Senator Ted Cruz on Obama's Syrian refugee proposal: 'Absolute lunacy'

Examiner ^ | October 25, 2015 | Renee Nal

[Isara]

Senator Ted Cruz is not a fan of importing potentially hundreds of thousands of Muslims to America, referring to the idea as "absolute lunacy" during a Q&A session at the Iowa Grassroots Coalition Candidate Honest Assessment Summit on Saturday.

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"With regard to the the Syrian refugees, I think Obama's proposal to accept tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees is absolute lunacy," Cruz said in response to a question from the audience. "...The Director of National Intelligence has told us it's very likely that among those refugees going into Europe are a substantial number of ISIS terrorists," he continued.

Cruz was referring to a statement made by James R. Clapper, who "warned about the dangers of ISIS operatives infiltrating Western countries through the flood of migrants," as reported last month at Breitbart.

Notably, Cruz differentiated between Muslim asylum seekers and Christians who are "facing being beheaded by ISIS..." Cruz continued to assert that America needs to "stand up as a refuge and safe haven for Christians being persecuted by monsters like ISIS."

Middle Eastern Christians are indeed under attack in Muslim-dominated countries, as well as in refugee camps in Europe. Referring to Christians in the Middle East as a "very different circumstance," Cruz explained that "...Middle Eastern Christians are being persecuted...they are facing genocide" and that there is "no reasonable threat of terrorism" from Christians.

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Cruz joined Gohmert in noting that a disproportionate amount of refugees are men. "If you look at the current refugee wave which is flowing into Europe..." Cruz said, "one estimate was that 77 percent of those refugees are young men, which is a very unusual demographic for refugees."

[FourPeas]

You’d have a point if Cruz had called Obama a lunatic, but he didn’t. He called the policy lunacy.