Posted on 09/25/2004 8:46:16 AM PDT by yoe
Until fairly recently tha majority of Arab Americans were Christians. These included Lebanese and Syrian Maronite Catholics , Iraqi Chaldeans, and Egyptian Copts. Immigration has changed this, but I would bet that those Christian Arab Americans are as loyal as any other immigrant group. Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue Arab community was founded by Maronite Syrian Arabs and even with the influx of Muslims the Maronites are quite numerous.
To Islam?
Sure.
If they are non-Muslim, probably. If they are Muslim, I doubt it.
If they are non-Muslim, probably. If they are Muslim, I doubt it.
"If they are non-Muslim, probably. If they are Muslim, I doubt it.
DITTO!!
That's just it --- if they're Muslim, they're loyal to the mullahs and to the Koran but cannot be loyal to the USA.
It's obvious that when you have a country based on Judeo-Christian values and many freedoms for individuals, then someone who doesn't believe in those cannot be loyal to it. Islam is the opposite of freedom, it doesn't mean freedom --- it means submission.
Unless, of course, one is an Arab American. Then it's OK to take their rights.
The same question was asked about Japanese-Americans, German-Americans and Italian-Americans during World War 2. The blood of thousands of brave men from these groups who died fighting for America answered the question then, to the disgrace of those who doubted their loyalty. Anyone who asks a similar question today concerning other groups needs to remember that history before making any assumptions.
Maybe..
If the society is closed and Arabic women kowtow to melieval/Islamic cultural mores, then family life is ruled by a despotic male who spouts the Koran because it's the foundation for total rule. Not to bash men per se, but that's the nuts and bolts of it. To Muslims, women are chattel, the US culture subverts their notion of what's permissible, and the mullahs or clerics rant insidious evil from the pulpit.
Everything is subordinated to a religion whose ideas lobotomized an entire region of the world, turned them into ill-educated, violence-prone fools who daydream of becoming homicidal maniacs. Enraged envy of the West and the US is entwined with an overwhelming sense of inferiority. We try to help and innocents get their heads chopped off. This won't do, and the day of reckoning is coming.
" Are Amrican Arabs Loyal? "
To the United Arab Emrates?
NO.
Not even American ones. True muslims practicing true islam make no provision for that.
Read the quran and the hadith, and it shall all become clear. So few Americans still need to learn the reason why Pakistanis go ballistic when discussing "palestine". It all makes sense when you realize that up until the 20th century, arabic did not have a word for "state". As in "country"...
That said, let me add that a great deal of harm has been caused down through the centuries by religious fanaticism. But when western civilization is in a fight to the death, we have no choice but to defend ourselves. The fact that our weapons are light-years ahead of theirs is just too bad.
You chose your name wisely, Grasshopper.
As an American of Arabic descent, I find this headline distasteful. My family came here from Syria (at least it was Syria then, now it's Lebanon) in the late 1800's and early 1900's in order to escape the same Muslim persecution against Christians that is occuring in the Middle East today. My grandfather served as a dentist on a hospital ship in WWII, giving 20 years to this country. My father lied about his age so that he could enlist at 16 years of age to fight that same war. He also served in Korea. My uncle has 64 shrapnel wounds all over his body from a mortar attack he survived in Vietnam. And you, sir, dare challenge whether we are loyal? Go to hell, my dear fellow. Go straight to hell.
Your ignorance of Arabs is immense. Not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are terrorists. Your desire to pigeonhole an entire race of people smacks of the worst kind of bigotry, the kind of bigotry decent-minded Christians and conservatives can do without.
I happen to be a Christian, but I have an Arabic last name. Since 9/11 my children have been referred to as "sand niggers" by other children, probably your chioldren, in their school. Now you ask me if I am loyal? I have been a Republican all my life, but to be considered the same as the likes of you turns my stomach. It really does.
Proofreading is your FRiend.
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