Whenever liberals need to get pumped up to promote a left-wing cause, they can turn to California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who is well-versed in gutter politics.

In a show of pure partisan politics, it took Waters just 20 days to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump."Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment," she railed earlier this month, "because, this president was absolutely in collusion with the Kremlin, and Putin in Russia during the campaign. I believe that … they're going for the oil."Days later, she proved to the world that international politics wasn't exactly her strength by telling reporters that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "invaded Korea."And last week, she called the Trump cabinet members "a bunch of scumbags … all organized around making money."While President Trump describes hostile journalists as "fake news," some in the liberal press have countered with some partisan, lowball tactics of their own. NBC even resorted to using children in an attempt to demean Trump. Reading off scripts, one child says "you make me feel small" and another says "I'm afraid that you're going to hurt some of us blacks."Seeing a liberal media and elected officials like Waters spew their hatred for Trump deflects from legitimate news stories, such as the Christian genocide taking place in many parts of the world.A report by the Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions determined that 90,000 Christians were killed for their beliefs worldwide last year and nearly a third were at the hands of Islamic extremists like ISIS. The study also found that as many as 600 million Christians were prevented from practicing their faith in 2016.Dr. Massimo Introvigne, who led the study, called Christians "the most persecuted religious group in the world."For the 14th straight year, North Korea tops the list as the most dangerous place to be a Christian, followed by Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Eritrea and Yemen. Islamic extremism remains the dark force of Christian persecution in the world. It is responsible for initiating oppression and conflict in 35 out of the 50 countries on the 2017 list.One of Trump's first executive orders banned Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspended the U.S. refugee program for 120 days. After that, the secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence would decide which countries to accept refugees from.That initial order also states that the administration should "prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.This gives hope to persecuted Christians.In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network anchor David Brody, Trump explained that if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States.When asked by Brody if he saw helping persecuted Christians abroad as a "priority," Trump promptly replied, "yes."According to a Pew Research Center report, of the nearly 85,000 refugees admitted to the U.S. in fiscal 2016, 38,901 were Muslims, while 37,521 were Christians. According to that same report, about 99 percent of Syrian refugees admitted were Muslim, while less than 1 percent were Christian.Last year, both houses of Congress voted unanimously to support a genocide resolution against ISIS for the atrocities the terrorist organization has committed against Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East. Despite the amount of criticism Trump is facing, especially from liberals in congress and in the press, the president deserves some credit for trying to extend a lifeline to religious minorities.Christians, Yazidis and others facing the ISIS threat of genocide could care less about the petty partisan politics occurring in Washington, D.C. As a result of their faith, thousands of Christians are risking imprisonment, displacement, torture, beheadings, rape and even death on a daily basis.That story should be at the top of the news cycle, not the political rants or the clueless global commentary of a Maxine Waters.By Jim Zbick |

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