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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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LOL.
I’ll take their word regarding what they are over yours.  Go label someone else.[/quote]

I am Coptic and I tell people my parents are Egyptian.  People barely understand where Egypt is, much less what Coptic means and  I’m not getting into sectarian divides with acquaintances and strangers.

You have to remember that the Lebanese went through a very traumatic sectarian war recently and many people from these other groups faced really heinous treatment from the Muslim majority and thus refuse to identify as Arabs.  A lot of Coptic people refuse to identify as Arab as well but I find it somewhat silly.  My parents have more in common with a Lebanese Muslim than an American baptist.[/quote]
In the recent past Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan all have brutally oppressed their Christian minorities.[/quote]

Pp you are responding to.  You mean the governments of those countries?  How so?[/quote]

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