U.S President Barack Obama shakes hands with Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Antalya, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Obama is attending the G-20 Summit while on a nine-day foreign trip that also includes stops in the Philippines and Malaysia for other global security and economic summits. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
The Washington Post
Speaking to reporters in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday, President Obama said his approach to countering the so-called Islamic State “is the strategy that ultimately is going to work” but that the terrorist network still can exact serious damage worldwide.
“But understand that one of the challenges we have in this situation is that if you have a handful of people who don’t mind dying, they can kill a lot of people,” Obama said in a news conference after the conclusion of the Group of 20 summit there. “That’s one of the challenges of terrorism. It’s not their sophistication or the particular weaponry that they possess, but it is the ideology they carry with them and their willingness to die.”
Obama also pointedly addressed the issue of whether the United States and other countries should continue to accept refugees, given the fact that one of the participants in the Paris plot may have come in with Syrian migrants. He said the United States would continue to accept more refugees from Syria and elsewhere, though “only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks.”
“Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values,” he said. “Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both.”
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But using that criterion is exactly what his administration is doing. It rejected the application of an Iraqi nun who wanted to visits the US to tell about the plight of Iraqi Christians on the childish notion that she would not return to Iraq. There has been no such application to muhammadan refugees.
Under the guidelines on the admission of refugees, more than 900 muhammadan refuges were issued visas as against 22 Christian refugees from the same Syria.
The liar in chief is complaining about using religion to vet the refugees because he can no longer hide his unmitigated bias of ‘standing with the muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction’.
Obama is a curse on history. Like pharaoh’s plagues, he is here to destroy humanity.
Namelee your prejudice and black and white reality needs no refutation. You see every thing remotely Christian as wonderful and any thing to do with the Muslims or Islam as evil.
I guess in this pursuit you do not mind inventing a few ‘facts’ as you go along.
I could not understand how reasonable people could banish each and every Muslim from Europe in 1492 and your kind provide ready answers. You are not fit for a global village, you seem to be hell bent on dividing it into two camps and destroying the planet in your pursuit of your Christianity of your imagination.
Have you forgotten the dark ages. See the history channel documentary on dark ages that your kind of black and white thinking created for a whole 1000 years:
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