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The New Republic bashes Rand Paul for concern over Syria’s Christians

By C. J. Refsland on September 5, 2013 • ( 2 )

My Comment: Rand Paul seems to be one of the only ones speaking out about the plight of Syria’s Christians, and how much worse it will be under the rebels. I know that all the people of Syria are suffering, I pray for them daily. And as for the ‘garbage of America being a Christian nation’ WE ARE, OR AT LEAST WE WERE A PRE-DOMINATELY CHRISTIAN NATION!

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is being criticized by The New Republic for concern over Christians after Syrian rebels attacked a Syrian Christian village.

In an article titled “Rand Paul’s Syria Bible Thumping: Why does he only seem to care about the country’s Christians?” journalist Julia Ioffe rails, “Paul’s emphasis on Syrian Christians is more than a simple reminder of a neglected aspect of an already complicated situation.”

Ioffe continues, Rand’s concern over Christians in Syria “sounds distinctly like the garbage about America being a Christian nation, like the unnerving evangelical support of Israel, like the not-too-subtle hum on the right that some lives, Christian lives, are simply more important than other, Muslim ones.”

On Wednesday morning, rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group launched the assault on predominantly Christian Maaloula, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Damascus, according to a Syrian government official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime group, The Associated Press reported.

Maaloula is a mountain village with about 2,000 residents, who are among a tiny group in the region that still speaks a version of Aramaic, the ancient language of biblical times also believed to have been spoken by Jesus.

At the start of the attack, an al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a regime checkpoint at the entrance to the village, said the Observatory, which collects information from a network of anti-regime activists, AP said.

AP spoke to a nun from the village who chose to remain anonymous. “It’s a war. It has been going from 6 a.m. in the morning,” she said from her convent, which houses 13 nuns and 27 orphans. She said around 80 people from the village had come to the convent for safety.

The nun told AP that rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel and nearby caves and shelled the community below.

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