Sunday, August 31, 2014

Archbishop of York pleads with UK Prime Minister to accept many more refugees from Iraq and Syria, conditions still leading to genocide. UK has only taken 50 victims of ISIS-BBC

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8/31/14, "UK must offer asylum to terror refugees - Archbishop of York," BBC








"The Archbishop of York has urged the government to do more to offer asylum to Christians and others being persecuted by Islamic State terrorists.

He warned the "bloodthirsty" extremists could end up committing genocide as the conflict in Iraq and Syria intensifies...

Archbishop Sentamu told BBC One's Sunday Morning Live programme that he did not want to embarrass the prime minister, but he thought the UK needed to follow the lead of other countries and do more about asylum.

"Please act quickly, because we may end up with a Rwandawhere people are really killed in huge, huge numbers," he said. 
 
"They've already shown their capacity to be bloodthirsty. The beheading should tell us that they are a ruthless group of people, and somehow they've got to be stopped. And if you don't stop them, you may end up with a genocide."

Archbishop Sentamu said the world needed to show it would not stand for the IS extremists' butchery, bullets and beheading, which he said was doomed to failure. 

He has been holding a week-long prayer vigil, praying on the hour every hour, from 06:00 to 18:00 BST. 

The government has said it judges asylum on a case-by-case basis

The UK has so far granted asylum to over 3,000 Syrians already in the UK, and to at least 50 of the refugees currently in camps in the Middle East after fleeing areas taken over by IS."....

Image: "The Archbishop of York has urged the government to do more to offer asylum to Christians and others being persecuted by Islamic State terrorists." ap



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