Emissary Of Night | ليلى: People in the political press and on here/Twitter still don't really get that Palestine is not a "Muslim American" electoral issue but an Arab American issue. The most influential and wealthy Arabs in the Western diaspore are Christians who care just as much about Palestine as their Muslim sisters.

People in the political press and on here/Twitter still don't really get that Palestine is not a "Muslim American" electoral issue but an Arab American issue. The most influential and wealthy Arabs in the Western diaspore are Christians who care just as much about Palestine as their Muslim sisters.

I suspect this compulsion to reduce the issue down to Muslims is part of this perception of the conflict as religious but it is not that religious at all. Palestinian nationalism is a largely secular project historically and, notably, so was Zionism up until recently.

An interesting dynamic in the relationship between partitionism in India & Palestine is that Jinnah and the Muslim League opposed partition in Pal out of pan-Islamic solidarity, but Palestinian leaders wanted nothing to do with him, (correctly) fearing his partitionism would set a precedent for them

Do people forget that George Habash, founder of the PFLP, a hard left group, was a Christian (Greek orthodox)?

Unfortunately I doubt most Americans have ever heard of Habash or the PFLP lol

Most younger Americans never heard of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Most Americans don't even remember that the PLO had Catholics among its number, nor do they remember that Palestine's government had Catholics serving it. Americans lack knowledge on the diverse past of Palestine.

I still remember a Catholic that was serving as a representative for the PLO in the USA that was branded as a terrorist for trying to seek donations for the PLO from American citizens... and it was one of the things that Zoomers would not have a recollection of since it was before their time.

This probably gives away my age, but I saw him give a talk in the late 90s in which he took a 2X4 to Arafat. By then, he was clearly ill.

I think a lot of people get tripped up on this because Zionism *is* a Jewish thing and because they have a Western (i.e., Christian) worldview, they figure it *must* be religious, ergo it must be a religious conflict.

Most of the Arabic people I knew personally were Christian. Most of the Muslim people I knew were white. All the Sufis I knew were Jewish. (Past tense as I’ve only seen one of these people since the late 80s)

The big sea change, imho, is post 9/11. Muslim-Americans used to be a decent center-right bloc of the GOP, and even in ‘04 the “Arab Americans For Bush” contingent was around and donating.

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People forget that Palestinian American Christians like my mother's side of the family who are Catholic refugees from the middle-east even exist. They keep thinking we're Muslim for some reason. Its like they are treating race and religion as the same thing... its very bigoted.

There are in fact more Palestinian Christians in the US than Palestinian Muslims, due to State Department and Immigration prejudices. And they are perfectly capable of speaking their mind. Layla, you do realize that American media are stuck in 9/11 Huntington "Clash of Civilizations" narratives?

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Actual it is a Muslim American issue. You could say it's not /just/ a Muslim American issue, but that's not what you said here or in you previously deleted post about this.

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is it though? remember I'm from Bangladesh...

And to be quite clear, not only many of us had nationalist struggles in recent history, Muslims are the majority in these situations. I don't condone calling all Palestinians Muslim but this is our electoral issue too.

There are also plenty of influential non-Arab Muslims for whom this is an issue as well.

This is the second time you've posted something like this today and you've also mentioned this isn't like other nationalist struggles (to which I mentioned the Uyghurs and the Rohingya). I'm offended enough at this point to ask: do you want to erase us from this?

I'm clearly quite upset: And to be quite clear, not only have many of us had similar nationalist struggles in recent history, Arab Muslims are still the majority. I don't really think it's appropriate to try and erase that.

There's a stereotype of Arabs looking down on non-Arab Muslims and I'm seriously getting that vibe.

You could have just said it's not just a Muslim electoral issue. I don't understand the need to make this only an Arab issue. It's really offensive, and I'm really pretty upset with you.

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you can think that if you want but the nazi crusader garbage behind world war one engineered specifically to destroy the Ottomans and create israel is quite pleased with the legitimacy of their success so far like Ramza said "not JUST a Muslim american issue but ALSO an Arab american one"

the common factors between the war criminal trash revising history in realtime certainly indicate as much

The majority of Arab-Americans are still Christian!

The majority of Arab Americans are Christian. From this page, that means there are 2.849 million Arab Christians in the U.S. www.insightintodiversity.com/national-ara... For Muslims in general there are 4.45 million in the U.S. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_i....

National Arab American Heritage Month | Insight Into Diversitywww.insightintodiversity.com National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) is a time for celebrating the history, contributions, and culture of the diverse population of Arab Americans. In 2019, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Rep...

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