{"id":688,"date":"2026-04-13T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/?p=688"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:19:15","slug":"happy-arab-american-heritage-month-by-guest-author-dr-ryan-lahurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/happy-arab-american-heritage-month-by-guest-author-dr-ryan-lahurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Arab American Heritage Month by guest author Dr. Ryan LaHurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In observance of Arab American Heritage Month, ELCA Racial Justice Ministries invited Dr. Ryan LaHurd to share his thoughts on this topic with our readers.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>April is Arab American Heritage Month. As an Arab American, I might be expected to write about all the great things Arab Americans have contributed to our culture. But as I think about anti-Arab attitudes in the United States and the massive destruction of innocent lives in the Middle East, I must focus on something more substantial.<\/p>\n<p>We used to hear that Inuit people have hundreds of words for snow. The later correction is that they have dozens. But the principle remains: people have words for things that are important to them. In the U.S., we have no useful word for prejudice against Arabs. Some people speak of \u201canti-Arab racism.\u201d But Arabs are not a race. Arabs are a cultural group from many different countries whose primary language is Arabic. Others describe such prejudice as \u201corientalism.\u201d But that term denotes anti-Arab stereotypes from early colonialism: the belly dancer, the \u201ccamel jockey.\u201d People uneducated, uncultured and unclean.\u00a0 Since 9\/11, we have heard about \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d This word refers not to Arabs but to the religion of most Arabs. Unhelpfully, using it reinforces a common misunderstanding that all Arabs are Muslims and that all Muslims are Arabs. In fact, an estimated two-thirds of Arab Americans are Christian.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the problem with our having no word for such prejudice? Back to linguistics. We have words for things that are important to us. No word = not something we care about. Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that we notice the things for which we have names. For example, study participants who spoke Russian \u2014 which has separate words for blue, light blue and dark blue \u2014 were much more likely than English speakers to distinguish lighter or darker hues on blue-colored paint chips.<\/p>\n<p>Prejudice against Arabs and Arab Americans tends to be ignored \u2014 except, of course, by its victims. But it exists, and, like all ethnic and racial prejudice, it matters. In the U.S., such prejudice goes back to the earliest Arab immigrants, considered nonwhite and from \u201cinferior\u201d cultures. For example, my family name is transliterated from the Arabic as \u201cLahoud\u201d (rhymes with \u201cthe food\u201d). It means \u201cthe one who stands alone\u201d and refers to Jesus, identifying our family\u2019s roots in early Christianity. My grandfather had so much trouble getting jobs because of anti-Arab prejudice that he changed our name to \u201cLaHurd\u201d to make it look and sound French.\u00a0 He got jobs but lost our history.<\/p>\n<p>People whose lives we do not see, attend to or care about are much less likely to be considered the neighbors Jesus commands us to love and are much more easily dehumanized.\u00a0 We have seen the tragic effects of such dehumanization recently in Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, where tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly children and women, have died and where millions more lives have been disrupted. Israel encouraged such dehumanization when it built walls and passed laws that eliminated contact between Jews and Arabs. Studies have unfailingly shown that having even a single personal connection with someone of another religion, race or ethnic group significantly reduces one\u2019s prejudice against that group. Social psychologists call this the \u201ccontact theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I urge you to meet an Arab American, preferably a recent immigrant, and to hear their story. If that\u2019s not possible, read such a story. Just be sure it\u2019s a story written by an Arab. In his book <em>The Message<\/em>, U.S. writer Ta-Nehisi Coates argues, \u201cIf Palestinians are to be truly seen, it will be through stories woven by their own hands \u2014 not by their plunderers, not even by their comrades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the great 12th-century Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd wrote: \u201cIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. That is the equation.\u201d That word \u201cequation\u201d reminds me of one last thing \u2014 Arabs invented algebra! We\u2019re awesome.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-690 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/RAL-headshot--192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/RAL-headshot--192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/RAL-headshot-.jpeg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan LaHurd<\/strong> is president of the ELCA\u2019s Association of Lutherans of Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage (ALAMEH). He retired as president of the James S. Kemper Foundation in Chicago. Previously he was president of the Near East Foundation, an operational foundation doing development work in the Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 From 1994 to 2002 he served as president of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information: please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/how-we-serve\/elca-in-society\/mdcc\/arab-middle-eastern\">Arab &amp; Middle Eastern Ministries in the ELCA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of Arab American Heritage Month, ELCA Racial Justice Ministries invited Dr. Ryan LaHurd to share his thoughts on this topic with our readers. April is Arab American Heritage Month. As an Arab American, I might be expected to write about all the great things Arab Americans have contributed to our culture. 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