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Arabs insist that Lebanon is Arabic because they consider the land itself Islamized. Once Muslim armies conquered a territory in the 7th century, Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ruled it becomes Dar al-Islam (Muslim land forever, belonging to Allah). It can never truly revert. Even if Christians, Druze or others lived there before or after, to them the land stays “Islamic/Arab” in that worldview. This is why you hear “Lebanon is Arab” they don’t mean language or culture, they mean the permanent religious claim on the territory. You can be a non-Arab Muslim (like Turks, Indonesians, Persians). But Arab and Islam are almost impossible to fully separate in this land-ownership logic.