Arab Christians form groups neither identical to nor separate from Arab Muslims

Evidence

It is by now banal, if also not entirely adequate, to single out and contrast the example of Arab Christians who (aside from, and in excess of, religious differences) constitute well-recognized groups that are, in a variety of ways that differ from one area to another, both distinct and not distinct from the Arab Muslim populations and linked in a manner for which no “Christian-Muslim symbiosis” could ever account. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how the ‘Judeo-Muslim symbiosis’ framing fails on the concrete case of Arab Christians as simultaneously distinct and not distinct from Arab Muslims.
• XREF: connects to: Arab and Muslim identities are distinct categories, not interchangeable