Jeb Bush Lies, Says Bashar Assad ‘Executes’ Christians |
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/jeb-bush-lies-says-bashar-assad-executes-christians/
In a CNN interview this week, presidential candidate Jeb Bush said that only Middle East Christians should be granted refugee status in the U.S. (a point I argued for two months prior to the Paris terrorist attacks which prompted Bush’s statement). In the midst of an otherwise good interview, however, Bush made a bizarre statement:
"There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS."
“Executed or imprisoned” by Assad? This is an absurd and patently false assertion.
Not only have Christian minorities long been protected under the secular regime of Assad — himself a member of a religious minority — but many Christian refugees who fled the jihad in Iraq (which Jeb’s brother George uncorked) fled to Assad’s Syria for sanctuary. As Russian President Vladimir Putin once correctly opined: “People are running away not from the regime of Bashar Assad, but from Islamic State, which seized large areas in Syria and Iraq, and are committing atrocities there. That is what they are escaping from.”
This is not the first time that Jeb Bush, in the midst of making sound comments, revealed his true views on the Middle East. A few weeks earlier, he said... KEEP READING
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