In The Conservative Woman, Kathy Gyngell delivers a harrowing account of a persecuted Christian woman twice denied asylum – allegedly due to interference from an Islamic network inside the Home Office – raising worrying questions about religious bias at the heart of Britain’s immigration system. Here’s an excerpt:
Yesterday [May 29th] the Daily Mail reported one of those stories that make you despair about our country. A Pakistani drug dealer – an illegal immigrant since 1998 who’s already served four years for possessing heroin and cocaine – has dodged deportation after a judge said he played a key role in teaching his son about Islam and his culture. It is but the latest in a series of bizarre decisions such as that of an Albanian criminal whose deportation was halted partly due to his son’s aversion to the type of chicken nuggets served abroad.
The insanity – or could it be a perverse form of prejudice – was underlined by a sharply contrasting case that had landed in my in tray earlier in the day. A press release from Christian Concern told the story of a Christian woman who had fled forced conversion and abduction attempts in her country of origin to friends in the UK, only to have her asylum application twice rejected by the Home Office. That was until Christian Concern stepped in to help. Seen together the reports raise worrying questions about exactly who is making asylum decisions. Who if anyone checks the Home Office investigators? Who are the judges who decide that ‘identity’ is so important that it trumps criminality? Do any have religious preferences or prejudices? We need to know.
As Christian Concern noted, this is the same Home Office that has welcomed 20,000 Syrians between 2014-20 under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
Despite resistance from Islamic elements in the Home Office, they report, justice has been finally been served for ‘Maria’, who cannot be named or identified for security reasons. She finally won her legal right to remain in the country. But her case revealed evidence of ‘tampering’ with her application. It also brought to light, via documents leaked to Christian Concern, the existence of an Islamic network of more than 700 staff in the civil service.
The original decision by the Home Office not to grant her asylum has since been found to be “in breach of the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention; and unlawful under Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998”. …
Christian Concern is demanding a full inquiry. They point out that an Islamic lobby group inside the Home Office represents a serious threat to the Government’s aims of combating Islamic extremism as well as granting asylum to Christians like Maria fleeing Islamic countries.
Worth reading in full. You can read Christian Concern’s full report of the case here.
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