Harold Ramis is another Lebanese.
Posted on 12/04/2005 10:24:15 AM PST by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
Agreed 100 %.
Ex husband is Lebonese American which obviously makes our daughters the same. Add me - thanks!
Excerpt: From "We the People of Arab Ancestry in the United States"
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In 2000, one-fourth of those
reporting Arab ancestry were
Lebanese (245,000 or 29 percent).
The next largest specific
groups were Egyptian (123,000
or 14.5 percent) and Syrian
(76,000 or 8.9 percent),
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When you read that piece, those of Lebanese descent are Arab. This minutia of "ancestry" and what makes up "etnicity" gets sliced and diced too much. History of the region from hundreds or thousands of years ago is meaningless. Lebanese today are Arab. Heck, Syria controlled them for three decades recently.
Sometimes people get too minutia oriented. Every major source of info lists Lebanon as Arab, regardless of whether or not they are Christian, or what percent are Christian.
You may already be aware of Joseph Farah, the founder of wnd.com, a news site which is often linked at this site. If not, check out wnd. Farah is of Lebanese Christian descent. He writes a daily column for wnd which you can search for information. I have corresponded with him briefly and I have found him to be very gracious and forthcoming.
I always get a surprised reaction from other Americans when they find out I'm from the Middle East and am a Christian. Their first question is "When did you convert?", on the assumption that all Middle Easterners are Muslim. Without getting into theological niceties, I reply that my family was Christian. When they counter with, "When did your family convert?" I reply off-handedly, "Somewhere around 70 A.D." That usually elicits a puzzled look or two.
Pretty amazing about the education stats. Almost a 100% higher number of post-graduates of Arab descent versus the general popualtion.
Oh absolutely. He is great. A great American of Lebanese descent.
Sammy Haggar is of Lebanese descent. Rock On!!!
Yea, I get that too.
We are Catholic. Actually, some of our family is Maronite.
Maronite definition: They are Arabic-speaking Christians with their ethnicity, like most Lebanese, being a mix of Phoenician, Aramaeans, Roman, Greeks, and Arabian.
My uncle married a fine Lebanese (from Lavan in Genesis) woman. The Lebanese I have been blessed to know are worlds apart from the scum coming from arab lands currently.
Harold Ramis is another Lebanese.
Interesting thread.....learnt a few things today.
JFK?
Ha!
Tell this to any RATs you know:
Here is what the famous Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran wrote:
"Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?"
Tell your RATs "friends" that JFK was a plagiarist and drive them ballistic!
SOURCE: The Life and Work of Kahlil Gibran
http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=1171
It's a sad fact how ignorant most Americans are about the history of their own country, much less the Middle East. They also need to understand that it is most likely the vast majority of the Middle East that wasn't Jewish at the time of the Arab Muslim invasions, had converted to Christianity. Further, some of the oldest Christian sects are Middle Eastern (Coptic, Chaldean, etc.) and had flourished before Europe's conversion.
I may be making a generalistic assumption, however, most Middle Eastern Americans, up until 20-30 years ago, were Christians that fled the Middle East because of Muslim prejudice and worse, including television personalities like Mike Connors (Mannix), Danny Thomas, Michael Ansara and singers like Paul Anka and Andy Kim, to name a few. I had the pleasure of working with Christians primarily from Lebanon and Iraq.
What I'd like to know is what the real concerns are of the Middle Eastern Christians in this country now that we've got this problem on our shores that they thought they had fled from decades ago.
VERY interesting BUMP
The late Danny Thomas was of Lebanese Christian ancestry.
My ancestors from Lebanon (some form Syria) fled from murdering radical Muslims in 1905--Christians were being murdered and my family were Catholic. Radical extremists in the Arab world is nothing new.
Miss Lebanon, 2004. She's hot! Being I'm Catholic-Arab and not Muslim, I can say SHE IS HOT!
Yea, and his daughter Marlo Thomas was hot when I was a kid. Now, I think Salma Hayek is pretty hot.
Excellent post...and keep educating those who do not realize that most Arabs in the US are Christians!
For the most part "Arab" is not "Muslim"!
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