Posted on 02/29/2016 1:25:35 PM PST by Trumpinator
Trump Gains Among Christians in the Middle East By Ray Hanania
February 18, 2016
Donald Trump may have angered Muslims with his broad swipes at Islamic terrorism and violence, but he has garnered more positive sentiment from Christians in the Middle East.
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Trump's comments have gained strong support among Arab Christians and Middle East Christians who feel as though mainstream Muslim activists have failed to fully confront extremists. Though Muslims reject the radicals' tactics of terrorism and violence, arguing that they twist the true face of Islam, their leadership fails in strategic communications. Trump is honest and compensates for this.
Which Republican presidential candidate has had the courage to criticize war criminals former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney? Trump. He feels that the U.S. war with Iraq failed to bring democracy to Iraq and opened the door to extremist terrorist groups. The majority of Middle East Christians agree with Trump and believe that Saddam Hussein's death opened the floodgates for religious extremism to consume Iraq and allow groups like al-Qaida and ISIS to use the country as a staging ground.
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Trump should learn to qualify his statements about Islamic terrorists and Mexicans, as the vast majority of Muslims and Mexicans are good people who fall prey to violence and crimes. But the fact remains, Middle East Christians, who make up the majority of Arabs in the United States and who will be voting in this election, believe Trump is their man.
Ray Hanania is an award-winning Palestinian American columnist, managing editor of The Arab Daily News at www.TheArabDailyNews.com, and writer at Al Jazeera English. Follow him on Twitter @RayHanania. To find out more about Ray Hanania and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
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Enemy of my enemy...
Exactly. There are some Western Protestants who think that Catholics & Orthodox aren’t Christians. That Protestanism is the Original Christianity.
Ignorance.
“but most Christians don’t mind co-existing with Israel,”
Gee, thanks.
OK. Sorry, too. The casual way the writer just spewed that out, like “snowy Buffalo” or “swampy everglades,” as if there was no disputing that Dubya and Cheney were war criminals really burnt me up, so I reacted from the gut, which is how bar fights start in Westerns.
If you don’t know that, it’s not my fault. If Cruz doesn’t know that, then he’s WOEFULLY UNINFORMED - which is why I’m voting for Trump.
My experience with Christians has generally been: (A) in the USA, generally military (I train US pilots), (B) visitors to Israel, (C) Israeli Arabs; (D) Copts I assisting in fleeing Egypt recently; and (E) Orthodox or Roman Christians from the surrounding countries of Israel.
With the rarest of exceptions A, B, and C have been outstanding people and very supporting of Israel.
D were shocked I (a stranger) was helping them, and became friends. I moved a lot of doctors to the USA.
E, with rare exception (generally Roman Catholics are OK), are Sunni-aligned, extremely anti-Semitic, anti-United States, anti-Israel, in almost a Stockholm-like hatred as dhminni in muslim countries.
For you to align yourself with Group E is strange and hopefully woefully uninformed.
The only group they might hate more than Israelis are Americans.
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