While those in the American media have long lamented the (alleged) post-9\/11 rise in \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d they have ratcheted up the hysteria since the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency.<\/p>\n
That this template is Fake News is gotten readily enough when the histrionics over \u201cIslamophobia\u201d are seen against the backdrop of the global reality of the anti-Christian oppression to which countless numbers of men, women, and children are routinely subjected\u2014mostly by Muslims.<\/p>\n
Open Doors, a ministry that serves persecuted Christians around the world, reports that 11 Christians die every single day for their commitment to Christ.\u00a0 And of the ten most dangerous places on Earth to be a Christian, eight are Islamic.<\/p>\n
In Afghanistan,<\/em><\/strong> neither Christianity nor any other religion other than Islam is legal.\u00a0 Those Muslims who dare to convert to Christianity are seen as traitors to their families, tribes, and nation.\u00a0 Either that, or their abandonment of Islam is viewed as proof of mental instability, in which case these converts, when found out, may be institutionalized in psychiatric facilities and their homes and property confiscated or destroyed.<\/p>\n More often than not, Christians and converts to Christianity are murdered.<\/p>\n Somalia<\/em><\/strong> is 99% Muslim.\u00a0 The Christian minority that exists in this African land consists almost exclusively of Muslim converts. According to Open Doors, the violent, murderous persecution of Christians\u2014and it is almost entirely murderously violent\u2014is so intense that this organization which is committed to ministering to oppressed Christians the world over couldn\u2019t even publish specific illustrations of the violence for security purposes.<\/p>\n Libya<\/em><\/strong> is the fourth most hostile country for Christians.\u00a0 After the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Islamic militants seized control of various parts of Libya\u2014a turn of events that has had tragic consequences for the country\u2019s Christian population.\u00a0 Open Doors: \u201cThe level of violence against Christians in Libya is very high, and Christians in Libya are subjected to violent, inhumane and degrading treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s worse is that those Muslims who have converted to Christianity are endangered by their family members.<\/p>\n Islamic-dominated Pakistan<\/em><\/strong> is not much more pleasant for its Christian population.\u00a0 Pakistan has blasphemy<\/em> laws which make it a capital<\/em> crime<\/em> to abandon Islam and convert to Christianity. Asia Bibi is the most notable example of one such Pakistani who was convicted under these laws. Bibi, a wife and mother, spent a decade on death row after being found guilty of being a Christian. Courtesy of international pressure, she was finally acquitted of this charge and released from prison.\u00a0 Yet nevertheless, to this day, she remains imperiled.<\/p>\n However, perhaps Asia Bibi should consider herself fortunate, for there are approximately 700 Pakistani women and children who are abducted, raped, and forced to marry their Muslim captors so that they will convert to Islam.<\/p>\n Churches are routinely bombed and work that is regarded as demeaning is reserved for Christians, with some Christians being so unfortunate as to be locked into bonded-labor.<\/p>\n Sudan<\/em><\/strong> is the sixth most dangerous place for Christians. Christians (and other non-Muslims) are severely limited with respect to liberties, like liberties regarding the exercise of speech, of which members of the Islamic majority can readily avail themselves. Christians are arrested because of their faith, and churches have been demolished. As in the preceding countries, those who have converted to Christianity from Islam are particularly vulnerable to persecution.\u00a0 Such is the awfulness of the treatment to which they are subjected that Christian parents take measures to insure that their children will not be exposed as Christian.<\/p>\n There is a reason why Eritrea<\/em><\/strong> has earned the reputation of being \u201cAfrica\u2019s North Korea.\u201d Upon conducting house raids, government agents have arrested and imprisoned scores of Christians because of their faith.\u00a0 Open Doors characterizes the conditions under which these Christians have been incarcerated as \u201cinhumane.\u201d Indeed, for Christians have been held, in paralyzing heat, in shipping containers<\/em>.<\/p>\n The oppression has been driving Christians out of Eritrea to other places where they are seeking asylum.<\/p>\n The civil war that has been transpiring in Yemen<\/em> <\/strong>has made it life in this Islamic-dominated land that much more formidable for its Christian minority. Most of the humanitarian relief supplied to victims of the war has been distributed via Islamic institutions that discriminate in favor of Muslims. So not only are Christians being denied the aid that they need, but they are as well being detained by authorities and targeted by their neighbors and family members for having converted from Islam to Christianity.<\/p>\n Iran <\/em><\/strong>remains one of the planet\u2019s most hostile spots for Christians.\u00a0 The citizens of Iran are legally prohibited from converting to and preaching Christianity.\u00a0 Just this past December, 100 Christians were arrested within a single week.\u00a0 As of this moment, there is one particular pastor, Yousef Nardarkhani, who is serving a 10-year sentence in an Iranian prison for threatening \u201cnational security\u201d by being a Christian.<\/p>\n Although it didn\u2019t make it to Open Doors\u2019 \u201cWorld Watch\u201d list of the ten most inhospitable places for Christians, the Congo is no safe space for the followers of Jesus.\u00a0 Very recently, over a four hour span of time, Islamic militants, upon pretending to be security officers, opened fire upon the residents of the predominantly Christian village of Kalau.\u00a0 The indiscriminate shooting forced nearly 500 Christian families to abandon their homes. Six people, however, weren\u2019t so fortunate, as they were murdered.<\/p>\n The dead included three women and a nine year-old child.<\/p>\n Over the last five years, it is estimated that these same Islamic militants\u2014members of the \u201cAllied Democratic Forces\u201d (ADF)\u2014have murdered roughly 700 civilians and 20 United Nations peacekeepers.<\/p>\n Bearing these gruesome instances of anti-Christian oppression in mind, hopefully the next time the American media prattle on about the supposed \u201crise\u201d of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d in America (and Europe), we will recognize it for the Fake News that it is.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While those in the American media have long lamented the (alleged) post-9\/11 rise in \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d they have ratcheted up the hysteria since the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. 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