Christian Arabs despite all Muslims, exist

Submitted by A Christian Arab (Spain), Oct 27, 2006 at 07:46

I am a Christian Arab. To start with, many Muslim Arabs do not accep the term a Christian Arab. Not all Arabs are Muslims, thank God for that.

I have been living in Spain for the past 22 years with my family and a couple of weekends ago we went to a small town to attend a week's festivities dedicated to the Muslim culture. On Saturday, lots of visitors went up to the old castle that previously used to be a mosque during the Muslim era in al Alndalus. The Town had invited Muslims to celebrate their prayers their just before they broke their fasting. It was a demonstration of acceptance and coesxistence.

But tell me, my enlightenend friend: Are you, Muslims, that tolerant towards Christians and other religous minorities in Muslim Arabic countries? Why, when I visited Egypt last year, did I observe police men and security members with machine guns, aimed to protect Christians going to pray? Protect them from whom? The answer is obvious.

Muslims, in their majority do not accept other regligions. This is a falacy. If they appear to do so, it's because they have to, or forced to keep appearance. I have a cousin, a writer, whor wrote an article about the emancipation of women in the middle east, and she was almost sentenced to death. She says that the main problem of Islam today is the fact that Muslim intellectuals are simply cowards. None of them dare voice their opinion about the barbarim that Islam preaches, and yet they all embrace western philosophy and lines of thought, western culture and luxiaries and dring their Johnny Walker in tea cups to avoid scandals in the month of Ramadan.

Wake up my friend. We're living a nightmare, we all are. And you are the copyright owner.

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