Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and ABC’s Jonathan Karl sparred briefly over Cruz’s plan for Syrian migrants during Tuesday’s World News Tonight, reported TheBlaze.
Karl hit Cruz on a bill the senator plans to introduce that would keep Syrian migrants from entering the United States. Cruz explained to Karl that his legislation would bar not only Syrian migrants but any Muslim migrants from countries with a serious Al Qaeda or Islamic State presence.
When Karl pressed Cruz on the fact that the bill would prevent Muslim migrants while permitting Christians to continue to enter the country, Cruz responded, “Can you say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’?”
“We should not be allowing Muslim refugees from countries where ISIS and Al Qaeda have control of significant amounts of territory, because of the inability of this administration, the inability of our intelligence sources to distinguish between who is and is not an ISIS terrorist.”
Hoping to corner Cruz into sounding like an anti-Muslim bigot, Karl kept pressing him on the point, so Cruz had to dumb the distinction down for him:
“At the end of the day, it’s not that complicated. There’s no history of ISIS terrorists embedding in the Christian community and pretending to be Christian. If that were occurring, we would work to prevent it.”
“Christians are different in the Middle East, number one, because they are being persecuted and facing genocide. That is qualitatively different. ISIS is crucifying Christians."
But the leftist media don't care about persecuted Christians. They care only about smearing conservatives as Islamophobic bigots.
