Ted Cruz Bashes Obama for Calling 21 Coptic Christians Beheaded by ISIS 'Egyptian Citizens'

National Harbor, Md.– Speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Texas Senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, bashed President Barack Obama for labeling the the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by the Islamic State in mid-February as "Egyptian citizens."

Cruz also attacked the Obama administration for continuously ignoring the fact that most of today's international terror troubles are caused by "radical Islamic terrorists." Cruz asserted that America needs a leader that will not just identify the radical Islamic threat from groups like the Islamic State but also protect the liberty of international Christians.

"When 21 Coptic Christians are beheaded we see the president saying they were simply 'Egyptian citizens,'" Cruz said. "They were murdered for their Christian faith and the president needs to stand up and defend them."

Cruz also chastised Obama for labeling the January Islamist attack of a Kosher market in Paris, which resulted in the death of four customers and a police officer, as a "random act of violence." The widowed wife of the Paris gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, is said to be featured in one of ISIS' latest propaganda films entitled "Blow Up France 2."

"From all aboard, America is perceived to have leadership of the world, but yet we see the president describing the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris as a quote, 'random act of violence,'" Cruz explained. "There is nothing random about radical Islamists going into a Kosher deli to murder Jews for their Jewish faith."

Cruz also railed on State Department spokesman Marie Harf for saying that the Islamic State cannot be defeated by killing the terrorists and that the militants should instead be given employment.

"The State Department spokesperson just said recently and said, 'We can't win this by killing ISIS, we need to give them jobs,'" Cruz continued. "What utter and complete nonsense. That is precisely how we win this. We kill the terrorist leaders before they kill us."

Cruz accused Obama of using "Orwellian doublespeak," and claimed that America needs a president who is willing to stand up and defeat radical Islam and a nuclear Iran.

"We need a commander in chief, that will actually stand up and defend the United States of America. We need to stop this bizarre Orwellian doublespeak," Cruz continued. "We cannot defeat radical Islamic terrorists with a president who is unwilling to utter the words, 'radical Islamic terrorist.'"

In discussing the 2016 presidential race, Cruz acknowledged that it will likely be a crowded race for the Republican nomination in 2016. Cruz warned that Republican voters should be wary of "squishy moderates" who are considering running for president. He urged that voters should be looking for candidates who "walk the walk," not "talk the talk."

"There are lots of terrific candidates and 2016 looks like it is going to be a crowded race. There are a lot of people here who are powerful and are inspirational and make your heart soar and inspire me every day," Cruz said. "How do we differentiate?"

"We have a way to tell the difference. The Lord tells us that 'You shall know them by their fruits,'" Cruz continued. "So, I would encourage all the men and women gathered here today to demand action, not talk."

Cruz added that identifying a real conservative is much like identifying a Christian, who stands firm to defend his or her faith.

"Like my boss would say, 'If I am ever convicted of being a Christian, I would like there to be enough evidence to convict me,'" Cruz said. "Now that is powerfully, powerfully true and it is equally true of being a conservative. If you are really a conservative, you will have been in the trenches, you will bear the scars, you will have been fighting the fights."

Obama calls the Holy Koran the book of Islam; but for him the Bible is not Holly, but just the good book.

A TAQIYYA PRESIDENT?

By David Meir-Levi On January 19, 2012 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage

In a previous essay, the present writer exposed the concept of “taqiyya” as a traditional Muslim form of deceit employed by Yasir Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and other leaders of the Arab terror war against Israel. El-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood also are using taqiyya against the USA and other western countries, and with frightening success. While the Qur’an encourages honesty between believers (Sura 40:28), deception directed at non-Muslims, generally known in Arabic as taqiyya, has full Qur’anic support.

