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Welcome to Assadville, USA
posted on November 11, 2014For The Daily Beast, Christopher Moraff reports on support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from the Syrian Americans of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Many of the city’s nearly 15,000 Syrian-American residents are Orthodox Christian, and for them, Assad’s army stands “as the only buffer between their ancient culture and its annihilation by ISIS.”