Ted Cruz Booed Off Stage At Middle East Christian Conference [video]

[Synthaholic]

Statement of IDC President following disruption at IDC Gala Dinner In Defense of Christians
Statement by president of IDC. Called the hecklers "wedding crashers " who were made "no longer welcome." That they had " injected politics" into the proceedings. Would not doubt it to be a leftist bunch of pro gay or anti Wall Street people who had nothing to do with conference. It how the nutty left works. See Ward Churchill.

I kind of hope they are Republicans. Anything to put the Democrats in a bad light prior to the elections using Saul Alinsky tactics to boot! Ha ha. Priceless!

Describe those tactics.

I think you're talking out of your ass again.

 

[Vigilante]

Yes, people are wising up to the ARAB hoards, be they SUPPOSEDLY Christian, or fucking muslim terrorists, these POND SCUM, hate Israel, more then the ISIL terrorists that continue to kill and behead them and their children.... Perhaps it's simply an ARAB problem, and not just fucking muslims!

You've got to wonder what Cruz was thinking. It's also not a bad idea to wonder what the hell was motivating him to make the statements he did, as well. Why do I say that? Because the Christians are already a besieged tine minority in the Arab world who are currently also already easy targets. If they were to go out on a limb in support of Israel (which just so happens to be in a shooting war with Palestinian Muslims) when they live in countries where they have zero meaningful political power and/or leverage, what the hell do you think those Christians could expect as a consequence?

I can't help but wonder if Cruz wasn't just playing up to his conservative Christian base of support here in America while also playing up the conservative penchant to wallow in imagined victimhood. How cynical is that?

WTF are you talking about....Have you seen the latest pictures of what fucking muslim terrorists are doing to Christians, and YOU THINk they have to be worried about being killed if they agree?.... They are already being selectively CRUCIFIED by the heathen pond scum of islam!

 

[Stephanie]

The plot thickens!


Christians Enraged With Cruz Over Pro-Israel Comments

Ted Cruz’s was booed off stage after addressing Middle Eastern Christians, now faces a backlash from key Christian writers and thinkers.

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Much of his pro-Israel conservative base would have had no problem with these comments, so Cruz may not have expected a backlash. But the response among key Christian thinkers and writers was fierce and immediate.

Cruz was accused of ignorance about the dynamics of Middle Eastern Christianity; of suggesting that he would not stand with Christians who didn't agree with his political stance on Israel; even of orchestrating a crass stunt on the backs of persecuted Christians.

"Sen. Ted Cruz suggested that holding the same political views on Israel was more important than the fellowship we share as Christians," Mollie Hemingway, a senior writer at The Federalist, a conservative website, told The Daily Beast. "We shouldn't fight the global persecution of Christians only if the victims share our political views."

Added Mark Tooley, the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy: "Must overseas Christians pass a political litmus test, even if it further endangers them, to gain American support and sympathy?"

Jeff King, the president of the watchdog group International Christian Concern, said that Cruz was "off-topic and rude" (the crowd was rude too, King added), but mainly did not understand the nuances of the persecuted Christian minority groups he was addressing.

"They can't be pro-Israel where they live, because they will get the snot beaten out of them or worse. If you don't understand the dynamics going in… you've got to question what he was thinking," King said. "He just doesn't understand the reality of Middle Eastern Christians."

Others went so far as to question whether Cruz purposely went to the conference as a stunt, that he was aware of the dynamics and wanted to show that he would support Israel in front of an audience where this would be unpopular.

"He used arguably the most persecuted and powerless minority in the world, Middle Eastern Christians, who are supposed to be his brethren in Christ, as a prop for a self-aggrandizing political stunt," said Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, a Catholic writer, in The Week.

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat was particularly scathing, pointing out that Cruz’s “co-religionists are being murdered.”

“By making a statement at *this* event, he basically flipped the bird to people and churches that are dying right now,” he tweeted.

what a bunch of hyperventilating by a bunch of leftist idiots
gawd do you swallow anything and everything if it fits for the person you hate?