suggested he'd relax enforcement of material support laws involving "zakat," or Islamic charitable giving. He basically apologized for the Bush administration's locking up the founders of the largest Muslim charity in America for sending millions to "zakat committees" linked to Hamas.
Such as the "Widows Ammunition Fund"...
Of course, his move weakens, yet again, America's security. By exempting five kinds of limited material support for terrorism, Obama instantly purges more than 4,000 suspects from the U.S. terror watch list and opens our borders up to both them and their families.

Not to worry, Homeland Security says, it'll run additional security checks before letting them in.
Then why bother to remove them from the watch list in the first place?
Oh? Like the checks run on the Tsarnaev family, who also got into the country on asylum claims? Those security checks?

Forgive the survivors and the families of those who died in the Boston bombings if they're not reassured.

Taking a chance on foreign nationals already suspected of aiding and abetting terrorists only puts Americans at greater risk. Yet the president is ordering immigration authorities to ignore red flags.

He suggests too many innocent Muslims seeking a better life here, including Palestinian "refugees," have been "unfairly" excluded by Draconian post-9/11 immigration laws. Says who? Islamist lobbyist groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who claim Palestinian terrorists are "freedom fighters"?

At the same time Obama opens the floodgates to them, he's closing our borders to Christians fleeing persecution by Muslims in Egypt, Iraq and other Mideast countries.

Displaced Palestinians have plenty of places they can resettle in the Mideast.

The options for Christians, on the other hand, are limited. The U.S. may be their best chance for refuge from violence and for religious freedom.
It's not like they'll get a chance for a new life in Mauritania...
Yet the State Department has rejected virtually all of the 20,000 asylum applications from Coptic Christians trying to escape Egypt since the toppling of its pro-American regime.

Meanwhile, it's welcoming terrorist supporters pushed out by Cairo's renewed military crackdown on the Brotherhood. Thanks to Obama's new rule, these escaping Islamist troublemakers will be able to set up shop inside America and practice their jihadism with virtual impunity.

If the president doesn't like rampant rumors he's a "secret Muslim," or that he's doing the bidding of his Muslim Brotherhood-tied brother Malik, he should stop making sympathetic gestures that feed them.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  It will be interesting, as the voting rolls get cleaned out, to discover how many imaginary, illegal, and cloned voters helped put Mr. Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012.

Don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen. I wish these practices would go away along with Obummer himself but I don't believe they will.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-02-26 16:23  

#5  AcornRoaches are alive and well (See: Battleground Texas).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-02-26 13:04  

#4  It will be interesting, as the voting rolls get cleaned out, to discover how many imaginary, illegal, and cloned voters helped put Mr. Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012. ACORN and its descendants were very, very busy registering people who lived in parking lots and the middle of the Ohio River here in Cincinnati...
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-02-26 12:04  

#3  The American people were incredibly STUPID to have elected this fart as President.

The American people deserve what happens to them. You wanted Obama. You got Obama.

Good Luck to you and the Messiah. You wanted it, now you got it.

Stupid people don't live to get old.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064   2014-02-26 04:08  

#2  For the 'Low Info' crowd that voted for him, go ahead, take one or two.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-02-26 03:22  

#1  How exactly does ordering a government agency to "ignore the law" square with the constitutional responsibility for the executive to "faithfully execute" the law?
Well the Kenyan POS has proven time and time again that no (R) has the stones to stand up to him and numerous court challenges by 'the people' have been dismissed for 'no standing.' What's to keep him from continuing to do as he wishes????? not even a total Dem disaster in 2014 will slow him since I don't see anybody on the right doing anything but huffing and puffing, but not blowing his house down.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-02-26 00:43  

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