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Interviewer: "The rest of the world would call you 'Christian Arab' but you don't agree with that terminology."
Shadi Khaloul: "'Christian Arab' is a fake terminology. It was created only 100 years ago by pan-Arabicist theology...we are an Aramaic population who inhabited this area at the time of Muslim conquest in the 7th century. We preserved our national and religious identity for 1,400 years and today that we are forced to speak Arabic, we became Arabs? We are not Arabs."
Israel became the first Middle-eastern country to recognize Aramean Christians as an official minority on their population registry.
Shadi Khaloul: "'Christian Arab' is a fake terminology. It was created only 100 years ago by pan-Arabicist theology...we are an Aramaic population who inhabited this area at the time of Muslim conquest in the 7th century. We preserved our national and religious identity for 1,400 years and today that we are forced to speak Arabic, we became Arabs? We are not Arabs."
Israel became the first Middle-eastern country to recognize Aramean Christians as an official minority on their population registry.
