Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)

--- Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> wrote:
> Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > I'm curious how it happens that most of the Arabs
> you know are
> > Christian.  I would think that this would be an
> unusual situation,
> > given that most Arabs actually are Muslim.
>
> Here in the US, about half of the Arabs are
> Christians because they
> mostly came from the Arab countries that have had
> large Christian
> populations since the time of the Crusades (namely,
> Lebanon, Palestine
> and Syria).  One thing I find particularly
> disgusting about our American
> media is that, though Israel treats Palestine's
> Christians just as
> horribly as it treats its Moslems, our media ignore
> that (perhaps because
> mentioning it might make some Americans wonder why
> our government favors
> Jews over Christians there).
Well, the government of Israel doesn't treat Jewish
Christians any better.  They're even denied the right
of aliyah, and are sometimes threatened with
deportation.

Adam

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