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The New Republic Bashes Rand Paul for Caring About Syrian Christians
dailycaller.com ^ | 09/05/2013

Posted on 09/08/2013 5:59:25 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 09/08/2013 5:59:25 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Mind-numbingly despicable article. This person needs to be thrown into a large paint mixer full of nails.

IT’S THE MUSLIMS DOING THE KILLING, YOU STUPID LEFT WING CRAPBUCKETS!


2 posted on 09/08/2013 6:05:16 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The small population of Christians in Syria are caught in the middle of the conflict. They have no power and simply want to be left alone.


3 posted on 09/08/2013 6:06:14 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Why does he only seem to care about the country’s Christians?” journalist Julia Ioffe rails...

Because Julia, Christians don't fly planes into buildings.

4 posted on 09/08/2013 6:06:38 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Northern Yankee

Why does she get her panties in a wad because somebody shows concern for Christians?


6 posted on 09/08/2013 6:15:29 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: MulberryDraw

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?


7 posted on 09/08/2013 6:16:58 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MulberryDraw

Why does Obama only seem to care about Russia’s gays?


8 posted on 09/08/2013 6:17:34 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: BarnacleCenturion

All over the world Muslims are fighting and killing and we call them the Religion of Peace.

If we don’t soon stop them there will be peace alright. The peace of the dead, and the enslaved.


9 posted on 09/08/2013 6:19:20 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

So the moral position here is based on indifference to deaths if the victims are not muslims?


10 posted on 09/08/2013 6:33:50 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: muir_redwoods

I’m going to paraphrase a little here:

“Liberal morality: the view that a Christian found brutally shot to death in Syria along with his entire family is somehow morally superior to a Christian describing to CNN how he seized an AK-47 and killed his Muslim attackers and saved his family members’ lives.”


11 posted on 09/08/2013 6:43:24 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Julia Ioffe who wrote the article is a Russian Jew born in Moscow. No love here for America nor Christians.


12 posted on 09/08/2013 7:00:53 AM PDT by EverOnward
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To: MulberryDraw

She and her ilk think we ought to have been better conditioned by the media, scholarly enlightenment, the “handwriting on the wall”, and influential political leaders by now. If not, we’ll have simply self-identified our unworthiness as mindless, bitter clingers, forever deserving the ultimate solution of “unprotected status.”

HF


13 posted on 09/08/2013 7:15:34 AM PDT by holden (Alter or abolish it yet?)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Who here reads the New Republic? Oh, sure. We might post a few excerpts from one of their anti-American columns, but actually it’s headed for the trashcan of history!


14 posted on 09/08/2013 7:27:35 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

No one dare mentions the plight of “Christians” anywhere, but Rand Paul. Christians are just not in vogue with anyone these days.

Thanks, Rand Paul.


15 posted on 09/08/2013 7:27:59 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Rusty0604

“Why does Obama only seem to care about Russia’s gays?”

That’s where he and Larry Sinclair want to relocate when he gets through destroying the United States. He’s looking for a place somewhere in Siberia, about as far away from America as possible. And he knows Putin usually leaves sodomites alone in Siberia. Putin figures they’ll freeze to death so whybother. Barry has it all figured out. He’s already told Michele about his plans.


16 posted on 09/08/2013 7:33:15 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: BarnacleCenturion

All Julia and the New Republic have proven is what a bunch of hateful anti-Christian bigots they are. Congratulations!


17 posted on 09/08/2013 8:06:13 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Viennacon

Leftists lie. They revise the “history” I have lived through and seen for myself.


18 posted on 09/08/2013 8:16:36 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Viennacon

They are demon possessed. It’s like a kid who knows he’s got it com in but cannot help do it again. These are cries as demons are dragging them to hell. They want that guilt subsidy. They manufacture it in socialist ways to make themselves feel better despite being on the wrong side.


19 posted on 09/08/2013 8:22:05 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: WashingtonSource

Who is Charlotte Errity?


20 posted on 09/08/2013 8:32:30 AM PDT by driftless2
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