Arab Christians

Christians of Arab ethnic or linguistic heritage, a religious minority within the broader Arab world who share cultural and historical ties with Arab Muslims while forming distinct communities cross-cut by various denominational traditions (such as Greek Orthodox, Catholic, and others). The term is used in discussions of identity, racialization, and the transmission of cultural and intellectual traditions (e.g., presenting Islam to the Latin West).

Claims that use this term

• Said was hostile to Arab Christians despite their PLO role.
• Arab Christians can be racialized out of whiteness by phenotype and origin
• The Latin European portrait of Islam came from Greek and Arab Christians.
• Arab Christians form groups neither identical to nor separate from Arab Muslims
• Arab Christians were denied US naturalization through conflation with Islamic racial otherness
• September 11 permanently erased Arab Christians’ and Muslims’ claim to Whiteness