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.
The
media’s reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources. One may
be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely the
influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation—a kind of United Nations of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia—and
the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Over the past decade, these
and similar groups have been remarkably successful in persuading leading
public figures and journalists in the West to think of each and every
example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an expression of a
systematic and sinister derangement called “Islamophobia”—a term that is
meant to elicit the same moral disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia.
But
a fair-minded assessment of recent events and trends leads to the
conclusion that the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in
comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through
Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other. The
conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious
intolerance has to stop. Nothing less than the fate of Christianity—and
ultimately of all religious minorities—in the Islamic world is at stake.
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At least 13 people were killed and 140 injured on March 8, 2011,
when participants in a large Christian demonstration in a Cairo slum
were attacked by residents of a surrounding neighborhood., Mohamed Omar /
EPA-Landov
At least 24 Coptic Christians were killed in Cairo during clashes with the Egyptian Army on Oct. 9., Thomas Hartwell / Redux
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