According to U.S. right-wing politician, Bashar Assad is a "heroic" defender of religious freedom

According to Virginia State Senator Richard Black, Syria’s tyrannical leader Bashar Assad is a great defender of religious freedom.

Sure all leaders who believe in religious and other freedoms protect those freedoms with the indiscriminate mass murder of their citizens with chemical weapons.
He said it in a love letter to Assad who Black describes as “heroic” and where he describes Assad’s indiscriminate slaughter of his own citizens with poisonous gas as “exhibiting extraordinary gallantry” just like dear old dad.

Assad’s critics, including Republicans, call the mass murder of his own citizens with chemical weapons a war crime and a crime against humanity. But hey they just don’t understand those things don’t matter because Assad defends religious freedom, but please only for the right religions.

Assad has really good reasons for the two attacks in recent days on international observers who were charged with making sure the tyrant of Syria complies with the agreement he made with the U.S. and the international community to get rid of those chemical weapons.

This passage of Black’s love letter to Assad is especially priceless:

You have followed the practices of your father by treating with respect all Christians and the small community of Jews in Damascus. You defended their churches and the Jewish Synagogue, and you have permitted them to worship freely according to their beliefs. I am grateful for that.