Church World Services "Rally for Refugee Re-Settlement" Columbus Circle (6-19-16)

WHAT: World Refugee Day 2016  - "Rally for Refugee Re-Settlement"

"Refugees Welcome Because One World ♥'s "

Location: Columbus Circle - NYC - June 19, 2016- 11 am

Event Name: Rally for Refugees

Organization: Church World Services "A Global Humanitarian Agency for The Vulnerable and the Displaced"  [CWS is the relief, development and refugee assistance arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ]

"This June, dozens of communities across the United States gathered to celebrate (Muslim) refugees from California to Atlanta"

WHY: From  UNHCR  & the UN Refugee Agency

"In 2000, the United Nations General Assembly established June 20 as World Refugee Day to recognize and applaud the contribution of refugees throughout the world and to raise awareness about the growing refugee crisis .... celebrate World Refugee Day with an event, prayer service, or other activity."

CWS asks you to Join the Refugees Welcome Campaign

#WithRefugees petition will be delivered to UN headquarters in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly high-level summit to address large movements of (Muslim)refugees and migrants, on September 19, 2016.

 The petition asks governments to help the (Muslim) refugees :

• Ensure every refugee child gets an education.
• Ensure every refugee family has somewhere safe to live.
• Ensure every refugee can work or learn new skills to make a positive contribution to their community.

Statement by the President Obama on World Refugee Day (2016)

"Protecting and assisting refugees is a part of our history as a Nation and we will continue to alleviate the suffering of (Muslim) refugees abroad, and to welcome them here at home, because doing so reflects our American values and our noblest traditions as a Nation, enriches our society and strengthens our collective security."

HOWEVER: Mercy. Compassion ... Do unto others .... Western values. Anathema to Islam (it's in the Quran)
                                         

"The Infidels must Die!"

"The Christian population in Iraq has now diminished to an alarming 50,000 to 250,000, compared with 1.4 million in 2003. They were either massacred by jihadists or abducted.

Christians have faced being forced to convert to Islam, pay a high living tax (jizya, mandated in the Qur’an) to the Islamic State, or abandon their ancestral homes. Many were enslaved or murdered.

Reverend Canon Andrew White, (aka “The Vicar of Baghdad”) known for his love of humanity, stated of Islamic State jihadists: “When I invited ISIL to dinner they said, ‘Yes, we’ll come, but we’ll chop off your head.’ Rather kind of them to warn me.”

The gentle and kind Reverend White ... has witnessed the worst atrocities on the ground against his fellow Christians, minorities and Yazidi girls who are taken as sex slaves, and he finally declared:"

“I have looked through the Quran trying to find forgiveness… there isn’t any. If you find it, tell me. This makes it very difficult to talk to ISIS because they can show you quite clearly that it is what Allah wants. They can justify their position when Allah says you should combat and fight the infidel and they say, ‘Well, these are infidels.’ So the question is, how can you prove that these are not infidels? And you can’t.” [Jihad Watch]

YET, the misguided do-gooders at CWS preach-on ....

Overheard at Columbus Circle, a mother telling her young daughter (simplistically) that the purpose of the CWS event was to teach us "to be kind to all people".  So... "Rebecca, Stands With Refugees"


The mother sees what she wants to see, the Happy (feel-good) Faces of dedicated (misguided) do-gooders: It's World Refugee Day!

But, how kind is ignoring the Christian refugees while Muslim 'refugees' go to the head-of-the-line.

I watched. Took a few pictures. Knowing a dialogue about the Christian victims of Islam would be met with plastic smiles .... and silence...

But, one brave voice stood firmly in front of them- facing their table. His message perplexing for the do-gooder, as it does not compute, "Say NO to Refugees"

A message lacking nuance, perhaps, but they should have opened a door and talked with him. Instead, CWS holds firm. CWS is GOOD. Bringing Social Justice to the Muslim World.


