Obama slams Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz for Christians-only refugee religious test

“When I hear political leaders suggesting that there should be a religious test for admitting which person fleeing which country”, he said, “when a few of these folks themselves come from other countries, that’s shameful”.

Right-wing media figures are bolstering calls from Republican presidential candidates following the attacks in Paris to limit Syrian refugees entering the United States to Christians only, claiming it will stop terrorists from entering the U.S. Jeb Bush, speaking on CNN on Sunday, said refugee efforts should be centered “on the Christians being slaughtered”.

The Boston Globe reported November 16 that during his extensive press conference at the G20 Summit, President Obama was asked how peaceful Muslims, like those in Turkey, could gain distance from the atrocities committed in the name of Islam like the Paris terrorist attacks or those perpetrated by ISIS. Cruz said at the time that that Obama’s request for military intervention was a public relations move, and that the USA shouldn’t become “al-Qaida’s air force”.

– Rather than Trump’s male-heavy flood of 250,000 coming to the United States, only 2,200 Syrians have been admitted in the past four years (10,000 are expected over the next year) and 70 percent have been either women or children under age 14. Obama released a statement today that even if a bill like Cruz’s passed through both chambers of Congress, he would veto it. Hundreds of thousands of them are seeking asylum in Europe; Germany alone said at one point it would accept as many as half a million per year for several years. They give the impression that we aren’t interested in making common cause with the majority of Muslims who share our disdain for groups like ISIS and Boko Haram.

“The answer to this is not to ban people from coming”, Bush told Bloomberg Television’s With All Due Respect.

“There simply is not a way to vet these refugees”, said Carson, calling for any funds for resettling refugees to be withheld. This seems reasonable, given that Christian groups in the Middle East face aggressive discrimination from a wide variety of the factions fighting across the Middle East, including especially the Islamic State, and so could reasonably be conceived to make up a disproportionate percentage of refugees.

Obama’s comments during a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino marked his harshest condemnation yet of Republicans’ response to the Paris attacks blamed on IS that killed 129 people last week.

“I think you can prove it”, Bush shrugged.

Bush stressed the United States shouldn’t allow in refugees “if there’s any kind of concern”.

Let us also not forget that in addition to Dr. Tiller, seven other people have died at the hands of pro-life terrorists. “That’s what separates us from them”, he said.

Ted Cruz may believe that Christian refugees from Syria pose no risk to American security, but he is open to looking beyond religion and actually vetting those emigrants, he said in a new interview.

But Obama countered by saying that any Syrian refugees in the U.S. would have passed the “highest security checks”, and that turning away the refugees would betray American values.

“In the same way that the Muslim community has an obligation not to in any way excuse anti-Western or anti-Christian sentiment, we have the same obligation as Christians”, Obama said.