Discussion: Ted Cruz: 'Jihad' Was Waged Against Religious Freedom Bills

[system1]

Discussion for article #235212

[austin_dave]

[xyxox]

The only jihad being waged is the jihad the Christianists like Cruz declared against the LGBTQ community.

[blue_grit]

No Ted, these laws are part of the christianist Aryanization of America.

[trippin]

Spoken like a true extremist mullah.

[ralph_vonholst]

My own CT. Is it possible that Ted Cruz, and to a slightly lesser degree, Ron Paul and Scott Walker, are being “trotted” out to make Jeb Bush look more reasonable and “presidential” in comparison? Hell, even I’m starting to think that Jeb is not so bad anymore. Jeb’s campaign slogan: “Hey, it’s O.K. to vote for me, I’m not insane.”

[whatithink]

This is the same idiot who claims the “liberal” media makes him look like an asshole by accurately quoting what he says.

[doninsd]

Teddy is far too petty, vain, and shallow to ever attain the brilliance needed to make a statement worthy of repetition.

[cincypix]

You must admit that as a presidential candidate, Canadian Cruz is evolving. At least he’s no longer calling Dems Nazi appeasers

[silas1898]

So that makes Mary an adulteress for cheating on Joseph and having God’s love-child.?

[granna129]

Not today, anyway.

[exspectator]

This is shaping up to be the most entertaining Republican primary year yet!

[steviedee111]

Cruz longs for a return to the 50s. The 1850s.

[silas1898]

Could be. The same strategy Mittens used. Splinter the crazy vote, win a plurality and thus get all the delegates in the winner-take-all states.

[thunderclapnewman]

Unsurprisingly, Cruz (R-Canada) doesn’t know the meaning of the word jihad.

Jihad is an Islamic term referring to a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād is a noun meaning “struggle” or “resisting”. A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid, the plural of which is mujahideen.

Cruz obviously believes that it means some sort of warlike activity.
And he’s wrong—just as he’w wrong about everything else.

[buckaroobanzai]

Well ‘Jihad’ is a form of religious expression, so it should be covered…

[granna129]

THIS guy…so early in the “election” process and already he pisses me off every time he opens his mouth. He should be shamed, not A-shamed, publicly shamed, like the North Dakota crew plastered all over the front page of one of their papers, or like the Infamous 47 who joined Tom Cotton in having the unmitigated gall and stupidity to write to the fn Ayatollah and mullahs. He should be shamed by all sorts of voices across the country, by all sorts of different media, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, op-eds, you get the picture.

Every time he opens his mouth to compare ANYONE, even the Christo-Fascists that support him financially and ideologically, to use the phrases and language of our “enemies” as a compare and/or contrast…he should be publicly shamed. Loudly and frequently, until he either shuts the hell up about it or drops out of the “race”.

THIS guy…is dangerously inflammatory.

[granna129]

That is true, all of it. He is, however, dangerously wrong. See my rant below.

[dolono]

Not a bad theory. I think fox has declared open season on rand paul. Their PR calculation is probably A. it helps them deflect claims of conservative bias - ‘hey, we’re asking that asshole tough questions!’ and B. fat pig roger ailes’ and his cadre don’t want rand, so he’s as good as dead in the GOP race.

[jw1]

Oughta’ contact Josh M. with a cost-efficiency idea.
He should instruct his writers to distill everything that Sen Cruz utters down to:

I am an ass^ole of great magnitude!

…and save everyone the time to read whatever ass^oliness he does spout.

jw1