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...Horowitz and Lorin soon had shouting matches over the phone...

...Probing behind the sarcasm of this response, Horowitz discovered that the Immigration and Naturalization Service was often brutally callous to asylum seekers who cited persecution on grounds of faith...

...the selling into slavery in the Sudan of thousands of Christians in the south of the country who resisted forcible Islamicization...

...The sixty or so participants represented not just the cream of both Roman Catholic and Protestant experts on religious persecution but such prominent political and religious figures as former Nixon aide Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, and Freedom House's Chairman, Bette 23 Bao Lord, wife of former U.S...

...Their goal: to force Clinton's hand, or at least beat him to the punch if he decided to co-opt the issue after all...

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...With Horowitz's encouragement, Shea on January 23 organized a conference in Washington on "Global Persecution of Christians...

...The rise of Islamic fundamentalism," Horowitz wrote, "has effectively criminalized the practice of Christianity...

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...Also present were leaders of some forty American evangelical and Catholic groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals and the Southern Baptist Convention, groups whose membership amounts to tens of millions of American Christians...

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...What seemed like "persecution," he maintained, might just be "the wish to preserve authentic religious and cultural traditions," though Pennybacker did not say if those traditions—murdering Iranians, beating Ethiopians, selling Sudanese children—might qualify as "authentic resistance" to "evangelistic zeal...

...Then a White House—sponsored roundtable on the persecution of Christians, promised for late fall, never materialized...

...But it is not clear who they work for, or why...

...called a hearing of the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights to look into the issue of religious persecution, NCC associate general secretary Albert M. Pennybacker showed up as an unexpected and late-registering witness...

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...On Feburary 9, a Washington Post column by Stephen Rosenfeld, entitled "Human Rights for Christians Too," warmly described the new move to defend persecuted Christians worldwide as "the most intriguing early foreign policy development of 1996 in Washington...

...When he asked Ross and Hayes, he said, "They said they didn't know...

...The story of Michael J. Horowitz's banzai-style foray into the matter of persecuted Christians around the world is one of the more remarkable instances of individual initiative taking Washington (and an important chunk of America) by storm...

...We can't say yet why Parks is suddenly such a hot-button topic for the government...

...The invitation provoked something of a liberal counter-attack...

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...This was music to White House ears...

...As for America's Christian community, Horowitz warned that "its moral authority" would be "gravely tarnished" if it failed to act...

...Clinton, meanwhile, quickly changed his mind on attending the NAE's convention, having his aides explain lamely that the White House couldn't afford fuel for Air Force One to fly to Minneapolis because, supposedly, taxpayers' money couldn't be spent for travel to a state within thirty days of a presidential primary...

...I went to an INS lawyer and said, 'Let's get him asylum," Horowitz recalls...

...The White House at first seemed interested...

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...Two days earlier, however, Diane Knippers, president of the Institute of Religion and Democracy, an active participant in the January conference, sent a fax to the National Council of Churches of Christ, the strongly liberal umbrella organization for the major Protestant denominations, inviting the NCC to join the NAE in its "Statement of Conscience...

...Welch said he wasn't sure if he were being asked to investigate the goings on or to stay away...

...Infuriated by this bureaucratic stupidity, Horowitz plunged into the often tragic world of persecution of The American Spectator • July 1996 Christians around the world...

...and the arrest, beatings, and torture of Christians in "remnant Communist" regimes like China, Cuba, and Vietnam who either refused to be registered in government-controlled umbrella organizations or who were simply meeting in private homes for worship...

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...It would, they said, have "neither the staff nor resources nor expertise nor authority nor mandate nor even the reporting obligations and deadlines necessary to do meaningful work...

...But White House aides had something else in mind: for example, figuring which states to draw on in appointing the seventeen putative State Department—run commissioners in order to increase Clinton's re-election odds...

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...Asked to provide examples of such groups, he replied: "I'd have to scratch my head for examples...

...Welch testified that Ross and Hayes "showed up one Friday afternoon and asked to have coffee with me...

...Meanwhile, Horowitz and others scrambled to contact aides to Bob Dole to persuade the Republican presidential candidate to deliver the strong speech on Christian persecution he had agreed to make, but which had been sidetracked by his dramatic resignation from the Senate...

...For American Jews who owe our very lives to the open door of `the blessed land,' silence should not be an option in the face of persecutions eerily parallel to those committed by Adolf Hitler...

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...National Security Council staffer Matt Lorin was asked to study the issue and come up with policy proposals...

...In one particularly shocking instance, Horowitz learned of a Roman Catholic refugee from Iran who was refused asylum because he could not satisfactorily explain to the judge the doctrine of transubstantiation...

...The American evangelical community perked up...

...One could surmise that in the Parks and Mena cases, the role of Ross and Hayes was to keep people from finding things out...

...ambassador to China, Jim Sasser, earlier this year to inform him about the tightening restrictions in that country on unregistered house church Christians, easily the largest component of China's estimated 30-70 million Christians, Sasser replied: "What's a house church...

...Lorin also told friends that he had to face down furious opposition to the selection of Shea for the post from none other than former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro...

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...At that time, during a telephone conference among key participants from the January Puebla conference, Shea and Horowitz alerted the evangelicals to the White House's scheme...

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...While confessing evangelical "culpability" in past failures to help persecuted Christians, the document included a 17-point description of persecution around the world and urged major new administration initiatives in response...

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...It is also another glimpse into the disarray of the Clinton administration in a policy area that was once an honorable bailiwick of liberals—global human rights...

