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.
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.
Still is. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/112/22.0.html
Probally the reason Lebanon is mostly muslum today, the Marinoities immrigrated here.
"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"
Excellent point. So why do we still have these politically correct immigration policies on the books?
Don't bet on it. My experience during the first Gulf war...based on direct contact within arab Christian parishes...indicated that a significant percentage of arab Christians in this country opposed our intervention against the "ghoulish" Saddam to save Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Their ethnicity seemed to trump their Christianity.
I don't think Arab Americans are loyal but I do know this one Egyptian Copt who HATES Moslems - so much does he hate them that he wishes for Mecca and Medina to one day glow in the dark! No kidding.
Most of the Arabs down in Bay Ridge (the largest Arab community in NYC) are now Muslims from Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen.