Sen. Ted Cruz continued his campaign for most craven politician of 2015 Thursday night in an interview with Fox News where he let his religious bigotry go wild. But first he gloated over the fact that "twice this week, President Obama has attacked me directly," over his religious litmus test for allowing in refugees. Then he went on to justify his theocratic vision by condemning all of Islam.
"There is a religious philosophy in Islamism that encourages them to lie to carry out jihad," Cruz said. "And if you looks at Islamism, it is a theocratic and political ideology that says they are compelled to use violence and force to murder anyone that doesn't share their radical faith or to forcibly convert them." […]
"He said, gosh, his ancestors were Irish and Italian and we didn’t block him," Cruz told Hannity. "And I responded to Pat Leahy and I said, 'You know what, on my mother's side, my ancestors were Irish and Italian. The difference was, they weren't coming here to blow up and murder innocent civilians.'"
Cruz is seemingly convinced that a combination of fundamentalist Christian bigotry and fear is the ticket to the White House, or at the very least the Republican nomination. Sadly, with the state of the Republican party, he might just be right. And that's just what ISIS wants. What a recruiting tool a Ted Cruz nomination would be.
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