Posted on YouTube: April 26, 2024
But the documentary was made in 2017 THE VIDEO CAN BE AUTO-TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH
The CD Palestino team has become somewhat of an international phenomenon. Not only does it have fans in Chile, but also in the Mideast, and also in Europe.
This is the whole documentary and gives a sense of how powerful the Palestinian Community is in Chile. We have noted this documentary before, but this is now the whole documentary.
And it shows how politicized the team has decidedly become. They made a version in English for worldwide effect.
— Club Deportivo Palestino (@CDPalestinoSADP) May 26, 2024
I am just posting for your information.
The CD Palestino (Palestinian Sports Club) Soccer team is a major league soccer franchise in Santiago, Chile, sort of like a professional sports team here in the USA. It was founded in 1920 by Palestinian-Chileans (Chilestinos).
It has become more than a sports team, but also a political force to be reckoned with in Chile, and not only Chile but also in the whole Mideast. It has a large fan base in the Palestinian territories, the Muslim world, and even has its fans throughout the world.
I do NOT agree with CD Palestino’s politics, which tend to be anti-Israel, but I am just reporting what is posted.
And the team is presently making a statement about the Gaza War (see first tweet).
There is an influential Palestinian constituency in Chile, and part of the way they express their power is through their sports team: CD Palestino.
Palestinians in Chile are rich, influential, and politically powerful. They vastly outnumber the Jews of Chile, and can get away with this in a way that would NOT be acceptable in the USA.
Indeed, the government of Chile often falls in line behind the Palestinian community’s wishes.
This is odd, because Chile is otherwise a progressive Western democracy.
Naturally, the Jewish community in Chile condemns anti-Israel protests in Chile – see below where the Jewish community condemned Chilean student protests which called for the university to break relations with Israeli campuses.
"La Comunidad Judía de Chile condenó la manifestación realizada ayer miércoles en el frontis de la casa central de la Universidad de Chile, donde estudiantes de la institución de educación superior llamaron a sus autoridades a romper relaciones con planteles israelíes en condena… pic.twitter.com/lAkK5WQgG1
— Comunidad Judía de Chile (@comjudiachile) May 17, 2024
Árabe Unido, which means United Arab, has been one of the most successful teams in Panama. It was founded by Arab immigrants in Panama in 1990.
Posted on YouTube: December 7, 2021
(You can autotranslate the video – but only at the beginning)
Panama has roughly four and a half million people. Approximately 24,000 are Muslim. which means that Islam is less than 1%. I cannot get figures for the Christian Arabs.
However, even tiny Panama has been changed by Arab influence, at least in the realm of sport. Árabe Unido has won 15 championship and 5 second places.
Posted on YouTube: December 9, 2022 Note: There were some Muslim immigrants, but not a half million.
Muslims tend to exaggerate.
The largest immigrant strains were:
1) The Italians (who ended up speaking Spanish, because the Spanish got there first)
2) The Spanish
3) The French
4) The Germans
5) Arabs (most of whom were Christian, and usually the Muslims among them dropped out of Islam)
5) Other Europeans like the Ukrainians, and yes, British, Irish, and Scandinavians
Officially – on paper – there are lots of Muslims in Argentina: supposedly half a millions (by descent, not immigration). However, most of those Muslim Argentines tend to intermarry into a branch of Christianity, or drift into non-observance, or convert themselves.
Such people may not officially change their affiliation on paper.
This video explains it.
(The video is set to the right time.) This imam admits that the official figure
of half a million Muslims in Argentina is ridiculous.
Argentina assimilates/converts Muslims very well.
Posted on YouTube: September 22, 2015
Islamic clerics like to boast of higher numbers than they really have. If someone was born to Muslim parents, they are counted as Muslim even if they never attended a mosque, or if they converted out.
Arab immigration to Argentina was quite considerable in the late 19th century, after World War I and up to the mid-20th century , having become its third most important immigration wave. Of these immigrants, 40% are estimated to have been Muslims or children or grandchildren of Muslims.
Forty percent of Argentina’s Arabs had one Muslim ancestor, yet Argentina’s Arabs are only about 10% Muslim today, if even that. Even then, most Argentine Muslims are not practicing at all. This means a steady translation over to Christianity, whether by conversion, intermarriage, or just simple neglect.
That is the real ongoing situation concerning Islam in Argentina … and in the rest of Latin America.
The religion that IS growing in Argentina is Evangelical Christianity.
On top of that, Argentina has just elected a president sympathetic to Israel.
The basic pattern in South America is basically this.
A) The vast majority of Arabs who immigrated to Latin America were Christians (often fleeing some form of Muslim persecution).
B) Those Muslims who did arrive usually intermarried with Christians, converted to Christianity, or had their children raised Christian.
C) Those who remained Muslim were often not practicing. Until recently, there was nothing in Latin America which facilitated an Islamic lifestyle.
D) Until the 1980s-90s, when Arab oil subsidies floated in, Islam in Latin America – which was incredibly small to begin with – almost died out.
E) So the numbers for Muslims in South America are often inflated, not taking into account those who dropped out.
F) The rise of Evangelical Christianity is winning the spiritual battle in Latin America.
AND NEVER FORGET — The statistics for Muslims can often be horribly exaggerated.
There are small cells of Hezbollah; but while worrisome, they are few in number, often just drug smugglers raising cash for their cause.
Meanwhile, Argentina has blacklisted Hezbollah, because of attacks on Argentine soil. And the border region of Brazil, Argentine, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier) was worrisome for a while, but the FBI and Mossad went down there and helped the locals clean it up. Again, it was mostly smuggling to raise cash.
However, Islamic penetration into the general population is very small.
3 January 2024 – Edited: Made corrections. Improved writing.
