The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians | 5 Minute Video
The most persecuted and victimized people in the world today are Christians in the Middle East. The perpetrators of the widespread destruction of that region’s Christian community? Islamists. Middle East expert Raymond Ibrahim lays out the grim details.
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Which is the most persecuted religious group in the world today? The answer in terms of sheer numbers and sheer horror might surprise you. It’s Christians, specifically Christians living in Muslim-majority countries, countries where Christians often preceded Muslims by centuries. I’m not talking about “War on Christmas” type harassment; I’m talking about “know your place or we’re going to kill you” persecution. Astonishingly, the Western mainstream media barely acknowledge what is happening.
Let’s look closer at this issue. It tells us a lot about the world we’re living in.
One hundred years ago, 20% of North Africa and the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity, was Christian. Today, Christians make up 4% of the population. Much of that decline has occurred in the last decade. In essence Muslims are rendering North Africa and the Middle East free of Christians.
Take Egypt, for example, my ancestral homeland. In just the past two years, tens of thousands of Christian Copts have left Egypt. And many others want to leave, but they simply cannot afford to. Why they want to leave is no mystery.
On New Year’s Day 2011, the Two Saints Church in Alexandria was bombed, leaving 23 Copts dead and 97 injured. In recent years dozens of Coptic churches have been attacked, many burned to the ground. In August 2013 alone, the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters attacked and destroyed some 80 churches.
Unfortunately, Egypt is more the rule than the exception.
Hundreds of Nigerian churches have been destroyed in recent years, with especially deadly attacks reserved for Christmas and Easter church services, leaving dozens dead or mutilated. Churches have been bombed or burned in Iraq, Syria, and just about every place in the Middle East where churches still exist except Israel. Christian businesses have been torched, Christian girls have been kidnapped, sold as child brides or slaves, and had acid thrown in their faces for not being veiled. Anyone born a Muslim who converts to Christianity faces jail and possibly execution. The list of fresh atrocities by Muslims against Christians grows longer almost every day. Even in Muslim countries often portrayed as “moderate” — Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan — Christian minorities are under legal pressure not to build churches or evangelize.
The Christians in these Muslim countries are often identical to their co-citizens in race, ethnicity, national identity, culture, and language; there is no political dispute between the Christians and Muslims, no land dispute. Vastly outnumbered and politically marginalized, these Christians simply wish to worship in peace. Instead they are hounded and attacked.
So, then, why is this happening? And why is the media making so little mention of it?
The first question is easy to answer. Christians are being persecuted in Muslim countries because they’re Christians, or as the Quran puts it, “infidels,” that is, non-Muslims, who are regarded by many fundamentalist Muslims as inferior. As a fundamentalist interpretation of the holy books of Islam has grown in the last fifty or so years, Christians have suffered. And in recent years, they have suffered terribly. I document this in my book, Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.
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I became a Christian while living in China during the relatively mild Hu-Wen administration. Even then, I encountered firsthand accounts of persecution. From what I’ve heard, the situation has worsened significantly over the past decade.
Am a Nigerian Christian its true so much its sad
This is true of Jehovah's Witnesses around the world, even in predominantly "Christian" societies; even former USSR and Nazi Germany being predominantly Christendom (John 15:20).
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I might have been born a Christian, I was born in the Deep South so of course I grew up worshipping Jesus, but I kept being a Christian because of what it teaches, Jesus teaches that hatred and discrimination will not help the world, and that you should treat everyone with kindness and you should never harbor hate towards anyone, now there are exceptions, (for example, a certain Austrian painter who took up a political career with a mustache similar to Charlie Chaplin) I try to live my life by God and Jesus as best as I can because it allows me and teaches me to be the best person I can be, to treat everyone with the kindness and respect I would want to be treated with, Heaven is just and added bonus for me
The Middle East is already a terrible place to live in, seems like you also forget there are other religions other than Christianity and Islam
Christians are literally the majority. 31% of the global population is christian.
The Qur'an does not criticise all Christians, it says that most Christians are bad but not all of them.
Near Eastern (Middle Eastern) Christians bring some of this oppression on themselves by demonising me. For example, a Near Eastern Christian man harassed me in a park in Cardiff last night. It was Thompson's Park in Cardiff, Wales, Britain.
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I'm messianic jew from Israel and I will always always stand with my christen brothers and sisters where ever they are❤❤❤The christians are the most peaceful loving community in the middle east ❤. Please share this video the world needs to Wake up, 🙏
Jewish people and polytheist throughout most of history are we a joke to you. Only difference is they don’t force our beliefs on others and play the victim when people don’t agree with them.
While muslims come to europe and want to build as many mosques as they have in muslim majority countries…jihad and we allowed it until now…but people are opening their eyes, start realizing that the "religion of peace" is the one behind every terrorist attack, behind persecution on minorities wheb islam is the majority….great video! ❤
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This is more rampant today
Because Muhammad killed the Christian's and Jews full stop.
Christians do not dare to bring up this persecution, because They have persecuted mankind to the same or greater degree in their history. That is what the God of Abraham wanted "to smell the sweet aroma of blood ". Read your f'ing history of the conquest of the western world, Europe, The America's, Africa, Australia, to mention only a few. Read your history and keep reading it. There is no end to it. PragerU is a fanatical propoganda machine. Come back in a day or two they will have deleted this comment.
There’s no such thing as “extremist” islam, there is only islam and ignorant “muslims”.
There is a lot correct in this video, but you missed a few details. UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, any Muslim country where the people r majority expat, despite being Muslim, is open to Christianity and welcomes people of all religions, but this is rather the anomaly rather than the rule. Malaysian Christians are usually ethnic Chinese or Tamil and are not indigenous to the Malay Peninsula.
Remember the massacres of Bosnia and Herzegovina, no massacre occurred in Muslim countries
A devout Muslim, no one hates Islam. We are commanded to do good to others. Read about Islam and you will know
The famous hagia sophia in istanbul, was once a Christian church but was later converted into a mosque after the muslim ottomans took over Constantinople
That's why America invade Iraq and killed half million people and Afghanistan killed hundred thousands people invade Syria and Libya killed thousand of people and destroyed life of millions of people ,and colonial era when Christian ruled most of the muslims world in Algeria and everywhere killed thousands of people, yet this people dare to say they are persecuted,what a joke 🤣
Islam is a totalitarian militant ideology. People are too apathetic .
Thank you for the video.
we need to overthrow these woke fascists controlling the media!!
It is unacceptable, muslims are getting persecuted in non-muslim countries and christians/non-muslims are getting persecuted in muslim countries. Discrimination has gone too far, but it seems pretty bad on both ends, muslim minorities and christian minorities.
And we host them in pur free countries.
That is why Middle East is a mess, even those seemingly peaceful nations in the Gulf faces uncertainty because of the bellicose nature of Arab M's. They persecute a religion that has the true spirit of a peaceful religion, the message of love and Messiah in the most Christian context. I hope they go back to their religion in antiquity, it is best suitable for the soul and soil
There is NOTHING holy about muslim books.