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Related: About this forumJeb 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 CNNs 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 dont risk their lives, and you dont 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. Theyll 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 theyre 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
Brilliant. Religious discrimination as official state policy. What could possibly go wrong ?
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2015
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Moliere
(285 posts)1. What an idiot
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...
Apparently he has a special radar to detect who is in this country undocumented.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a Christian?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. And here is the reality...
Muslims are the most abused and murdered group at the hands of ISIS.
tanyev
(42,559 posts)5. Brilliant. Because if non-Christians say the Lord's Prayer,
they automatically self-destruct. Everybody knows that.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)6. as if all christians were "pure"
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)7. Brilliant. Religious discrimination as official state policy. What could possibly go wrong ?
Did Jeb! say anything about admitting "Judeo-Christian" refugees ? No, he said "Christian". How should that be interpreted ?