The Biden Administration’s State Department is reportedly blocking the rescue of Afghani Christian converts seeking to flee the now Taliban-run nation in order to escape an almost certain and unimaginably grotesque death.
With the August 31 deadline looming to get endangered people out of Afghanistan, conservative radio and TV commentator Glenn Beck quickly raised $30 million to charter planes to airlift Christians who have been all but abandoned to the Taliban if not condemned to death by the Biden Administration.
“The State Department has blocked us every step of the way,” Beck told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a Thursday night interview. “The State Department and the White House have been the biggest problem. Everyone else has been working together, putting aside differences and trying to get these people to safety.”
“The State Department and the White House have blocked us every single step of the way,” he reiterated.
Before yesterday’s bombings at the Kabul Airport, Beck’s organization, the Nazarene Fund, had already put 5,100 refugees on planes out of Afghanistan.
Five hundred refugees — mostly Christian women and children— were waiting to board the next plane inside the airport’s safe zone when the bombings occurred. A military official ordered them to return to the other side of the gate, beyond the protected area of the airport.
“I have pictures of them pleading to get back through the gate,” said Beck. “I have pictures of blood and body parts and nothing but death in that same area.”
“Our mission is now changing greatly,” said Beck. “We have to send people into even greater danger to try to smuggle these Christians out, who are marked not just for death, but to be set on fire alive because they’re converted Christians.”
Other Middle Eastern countries “have more compassion for these Christians than our American Government,” said Beck. “It is insulting, embarrassing, and wrong.”
The U.S. government has chosen not to designate Christians or other religious minorities as priorities for evacuation, according to a statement from the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan, U.S. federal government commission that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.
Beck said that the State Department has also shut down his efforts to persuade other nations to receive the Afghani Christian refugees.
In a recorded phone conversation with Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) shared via Twitter, Beck recounted how the State Department closed the door on the possibility of sending evacuees to Macedonia.
“We had been looking for places where we can fly people in just to hold them, and Macedonia was one of them,” said Beck. “The Ambassador of Macedonia was called by the State Department and told not to take any of these people. What the hell?”
“I’ve heard similar reports,” said Sen. Cotton. “I know that our people on the ground inside the airport, both the Department of Defense and intelligence agents and our State Department officials are trying to move heaven and Earth to get people into the airport and out of the country, but the senior leadership at the State Department is a different kettle of fish.”
“I heard a story just this morning that we weren’t even allowing British nationals to get inside the airport with their Afghan partners and fly to Great Britain at private expense,” continued Cotton. “This wouldn’t even have an impact on the American government or taxpayer.”
“I’m very disturbed by these reports,” said Cotton. “At a minimum, we should be allowing countries that are willing to accept Afghans or willing to send chartered [aircraft] into Kabul to clean up some of President Biden’s mess.”
Before Thursday’s airport bombings, EWTN’s Katie Yoder tweeted a quote from the Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea:
“Afghan Christians ‘are not being allowed to board USG (U.S. government) flights in Kabul. I’m advising them to try to board Glenn Beck’s flights instead’”
The above comes from an Aug. 27 story on LifeSiteNews.
Why would Biden block Afghan Christians? Answer= Democrats hate Christians
Biden’s handlers hate Christians and keep Joe busy choosing ice cream flavors.
Jill should have kept her husband from running for president. She better than anyone knew his dementia was getting worse.
She was a housewife desperate to become 1st lady, bad case of Potomac Fever.
Nothing this administration does should surprise anyone. It’s Marxist through and through.
Muslims gonna Muslim.
NIMBY
Too long? Edited for length.
Thank God President Biden is our president at this time. He has overseen the largest air evacuation in history. It has not been perfectly executed, however, the country’s value for human life is apparent in the administration’s efforts. How we are leaving Afghanistan says a lot about our country and our values…and how the Taliban takes over says a lot about its disregard for human rights. I shudder at the thought of the “former guy” being in charge right now. Undoubtedly, there would have been much confusion and carnage.
Barney, what are you smoking??
Peggy: I don’t smoke anything…never have and never will. Your demented “former guy” set up the mess in Afghanistan by negotiating with the Taliban. What are you drinking?
Are you kidding or just in denial??
google shows that the largest air evacuation in history was the indian government’s airlift of 170,000 indian citizens when sadam hussein invaded kuwait. last figure i saw yesterday places the biden airlift at 120,000
Biden and his cadre are not Christians, by name or deed. They are purely political animals with no moral or ethics. They respond to polls and are not subject to the our strictures of fairness or honesty. They will lie to your face and will not be bothered by ethical concerns. Their Motto: The Ends Justify The Means!
