Joe Scarborough: “Yesterday in the New Republic we had this headline talking about persecution of Christians. It is in stark contrast to…”

“Yesterday in the New Republic we had this headline talking about persecution of Christians. It is in stark contrast to what we read about and hear about from apologists for China, whether it is in Wall Street, Washington, or in Hollywood. The New Republic reported that persecution is real and by all reports getting worse. Attacks of Catholics and of Protestants continue, and the Far East Economic Review stated that police destroyed 15,000 religious sites in one province last year alone. Priests were sent to re-education camps for 2 years for simply saying mass, and 40 percent of all inmates in labor camps are members of the Christian underground. The New Republic went on to say that the methods used to re-educate Christians include starving and beating detainees, binding them in excruciating positions, hanging them from their limbs and torturing them with electronic cattle prods and drills. Sometimes, relatives are forced to watch the torture sessions. When I hear the gentleman from Georgia speak about what happened in the 1960's in America, it reminds us too much of what is happening today even in a country that has killed 60 million of their own people in the past 50 years. We have to stop apologizing for China and stand up to this tyranny.”