WORLD | Globe Trot: Civilians blocked from escaping the battle for Fallujah | Mindy Belz | June...

Not much surprise here unfortunately civilians are bearing the brunt of the battle in Fallujah as they are caught between a rock [forgive the pun] and a hard place between Shia militia and ISIS thugs, Then the Obama administration has been touting the refugee resettlement from Syria
Despite the fact that before the war 10% of Syrians were Christians, “Since … Oct. 1, a total of 2,235 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States. Of them, 10 (0.44 percent) are Christians: three Catholics, two Orthodox, one Greek Orthodox and four refugees identified simply as ‘Christian.’” the author Mindy Belz has been traveling to Iraq, Syria and the Kurdish regions throughout the conflicts there. By God's grace she has been able to travel through some harrowing experiences.
"IRAQ: The Iraqi offensive to retake Fallujah displays all the problems of resolving what began as an international conflict without an international force in play. We’re hearing a lot about war crimes by the Baghdad government’s Shia-led fighters, and not so much about Fallujah residents and others held hostage by Islamic State (ISIS) as it fights to hold its territory in Iraq. More than 50,000 residents are subject to atrocities while we watch.
Some underappreciated background on Fallujah from my book They Say We Are Infidels:
“[After the Babylonian exile] Talmudic academies that produced the best translations of Jewish law sprang up near present-day Fallujah, and religious authorities served out justice as the Sanhedrin once did in Israel. Today a professor in Brooklyn teaches Jewish business ethics using the Babylonian Talmud as his primary text, its genesis somewhere near Saddam Hussein’s hometown, where it was written in Aramaic along with Hebrew.”
REFUGEES: Some striking numbers from CNSNews on refugees admitted to the United States from Syria:
“Since … Oct. 1, a total of 2,235 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States. Of them, 10 (0.44 percent) are Christians: three Catholics, two Orthodox, one Greek Orthodox and four refugees identified simply as ‘Christian.’”
At the start of Syria’s civil war, Christians made up 10 percent of the country’s population. State-by-state bans on refugees or Muslims aren’t rectifying the imbalance, but state and federal lawmakers need to be addressing it at the federal level for national security, religious freedom, and humanitarian reasons (which seems like a potential bipartisan win-win to me).
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