Ted Cruz: You Can’t Defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism If You Can’t Say It
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Tom Hinchey — January 13, 2015
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) said on Tuesday’s Fox & Friends that the world is lacking leadership to effectively fight the terrorist attacks occurring all over the world. He criticized President Obama for failing to attend the Unity Rally in Paris over the weekend.
“It was a very visual manifestation of what’s happened over six years. Over six years, America has receded from leadership in the world. And we saw it just this weekend as forty world leaders walking down the street in Paris and yet where is America, where is the president?”
The White House has not yet released the president’s activities for Sunday that prevented him from going to Paris. Senator Cruz slammed the president for not participating in the event when his presence would have demonstrated America’s support for France.
“He wasn’t standing with our allies, the French, and he wasn’t standing up against radical Islamic terrorism. He wasn’t providing the leadership the world desperately needs and that America has provided for so long.”
Cruz commented that the Obama administration will not be successful in defeating terrorism if they are unable to identify radical Islam as the source of those attacks: “You cannot defeat radical Islamic terrorism if you’re unwilling to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’” Cruz pointed out that there is a common thread among all the recent attacks around the world; yet we are lacking the leadership to effectively fight against it.
“And just, you know, look in recent months, I mean we’re seeing this all over the world, whether it is these horrific attacks on journalists, on police officers in France. Or whether it is in Sidney, Australia or whether it is in Canada or whether it is in Israel with Hamas terrorists coming in with butcher knives and cleavers murdering Israeli-American rabbis in synagogue as they pray. This is happening all over the world and there is a consistent theme of radical Islamic terrorism and we need clear leadership to combat it.”
h/t: The Blaze
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