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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, I have a silly question for Christian Arabs. 
Is it true when Arab Christians pray   you guys say Allah for God as well? It’s just Arabic for God in general and not something specific to Muslims only.  That’s interesting to me because I know in Aramaic the word is ellah and Hebrew Elohim.

Also, how comfortable are you using the term Arab as an identifier? I’ve dated a Chaldean  from Iraq and he was against identifying as an Arab , but I’ve met lovely Egyptian Copts, Lebanese Catholic,  and even Jordanian  Christians who laughed when I told them what my ex said and they completely identify as Arab and speak it at home [/quote]

Yes, Arab Christians say Allah in our prayers but our prayers are basically exact translations of Christian prayers in other languages.

Whether Arab Christians are militantly anti-Muslim and anti-Arab depends on their individual experience.  They have such a lousy experience in their home countries they hate the predominant feature: Islam.  I know Lebanese Christians who were traumatised from the war and refuse to identify as Arab.[/quote]

Thanks for answering!
   We tend to think about Arabs as a an ethnoreligion like Jews but an Arab is not a religion or a religious  marker and ironically  the Pan Arabist movement was created by Arab Christians In the 19th century  perhaps as a way to stand up to the Turks .

Perhaps as a foil to any Pan Islamist movements 
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