Franklin Graham urges tighter Muslim refugee background checks; 'Unless something is done, only a matter of time until U.S. experiences France style attack'

Evangelist Franklin Graham believes that letting in Muslim refugees to the country would subject the U.S. to similar terrorist attacks suffered by France only recently.

The president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan Purse linked the current administration's plan to take in Muslim refugees with the recent terrorist attack in France where two young extremists murdered a French Catholic priest inside the Church of the Gambetta in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen, Normandy.

"President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and some other politicians want to allow tens of thousands of Muslim refugees into this country," the 64-year-old evangelical leader wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

"A few days ago two Muslim men went into a Catholic Church in France in the name of ISIS and brutally slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest," continued Graham. "The self-proclaimed ISIS soldiers shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they ran from the church."

The son of famed evangelist Billy Graham publicly expressed his support on a temporary ban on immigration for Muslims. He said the country must first have an accurate background check and vetting program before it can take in additional immigrants, particularly those coming from Muslim states.

He criticized the current administration for refusing to recognize the attacks in Brussels, Paris and New York on 9/11 as acts of Islamic terrorism and urged Christians to pray that God would give them a strong leader.

The presidential contender who endorses to ban Muslim immigration happens to be Republican nominee Donald Trump, who met with around 900 Christian conservative leaders in a closed-door meeting in New York in June.

His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, stands on the opposite end as she pledges to help immigrants be integrated into the American society and to refuse any deportation among them.

"Unless something is done, it's just a matter of time before we see this happen here in the United States," warned Graham.

He attached his post to that of an article denouncing people's tolerance as paving the way for further terrorism to take place.