Issues with the current version 

1. Eritreans are not Arabs and do not speak Arabic. Why are they included in the article?
2. The totally POV statment Historically, a number of minority Christian sects that were persecuted as heretical under Byzantine rule (such as Miaphysites) actually began to enjoy more religious freedom under initial Arab Muslim occupation than they had under Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox Christian) rule is completely erroneous. I have tons of historical accounts and references that talk about the massacres, atrocities and oppression committed by the invading Arab armies against the native populations of the region - most of whom were the Christians that this article is talking about. I suggest this statment gets removed (since it has nothing to do with the point of the article anyway). Otherwise, I will have to begin a new section that discusses the aforementioned sources.