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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:51:09 -0500
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- From: AHMED@DAYTON.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Our Christian nation
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- Hatem,
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- The perception in America about persecution of christains and Americans (some
- see it as the same..) seems to come from a few factors operating here in
- America.... One is the media's interest in generating "live" reports and
- pictures, be it from Iraq now or Iran before...where a lot of slogans
- such as "Down with America" and burning of American flags are yelled by
- "Arabic looking" people in the background with signs in Arabic script, make
- Americans think that "fundamentalist Arabs" are in conflict with christianity...
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- Second is the confusion with the American "Black muslim" movement which at
- one time (but the perception still exists) advocated against whites...
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- Finally, America does have stories here of persecution, particularly, in Iran
- of those of other religions (Bahai's in particular)...as many people of
- Iranian descent used religious persecution in applying for political
- asylum in the U.S.....
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- zahir
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