Arab Christians and their right to coexist (against all odds by violent Arabism, Islamism)

gulfnews ^ | Jan 2009

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Arab Christians and their right to coexist GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - Dec 31, 2008 Even Pan-Arabism and nationalism have become empty of any meaning of unification, and are being used for conflicts with a neighbouring Muslim or Arab ...
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10271492.html

[Cronos]

Nice to see the Gulf News actually discussing the fate of Arab christians.

[Kolokotronis]

Its hard to tell what this fellow is saying as his piece is so poorly written.

The situation of Arab Christians is relatively straight forward. On the one hand they are being bred out of existence by or run out by the savagery in the internecine quarrels among, the Mohammedans and on the other they have been shown to be completely expendable by the West in the pursuit of their various foreign policies. One shouldn’t expect anything more out of Mohammedans. They are at base savages. What is to be loudly condemned, rather, are those Western governments, most especially here in America, which claim to be Christian but have been more than ready to turn a blind eye to, or even subsidize and protect Mohammendan regimes which are complicit in the destruction of Eastern Christian communities (as indeed have especially the Clinton and Bush Administrations). And by the way, the American government under President Bush has brought tens of thousands of Mohammedans into this country, as a matter of foreign policy, but has rejected virtually all immigrant visa requests from Arab Christians.

Personally, I think the anti-Eastern Christian policies of the Bush Administration were born of the beliefs of the odd and astonishingly chauvinistic form of American Protestantism which has gained apparent control of the Republican Party. As for the Clinton cabal, well, they’re a bunch of atheistic Realpolitik types. As such, their hypocrasy can’t hold a candle to that of the Bush crowd.

[Cronos]

Quite correct about Western governments. We’ve forgotten about the Christians of Iraq (the ancient Chaldean, Assyrian, Armenian and Syrian churches) and the Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian Christians. And the biggest Oriental Church, the Coptic Church is under constant attack in Egypt

[Cronos]

Personally, I think the anti-Eastern Christian policies of the Bush Administration were born of the beliefs of the odd and astonishingly chauvinistic form of American Protestantism which has gained apparent control of the Republican Party.

why do you say that?

[phillyfanatic]

First of all, forget the Arab Christians in the ME for a bit. What about those so called ‘peaceful’ Muslims here in the USA? Have they ever stood against Islamofascism on every level? No, they have not. No one knows any Muslim leaders or communities here who stand against jihadism. We all know the whiners like CAIR, but not Christian Arabs or ‘good’ Muslims here in the USA who are pro-American. So, now in the ME: no one stands up for the Christian Arabs. They have no PR supporters. Not Obama , not the Saudis, or Egypt. So what about those in the Pal state? They are forgotten and we see whining women in black wailing over Israeli shootings or bombings. We never see the media cover the Israeli pain or the Christian Arab pain in any of the ME nations including Israel itself. When I see the supposedly good Muslims stand up against jihadism , stand for Christian Arabs, and be against all Islamofascism, I will start to feel compassion for the Pals, and for supposedly ‘good’ Muslims here in the USA. As to the Christian Arabs, they get the short stick in all of these problems.

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The most moderate Muslim will typically “tell” you (in English) that he is against Islamofasvism, but he will make sure to “explain” the grievances that “push the radicals”, in other words he highlights the Jihad in an understandable form in such a way he can still claim he is a moderate...