Rand Paul: Assad 'Protected Christians' in Syria, Rebels 'Attacking Christians'

[Tx4obama]

Rand Paul: Assad 'Protected Christians' in Syria, Rebels 'Attacking Christians'

WASHINGTON - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday portrayed the current conflict in Syria as one between the government of President Bashar Al Assad, who Paul said "has protected Christians for a number of decades," and "Islamic rebels," who Paul said "have been attacking Christians" and are aligned with Al Qaeda.

"I think the Islamic rebels winning is a bad idea for the Christians, and all of a sudden we'll have another Islamic state where Christians are persecuted," Paul said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Paul was likely referring to a string of incidents in Egypt in recent weeks, where supporters of the deposed government of former president Mohamed Morsi have burned Coptic Christian churches to protest what they see as Christian backing for the military overthrow of Morsi's government.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/201309/01/rand-paul-syria_n_3852644.html

Rand Paul is not up for re-election until 2016 - darn it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators#List_of_current_Senators_by_Class

[PDJane]

1. Is the fact that there might be some Christians among the victims supposed to make it worse?

Children are children, regardless. The man's ignorant and just plain nasty.

[pscot]

3. I read that Assad has been cultivating

Maronite Christians to bolster his hold on power. There seem to be "Christian" units among his troops. I doubt that we understand 10% of how this all fits together.

[zbdent]

4. Well, according to a few reports ...

Christians had it pretty safe in Iraq until Saddam Hussein was overthrown by George W. Bush ...