Posted on 02/07/2014 10:47:26 AM PST by Olog-hai
Restrictions, harassment, and intimidation towards people who practice their religion increased in every major region of the world in 2012 except the Americas, with Christians the major target, says a new report by the Pew Research Center.
“Muslims and Jews experienced six-year highs in the number of countries in which they were harassed by national, provincial or local governments,” the study found, but Christians continue to be the world’s most oppressed religious group, with persecution against them reported in 110 countries.
A recent report by the Christian group Open Doors noted that “North Korea remains the world’s most restrictive nation in which to practice Christianity,” followed by Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Pakistan, Iran and Yemen. …
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“He came unto His own and His own received Him not.”
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” is not a message that finds favor except where the Holy Spirit works faith.
It will all work out in the end. Evil oversteps its bounds and loses every time, though it may not appear as such to the eye.
Where exactly are Muslims harassed? I will bet that the worst cases of Muslim 'harassment' are far less than the ordinary 'oppression' of Christians in Muslim countries. How many Muslims are beheaded by Christians? Or Jailed?
One Tsarnaev brother dead, the other in jail. That's likely what they call Muslim harassment!
I think fighting back is considered “harassment” by Moslems.
For instance, Moslems are harassed in India (for obvious reasons), and, IIRC, Moslems PO’d the Buddhists so badly in Malaya that they started killing Moslems and burning their villages.
Not allowed to wear headscarves in France. Now that's justification for torching thousands of cars every year, right there!
What about Zoroastrians?
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