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2008-04-01 -Obits-

Arab American Awarded Medal of Honor Posthumously

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2008-04-01 13:34|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Thank you Michael Monsoor. I can't help but wonder what the Arab world thinks of the fact that an Arab American has won the nations highest award for bravery and the ultimate sacrifice for his comrades in arms.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-01 13:54|| 2008-04-01 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 THey would think he was just a filthy infidel.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-01 14:26|| 2008-04-01 14:26|| Front Page Top

#3 They would think he was just a filthy infidel.

I suspect he would find that a high compliment.

Either way, a damn fine American that gave all for his country.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-01 14:46|| 2008-04-01 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 RIP to a brave sailor.

God help us if his sacrifice is desecrated by a President intent on defeat.

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The Arab world might condemn him for fighting on our side. The Muslim world might consider him an infidel (the name sounds christian)

Posted by mhw 2008-04-01 15:20|| 2008-04-01 15:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Monsoor is Catholic.

Jeanne Assam is another Arab American hero. She is also Christian.

Two point make a line.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-04-01 15:25|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-04-01 15:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd say he was most probably a christian, as indicated by his first name, though I might be wrong, could be an effort by his parents to show assimilation. Anyway, great symbol.

As an aside, in France, there was a brief period (50-early 60's) while arab migrants were few, and there was a push toward assimilation (many were men who married ethnic french wimmen, who raised their children western-style), when giving christian first names to lil' muslims was not unknown (like the french actress Isabelle Adjani, for example).
Since then, the trend has been completely reversed, and almost all arab/black muslim kiddies are given arab first names, regardless of the generations gone since their family came to France, except a few who are given either anglo-saxon sounding first names (you can blame pop culture, Ryan, Steeve,...), or "ambiguous" first names (for girls mostly, like Nadia)... but never, never, ever french first names.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-01 15:31|| 2008-04-01 15:31|| Front Page Top

#7 "Technically", muslim can only have arab names, or arab-derived names, like the numerous variations of mohammed, like mammadou or mehmet.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-01 15:33|| 2008-04-01 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks for the added info.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-01 16:31|| 2008-04-01 16:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Main Stream Media must be in a crux over this. I mean he's a hero and you don't report on heroism, but then again he's a person of color, particularly an Arab so the multicultural agenda has to be considered.

If he was a Muslim the choice would be easier. Alas the life of a journalist is not easy.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-01 16:39|| 2008-04-01 16:39|| Front Page Top

#10 nobody here knows if he was an Arab or a Catholic do they? what we do know is he was a Navy Seal and lemme tell you somethun, that was his religion.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Unomoting5108 2008-04-01 17:45|| 2008-04-01 17:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Arab and Catholic aren't contradictory, GCU5108.

Despite the best efforts of Muslims to persecute Arab Christians, there still are some in the Middle East -- and there are some who have been here in the US for more than a generation. Many are from Lebanon originally.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-01 17:50|| 2008-04-01 17:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Danny Thomas.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-01 18:32|| 2008-04-01 18:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Read the article and look at the names of the other family members. He is not muzzie and almost certainly a Christian of some denomination.

Posted by Remoteman 2008-04-01 19:17|| 2008-04-01 19:17|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't give a rat's ass what his religion was, he was a Good Soldier.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-01 19:40|| 2008-04-01 19:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Two million Christians have been coerced out of Palestine since WW2. Many settled in the US. I have yet to meet an Arab Christian who wasn't patriotic and hard working. I have yet to meet an Arab Muslim who wasn't loyal to Mideast terror imams and who put useless prayer over earning a living.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-01 21:45|| 2008-04-01 21:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Umm... dudes, I would not have said he was Catholic unless I knew it for a fact. Does it matter?

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-04-01 23:09|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-04-01 23:09|| Front Page Top

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