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Christians are perhaps 30% of the population in Lebanon, 20% in Sudan, high single digits on the West Bank and Jordan, 1-2% in Egypt and Syria, and a tiny minority in Iraq. Overall, perhaps 1-2% of the Arab World is Christian -- a smaller percentage than the Jewish population in the U.S.(which is 2%+)

To be frank, we're really talking Islam, a religion whose holy places are in the Arab world, and whose holy book and mother language is Arabic.

Respectfully, I think you're stereotyping Muslims in the same way many of them are stereotyping us. Again, practically every American has been angry at Muslims since 9-11. I'm no exception.

However, it isn't smart to promote a religious conflict with Muslims. Many have no quarrel with us. Some agree with us. We're going to need them -- for intelligence, special operatives and bases, to say nothing of oil.

We're talking about a billion people. Sunnis, Shiites. People who attend mosque and don't attend mosque. The devout and non-believers. Radicals and conservatives. Businessmen and street urchins. Men and women. The educated and illiterate. People on six continents.

I think the more you observe them around the world, the more you're going to notice differences.

We've got to be able to distinguish among our enemies, our friends, and the indifferent. In wartime it's a matter of life and death.

We can't defend against every possible nuclear, chemical or biological attack. We have to plant spies in terrorist states and organizations. Unfortunately, native-born Christian Americans of British descent can't perform this service.

I am quite aware of the statistics you quote. I am also quite aware of the genocide commited against Christians in many of the lands you mention including Sudan most recently and other nations of the middle east over the hundreds of years. I am not sure what relevance these statistics have to the discussion of spies from within the muslim network of terror. And terror it is, from its inception - mohamed appealed to the baser instincts of the arabs and this false ideology is as dangerous as imperialistic Marxism leninism etc. ever was. I base my comments on my personal knowledge of muslems both here in the USA and abroad. It seems to me that you are wishfully hoping for the reasonable muslims to aid in their own destruction - won't happen becusae there is no reason within the muslim ideology. Read my post about divide and conquer. That strategy will help.