Arab or not, I like reading a story about somebody who ‘gets it’. Good post.
While I agree 100%, I also noted the reference to "Chaldean Chamber" in the story and that may mean this family is likely Chaldeans/Assyrian Christian (Eastern Rite Catholic and united with the Roman Catholic Church). They were post WW One refugees from the Islamic persecutions in (now) Syria and Iraq following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
The linked web site specifies the following; "Historically, Chaldeans are from the Arab World but are not Arabs."!
Arab is not necessarily muslim.