That protestor is a BAD man. A Racist. Islamophobe. Bigoted. Hater. Ignore him. (hands to ears- lalalala)

CWS (CHRISTIAN World Service) outreach goes first to Muslim "refugees" of Syria. To save them from "Islamophobia" .

That "One World - Social Justice" from CWS offers kindness, empathy,  Social Justice. (to some) The Christian Victims of Genocide must go to the back-of-the-line.
Protecting Muslim refugees comes FIRST because Muslims are "threatened  by imagined Islamophobia"

Within the United States, the welcome of (Muslim) Syrian refugees is being challenged. This type of fear-mongering (against Muslims) has no place in our society. People of all faiths must stand in solidarity with refugee and migrant communities.

BUT, are the "important and very needy" Muslim "refugees" properly vetted? (If at all). CWS claims they are.

 More from CWS as they Welcome the (Muslim) Syrian "Refugees"

IN CWS' OWN WORDS:

‘Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.’
– Hebrews 13:2 (NRSV)

Join CWS in refugee resettlement – welcome arriving families as contributing members of our communities....

Take a collection to help Syrian refugee families cover basic expenses.

CWS will connect these funds with arriving Syrian families for housing, utilities and basic needs as well as CWS Syrian crisis advocacy.

Refugees often arrive with little more possessions than the clothing on their backs.

Collect the household goods one family will need to start a new life in the U.S.

Ship boxed items to a city across the U.S. ... household items will be provided to arriving refugees from Syria, Burma, Iraq and other countries.

Located near a CWS resettlement office? Contact your local affiliate to serve as a welcome team or to find local volunteer and donation needs.

Sadly, CWS with holds aide to the Christians of the Middle East (and Yazidis, as well) slaughtered and enslaved throughout the 21st Century Muslim World.  It's a puzzlement...


Which brings us to a WARNING From Refugee Resettlement Watch  on Church World Services and Federal Funding. [Posted by Ann Corcoran  January 7, 2016]

CHRISTIANS BEWARE of  the Social Justice Do-Gooders

 

If you are new to RRW, there are nine major federal refugee resettlement contractors (they call themselves Volags!) and Church World Service is one of them.

They are largely funded with your tax dollars!  And, it was Church World Service whose subcontractor Virginia Council of Churches first brought this whole secretive and costly resettlement program to my attention in 2007.

See my latest report on CWS at American Resistance 2016! where we tell you about how CWS is going to illegally hide aliens sought by ICE.

Don’t you think that, if they go forward with their announced plan and break federal law, their federal funds should be immediately cut off?

By the way, if the name Church World Service rings a bell for you locally.  Know that they might be raising funds from your church through their annual "Crop Walks!"

Their charitable work for hungry people is, in my view, just a cover for their political ambitions.

Church World Service member churches are here.  Be sure your church isn’t planning to hide those sought by ICE.

 (Also, from Refugee Resettlement Watch)

" Frankly, we have made a grievous error in taking the Muslim refugees, Somalis in particular, who have no intention of becoming Americans. They are here to change America.

Unfortunately, political correctness and a worshipful attitude toward multiculturalism have blinded us.

It is my view, that the ‘diversity is strength’ line is way overused, and mostly hogwash."

PDF - 2016 a Report on the Christian Genocide  [You can scroll through the embedded (detailed) PDF below ]

"Shouldn’t we first help the Christian victims of Mideast genocide? If we want to accept refugees in flight from Arab and Muslim war zones, why not start with the most persecuted victims?"

 Why not bring Christians and Yazidis from the Muslim world here first? Why not bring Muslim dissidents, ex-Muslims, and Muslim homosexuals here second?

— before we extend visas, green cards and asylum to Muslim boys and men? [Phyllis Chesler]

IN CONCLUSION: The misguided fools and tools at CWS need an awakening, before it's too late for the Christian Refugees of The Middle East.  These hapless do-gooders should ask more probing questions of CWS. "Are we doing enough to help the Christian victims suffering under the boot of terrorism?" A pretty smile to passersby is not enough.

