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“Throughout all the traumas, disappointments and uncertainties, there has always been a third way in contrast with the paths walked by those who opt for an exclusively minority-centered militancy and by those who choose the silence of fear or resignation. This path is opened by the reinvention, through political participation, of the pact of citizenship that binds Christians and Muslims together and by the renewal of the role that Christians played during the early twentieth century Nahda movement. To be sure, a new political and social order is in the making. The pact of citizenship that was a determining factor in various independence movements, could well be reclaimed and enacted in the present longing of Arab peoples for freedom, dignity, and democracy.
It is almost needless to say that the future of Christians in the Arab world does not only depend on the contributions they are capable of, but also on the attention that fellow Muslim co-citizens may give to them. Christians deserve, but also need to be worthy of, an attention that is not condescending but motivated by the sense of common good, along with recognition of the wealth of religious and cultural plurality whose preservation could spare the Arab world the sad face of uniformity.”
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