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I stand by my argument that Turkey could never have become a "secularized" state had they not commited genocide against the millions of Christians living in Turkey at the time.

Muslims abhor the thought that they could possibly live under a predominantly Christian state.

About the term "arab" - My Arab Christian friends resent being lumped into the term Arab when the issue concerns terrorism. The terrorists are Muslims of every ethnic background.

Your Arab Christian friend may not be an Arab after all. Yes he or she speaks Arabic but his or her ethnic background and his or her culture are not Arabic. Again being a Lebanese Christian, I do not consider myself an Arab. Arabs are the people who came from the Desert of Arabia in the seventh century and established Islam in the Middle East and North Africa by the power of the sword. Those few Christians who stayed in the Middle East despite all the persecutions are not of ethnic Arab background but rather from Phoenicians, Syriac (not Syrian), Coptic, and Arameic descents.