Comments on: Real Christians, fake Arabs

By: ola damascus

ola damascus — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:17:27 +0000

can someone please ask the fake inhabitants of egypt to get out and go find a new home. They have zero connection to that black african temple of the world. they dont even understand what the land is about . how can u know what it is the pyramids represent and stilll call that your home like a fkin dummy. the pictures on th glyphs are black people, the statues are clearly of ancient black egyptians and you have a bunch of dum idiots claiming the land. dummies. get out.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:29:37 +0000

Sorry I got caught up in that comment. Anyways I don’t think pan-arabism is the answer, I’d like to see a regional nationalism develop that isn’t tied to any one religion or ethnic group. The article, I think, speaks to why certain groups are developping their non-arab identities and it’s not out of that pride in their nation or history but to assert that they are a fundamentally different ethnicity from their fellow muslim countrymen, which to a large extent they are not. What I think is underdiscussed is that christians in arab countries are made to not feel arab by the majority because of the rise of an islamist brand of nationalism, which is something new. In the days of Nasser I could hardly see this question being raised, we could talk about Michel Aflaq, Hanan Ashrawi etc and the Christian contributions to the nahda and early Arab nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th century etc etc. I don’t see that as being the case so much these days.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:27:01 +0000

There’s a pretty simple definition of an arab: a person who speaks arabic. That’s not something Nasser invented nor something his failures can take away. Egypt and Phoenician ancient civilization don’t exist anymore and their languages are dead. We should be proud of our history and honour it, but they are not our current reality, no matter how great they were.

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:40:23 +0000

Sameh, I’m Bahraini, what does that make me then, Bulgarian? Since there are no such thing as Arabs and you define people based on their geography and religion.

Your argument could be easily applied to any other country and region. No such thing as a Bosnian, no such thing as an American, no such thing as a Kazach. I don’t see the point of you running around saying there’s no such thing as an Arab, it’s a weak argument that not even history can back up.

By: Sameh

Sameh — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:36 +0000

There is no such thing called Arabs.

Dear,

The issue of being Arab is simply against the history and this is not related for being Christian or Muslim.

Being Arab is a big lie innovated by Nasser. I like Nasser as a patriot but I dislike being arab as an idea.

I had the chance to travel to many countries which claimed to be arab countries and I will tell you my conclusion:

“There is no such thing called Arabs”.

Egyptians are descendent of the pharaohs and they are not arabs. Lebanese and Syrians are pheniciens, The maghreb countries are amazigs.
Sudanese are black africans.

So being arabs is just a big historical lie. It is just does not exist.

Christians have contributed to tghe human civilization in general and to the middle eastern countries. This is difenetly true.
But they contributed to their countries because they are citizens of their own countries not because they are Arabs or not.

This is irrelevant.

Thanks