[billhilly]

Well, I have been on this earth for sixty-five years now, and one and a half of those years was spent in Libya. Because I made the effort to speak the Arabic language, I was treated with respect in spite of my youth.

During those years I have been witness to numerous evil deeds performed by our average garden variety of all american criminal, yet the little town where I grew up had a merchant class of Lebanonese who were the salt of the earth. Their grand children and great grandchildren still live and thrive there. My grandfather, a farmer, depended upon them for credit between plantings and harvest.

We were southern baptist, but in those days our "preachers" pretty much kept their sermons in the church and their politics a secret.

[CyberCowboy777]

Not sure what you are driving at.

I do like your "keep the religion in the Church" philosophy.

God Forbid those nasty Christians have a opinion, worse if they share it with others.

Your "preachers" were wrong to hide the truth in a building.

[mdmathis6]

but were they Moslem...these Lebanese? Or were they Marionite Christian in their back-ground? You also have to distinguish between Lebanese people as opposed to other people groups who were Moslem...Lebanese have had a high degree of adaptability and hospitality is a trait they are well known for. I have found that many Lebanese that I have met in this country were Marionite Christians, quite brilliant and productive ones who've emigrated because of persecution and repression...especially Lebanese women....perpetrated on them by radical Moslems in their home countries. Lebanese people are descended from the ancient Phoenicians, they don't necessarily consider themselves Arabs...and not all are Moslem!