Posted on 04/19/2016 12:07:16 PM PDT by markomalley
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — the principal competitor to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — has recently earned the scorn of Muslim-Americans, much like his billionaire rival, who famously called for a temporary ban on allowing Muslims to enter the U.S. The Dallas Morning News reported Cruz and his staff were slammed for refusing to meet Monday with American Muslim groups, including one from his home state, during National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill.
Alia Salem, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said her group tried for weeks to schedule a meeting with Cruz’s staff in Washington, with no luck. Hundreds of members of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, a coalition of American Muslim advocacy groups, went to Washington to meet with lawmakers on the advocacy day.
Salem said her group "traveled all the way from North Texas to come and meet with our elected officials. I know they have things they have to do, but what I’m concerned about is the complete and utter shutdown, not finding one legislative aide to meet with us," according to the Dallas publication.
"This is indicative of what a Cruz presidency would look like," Salem said later at a press conference Monday. "He has made clear in the media what he thinks about Muslims, how he plans to treat them, and today in his day job, he exhibited no less."
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Uh oh, that could cost him 5 or 6 votes.
Or gain. Good for Ted, Muzzies can KMA.
Or --- it could give him more votes. Depending on your POV.
So not all that far away from DC. Now if they had started in El Paso...........
It isn’t appropriate for a US Senator to refuse to meet with his constituents.
I must have missed it but is there a requirement that in order to run for president you have to meet with every single fringe group in this country
Send the Muslims back while we still can!
So if I get together with some friends, call ourselves a Christian Group, demand a meeting with Hillary Clinton and she refuses to meet with us, will the media run a headline that reads “Hillary Clinton Refused to Meet with Christian Group”?
Good one! Hope someone tries it.
Good for Ted, and I’m a Trupster.
I am not a Cruz supporter, but I agree with him not meeting with them. No way.
He refused to meet with terrorist-supporting CAIR, not individual constituents.
Not a Cruz fan but I say good for him.
No politician should meet with terrorists.
God, I hope so!
CAIR is a radical group that has been involved in criminal activity in the past. They should be classified as terrorists.
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