Sen. Ted Cruz: "There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror. If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation."
Even though it received almost no coverage yesterday, Jeb Bush's comment about identifying Christian refugees stands out as one of the most scary and embarrassing positions yet. Remember, this is an "adult" running for president:
Reporter: "So what does the focus on Christian families actually look like?"And of course there's always xenophobic Donald Trump with his more tempered approach:
Bush: "What, you're a Christian, you can prove you're a Christian, it's..."
Reporter: "How?"
Bush: "I think you can prove it, if you can't prove it than you know...you err on the side of caution."
Trump: "I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them. It's true...I don't care...I don't care, they've got to be stopped."And this Instagram comment:
Trump: "Refugees are pouring into our great country from Syria, and we don't even know who they are. They could be ISIS, they could be anybody. What's our president doing, is he insane?
As for both Cruz and Bush's comment "there are no Christian terrorists in the Middle East..." they're strongly suggesting Christian terrorism doesn't happen, even in the U.S.. Homegrown Christian terrorists exist, whether they're using religion as a justification or just your typical conservative anti-government extremist. Here are just a few examples:
But when I used the term "radical Christian" on my conservative friend in Milwaukee, he blew up, justifying past Christian killings.
Try using the term "radical Christian" sometime. I guarantee a heated irrational reaction.
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio made this bizarre and clueless leap; comparing the Islamic religion with Nazism, a political ideology. Surprise, Rubio's comment went unchallenged by George Stephanopoulos:
Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre ... The murder of Dr. George Tiller ... Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shooting ... The murder of Dr. John Britton ... The Centennial Olympic Park bombing, The murder of Barnett Slepian by James Charles Kopp ... Planned Parenthood bombing, Brookline, Massachusetts 1994 ... Suicide attack on IRS building in Austin, Texas, Feb. 18, 2010 … The murder of Alan Berg, June 18, 1984 … Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995 ... The Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church Shooting Everything ... The Ku Klux Klan Has Ever Done ... The Massacre At Zion Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C..Radical Islam vs Radical Christian: "Radical Islam," a favorite xenophobic term used by Republicans everywhere, is meant to challenge political correctness.
But when I used the term "radical Christian" on my conservative friend in Milwaukee, he blew up, justifying past Christian killings.
Try using the term "radical Christian" sometime. I guarantee a heated irrational reaction.
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio made this bizarre and clueless leap; comparing the Islamic religion with Nazism, a political ideology. Surprise, Rubio's comment went unchallenged by George Stephanopoulos:
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