I get that this site is pro-choice, and as a result of having a Democratic President who, as a representative of all US citizens, does not fully support a pro-life stance, many of your readers really like anything having to do with Democrats. The title of the article is misleading – it implies that Biden himself may have called in to lock these children based solely on their status as Christians. A reader states categorically that democrats hate Christians, yet so many are Christians. Oh, I get it, they’re not like some of the more ardent, dogmatic conservative Christians who sold out to Trump because he promised to rid the US of Roe v Wade. Being from a Muslim country does not mean one is Muslim, anymore than being from here means one is Christian. But someone had to point it out, and imply that somehow that is a no-go (NIMBY)… so much for showing Christian love. One believes President Biden has dementia, yet when one made the same claim about Trump, it was a non-starter. Glen Beck isn’t having much luck, so better to blame others than admit that perhaps, just perhaps, he may need to follow protocols in order to get his folk out. “I heard stories….” speaks volumes about credibility. I hear a story, I tell it, someone embellishes it, and voila, scandal and blame. So sad.
Troll Alert.
No this is not a pro choice site. And yes, Biden is demented, his handlers hate Christians, Trump was in full control of his faculties, and Glenn Beck has raised 10s of millions to evacuate people from Afghanistan. Now you are clear though perhaps sad, as one who opposes truth often is.
If Trump’s handlers hate Christians, wouldnt they hate a president known to pray the Rosary in their presence?
It’s Biden’s handlers who hate Christians.
What we know about Biden’s association with the rosary is his threat to shove the beads down the throat of any Republican telling him he’s not religious. That sounds hateful, no?
https://www.deseret.com/2005/10/25/19919037/don-t-say-demos-lack-faith-biden-says
Biden is not a Catholic, he’s is in essence ex-communicated for his active approval of abortion.
Glad Beck is looking out for these Christians, but let’s keep in mind he is a private citizen trying to interface with the military in the middle of a war zone with unbelievably difficult logistics going on, on top of the obvious security concerns. And let’s face it, Beck isn’t one to shy away from PR stunts and political gamesmanship. One question is, why didn’t he begin this operation at the time Trump negotiated to leave the country to the Taliban, knowing that persecution was coming? Starting months earlier might have made a world of difference for these converts.
If Glenn Beck got me out from certain horrific Taliban torture death I’d kiss his feet. His generosity was not needed under the Trump administration, he came forward because of Biden’s utter and complete failure to save American lives and those of our allies.
Say a nice prayer of thanksgiving for Beck why don’t you.
Reminder. It was Trump who negotiated with the Taliban to allow them to take over the country. By May.
Beck’s generosity was needed during the Trump administration. I don’t fault him for not seeing it sooner, I just think that he shouldn’t now blame it on Biden when while BIden was saving more than 110,000 Americans who would have been stranded without massive risky work and delicate logistical operations on the part of our soldiers and air cover.
Maybe we all should have seen this earlier and acted accordingly?
Wow, even your most liberal media allies know Biden failed here, and you still won’t admit.it.
Guess that’s a No on offering a prayer for Beck. Too bad, praying for one’s enemies is a lesson in humility.
I didn’t say that Biden did well in this situation. He ought to have forseen what happenned and evacuated long before the deadline. But in the end, he evacuate about 120,000 people before turning off the lights. Remarkably, save for the one bombing, it went better than it looked like it was going to. But no, this was not his finest hour.
YFC, 84% of Americans think Biden failed, not just that he had a not so finest hour. And do say a prayer for the 24 CA students and the 3 year old Sacramento child that Biden left stranded in that hellhole.
Really, save for one bombing you think it went ok? Let’s have some Catholic humility and compassion for those left behind.
With conditions you think? Leaving no Americans dead or left behind like good ole baby killer Joe Biden just did. Maybe Beck didn’t think Biden would be such an idiot and incompetent. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s Trump’s fault or his friends never the person who is responsible.
Wow, even the liberal media are acknowledging Biden’s failure yet YFC won’t.
Guess that’s a no for the prayer for Beck, too bad, prayer for one’s enemy is a good exercise in humility.
We can ask YFC exactly when Bush ended his government service. January 2009. Blaming the current disaster in the ‘stan on Bush is pathetic.
+Dunk+
Your “ahem” tone makes these responses inevitable.
“Biden was a U.S. senator, vice president, or president for 16 of the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan. He voted for it, funded it, re-authorized it, and prosecuted it for 16 years.
No politician on earth is more responsible for the failed mission in Afghanistan than Joe Biden.”
“No politician on earth is more responsible for the failed mission in Afghanistan than Joe Biden.”
What a crock. It was Bush who sent us there without a clear mission beyond driving the Taliban from power and training a democratic government and army. That took 2 years. All the rest of the presidents that followed just poured good money and lives after bad. It’s finally over.
YFC, you are rewriting history. We went there because they would not give up Bin Laden.
I looked at a picture of him checking his watch to see if maybe he was looking at the rosary he told the Mexican president that he wears but I don’t see it.
Never trust anyone who prays the rosary on the streetcar.
Don’t trust the people who use their faith as a method of scoring political or social status points.
Don’t believe people who talk a good game, but don’t walk the walk.
Don’t be impressed by people who use their faith as one lifelong virtue signal.