source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/islams_global_war_against_chri.html

From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually
every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless
acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so
widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new
Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust
aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.

Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are subject to
relentless attack and teeter on the brink of extinction at the hands
of the "Religion of Peace": Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the
West Bank; Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq; Coptic
Christians in Egypt; Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in Eastern
Ethiopia and Eritrea; Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey; and
Maronite Christians in Lebanon.

Several of these communities date back to the beginning decades of
Christianity and all have weathered wave after wave of Islamic
persecution for centuries and more, but in the very near future some
will simply cease to exist. In our lifetime, the only trace of their
past existence will be in footnotes in history books (and probably
only Western history books at that).

Meanwhile, we in the West hear much from radical Islam's apologists
how the US is engaged in a war against Islam citing of our military
actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are lectured on the inviolability
of the Muslim ummah and justifications of defensive jihad.

But an extensive search this past weekend of the websites of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North
America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American
Society, the Muslim Student Association, the Fiqh Council of North
America, and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee - the most visible
institutional representatives of Islam in America - found not a single
mention or reference of the religious persecution of Christians by
their Islamic co-religionists, thereby making them tacit co-
conspirators in the Final Solution to the Christian problem in the
Muslim world.

The global war on Christianity by Islam is so massive in size and
scope that it is virtually impossible to describe without trivializing
it. Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood ideology and fueled by billions of
Wahhabi petrodollars, the religious cleansing of Christians from the
Muslim world is continuing at a break-neck pace, as the following
recent examples demonstrate.

Iraq: In the current issue of the American Spectator, Doug Bandow
observes that centuries of dhimmitude have left Christians in the war-
torn country without any means of self-defense. Washington
policymakers have refused to lend assistance for fear of showing
partiality, despite the murder of hundreds of Iraqi Christians, the
kidnapping and torture of Christian clerics, the repeated bombings of
Christian churches, the torching of Christian businesses, and the
flight of close to half of the entire Iraqi Christian population since
April 2003. Those who remain have been subject to the imposition of
shari'a by the Shi'ite Mahdi Army and Sunni militias (al-Qaeda doesn't
bother with such niceties, preferring to murder them immediately
instead), including the recent published threat in Mosul of killing
one member of every Christian family in that city for Christian women
not wearing the hijab and continuing to attend school. (Be sure to
remember that the next time an Islamist apologist claims that the
hijab is a symbol of women's liberation.)

Egypt: Journalist Magdi Khalil chronicles in a new report ("Another
Black Friday for the Coptic Christians of Egypt") the campaign of
violence directed against Christian Copts almost weekly immediately
following Friday afternoon Muslim prayers. Inspired by Islamist imams
preaching religious hatred in mosques all over the country and
protected by government officials willing to look the other way,
rampaging mobs of Muslims set upon Christians churches, businesses and
individuals, from Alexandria to cities all the way up the Nile. Coptic
holy days are also favorite times for Muslim violence, which the
Egyptian media likes to describe as "sectarian strife" - as if it were
actually a two-sided affair.

Gaza: Ethel Fenig recently noted here at American Thinker ("More Gaza
Multiculturalism") the systematic destruction of churches and
desecration of Christian religious objects by Jihadia Salafiya
following the HAMAS takeover of the Gaza Strip from their Fatah rivals
and the imposition of Islamic rule. The head of Jihadia Salafiya told
reporter Aaron Klein that any suspected Christian missionary activity
in the area will be "dealt with harshly". (Ynet News)

Saudi Arabia: According to the Arab News, a Sri Lankan Christian man
barely escaped with his life in late May when he was found working in
the city of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, which is officially barred to
non-Muslims. In December, an Indian man had been sentenced to death
for accidentally entering the city, but was spared after the Indian
embassy made an urgent appeal to the Saudi Supreme Court.

Pakistan: In Islamabad, Younis Masih was sentenced last month to death
under the country's frequently invoked blasphemy laws, which were also
used against six Christian women suspended from a nursing school after
they were accused of desecrating a Quran. And as protests against
Salman Rushdie's knighthood raged, a Muslim mob armed with guns, axes
and sticks attacked Christians worshipping in a Salvation Army church
in Bismillahlpur Kanthan. (Associated Press; United Press
International; Mission News Network)

Bangladesh: Almost a dozen Christian converts in the Nilphamari
district were beaten last week by Muslim villagers wielding bricks and
clubs, and threatened with death if they did not leave town
immediately. Local hospitals subsequently refused them treatment.
Christians in the area have also been prevented from using the only
potable water well in the area after a pronouncement by religious
authorities at the mosque in Durbachari. This came after 42 former
Muslims were baptized as Christians in the local river on June 12.
(Compass News Direct)

Malaysia: Government authorities demolished a church building on June
4th in Orang Asli settlement in Gua Musang in Ulu Kelantan, despite
prior government approval of the project. The church was built on
donated property after the entire village had converted to
Christianity just a few months ago. Also in late May, the Malaysian
high court ruled that Muslims who convert to Christianity must appeal
to the religious shari'a courts to officially be deregistered as
Muslims and reregistered as a Christians. (Journal Chretien;
Associated Press)

Indonesia: Agence France Presse reported last month on an attack by
the Islamic Anti-Apostate Movement, who stormed a church service in a
Protestant church in the West Java town of Soreang. The AFP report
notes that more than 30 churches have been forced to close in West
Java and dozens more throughout the country in recent years due to
Muslim violence, churches which were among the few spared during the
outbreak of hostilities during 1997-1998, where hundreds of Christian
churches were burned to the ground and never rebuilt.