...Horowitz followed up in late July with a letter to the heads of 143 American Protestant mission boards...

...As for the Department of State, its desk officers either routinely ignored instances of gross religious persecution—particularly in the Arab world, in order not to offend the governments of those states—or they displayed an ignorance that bordered on the crass...

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...This is an issue that will not go away: we will not allow it to," they warned...

...Indeed, Horowitz warned, though one could not yet speak of an actual holocaust against Christians, the silence of the American Christian community and "the indifference of elites towards these groups" provided "eerie parallels" to the global indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews...

...At the coffee shop, they told Welch that a friend of theirs at the Hot Springs airport who was with the CIA had relayed a message to them from a current CIA employee in Miami: "And the Miami agent told the Hot Springs Airport contact that they had something going on at the Mena Airport involving Southern Air Transport....And they didn't want us to screw it up like we had the last one...

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...The Christian Coalition issued a statement citing the column and attacking g, the Clinton administration for its lackadaisical approach to AIKMAN :--, the persecution of Christians 22 July 1996 • The American Spectator around the world...

...Among the proposals: appointment of the long-promised special religious liberty adviser to the president, cessation by the INS of its "hostile" treatment of escapees from anti-Christian persecution, and new instructions to the State Department's Human Rights Bureau about cases of Christian persecution worldwide...

...Translation: a committee so excruciatingly diverse religiously that it wouldn't focus on any religious persecution without hedgerows of qualifications...

...For his efforts to lobby for a special adviser, Horowitz came under brief but intense fire from some Republicans, who thought he was handing a political gift to Bill Clinton...

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...Both men told Clinton's aides of the forthcoming conference and of an important NAE statement on religious persecution that would be released in a few days...

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...What I wanted to do," he explained recently, "was to craft a set of policy proposals that would allow the [Christian] community to achieve success and have that success build on further success...

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...On January 17, six days before the conference, Don Argue, president of the NAE, and Richard Cizik had made the trek to the White House to invite the president to address the NAE's March convention in Minneapolis...

...Sometimes it was the "evangelistic zeal of outsiders," he said, that provoked unpleasant behavior towards Christians...

...If Clinton merely pays lip-service to the sudden surge of American Christian concern, September 29—just six weeks before the election—could turn into his own "Persecution Sunday...

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...How had Horowitz, who was legal counsel in the Reagan administration at the Office of Management and Budget, and who describes himself as "rootedly Jewish," become involved in the rights of persecuted Christians...

...To Argue and Cizik's surprise, Clinton actually called them into the Oval Office, thanked them for the invitation to the convention, and said that he would attend...

...Working closely with Nina Shea, director of the Puebla Program on Religious Freedom at Freedom House, Horowitz learned of the murder of evangelical Christians or Christian converts in Iran and Pakistan and the deliberate overlooking, if not active complicity, of the authorities there...

...An evangelical friend, he says, had introduced him to some Ethiopian evangelical Christians, many of whom had experienced brutal persecution both under the Communists and later at the hands of Islamic radicals...

...Pennybacker said his group always wanted to express "strenuous opposition" to religious persecution wherever it occurred...

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...By early last fall, after consulting several times with Shea, Horowitz, and others, he said it was only a matter of time before the White House would approve a new position: special adviser to the president on religious liberty, with Nina Shea, a 17-year veteran of global human-rights issues, the almost certain appointee...

...But someone up there is feeling a twinge along the synapses, and the reflex reaction has our interest piqued.lr Rescue to the Christians (Continued from page 24) and James Henry, president of Clinton's own church, the Southern Baptist Convention) had fired off a letter to the White House sharply criticizing the State Department commission idea as "manifestly inadequate...

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...It does seem to me," he wrote, "that America's missions may have a special role in breaking the silence now surrounding the persecutions...

...At the conference itself, six days later, participants heard impassioned, and often gruesome, accounts of just how desperate the situation had become in several parts of the world, including south Sudan...

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...In an interview later, he dismissed as "excessive and exaggerated" the Christian claim that persecution of their faith worldwide was worse than persecution of any other religious group...

...Our consciences have been seared," Chuck Colson said, "by the indifference, the lack of moral outrage [and] the absolutely scandalous silence of the Christian community toward the persecution of Christians worldwide...

...As he investigated further, Horowitz discovered that Bill Clinton, who excoriated President Bush during the 1992 campaign for allegedly "coddling dictators" from China to Iraq, had done nothing to protest far worse acts of persecution by the same regimes during his own time in office...

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...One Ethiopian pastor who had fled the Communists and later stayed in the Horowitz home had been hung upside down by his feet and beaten after returning to what he assumed would be a free Ethiopia...

...At its Prague meeting in May, the WEF settled on September 29 as "Persecution Sunday" for churches across the U.S., in honor of Christian victims of religious persecution...

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...Pennybacker's real hand grenade, though, was to ignore the evangelicals' call for a special adviser to the president and ask instead for the appointment of a "knowledgeable, representative, and compassionate" commission...

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...That is unlikely to be the last word in the matter...

...For one thing, many of Clinton's people objected intensely to any cooperation with America's evangelicals...

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...For Horowitz, this sort of response typified what he calls "the indifference of elites" to the problem of persecuted Christians...

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...By mid-May, Clinton aides were talking confidently of the appointment of a 13-17 member commission on religious liberty, perhaps with some evangelical membership, but certainly with no clear evangelical leadership...

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...Though seemingly well-intentioned, Lorin admitted that there was a lot of opposition within the White House to any such advisory position...