PERSECUTION DES CHRETIENS PAR DES REGIMES ISLAMIQUES
2013 list of persecutors of Christians
dominated by Muslim countries
Posted on January 13, 2013
by creepingsharia
WASHINGTON (BP)
— Islamic extremism,
especially in Africa and the Middle East, dominates the latest annual
report on global persecution of Christians.
Eight of the top 10 persecutors of
Christians — and 24 of the top 30 — are countries marked by militant
Islam, according to Open Doors’ 2013 World Watch List released Jan. 8.
Meanwhile, North Korea, a non-Islamic
country, maintained its hold on the No. 1 spot in the Open Doors list
for the 11th consecutive year.
“Islamic extremism is the prime persecutor
of Christians in the world today,” said Ron Boyd-MacMillan, Open Doors’
chief strategy officer, at a Washington, D.C., news conference. Among
24 of the leading 30 persecuting countries, “it is Islamic extremists,
either in government or in violent opposition forces, that are the
source of the persecution,” he said.
The new list of the world’s most severe
persecutors of Christians includes five African countries that were
unranked last year but reached the top 50 because of the impact of
Islamic extremism: Mali (No. 7); Tanzania (No. 24); Kenya (No. 40);
Uganda (No. 47), and Niger (No. 50).
In addition, militant Islam in Ethiopia
helped catapult that East African country from No. 38 to No. 15. The
Muslim state of Sudan, Ethiopia’s neighbor, jumped from 16th to 12th.
The uprisings against totalitarian states
in North Africa and the Middle East that began about two years ago have
produced greater persecution for Christians, according to Open Doors.
“The Arab Spring has turned into an
Islamic Winter for the Christians in the Middle East,” Boyd-MacMillan
told reporters. “In every country where a regime has been deposed — such
as Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Egypt — Islam is still in power and
putting pressure on the Christian minority.”
The top 10 countries on Open Doors’ latest
World Watch List, which covered November 2011 through October 2012,
are: (1) North Korea; (2) Saudi Arabia; (3) Afghanistan; (4) Iraq; (5)
Somalia; (6) Maldives; (7) Mali; (8) Iran; (9) Yemen, and (10) Eritrea.
Syria, which is torn by civil war as a
result of an Arab Spring-like conflict fueled by militant Muslims,
jumped from 36th to 11th this year.
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