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2003-12-04 Home Front

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Posted by growler 2003-12-04 11:33:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder what percentage of these Arab immigrants are Christians running the hell away from their psychotic ROPMA brethren.

Posted by BH 2003-12-4 11:42:26 AM|| 2003-12-4 11:42:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I found this in the Washington Times:

In 1992, the American Muslim Council estimated there were more than 5 million followers of Islam in the country, of whom 12 percent were Arabs. Other Arab and Muslim groups say the number is closer to 6 million Muslims, a population that would make them more numerous than Jews.
"That's way too high. I say it's more like 3 or 4 million [Muslims]," said Steve Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan group that studies the impact of immigration.
He and others stressed that Arabs do not account for most Muslims in this country. Forty-two percent of Arabs are Catholic, 23 percent Orthodox Christian and 12 percent Protestant, according to the Zogby survey.
In 2001, the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), released by the City University of New York, estimated the total number of Muslims in America to be no higher than 2.8 million â or 1 percent of the population and roughly half as large as the Jewish population.

Posted by growler 2003-12-4 11:51:07 AM|| 2003-12-4 11:51:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder what percentage of these Arab immigrants are Christians running the hell away from their psychotic ROPMA brethren.

That would be a lot of them. I know of a number of Armenians and Coptic Christians in evangelical churches who are not favorably disposed towards Muslims.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-12-4 11:55:36 AM|| 2003-12-4 11:55:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 IIRC, about 2,5 millions christian arabs left their home (mostly Lebanon and Israel, where palestinian christians are driven away in numbers by the Hamas & co) during the last 20 years or so; also, a "significant" part of the "kurdish" iraqi refugees asking for asylum in EU are also said to be christian arabs forced out by the re-islamization of the Hussein regime. Egyptian Copts are also under a severe pressure, thanks to fundies, and their elite tends to emigrate.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-4 12:18:28 PM|| 2003-12-4 12:18:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I knew a lot of Christian Arabs in Detroit. Mostly Lebanese. Good people. Too bad they couldn't be left alone enough to prosper in their homelands. When they were chased out, reminds me a lot of the brain drain experienced by Europe during Jewish persecution during the inquisition.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-12-4 1:29:57 PM|| 2003-12-4 1:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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