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The largest number of Arab Christians are in Egypt, Israel (as well as the Palestinian places), Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Arab populations of these places (the Americas, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and America), a big number of these Arabs are Christians. In Brazil, there are more than 12 million Arabs, and most of these people are Christian.
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Arab Christians [5] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - specifically in Egypt and the Levant - were at the forefront of the Arab renaissance that propelled the Arab states toward a cultural and economic resurgence. The process was inspired by Europe, and particularly by the original agent of the Arab world's enforced opening to the modern world: France.
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Considering all things being equal, the Arab Moslems and Arab Christians are similar in many ways. They share the same Arabic language and script; musical instruments, music and songs; food and apparel. In some instances, they even tread on common grounds such as going to the same school, teahouse, cafe, restaurant, cinema, and entertainment centres. They commute on public transport without much fuzz. At one time, they even owned camels. They used them as caravans in trade and travel. Yet, practically, Islamic states, first and foremost, now belong to the Moslem male.
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While Arab Christians do use the word Allah to refer to God (or Yahweh), there is a clear difference between Islam’s Allah and the Biblical Allah. But the argument that Allah was used because that is simply the Arab word for God is a complete lie. Think about this: The letter was written in English, and it was not written to Arabs, but to Muslims from all over the world of various nationalities and languages. Thus Mclaren’s defense is proven to be indefensible. Because the letter was written in English to Muslims from all over the world, the English word “God” or even the more accurate name “Yahweh” should have been used. Period.
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Although the Christian Arabs are one of the oldest communities of believers, present- day Arab Christians are experiencing a new Diaspora. Not only is the psyche of every Palestinian Christian in Israel at peril; the very survival of the community is in gravest jeopardy. Some 27,000 Arab Christians inhabited Jerusalem in 1967; less than 7,000 have remained today. In Nazareth the largest Arab City in Israel with a population of almost 70,000 Christians, formerly constituted a significant majority. Today, the figure is closer to 34 per cent (of a total population of 90,000)-- and still falling.
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Ever since the establishment of the Palestinian Arab national movement in the early 1920s, Christians have distinguished themselves in the political-cultural dimensions of the movement. Throughout the British mandate, they were active in the struggle against Zionism, most significantly in presenting the Palestinian national cause to the Western public and governments. In contrast, Christian participation on the operational level, in riots and demonstrations, was minor. This might be explained by several factors, first and foremost the Christians' historic tradition as a protected minority. Unlike in Lebanon where the Maronites never came under direct Muslim rule and their autonomy ... included the use of arms, the Christians in Palestine, as elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, were dhimmis (non-Muslim protected people) and as such were deterred from carrying arms and joining the army, and depended on the Muslim majority for their security. They internalized this dependence on the Muslim majority as a social characteristic that persisted even after the Ottoman reforms of the nineteenth century abolished these rules.
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