ALLENTOWN, Pa. >> Some Syrian Christians in Pennsylvania’s third-largest city say they don’t think it’s a good idea to bring Muslim refugees from Syria into Allentown.

It’s a sectarian twist on a debate taking place nationally over the federal government’s plan to accept an additional 10,000 refugees from Syria.

Allentown, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia, is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of Syrians. They are mostly Christian and, in no small number, support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Aziz Wehbey is an Allentown auto dealer and president of a Syrian-American charity. He worries some Syrian refugees might have taken part in the fighting in Syria’s civil war and have “blood on their hands.”

Other Syrian Christians say they welcome the refugees.