Some Arabs are Christian, for example, the Copts in Egypt. There are Christian communities in Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan and if I remember correctly, Iraq.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com
Teaching the **history of** a political-legal-cultural-military-and religious belief system is not the same thing as prosyletizing its **doctrine.**
Do you eviscerate half of European history because it was one denomination of Christian invading and occupying another? No, you don't.
One might find valuable insight into why the 22% of the world's population comprising 50 nations that is Islamic believe as they do by studying their **history.**
Including nations we are allied to, give billions of dollars of aid to.
For at least a thousand years, Europeans have neglected to call the study of Islamic history Islamic because so much of it is Islam conquering hitherto Christian lands, to those peoples' everlasting shame.
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Convenient euphemisms, such as Musselman, Arab, Ottoman, Moor, Saracen, and Turk have been substituted by shamed-into-silence Europeans instead of calling it what it was:
successful expansionistic Jihad.
There is the Oxford History of Islam, a compendium of perhaps 15 scholarly essays on various facets of Islam. Unless you know all about what it says you might maybe want to read it because it says things you would benefit from knowing.
Also thoroughly researched, scholarly work: The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, by
Dario Fernandez-Morera, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at Northwestern University.
al-Andalus is the Arabic name for Spain. The attacks in Spain recently rest upon historical events that happened a thousand years ago. But if you don't study its history, you remain uninformed and easily led.
Similarly, there is The Early Islamic Conquests, by Fred M. Donner, a professor in the Near Eastern History and Languages Dept at the University of Chicago.
not to mention Al-Tabari's 40-volumes work that covers from pre-Christian times to @ 925 AD, published by the State University of New York available volume by volume from Amazon.
I don't expect informed discourse on this site. Just to set the record straight. To give the one person in 200 who might want to learn something the chance to do that.
Tabari