Things you'll never hear

"The United States happens to be an extremely fundamentalist country. It is probably more fundamentalist than Iran" says Noam Chomsky in an interview with Ramin Jahanbegloo. "In fact the elite elements at the time of the [American] revolution were mostly what are called deists, which is basically non-believers. On the other hand the fundamentalist puritan strain was very strong. The puritans who settled here described themselves as the children of Israel who are coming to the promised land to eliminate the Malikites (?) [(sic.) Chomsky must have meant Melkites] and that continues right to the present, so it's a strange country. It's not within the spectrum of industrial societies on matters like this. You don't find these properties in other industrial societies."

It is regretful that Jahanbegloo does not get what Chomsky means by Melkites (or Melchite) and does not emphasize on the point so that Chomsky could explain it more precisely. Chomsky hints on a very old and yet important problem that seems to exist since fifth century (from the Council of Chalcedon at any rate) and sees the conflict in the Middle East as an old enmity against Arabic-speaking Christians.
Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out much about this. That’s why I wish that Jahanbegloo had asked what Chomsky meant.

** Strange enough, I checked the index of the Persian dictionary, Mo'in to see what it has for Melkite.It has an entry: Malakiye ملکیه which refers to two other entries (ملکانه ـ ملکا) which DO NOT exist in the dictionary! Since the origin of the word, Melkite is Arabic and means "royalist" (according to the American Heritage) I assumed it should be spelled ملکیه in Arabic.
I also tried to check out Dehkhoda Dictionary, but the CD did not work in my cmputer, damn it!