What religon were they?
Amreeka told the principal that people assumed that they were Muslims, but that they weren't. Does anyone know what religion they were? I don't remember her ever saying.
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Thanks for the reply!
I'm suprised that they didn't talk more about that in the movie, though.
Seems like they would have shown them in church once they came to the U.S.
This is one of the reasons why it was a great little gem of a film. They didn't want to get distracted from the single simple theme they were dealing with. Even if they are Christians, the idea of that religious lifestyle is far different in their part of the world than that is in the US. And since they never left home in their heart, they stayed the same way.
It was also intriguing to note that they were hints of them being sympathetic to their Palestinian brethren as the mother speaks in defence of them (and to a Jewish person as well!)
"It was also intriguing to note that they were hints of them being sympathetic to their Palestinian brethren "
huh? they're still palestinian, even if they're christian
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They were NOT Christians. If they were they would support Israel and realize Hamas was the reason why Arabs in the Egyptian occupied West Bank ( Muslims can never dcodemn fellow Muslims no matter what evil deeds they commit against you are force to ddeal with Checkpoints. If Israel had their way, they would be no need to have them becuase Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews or Christians. The sister is a moron, she would have acid thrwon at her by Bin Laden and claim it was the US fault. It's Israel'd fsult when Hamas uses kids as human shileds. Why don't Muslims act liek those in Iran and realizw that the biggest enemy to Muslim people is Ilamists. She wants an end to Occupation but not sn end to Hamas using kida as hhuman shieldd.
share"They were NOT Christians. If they were they would support Israel"
There's plenty of Christians that don't support Israel.
Also, she wore a cross around her neck. Kinda telling IMO of what her religion is.
Nowadays many more Christians support Israel, rather than Muslim Arabs of Hamas or of Gaza. Persecution Christians in Arab countries is rampant and leaves its mark.
Your head is up your ass !
shareThere is a such a thing as Palestinian christians, and they typically don't support Israel.
shareyou are absolutely correct. there are many middle eastern Christians. at least there is one educated post here
shareThank you for your reply that there are many middle eastern Christians. The post saying if they were they would support Israel shows how ignorant many American Christians are, in that they don't know their church history. I happen to have a very good friend who is from Palestine, and he and his family have been CHRISTIANS since the early church. I can tell you for a fact that he does not support Israel because of the treatment his family has received at the hands of the Israelis. Most Americans have no idea what goes on in the middle east with the Israelis (even towards middle eastern Christians), and if they did perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to support Israel.
shareThis is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Many Arabs and other Middle-Easterners are Christian, and they've been there for 2000 years. Most Palestinian/Levantine Arabs belong to one of any number of traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholicism, or Roman Catholicism. Further out you'll even find more Oriental Orthodox Christians.
And they have NO reason to love Israel or Zionism any more than their Sunni or Shi'a neighbors (with whom they've lived next to in peace for the better part of their existence). They have suffered and continue to suffer under the inhuman Israeli occupation just as much as anyone else. In fact, many of the most important leaders of the modern Pan-Arab/Palestinian nationalist/anti-imperialist movements were Arab Christians (eg, George Habash, Edward Said, etc).
The idea of a Christian owing loyalty to an ethnoreligious state that not only excludes them and disrespects both their faith and nationality, but also has dispossessed them of their homes, property, and history, is LUDICROUS.
It seems to only be a peculiar cult of protestants, very small but very loud, only found in certain places of North America who have some perverse attachment to the idea of Israel. It's amazing that they'd even bother calling themselves 'Christians' when they seem to reject everything Christ stood for, cannot link their odd beliefs to any of the Apostles as the Catholic/Orthodox do, and choose instead to worship a militaristic state which actively rejects him, and persecutes his followers.