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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 11:38 PM Nov 2015

Jeb Bush: Respond to Paris attack by only accepting Christian refugees



Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said over the weekend that the U.S. should respond to the terrorist attacks in Paris by carefully screening out Syrian refugees who are not Christians.

“As it relates to the refugees, I think we need to do thorough screen,” Bush told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “And take a limited number. But ultimately, the best way to deal with the refugee crisis is to create safe zones inside of Syria so that people don’t risk their lives, and you don’t have what will be a national security challenge for both our country and for Europe of screening.”

But there was one group which should be allowed to take refuge in the U.S., the former Florida governor argued.

“There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now,” he explained. “They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. And I think we should have — we should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

Tapper wondered how screeners would know which refugees were Christians.

“We do that all the time,” Bush insisted. “I think we need to be — obviously — very, very cautious. This also calls to mind the need to protect our borders, our southern border particularly.”

“This is a threat against Western civilization, and we need to lead. The United States has pulled back and when we pull back, voids are filled. And they’re filled now by Islamic terrorism that threatens our country.”

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uncucumbered/jeb_bush_says_after_paris_attacks_only_christians_should_be_allowed_into_the_u_s
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Jeb Bush: Respond to Paris attack by only accepting Christian refugees (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Nov 2015 OP
What an idiot Moliere Nov 2015 #1
It's the same with Trump... SHRED Nov 2015 #4
Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a Christian? SHRED Nov 2015 #2
And here is the reality... SHRED Nov 2015 #3
Brilliant. Because if non-Christians say the Lord's Prayer, tanyev Nov 2015 #5
as if all christians were "pure" zebonaut Nov 2015 #6
Brilliant. Religious discrimination as official state policy. What could possibly go wrong ? eppur_se_muova Nov 2015 #7

Moliere

(285 posts)
1. What an idiot
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 12:03 AM
Nov 2015

If they pretend to be an immigrant they can pretend to be Christian. Unless of course Jeb! has a Radar for this

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
4. It's the same with Trump...
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 12:18 AM
Nov 2015

Apparently he has a special radar to detect who is in this country undocumented.

tanyev

(42,559 posts)
5. Brilliant. Because if non-Christians say the Lord's Prayer,
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 12:56 AM
Nov 2015

they automatically self-destruct. Everybody knows that.

eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)
7. Brilliant. Religious discrimination as official state policy. What could possibly go wrong ?
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:02 AM
Nov 2015

Did Jeb! say anything about admitting "Judeo-Christian" refugees ? No, he said "Christian". How should that be interpreted ?

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