215,000,000 Christians Persecuted, Mostly by Muslims
by Raymond Ibrahim • January 21, 2018 at 5:00 am
- In short, the overwhelming majority of persecution that these 215 million Christians experience around the world — especially the worst forms, such as rape and murder — occurs at the hands of Muslims.
- If time is on the side of Christians living under Communist regimes, it is not on the side of Christians living under Islam. The center of the great Christian Byzantine Empire is now an increasingly intolerant, rapidly Islamizing Turkey. Carthage, once a bastion of Christianity — where one of Christendom's greatest theologians, St. Augustine, was born and where the New Testament canon was confirmed in 397 — is today 99% Muslim-majority Tunisia.
- As what began in the seventh century comes closer to fruition and the entire world becomes more Islamic and "infidel" free, as in Iraq, confronting these uncomfortable facts is at least a welcome first step in countering the problem.
A
militiaman from the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) walks through a
destroyed church on November 8, 2016 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. The NPU is a
militia made up of Assyrian Christians that was formed in late 2014 to
defend against ISIS. Qaraqosh is a mostly Assyrian city near of Mosul
that was captured by ISIS in August 2014, and liberated in November
2016. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
"215
million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the
world, according to Open Doors, a human rights organization. On its
recently released World Watch List 2018, which ranks the world's 50
worst nations wherein to be Christian, 3,066 Christians were killed,
1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their
faith; and 793 churches were attacked or destroyed.
The
Islamic world had the lion's share of this persecution; 38 of the 50
worst nations are Muslim-majority. The report further cites "Islamic
oppression" behind the "extreme persecution" that prevails in eight of
the 10 worst nations. In short, the overwhelming majority of persecution
that these 215 million Christians experience around the world —
especially the worst forms, such as rape and murder — occurs at the
hands of Muslims.
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