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Failure of the Therapeutic

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She also insisted that American Christians have to appreciate that Arab Christians are not a "small fringe group who have been persecuted by Muslims."

Actually, dwindling Christian populations in most Arab countries often have become a "fringe group" thanks to tyrannical Arab governments and Islamic hostility. Most would be surprised to learn from Sojourners that they have not faced Muslim persecution.

According to much of the Evangelical Left, Arab Christians only suffer because of Israeli and American policies. "Christians blindly supporting U.S. foreign policy can take credit for shooting themselves in the virtual foot of Christ," Murshed concluded.

President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East included a call for a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish state, angering many Palestinians, who still dream of Israel's collapse, if not militarily, then by demography. But the Evangelical Left will not lecture Arabs about their own attitudes, preferring instead the usual guilt and apologies for American and Israeli behavior.

Naive Clergy who suggest the conflict merely requires reconciliatory therapy contribute little to any form of justice, much less to the Bible's.

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Letter to the Editor

topics:
Foreign Policy, Islam, Israel

Mark Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. and author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church.

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