Turkey: The Christian community is still reeling from the torture and
ritual slaughter of three Protestants at a Christian publishing house
in Malatya in April by an armed Islamist gang, which was preceded by
the murder last year of Catholic priest Andrea Santoro in Trabzon and
the assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul in
January. An additional six men allegedly associated with the same
Muslim gang were arrested on May 30th for plotting an attack on a
Christian pastor in Diyarbakir. (Lebanon Daily Star; ADKNI)

Cyprus: The Cyprus Mail reports that during a meeting last month in
Rome the Archbishop of the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church pleaded with
the Vatican Secretary of State for the Pope's assistance to pressure
Turkish authorities in restoring and repairing Christian sites and
churches in areas occupied since the invasion of the island nation by
Turkey in July 1974 and the ethnic cleansing of 160,000 Greek
Christian Cypriots.

Lebanon: More than 60,000 Christians have left the country since last
summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel, fearing the rise of both
Sunni and Shi'ite extremism and terrorist activity. The Sunday
Telegraph recently revealed the results of a poll finding that at
least half of Lebanon's Maronite community were considering leaving
the country. More than 100,000 have already submitted visa
applications at foreign embassies.

Algeria: In what is considered one of the more "moderate" Muslim
regimes, Al-Quds Al-Arabi announced that the Algerian government has
just issued regulations requiring advance permission for non-Muslim
public events, following a 2006 law aimed at limiting Christian
evangelism in the Kabylia region and the Sahara. (MEMRI )

Morocco: In the country that The Economist magazine in 2005 anointed
"the best Arab democracy", all Moroccans are considered Muslims at
birth and face three years in prison if they attempt to convert. They
are also prohibited from entering any of the few churches permitted to
operate for the foreign inhabitants of the country. Moroccan
Christians must operate covertly for fear of imprisonment by the
government and attacks by Islamists. They cannot bury their dead in
Christian cemeteries, and they must be married by Islamic authorities
or face charges of adultery. Late last year, a 64 year-old German
tourist, Sadek Noshi Yassa, was sentenced to six months in jail and
fined for missionary activity. (Journal Chretien)

Nigeria: Police in Gombe arrested sixteen suspects after a Muslim mob
stoned, stripped, beat, and finally stabbed to death a Christian
teacher, Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, after she caught a student
cheating on an exam in March. Her body was then burned beyond
recognition by the mob who falsely accused her of desecrating a Quran.
The suspects were released last month without any charges being filed,
prompting Christian leaders to accuse government authorities of a
cover-up and raising concerns about additional attacks. (Christian
Today)

Eritrea: Just a few weeks ago, the Islamic government installed a new
Orthodox Patriarch after they removed the previous Patriarch and
placed him under house arrest for no stated reason. Compass News
Direct reported in February the death of Magos Solomon Semere, a
Christian who had been imprisoned in a military jail for four and a
half years for illegal Christian worship, the third Christian to die
in government custody since October. Authorities have also cracked
down on unapproved churches, jailing at least two thousand Protestants
and members of the Medhane Alem Orthodox renewal movement since the
beginning of the year and publicly burning confiscated Bibles.
(Christian Post; Compass News Direct ; Journal Chretien)

It is not an exaggeration to say that I could extend this brief list
ad infinitum with additional Islamic countries and news items from
just the past few weeks' worth of incidents of violence,
discrimination, intimidation and murder targeting Christians in the
Muslim world. In many instances, the government and religious
authorities in these Muslim countries work hand-in-hand in their
campaign of religious persecution.

A scene in the Academy Award-winning movie Schindler's List gives us
some insight into what is happening all across the Muslim world with
respect to Christianity. As the SS Commandant Amon Göth and his Nazi
Stormtroopers prepare to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow,
Poland, Göth (played in the movie by Ralph Fiennes) gives his men a
peptalk:

For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By
this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened.
Today is history.
This scene is being repeated in the Friday sermons in mosques and on
Islamic satellite TV all over the world, only this time it is the
Christians in addition to the Jews who are targets. Great efforts are
being made to make the two-thousand year history of Christianity in
North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia a blasphemous rumor.
Soon students in Turkey will be taught that the Hagia Sophia, the
greatest architectural structure in the Muslim world, wasn't built by
the Christian Emperor Justinian in the Sixth Century, but by the
Sultan Mehmed II a thousand years later after the Ottomans seized the
Byzantine capital. That Christians lived at all in the Muslim world,
let alone that much of the territory occupied by Muslims used to be
Christian lands before the Islamic Wars of Conquest, will be nothing
but a rumor by the end of this century punishable according to the
precepts of shari'a.

President Bush announced last week that he will be sending a special
envoy to the 57-member Organization of Islamic Countries. Hopefully,
the systematic persecution of Christians and other religious
minorities will be the first and primary item in the new envoy's
portfolio, with the 2007 annual report of the US Commission on
International Religious Freedom and the State Department's Annual
Report on International Religious Freedom, which name virtually every
single country in the OIC for its human rights abuses and religious
cleansing, as evidence for our country's concern.

The fact remains that not a single Christian or Jew lives in peace in
the Muslim world, and if it is truly our nation's foreign policy to
spread democracy around the world, this issue is the perfect topic for
us to press. Back at home, raising Islam's global war on Christianity
should be the immediate response to the seemingly endless media
grievance machine of radical Islam's Western apologists. Until they
begin to address the new Holocaust perpetrated in the name of Islam,
their complaints and denials are nothing but bald hypocrisy.