Myth: Democracy in the Middle East is a foreign imposition on the peoples of the region by the West.
Reality: Many indigenous peoples of the Middle East and North Africa have struggled for internal reforms affecting positive change for human rights. The Center for Freedom in the Middle East believes it is all people’s duty to support reform, freedom, and democracy around the world.

Myth: The Palestinian-Israeli issue must be resolved before the region’s other problems are to be dealt with.
Reality: While the Palestinian-Israeli crisis vitally affects regional stability, diverse religious and cultural minorities in the Middle East and North Africa have suffered human rights violations for centuries; their plight has been overshadowed and their suffering overlooked. Freedom deficits have harmed all peoples of the region.

Myth: Most Arabs or Arabic-speakers residing in the United States are Muslim.
Reality: According to a recent study in The Economist, approximately 77% of Arab-Americans are Christian.