++ Christian Genocide. It's Real ++

PART TWO:  Impassioned voices from THE CHRISTIAN REFUGEES of the Middle East, the Yazidis of Iraq , who need re-settlement. Lost in the wilderness, they desperately need JUSTICE. NOW.

[Stop Islamization of Nations Conference on Sept. 11, 2012]

Video 1 - Ashraf Ramelah (Voice of Copts)



 



Video 2 – Joseph Nasrallah – Coptic Christians


 


 Video 3 – Father Gabriel Nadaaf  Christians of Jerusalem – “The Disappearance of the Christians under Islam”


 


 AFDI Rally for Israel, Minorities Under Islam]

Video 4 – Yazidi Leader,  Haider Elias -Worldwide Plea at AFDI Rally for Israel “Minorities Under Islam “

[AFDI and David Horowitz Foundation at Temple University]

Video 5- Simon Deng, enslaved at the age of 9 in Sudan. Christian slavery, in the  21st century, continues- sanctioned by Islam and ignored- in the Sudan. Genocide. Slavery. It’s a world wide scourge.

 

** An Addendum** As I try to end this post. ** I find. I can’t.**

The reports. The abuses. The cruelty. The Human Tragedies. The pleas for aide and mercy –  Silence has lead to No JUSTICE. No Peace.

The horrors do not end.  The pain goes on.

1.“Christians Facing Extinction in Iraq

2. “An Appeal From a Yazidi Leader”

3. “Libya abducts Christian Women, Makes Them Slaves“
 




 “Horrifying mob of 5,000 attacks Christians for BUILDING CHURCH shouting ‘Egypt is Islamic,’” by Katie Mansfield, Express, July 2, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A MOB of 5,000 attacked a group of Christians as they attempted to build a church, the latest in a string of violent attacks in Egypt.

Vigilantes torched and looted homes in Baidaa village after hearing rumours worship was taking place. [ Interfaith dialogue in Egypt ]

While Church leaders in the U.S. are too busy holding Ramadan dinners and issuing statements about how Islam is “peace” to take much notice of how Christians in the Middle East are being persecuted. Shame on them!
 

[“Presbyterian Church USA Offers Prayers to allah“]


I depart with a  short slide show of the CWS small and very quiet (Muslim) refugee outreach at Columbus Circle. “Saving the Refugees from “Islamophobia”. One World. One Day. One empty out-reach program at a time.


 


++ It’s a bizarro world we live in ++

"Stop Killing Us " Protest Defends Islam @ Trump Tower NYC (6-21-16)

 What : "Stop Killing Us / Not In Our Names" Protest (& Die-in)

 Who : The protest was organized by ACT UP NY and leaders from Muslim, Latino and LGBTQ organizations.  SILENCE=DEATH t-shirts were the uniform of the dayWhen :  6 pm to 7 pm /June 21, 2016 (before they marched to Trump Tower, the protest gathered at 58th and Fifth)

 

 Where :  Trump Tower - Fifth Avenue and 56th St. NYC
(where the media awaited the misguided throng)

 

 Why : Via ACT UP's press release:

 

“Just over a week after the slaughter of dozens of LGBTQ people at Pulse in Orlando, Donald Trump is seeking the support and the endorsement of groups  who have -- for decades -- advocated hatred, discrimination, and violence against our community,” said James Krellenstein, a member of ACT UP NY. “

"By continuing to embrace, rather than condemn these hate groups, Donald Trump and the Republican Party are spitting on the victims of the Orlando Massacre.” 


 "Instead of advocating for policies that would actually improve the safety, health, civil rights, and livelihood of all communities, Trump has chosen to meet and seek the support of religious extremists who have supported and defended legislation such as Uganda’s infamous “Kill the Gays” bill. All the while, he uses the recent violence against the LGBTQ community as an excuse to advocate for discrimination against American Muslims.

