Protection Athens: European Dilemma and Fellow Iraqis

protection athens: Portugal has offered to take in several hundred of the 2,500 Yazidi refugees living in Greece, arguing that their mistreated community merits special protection, according to Brandon Sun. Athens has rejected the offer, worried that other countries might start cherry-picking asylum applications based on religion or ethnicity. Now, the Yazidi whose faith is older than Christianity are at the centre of a new European dilemma. Does that make the Yazidis victims of discrimination or nondiscrimination It's a question that could be keeping some of them in limbo. Yazidis, she noted, were targeted for slaughter by Islamic State militants at home and face ongoing harassment from fellow Iraqis stranded in migrant camps. Ana Gomes, a European Parliament member from Portugal who has been an outspoken advocate of the resettlement proposal, says Greek concerns are misplaced. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.