The Qur’an (Sura 2:225, 3:28, 3:54, 9:3, 16:106, 40:28, and 66:2) establishes the religious legitimacy of breaking oaths, lying, unilaterally violating treaties, and generally scheming against non-Muslims. Allah Himself is described as “the best of schemers” (3:54, 8:30, 10:21), and Muhammad declared, as a justification for murdering unarmed prisoners after offering them safe passage, “war is deceit” (see the Hadith collection of Bukhari, vol. 4, book 52, nos. 268-271).

The Qur’an and later sources command the obedient Muslim to be engaged in eternal war, jihad, with the non-Muslim world until the supremacy of Islam over the entire world is complete. More than 120 times ((2:193, 4:89-90, 8:12, 8:39, 9:5, 9:11, 9:25, 9:29, 9:39, inter alia; and see here for detailed discussion) the Qur’an calls Muslims to jihad until Islam is the only or dominant religion in the world. Based on its bloody and gruesome history, and on the voices of its dominant figures, Islam must be understood as a religion that institutionalizes war, conquest, imperialism and subjugation as its normative behaviors. And in its most extreme iteration, it preaches the destruction of Judaism, Christianity, the Hindu civilization, and western civilization.

This being the case, what is the value of a treaty with a country under the control of Muslim extremists who subscribe to this iteration of Islam? The answer to that question comes from Muslim scholars themselves: “By their very nature, treaties (with non-Muslims) must be of temporary duration, for in Muslim legal theory, the normal relations between Muslim and non-Muslim territories are not peaceful, but warlike” (Majid Khadduri, War and Peace in the Law of Islam, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1955, p. 220); and “…open-ended truces are illegitimate if Muslims have the strength to renew the war against them [non-Muslims]” (Ahmad Mahmud Karima, Al-Jihad fi’l Islam: Dirasa Fiqhiya Muqarina, p. 461, quoted by Raymond Ibrahim here, and discussed in greater depth here and here).

Such a violent and bloody history of conquest and expansionism ought to spark concern among neighbors to Muslim countries and targets of Muslim aggression. Knowing this, some Muslim leaders employ taqiyya to promote an image of Islam as a religion of peace, and the practitioners of jihad as an aberrant few, a minority of misunderstanders of the “true Islam” — in short, nothing about which the targets of jihad need worry.

But even as apologists for Islam declare any western leader’s concern about jihad to be an insult bordering on Islamophobia , Muslims speaking in their own languages to their own people have no hesitation about verbalizing their plans for Muslim world domination. A popular topic for discussion on Arabic TV channels is the best strategy for conquering the West. That strategy seems to be patience in the use of taqiyya, since the West currently has overwhelming economic, military and scientific power and cannot be defeated by traditional military strategies. For a more graphic example, note the comments of an

Australian Muslim cleric Abu Bakr, also known as Abdul Nacer Benbrika :

“I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religions. It doesn’t tolerate (them). The only one law which needs to spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam.” Along the same lines, in Kuala-Lumpur (Malaysia), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad declared that: “… Islam will soon be the domineering force in the world…the world will be in the hands of Islam over the next few years” (ITAR/TASS Russian news agency, March 5, 2006 quoted here and here based upon here).

In numerous sermons Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher Sheikh Yusuf el-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, rants about the destruction that awaits the Jews when Islam is the world’s ruling religion and the ancient “just and righteous Caliphate” is triumphant (see here, here and here for a general survey of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, here for el-Qaradhawi’s plans for future conquest of the west, here for reactions to el-Qaradhawi’s fatwa calling for the killing of Americans in Iraq, here for al-Qaeda and other Muslim terror group’s plans for the West, and MEMRI TV’s video of a typical Qaradhawi speech).

And similar sentiments are expressed in the mosques and among the leaders of America’s ally, Saudi Arabia. In the most sacred mosque in Islam, Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudais, the leading imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, uses his sermons to call for Jews to be ‘annihilated’ and to urge the overthrow of Western civilization.

The rest of the history

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/david-meir-levi/taqiyya-vs-our-president/

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