Gatestone Institute Although the Islamic persecution of actual, living Christians is certainly more deplorable, Islamic attacks on inanimate Christian symbols are often more indicative of the existential hate borne for the other. Consider, for instance, the phenomenon of Muslims desecrating and destroying Christian cemeteries and their crosses.  While the act itself is largely “symbolic”—in that […]

Al Kresta of Ave Maria Radio interviewed me yesterday on the topic of my recent article, “Systematic Discrimination: Christians Under Egyptian Rule.” We discussed Sharia’s role in Egypt’s Constitution, the political nature of Islam, and more. To hear the 12-minute interview, click here and fast-forward to the one hour and two minute mark (1:02).

FrontPage Magazine Coptic Solidarity (CS), an international human rights organization devoted to ameliorating the plight of Egypt’s indigenous inhabitants—the Christian Copts—recently published a comprehensive report on why the Egyptian government systematically discriminates against its Christian citizens:  in a word, shari‘a, or Islamic law.  According to CS: The Egyptian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and criminalized […]

FrontPage Magazine Islamic jihadis recently gang-raped a 60-year-old Christian woman to triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!” before stoning her to death. When no one in Yaqoubiya, a small Christian village in Idlib governorate, Syria, saw Susan Grigor (or “Gregory”) on July 9, the worried priest sent parishioners to search for her.  They eventually found her […]

Gatestone Institute At a time when Christians throughout the Muslim world are suffering from a variety of persecution, the plight of Palestinian Christians is seldom heard.  It exists. Open Doors, a human rights group that follows the persecution of Christians, notes that Palestinian Christians suffer from a “high” level of persecution, the source of which […]