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Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800450,00.html
Syria's Christians Side with Assad Out of Fear
(Der Spiegel-Germany) Bastian Berbner - Many of Syria's 2.5 million Christians are supporting President Bashar Assad, preferring a brutal dictator who guarantees the rights of religious minorities to the uncertain future that Assad's departure would bring. Assad is exploiting their fears of Islamists for his own ends.