 "I arrived about 35 minutes before the scheduled one-hour protest. Spent that  time hanging with the MSM. Their cameras were set-up (facing the Tower entrance) ready to cover the protest at 6 pm.

 

However, these best laid plans went out-the-window once the marchers arrived. The protestors BACKS to the cameras, with a LARGE "Republican Hate Kills" banner also blocking the cameras, perhaps this accounts for a lack of coverage for the protest and die-in.

 

 Earlier, I saw James Krellenstein, a founding member of the Prevention of HIV Action Group of ACT UP/New York) giving an interview just before he joined the marchers.

 

As the protestors arrived at Trump Tower, amongst their many chants were  "Queer lives matter - Muslim lives matter! "Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay, Donald Trump Go Away" . "No more Islamophobia" and "Shame. Shame . Shame"

 VIDEO






Excerpts from Omar Sarwar, a Gay Muslim from the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), who spoke to the misguided "Stop Killing Us" crowd outside Trump Tower.

VIDEO




 [Sarwar was born in New York City and grew up in the United States, Bahrain, Japan, and Singapore. He wasn’t raised in a religious family, but says his family is Sunni Muslims from Pakistan.]

 The only other speaker I filmed was the first speaker. He seemed to be one of the leaders, but I didn't get his name.

VIDEO

Antifa made an appearance: The other side of  the"Antifa" sign is  "Dead Bigots Can't Hate" ....  

 

Perhaps THIS is a clear threat of VIOLENCE from the 'peacefully' misguided protestors

More quotes from their press release: “The LGBTQ community is a rainbow coalition of races and religious beliefs. While we stand united against any kind of religious bigotry, we will not stand silent while our Muslim LGBTQ brothers and sisters continue to be targets of hate speech,” said Tom Blake, another member of ACT UP NY."

 

Once I moved to the Patriots location - to the side of the "Stop Killing Us"minions - I managed to miss the die-in...

 

 But, I did capture some hardy exchanges between the Patriots and the "Stop Killing Us" protestors....

VIDEO




 And a Patriot who shouted across the din," You are more afraid of Donald Trump than the Jihadists. Do you KNOW what the Jihadists do to gays? I just don't get it!" (*crickets * from the press) The media, as usual, cared not-a-wit that the Leftists NEVER  mentioned the enemy ("who-shall-not-be-named"),  The Jihadists.

VIDEO




Instead, they focused on the misguided animus on the anti-Trump/anti-Christian Facebook page, "On this day Donald Trump will meet with hundreds of members of the hateful religious right in New York City.

  

 

We are protesting the use of LGBTQ murders as justification for hateful, misguided, Islamophobic politics and for the continuing murderous anti-queer and anti-trans agenda of the religious right."

In their bizarro world, the truth is inconvenient. Instead we are told that, in Orlando,

The 49 died because CHRISTIANS made the terrorist homophobic

The 49 died because CHRISTIANS made the terrorist ashamed of being gay

Ignore that the terrorist praised 'allah' as he murdered the 49

Ignore that the terrorist's RELIGION was ISLAM

AND IGNORE that ISLAM IS HOMOPHOBIC.

And then, there was the "Irish", open borders Socialist and an "indigenous" fellow who came over to challenge the Patriots, as did a smoking (literally) woman whose only function was to blow smoke in their faces.

VIDEO

In conclusion: WHO's really killing gays? Who murdered 49 people in Florida?
 
 The truth came NOT from the anti-Christian agit-prop that paraded in front of Trump Tower.

THIS is the TRUTH (from AFDI)

 To end this post, I share a video that nails all the salient talking- points avoided because:  "The Left has chosen to protect the feelings of Muslims over the lives of Gays."  (FYI- video is, unfortunately, posted by Infowars. com aka 9/11 conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones' blog)

[Heads up: skip from 1:39 to 4:55 to catch only Paul Watson talking]





Two Flickr links - The Patriots

 


 Flickr Link - anti-Trump/anti-Christian protestors

 

And Playlist link for the six videos




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