(Newsweek) Ayaan Hirsi Ali:The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World

Posted by Kendall Harmon

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.

The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries....

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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Religion & Culture • Violence • * International News & Commentary • Middle East • * Religion News & Commentary • Other Churches • Other Faiths • Islam • Muslim-Christian relations

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Posted February 7, 2012 at 5:44 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Br. Michael wrote:

Secular Western governments, like our own, judged by their reaction (doing nothing) are probably quite happy to see Muslims kill Christians.  As the secular West becomes evermore anti-Christian the Muslims get rid of a common enemy and allows the secular governments to keep their hands clean.

February 7, 6:12 am | [comment link]
2. Creedal Episcopalian wrote:

Secular western governments have made common cause with the moslem world; They both share an view promoting a hierarchical totalitarianism (even if for dramatically different reasons) as ideal. The surprise will come if this union ever bears fruit. There will be a disagreement over who gets to run the hierarchy. The leaders of the secular left will be the first martyrs.

February 7, 6:50 am | [comment link]
3. Skeptic wrote:

Wow, a Dutch atheist defending the rights of Christians in the Muslim world ... what’s next?  Christians defending the rights of Muslims?  Of atheists?  Waiting ...

February 7, 7:01 am | [comment link]
4. Br. Michael wrote:

From the article:
[blockquoteIn recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.

Right, so Christians are doing this to Muslims and Atheists through out the Western and non-Islamic World.

Don’t feed the trolls.

February 7, 7:41 am | [comment link]
5. jkc1945 wrote:

I am curious - - in what possible way is this “an unrecognized battle?”  The Muslims have said it out loud, they have declared it through their websites and through bullhorns, they continue to say it, often and firmly.  Islam will inevitably rule the world, they tell us, and “the infidel” will die.  The Koran says it, several times.  Oh sure, so-called “moderate Muslims” tell us that is an unfair reading of the Koran, but for heaven’s sake, how does one ‘unfairly’ read something that is so very, very clear?
Unrecognized?  Maybe so, but we had darn well better recognize it, pretty soon, or the day will be upon us.

February 7, 5:57 pm | [comment link]
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