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Interesting fact about Arab Americans

Will Nielsen
September 17th, 2007
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Helen Samhan at Groiler’s Multimedia Encyclopedia via the Arab American Institute writes:

The majority of Arab Americans descend from the first wave of mostly Christian immigrants. Sharing the faith tradition of the majority of Americans facilitated their acculturation into American society, as did high intermarriage rates with other Christian ethnic groups.1

Arab American Religious AffiliationWhen my wife and I lived in Moscow, there were huge numbers of Arab immigrants, Christians many of them.  They bore with the bias that many premillennial Christians gave to the Israelis for the love of their brothers and sisters in the church.  As a final reflection on 1 John 3, I find such a position worrisome.  We are marked out as Christians in a number of ways, one of the greatest of which is the love we demonstrate for our fellow Christians, Arab, Jew or otherwise.

Read the complete article

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Arab Americans
By Helen Samhan
Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia
Posted on Friday April 21, 2006
http://www.aaiusa.org/foundation/358/arab-americans

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