{"id":314722,"date":"2026-04-06T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=314722"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:06:40","slug":"why-islam-is-not-the-enemy-of-christianity-an-arab-christian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/why-islam-is-not-the-enemy-of-christianity-an-arab-christian-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity&#8211;an Arab Christian Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">In this episode of Beyond Geopolitics, Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism\/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages. Certain forces today would like to re-brand Christianity as righteous war making hand of divine retribution &#8220;in defense of Christians in the Middle East, Africa and China&#8221;, the reality is that Christians are being played to become their own worst enemy. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beyond Geopolitics EP. 5: Why Islam is NOT the Enemy of Christianity (An Arab Christian Perspective)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8DHSu8g_6Mg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Matthew Ehret is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>, a \u00a0journalist, and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of <\/em>Canadian Patriot Review, <em>Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow and host of<\/em> The Great Game <em>on<\/em> Rogue News. <em>He has authored the book series<\/em> The Untold History of Canada <em>and the recently published book series<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:The%20Clash%20of%20the%20Two%20Americas\">The Clash of the Two Americas<\/a>. <em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:matt.ehret@tutamail.com\"><em>matt.ehret@tutamail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/myriamch.substack.com?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web\" class=\"embedded-publication-link-part\"  rel=\"\"><span class=\"embedded-publication-name\">Myriam Charabaty &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/a>An Arab political analyst and journalist specializing in Arab liberation, soft power, the colonization of Christian identity across the Arab world, and the role of Arab Christians as an integral part of the broader social fabric.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism\/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3793,1669,303,1778,260,634,767,107,481],"class_list":["post-314722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-abrahamic-religions","tag-arabs","tag-christianity","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-history","tag-islam","tag-middle-east","tag-religion","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314726,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314722\/revisions\/314726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}