KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz on Monday called the Obama administration's plan to accept refugees from war-torn Syria "nothing short of crazy," because he believes some are Islamic State terrorists.
"There is a reason the director of national intelligence said among those refugees are no doubt a significant number of ISIS terrorists," the Texas senator told a crowd of hundreds in a Michigan campaign stop, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "It would be the height of foolishness to bring in tens of thousands of people including jihadists that are coming here to murder innocent Americans."
Disgusting is an insufficient word to describe the cruel tyranny that exists in the swathes of Iraq and Syria controlled by the Islamic State.
A report by a Syrian human rights group released Oct. 7 catalogues more than 10,000 executions by ISIS in those two countries over the past year, including hundreds of executions of women and children. Whether beheading and crucifying Christians for refusing to convert to Islam or throwing homosexuals to their deaths from tall buildings, ISIS's brutality knows no bounds.
