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Islam’s War on Christianity – Part II

Augusto Zimmermann

Jul 03 2019

14 mins

The influence of lobbying groups such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have been remarkably successful in persuading the political elites and journalists in the West to believe in a systematic anti-Muslim discrimination called “Islamophobia”. However, a fair-minded assessment of events leads to the conclusion that this pales in comparison with the bloody Christophobia plaguing Muslim-majority nations all around the globe.

Christians comprise by far the most widely persecuted religious group in the world.[1] As noted by the Pew Research Center, Christians have been seriously persecuted in more countries than any other religious group, and have suffered harassment most notably in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa.[2] By persecution I mean any instance of ‘discriminatory treatment accompanied by actual or perceived threats of violence or other forced conversion’.[3]

Christianity is at serious…

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