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Lebanese-Americans Salute President Bush and our Troops
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- Voters of Lebanese origin 2004 Election
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- 26 Oct 2004
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- 26 Oct 2004 09:32:28 PM
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Lebanese American voters in Michigan to differentiate Lebanese voters from Extremist Arab voters.
The Extremist Arabs and Muslims are abusing the fact that a large number of Middle Easterners live there.
They extremist organization call these Middle Eastern Arabs and claim that they control their votes.
In fact, the majority them are of Non-Arabs and Non-Muslims, and they do not support the extremist ideas, nor will they vote per the directions of these Arab and Muslim extremists.
The Extremist Arabs and Muslims are abusing the fact that a large number of Middle Easterners live there.
They extremist organization call these Middle Eastern Arabs and claim that they control their votes.
In fact, the majority them are of Non-Arabs and Non-Muslims, and they do not support the extremist ideas, nor will they vote per the directions of these Arab and Muslim extremists.
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Below is a political ad in Michigan in major newspapers in key swing areas of Metro Detroit. It will start today, Tuesday, and run continuously until the Monday before election day.
The intent of this ad is to refute the extent of representation claimed by organizations issuing political endorsements and views in the name of "Arab-Americans". These endorsements have been over-publicized in the media and the representativeness of the organizations issuing them has been blown out of proportion.
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What are Lebanese Americans voters interested in:
www.2la.org/lebanonfirst/
About Lebanese Americans:
www.lgic.org/en/lebanese_americans.php
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Text of the add:
Lebanese-Americans Salute President Bush and our Troops
Facts about our community:
• More than 300,000 U.S. citizens of Middle-Eastern descent live in southeastern Michigan. The media mistakenly identifies them all as "Arab-Americans".
• Media reports and political analyses often fail to distinguish between "Middle-Easterners", "Arab-Americans" and "Muslim-Americans".
• In Michigan, as in the United States at large, 75-80% of citizens of Middle-Eastern descent are Christian and 20-25% are Muslim (Time Magazine survey, October 2001).
• In Michigan, Lebanese-Americans are by far the largest single group of Middle-Eastern descent. Lebanese-Americans and Chaldean-Americans constitute over 80% of all citizens of Middle-Eastern descent in Michigan.
• The overwhelming majority of citizens of Middle-Eastern descent live in Macomb County, northeastern Wayne County, and southwestern Oakland County. Less than 10% live in the Dearborn area.
• Political analyses and views, as well as political endorsements, expressed in the media under the "Arab-American" name reflect the views of a small minority of the more than 300,000 citizens of Middle-Eastern descent.
Views of Lebanese-American members:
• We are grateful to our troops and their families for their immeasurable sacrifices to safeguard America's security as well as that of the free world.
• We fully support the leadership of President Bush in the global fight against terrorism and we subscribe to his vision of spreading democracy throughout the Middle-East for a safer America.
• We recognize the 'global' nature of the war on terrorism and the vital necessity to deal with it globally. We realize the need to preemptively confront terrorism in any of its cradles to reduce the risk of facing it here in the homeland.
• We deplore the comparison of the war in Iraq after 9/11 to a supposed war on Mexico after the Pearl Harbor
attack. Saddam was an oppressor of his people and a threat to neighbors and to the free world, while Mexico was and still is a country peaceful and friendly to the U.S. Realizing the global dimension of the war on terrorism, an appropriate comparison would have been to the war America led to remove Hitler's threat to the world.
Can we imagine the world today had the U.S. not taken the lead in removing Hitler?
• We urge our fellow citizens to vote for America's security first and foremost.
The intent of this ad is to refute the extent of representation claimed by organizations issuing political endorsements and views in the name of "Arab-Americans". These endorsements have been over-publicized in the media and the representativeness of the organizations issuing them has been blown out of proportion.
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What are Lebanese Americans voters interested in:
www.2la.org/lebanonfirst/
About Lebanese Americans:
www.lgic.org/en/lebanese_americans.php
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Text of the add:
Lebanese-Americans Salute President Bush and our Troops
Facts about our community:
• More than 300,000 U.S. citizens of Middle-Eastern descent live in southeastern Michigan. The media mistakenly identifies them all as "Arab-Americans".
• Media reports and political analyses often fail to distinguish between "Middle-Easterners", "Arab-Americans" and "Muslim-Americans".
• In Michigan, as in the United States at large, 75-80% of citizens of Middle-Eastern descent are Christian and 20-25% are Muslim (Time Magazine survey, October 2001).
• In Michigan, Lebanese-Americans are by far the largest single group of Middle-Eastern descent. Lebanese-Americans and Chaldean-Americans constitute over 80% of all citizens of Middle-Eastern descent in Michigan.
• The overwhelming majority of citizens of Middle-Eastern descent live in Macomb County, northeastern Wayne County, and southwestern Oakland County. Less than 10% live in the Dearborn area.
• Political analyses and views, as well as political endorsements, expressed in the media under the "Arab-American" name reflect the views of a small minority of the more than 300,000 citizens of Middle-Eastern descent.
Views of Lebanese-American members:
• We are grateful to our troops and their families for their immeasurable sacrifices to safeguard America's security as well as that of the free world.
• We fully support the leadership of President Bush in the global fight against terrorism and we subscribe to his vision of spreading democracy throughout the Middle-East for a safer America.
• We recognize the 'global' nature of the war on terrorism and the vital necessity to deal with it globally. We realize the need to preemptively confront terrorism in any of its cradles to reduce the risk of facing it here in the homeland.
• We deplore the comparison of the war in Iraq after 9/11 to a supposed war on Mexico after the Pearl Harbor
attack. Saddam was an oppressor of his people and a threat to neighbors and to the free world, while Mexico was and still is a country peaceful and friendly to the U.S. Realizing the global dimension of the war on terrorism, an appropriate comparison would have been to the war America led to remove Hitler's threat to the world.
Can we imagine the world today had the U.S. not taken the lead in removing Hitler?
• We urge our fellow citizens to vote for America's security first and foremost.
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