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The Most Persecuted Religion in the World [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-james-clark/christianity-most-persecuted-religion_b_2402644.htmlKelly James Clark
Senior Research Fellow, Kaufman Interfaith Institute, Grand Valley State University
Over the past year, I have written of the intolerance that Christians have shown to Muslims in the U.S. From Missouri to Murphreesboro, Christians have demonstrated both a lack of charity and a denial of the right to religious liberty by setting fire to old mosques and opposing new ones. But Christians in the U.S. are rank amateurs compared to the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
In early November, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Christianity is "the most persecuted religion in the world." Although met with predictable criticism, Rupert Short's recent research report for Civitas UK confirms Merkel's claim -- we may not want to hear it, but Christianity is in peril, like no other religion. While this is a contest no one wants to win, Short shows that "Christians are targeted more than any other body of believers." Short is the author of the recently published Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack. He is concerned that "200 million Christians (10 percent of the global total) are socially disadvantaged, harassed or actively oppressed for their beliefs."
Christianity is facing elimination in its Biblical homeland. Between a half and two-thirds of Christians in the Middle East have departed or been killed over the past century. Short attributes the intolerance and violence towards Christians to the rising Islamicization of Middle Eastern countries. Some of the oppression is government sanctioned and some government permitted; most is government ignored.
Short looks at the plight of Christians in the Middle East, country by country. When it comes to religious oppression, the devil, one might say, is in the details.
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How many Christians are being killed in this country because they are Christians??
Angry Dragon
Jan 2013
#8
Then why does the article say that Christians are the most persecuted in the World??
Angry Dragon
Jan 2013
#13
Please, AD. I think in your haste to find some ways to bash american christians, you
cbayer
Jan 2013
#18
"Finally, the U.S. government must actively defend Christian liberty in Muslim-majority countries."
lunasun
Jan 2013
#6
So you think the US government should deny help to persecuted populations based on
cbayer
Jan 2013
#7
What the hell is the US doing to protect women and gays from religion in this country??
Angry Dragon
Jan 2013
#9
Government, both federal, state and local, are very active in passing laws that protect the
cbayer
Jan 2013
#15
You may want to use it, then, before you make ask questions like the one that started this
cbayer
Jan 2013
#22
I guess that German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows about persecuted religions..........
thelordofhell
Jan 2013
#29
What does Merkel's knowledge of the Holocaust have to do with her comments on recent events
patrice
Jan 2013
#60
And maybe he does. But magic is the manupulation of the occult, which prayer is not.
rug
Jan 2013
#47
For one thing, humans will never get either complete answers about, or complete understanding of,
rug
Jan 2013
#101
If you're fair minded, gather up an estimate of Muslims killed by Christians and vice versa in
dimbear
Jan 2013
#52
I'm sure you note the irony of saying this is not a game with winners and losers when your thread
dimbear
Jan 2013
#75
Exactly. And when you begin to note how many of those deaths are children, it just gets too sad.
dimbear
Jan 2013
#119
Is it established that they are being killed for being Christian or is their Christianity simply a
patrice
Jan 2013
#61