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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think some people understand that Muslim countries still have pockets of Christians and sometimes up to million to a million and a half Christians.

Some of the Christians in Muslim countries come from very, very ancient sects.[/quote]
The title of your post is misleading.  Most Christians in the Middle East are not Arab but rather Assyrian, Copt, Armenian, Greek, Chaldean, Aramaic (Syriacs), and Phoenician (as many Lebanese Christians identify).
But you are right, they are very ancient communities.  The hatred and persecution they have suffered and continue to suffer from the Arabs is wholly tragic.  Pope Francis has often brought attention to this.[/quote]

OP here. Christians in the Arab countries of the Middle East are Arabs! I know many Lebanese Christians who will tell me - in plain Arabic - they are not Arab, they are Pheonician. Several DNA studies have shown that both Lebanese Muslims and Christians are descendant from the Phoenicians but somehow Lebanese Christian’s want to distance themselves from the Arabs because of the common misconception than Arabs are mostly Muslim.

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I’m confused. Are you saying that Lebanese Christians are wrong about how they self-identify? And why do you think they “somehow” want to distinguish themselves?

Anyway the actual answer to your question is that there are a very small number of Arabs in the US and an even smaller proportion of them are Christian. So most Americans will never meet a Christian Arab. [/quote]

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