Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Global Muslim War on Christians [with VIDEOS]
2/7/12
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992. She served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is currently a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her autobiography, Infidel, was a 2007 New York Times bestseller.
Comments
Ms. Ali makes some good points and I respect her boldness in giving a voice to the suffering.
I do want to point out the importance of also giving a voice to those Muslims who are working for a future of better relations.
My wife and I traveled through Egypt last month asking Salafi Sheikhs, members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Coptic Priests, evangelical pastors, young protesters, and even an Anglican Bishop what they think about Muslim-Christian relations in their nation, and what they think needs to be done to make them better. You can check out our project at: www.onehandthemovie.com