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The numbers you are using are 4 years old, a lifetime in a region undergoing civil war. There may be many reasons why christians have lower numbers, reside in a safer area, inability to travel from their location or already left the country over the years. Lacking that information the title that insinuates the US is screening christians is rather misleading. This is just a childish reaction by Fox News in reation to Obama's comments regarding screening Muslims from entry, I wouldn't expect anything less from that network.
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I have given MANY sources that state that the current demographics of Syria include about ten percent Christians.
But I'll repost and give more since you seem to think I pulled that figure from Fox News (which I did not, by the way).
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Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian) 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3%, Jewish (few remaining in Damascus and Aleppo)
I am looking for specific answers, and you can talk all you want, but nothing you have said answers the questions. I don't think it's a deliberate deflection from your part, but it is irrelevant to the topic.
I ASKED THE SAME QUESTION. I didn't claim to have the answer to that specific question, but the facts I added to the discussion flesh out the total picture of the plight of Syrian Christians. So they are relevant to the topic at hand.
You don't have to agree with that for it to be so.
Just because some of them aren't filing for asylum in the U.S. doesn't mean they aren't filing for asylum in Europe or elsewhere.
I'm not going to repeat the citations I've already supplied over and over again on this thread. Sorry. If you're truly interested in the situation of Christians in Syria, take the time to scroll back up and click on the NUMEROUS citations I've already given. If not, (shrug) - but quit arguing with me about sources I've already given but you haven't bothered to click on.
I ASKED THE SAME QUESTION. I didn't claim to have the answer to that specific question, but the facts I added to the discussion flesh out the total picture of the plight of Syrian Christians. So they are relevant to the topic at hand.
It's ok to say you don't know the answer. Instead of saying that, you try to bury it under other issues like demographics in Syria. The topic is US accepting, or not accepting Christian refugees.
Just one coming or slipping thru the cracks to get into this Country to do damage control and harm, sorry but is one too many!
And you can just bet on it, that so many coming in, will have an ax to grind here to think no, is naïve stupid and gullable as our President is.
Why would a terrorist (or 1000 of them) want to sit for a year or longer in a camp, go through endless interviews, and still stand a good chance of not getting let in, when all he has to do, grab a passport (real or forged) and catch a plane and go to anywhere in America he wants.
The gullible are those who think stopping the refugees will magically keep terrorists out
It's ok to say you don't know the answer. Instead of saying that, you try to bury it under other issues like demographics in Syria. The topic is US accepting, or not accepting Christian refugees.
I have no problem stating that I don't know the answer. I also have no problem exploring different possible answers to that question. It's a good question - one I've posed myself - and one I've dug around for trying to understand and find an answer for.
The topic includes WHY Syrian Christians may or may not be even registering on the US radar. It's an integral part of the picture. I don't know why you refuse to acknowledge or consider that - but I also don't care, come to think of it.
I have been trying to explain this simple point several times.
To you and Le Roi - I've given a possible answer to that question as well. One hypothesis, which I've given several credible sources for already, is that Syrian Christians do not go to the refugee camps because of persecution in the camps. The vast majority of Syrian refugees are coming through the refugee camps.
Also, they are not considered political refugees by ANYONE - the US, or Europe, or anyone else involved in the current vetting system - because they are not being specifically persecuted (in most cases) by any faction of the Syrian government.
And I've been trying to explain these simple concepts repeatedly as well.
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