This was streamed live on YouTube: November 2, 2023
This is an Arab restaurant in the Patagonia section of Argentina, in the city of El Calafate, in the southwest section of the Santa Cruz province. The city has a population of 25,000.
This is very far south, approaching the polar regions. El Calafate is named after a yellow flow, and is near Argentina’s Glacier National Park.
The point is to show how ubiquitous Arab culture and food are in Latin America, so common that it can even be found in subpolar regions.
What the video does not explain is that the instability was caused by the ongoing Islamic attempts at genocides of the Christians — which have been periodically happening for centuries in Lebanon and Syria.
Hence the vast majority of these Arab immigrants were Christians fleeing Muslim persecution which, at times, rose to genocidal levels.
However, the video (above) does get correct how massive and influential the Lebanese are in Brazil.
The video estimates 12 million Lebanese in Brazil, which is roughly in accord with my own estimates. However, I estimated 12-15 million for all Arabs, while this video estimates 12 million for the Lebanese alone in Brazil.
Add in the Syrian-Lebanese and you can see how massive the Arabs are in Brazil … and they are prosperous.
My estimates of Arabs in Brazil might even be low.
Again, almost all the Lebanese in Brazil are Christians.
Posted on YouTube: 2023
This is from an Israeli channel, but the facts are there.
The upshot of this is that Lebanese Christians in Latin America usually do not subscribe to the raw hatred of Israel which is more common among Palestinian-Christian-Chileans (or Hondurans).
The Lebanese-Christian-Brazilians remember the brutality of the Muslims. Their views on Israel vary from friendly to not thrilled, but they have no illusions about Islam.
Hence, wherever the Lebanese Arabs predominate among Arab-Latins — and they predominate in many Latin countries – they then to moderate the discussion.
Wow! Some sturdy Latins try out an Arab Restaurant called Arabito (Little Arab).
The restaurant is in a neighborhood (barrio) called Miraflores.
Basically, the two of them are running a food channel.
You can auto translate on YouTube.
From sources I have read, the Arab immigrants to Peru were 90% Christian. Again, we notice the emphasis on Christianity. However, I am not sure if the 10% of Arab immigrants who were Islamic have not produced descendants who did not convert to Christianity. According to Wikipedia, there are approximately 15,000 Muslims in Peru, which is far less than 0.1%.
Wikipedia’s figures are more precise, but seem dated (around 1992 or earlier), so I am more cautious in my estimates. What is clear is that the number seems very low.
The Arab numbers in Peru would be weighted heavily in favor of Christianity, probably Catholicism. Indeed, the Arab presence (Christianity or Islamic) does not seem that large in Peru at all. But it is there.
