Posted on 12/03/2015 9:41:45 AM PST by Isara
In the wake of a deadly mass shooting in California, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told the Washington Free Beacon that these incidents should serve as a warning that the "threat of radical Islamic terrorists murdering innocents is growing graver and graver."
Cruz, who spoke to the Free Beacon following a presidential candidates forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, said that while "the details are still murky" about what motivated 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook to allegedly gun down a room full of people, the threat posed by radical terrorists in the United States is growing unabated.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those murdered and injured in San Bernardino, and all of us are obviously concerned that this was a manifestation of radical Islamic terrorism," Cruz said. "In the wake of the Paris attack, that threat of radical Islamic terrorists murdering innocent Americans is growing graver and graver."
Farook, an American citizen, was a "very religious" Muslim, according to his father.
"He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He's Muslim," the elder Farook told the New York Daily News.
Cruz said that the threat posed to the United States by Islamic State terrorists and other radicals is growing as the Obama administration continues to look the other way.
"Our enemies are at war with us, even if President Obama refuses to acknowledge or admit it," Cruz said. "They are waging a war to murder innocent Americans, and we need a commander in chief who not only will recognize the threat but will stand and lead to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, to utterly destroy [the Islamic State, also known as ISIS] and ensure that under no circumstances Iran acquires nuclear weapons."
Incidents such as this "underscore the stakes in the next election," Cruz said.
Asked about the Obama administration's plan to allow more than 10,000 Syrian refugees to resettle in the United States, Cruz described the proposal as "nothing short of lunacy."
American authorities lack the ability to properly vet these individuals, and could potentially grant terror-linked individuals asylum in the United States, Cruz said.
"President Obama and Hillary Clinton's plan to bring tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to America is nothing short of lunacy," he said. "President Obama's own FBI director told Congress that the Obama administration cannot vet the refugees to determine whether or not they are ISIS terrorists."
Essentially, the administration has "no information as to which Syrians are involved with ISIS or jihadists so they can query the database till the cows come home and get no results," Cruz said.
Yet, Obama and his allies remain wedded "to their politically correct obsession to not even acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism," Cruz said. "They are insisting on bringing refugees to this country even though the FBI cannot tell us whether or not they are terrorists."
Cruz is the Senate sponsor of legislation that would bar the Obama administration from accepting any new refugees from countries in which terror organizations control a significant amount of territory.
The bill specifically targets Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen due to the presence of Islamic State militants and other radical terror forces.
Any Blacklivesmatter people throwing a hissy fit today because Jihadi mass shooting is in the news again?
Yes.
DeeRay
I can’t stand that SOB.
Of the college morons protesting microaggressions.
Whoever is the next President needs to eliminate CAIR as a seditious organization
Obama and his ideologues have set CAIR up a political force in this country. They are being given unparalleled access to policy and information, and as we saw on TV last night, we are being slowly told they are the true voice of Islam in America.
They are extremely dangerous.
When will the government and media whores wake up and realize we have an enemy, Muslims, yes MUSLIMS, that hates us and wants to kill us all? Such mass killings would go on and on if the police didn’t show up and try to stop them or, the TERRORISTS ran out of ammunition. Nothing will change until someone of “higher importance” is one of the TERRORISTS victims, perhaps then they will realize who the enemy really is. Seems the “little people” are expendable and “work place violence” is an acceptable excuse. Not for me it isn’t. Carry your weapons and if you don’t have one, get one.
Thank you Senator Cruz. Great chart.
CAIR's quick 'damage control' move last night is a CLEAR indication this was an Islamic terror attack. If Muslims in America are treated like SH*T because of what happened yesterday.. GOOD.
Iowans think Rubia is next more ready? Morons.
Someone should tell Cruz the issue is not vetting muslims. This guy was apparently a son of immigrants. How does one vet people not yet born? The issue is muslims, period.
#ISLAMICTERRORISMMATTERS
UKnowWhat, Chicky?
I have read several places that the feds had this guy’s name last week. What if LEOs were prevented BY the feds from acting on the info-or that LEO didn’t have the info at all-BECAUSE THE FEDS SQUASHED THE INFO?
We have an MB on the Nat’l Security team, courtesy of 0bama. Who knows who all has infiltrated the FBI and NSA?
Wire taps would have shown this guy’s pattern in a nanosecond. Until a couple of days ago, NSA was ‘officially’ all over that like stink.
“Our enemies are at war with us, even if President Obama refuses to acknowledge or admit it,” Cruz said. “They are waging a war to murder innocent Americans, and we need a commander in chief who not only will recognize the threat but will stand and lead to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, to utterly destroy [the Islamic State, also known as ISIS] and ensure that under no circumstances Iran acquires nuclear weapons.”
We are at war, in our own country. This is exactly why we have the 2nd amendment. We must arm ourselves and be ready to fight our enemies, both foreign and domestic.
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