Guestview: The challenges facing Arab Christians by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
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Below are excerpts from a speech delivered by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Chief Advisor to King Abdullah of Jordan for Religious and Cultural Aaffairs, at a conference on Arab Christians in Amman on September 3-4.
...We in Jordan feel that, for the first time in hundreds of years, Arab Christians have become targeted in some countries; that they are suffering not only because of the blind and deaf sedition (finah) that everyone has suffered from in certain Arab countries since the beginning of what is incorrectly called 'the Arab Spring', but also merely because they are Christians. We reject this categorically and completely.
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