Cruz: "No Meaningful Risk" of Christians Committing Terrorism

Texas Tribune ^ | Nov. 15, 2015 | Katie Zezima

[Calpublican]

{”Drop the word “meaningful”, Ted. It makes you seem weak and vacillating. Quit talking like a lawyer! “}

Being clear is not a bad thing. Some of us appreciate his concise use of language.

[The_Reader_David]

Actual Syrian Christians almost certainly have provably Christian relatives in either Lebanon or the U.S. who could vouch for them.

It would also be easy to pick out fakes by observing their behavior at a Divine Liturgy or Mass (depending on which Christian confession they profess): real Christians will have the service essentially memorized and will fluidly cross themselves at all the right places even if it’s being served in English when they only speak Arabic or Aramaic. (And fluent Aramaic or Assyrian is hard to fake so the real Jacobites and Nestorians should be easy to pick out — my fellow Orthodox and the various Uniate groups who only speak Arabic will be a little harder to verify.)

[a fool in paradise]

Islam isn’t a religion. It’s an all encompassing system of governance.

[cripplecreek]

And another advantage of the Middle Eastern Christians.

(Video)Sterling Heights mosque voted down

[FreeReign]

Drop the word "meaningful", Ted. It makes you seem weak and vacillating. Quit talking like a lawyer! Start talking like an average American would. Start talk like Joe Six Pack would. Trump talks using plain, everyday language. And that's why he's leading in the polls.

Sure. What's not to misunderstand when Trump talks plainly.

Trump: I love the Muslims. I think they're great people.

[a fool in paradise]

“We just saw in Paris what happens when a country allows ISIS terrorists to come in as refugees and the result can be a horrific loss of life,”

So-called Syrian refugees were only a small subset of the terrorist attackers last Friday. One of the killers shouted a statement that this was because of France’s actions on Syria.

Islam is the unifying cause.

This cell had ties to Belgium.

And more were stopped in transit to France (one coming from Germany).

Europe is infested with a malignant subculture.

[a fool in paradise]

"It's not that we don't want to; it's that we can't because there's no way to background check someone that's coming from Syria," he said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Give them a BLT sandwich and don't forget the blessing before you eat.

Sounds like a simple enough background check to me.

[Leaning Right]

You can cherry-pick if you want, and you might have a point anyway. I'm pro-Trump, but, as I have noted before, I don't trust him 100%. So I wouldn't mind seeing Cruz as the next POTUS.

But that's all besides the point. The point is that Trump speaks in common language, language that the average Joe can understand. Much like Reagan did. Cruz speaks as a lawyer. He's just not connecting with the average Joe. That's not a knock against Cruz. It's just some unasked-for advice.

Because the GOp nominee, whoever that is, must connect with the average Joe to beat Hillary.

[BlueNgold]

"They've experienced what happened in Paris on a daily basis."

Exaggerating the plight of refugees by invoking Paris, when we already have strong suspicions, if not confirmation, that jihadists posing as refugees were involved.

Three years to pass their security screening? Another lie. And coincidentally (not) parrots the administration's lies from this morning.

[a fool in paradise]

It would also be easy to pick out fakes by observing their behavior at a Divine Liturgy or Mass (depending on which Christian confession they profess): real Christians will have the service essentially memorized and will fluidly cross themselves at all the right places even if it’s being served in English when they only speak Arabic or Aramaic. (And fluent Aramaic or Assyrian is hard to fake so the real Jacobites and Nestorians should be easy to pick out — my fellow Orthodox and the various Uniate groups who only speak Arabic will be a little harder to verify.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8rU3nWzyg

“…Catholics begin every Mass with the sign of the cross. It is the sign the priest makes over a penitent at that mysterious moment when one’s sins take flight. But the president seems to find Christianity’s defining symbol a hoot. The first time President Obama made the gesture, the crowd laughed appreciatively. “I like doing that,” the president said and then did it again. Try to imagine any previous president of the United States publicly funning with the sign of the cross.” - Charlotte Hays

[cripplecreek]

(with Video) Trump: 'Hate the Concept' of Letting Migrants In, But 'You Have To'

Trump to CNN: 'I love the Muslims'

"I think it's terrible, and we have to act very strongly, But I will say, I watched Pam prior, and it looked like she's just taunting everybody. What is she doing drawing Muhammad? And it looks like she's actually taunting people and it's disgusting that it happened and everything else. But why are they doing drawing Muhammad? Isn't there something else they can draw?

Well, I just say, they can't do something else? They have to be in the middle of Texas doing something on Muhammad and insulting everybody? It's disgusting what happened, and we have to be very strong, but it looks to me like she's somebody who is just taunting them.

What is she doing, and why is she doing it? And, you know, I'm one that believes in free speech, probably more than she does. But what's the purpose of this? She's taunting them, she's probably, it's very risky for her, I don't know, maybe she likes risk. But what the hell is she doing, and what is the purpose of it?"

Donald Trump Faults 'Draw Mohammad' Event Organizer For 'Taunting' Muslims

[nopardons]

You’re right and Ted is delusional on this. If the most of the horde has LIED about being a “refugee”, why wouldn’t they also lie and claim to be a Christian?

[bubman]

There is always the bacon test, Or the pork chop test or the Mohammed joke. Show a cartoon of Mohammed and read a retina scan. Muslims will always fail that test!

[Rusty0604]

I saw a report that said some of the refugees in Europe were claiming to be Christian or to ha e converted to Christianity so that they wouldn’t be sent back,

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I kinda suspect that Syrian Christians, indeed ALL Middle-Eastern Christians would know, and live their faith much better than most Western Christians because they have HAD TO depend on Jesus for their survival.

I recall hearing a story many years ago, of a Christian in East Germany. Some Christians were having a meeting in an apartment when the meeting was broken up by several machine gun toting secret police. The police told them that any non-Christians could leave but the Christians would be shot. A few people left, but some stayed. The secret police closed the door and asked the people to join them in prayer. When asked why they did that, the secret police wanted to ensure they were meeting with ‘real’, fellow Christians.

O’Venal and Turd-owe (and Hollande and Cameron and Merkel, et al, for that matter) may well be our ‘chastisement’ for following ‘our’ will rather than His will. And yes, I definitely put myself in that category.

[Argus]

Make asylum seekers take a crap on the Koran. If they refuse, back they go.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Won’t work. Taqiyya, you know.

[American Constitutionalist]

And we stopped profiling for what reason ?

Ohh yeah so we won’t hurt peoples feelings instead of leaning on truth.

[stanne]

Can I just say? People who follow the teachings of Jesus, and that includes, among others, all practicing and informed Catholics, have no interest in killing innocent people. Never have never will.
Period

[John Valentine]

I’ll bet they won’t chow down with gusto on a pulled pork sammy offered to them during their interview.