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ARAB CHRISTIANS

Many times I have stated that it is an error to use the terms "Arab-American" and "Muslim-American" to mean the same thing. Various Muslim organizations want to claim all Arab-Americans so they can inflate their own numbers and have more political clout with President Bush, but the analogy is a lie. Most Arab-Americans are Christians who are here because they escaped Islamic enslavement in other nations.

In June an Arab-American was picked to head the 2.5 million member U.S. Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel, 58, was born in Israel to Palestinian parents and became a naturalized American citizen. He received 57% of the vote at the opening session of the 214th annual General Assembly of the world's largest Presbyterian denomination.

AMERICA AND ISRAEL

Almost every day the media is forced to report major Christian meetings in support of Israel and the pro-Israel statements of Christian leaders. This is in direct contrast to the liberal campus view that Israel is somehow responsible for the Jihad attacks upon our nation.

Toward the end of May the Associated Press ran a major release that appeared in numerous newspapers across the nation concerning Christian support for Israel. In National Review Orthodox rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote about the support in America of Israel versus the hatred for Israel in Europe. He said the difference was due to Biblical faith:

"Why does such vile enmity wrack Europe, while America not only remains free of it but persists in standing by Israel in the present clash with the Palestinians? .... We see why Christians are so sympathetic to the Jewish side in this painful conflict: it is because they revere the Bible. And America, quite simply, is the most enthusiastically Christian nation on earth."