While mobs of suddenly altruistic lefties were self-righteously protesting Donald Trump’s “heartless” attempt at screening incoming foreign-nationals to prevent potential terrorists from sneaking into the country, Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq was wondering where the protesters were in 2014.
 
Referring to the Trump Administration’s ham-handed roll-out of the refugee pause, the priest was speaking with Crux (an independent Catholic news site) ~

Everyone, including the administration, seems to agree that this should have been implemented with more clarity. There was much confusion about what the order meant and many people were very upset.

 
Warda however is more than justified in criticizing the inconsistency of the pro-immigrant demonstrations ~

From my perspective in Iraq, I wonder why all of these protesters were not protesting in the streets when ISIS came to kill Christians and Yazidis and other minority groups. They were not protesting when the tens of thousands of displaced Christians my archdiocese has cared for since 2014 received no financial assistance from the U.S. government or the U.N. There were no protests when Syrian Christians were only let in at a rate that was 20 times less than the percentage of their population in Syria.
 
I do not understand why some Americans are now upset that the many minority communities that faced a horrible genocide will finally get a degree of priority in some manner.

 
Thanks mostly to our mainstream media’s (and the Obama adminstration’s) indifference – as Warda continues – these folks are pretty much clueless about the ongoing persecution of Iraq’s minority populations ~

Most Americans have no concept of what it was like to live as a Yazidi or Christian or other minority as ISIS invaded. Our people had the option to flee, to convert, or to be killed, and many were killed in the most brutal ways imaginable. But there were none of these protests then of ISIS’s religious test.
 
Our people lost everything because of their faith – they were targeted for their faith, just like the Yazidis and others too. Now these protesters are saying that religion should not matter at all, even though someone was persecuted for their faith, even though persecution based on religion is one of the grounds for refugee status in the UN treaty on refugees.

Source: Hot Air

 
The archbishop also had some specific requests for western media outlets ~

I would also say this, all those who cry out that this is a “Muslim Ban” – especially now that it has been clarified that it is not – should understand clearly that when they do this, they are hurting we Christians specifically and putting us at greater risk. The executive order has clearly affected Christians and Yazidis and others as well as Muslims.
 
Here in Iraq we Christians cannot afford to throw out words carelessly as the media in the West can do. I would ask those in the media who use every issue to stir up division to think about this. For the media these things become an issue of ratings, but for us the danger is real.

 
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Read the entire interview with Archbishop Warda HERE.