Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.
Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.
Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.
Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.
Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the “Regulation of Religious Practice” law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years’ imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.
Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as “posing a threat to the relations among religious groups” and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.
Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.
Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.
Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain. Also, if any criminal Muslim rape with any Christian female and then take plea that she has accepted Islam and marry with him. Such person is not culpable under Pakistani criminal law
Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.
Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and—in the most extreme application—death. In a country where Muslims account for more than half of the population, conversion from Islam is punished with a 5-year prison sentence and a $3,000 fine. A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.
The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.
Now we can REALLY see what the crusades were all about.
If everyone were truly free to choose, how many would choose Islam?
Egypt, isn’t that one of the ‘moderate’ islammunist states we keep hearing about? We’ve been paying them oodles of cash since Jimmuh Carter’s Camp David Accords, you’d think they’d be a little less obvious about being ungrateful dickheads.
Sometimes I fantasize about sneaking into Mecca, throwing off my disguise right in front of the Kaaba, and shouting “Jesus loves you and died for your sins!” until they shot me. The thought of a nation where Christians dare not go is intolerable. Christians risked their lives to evangelize the Soviet Union! Christians die every day to evangelize China! How can we let these pathetic desert tribesmen and their pitiful cult keep us from evangelizing among them?
I do not hate Muslims, but I detest their religion for the error that it is. Islam is a tragic heresy that must be destroyed, and Muslims brought back to the fold of Christ. The latter can only be done by preaching and by example, but the former — that is going to require force. Keep in mind that no country that has been overrun by Islam has ever been retaken — except one. That one was Spain, and it was retaken by Christian soldiers, not by moral suasion. Islamic people can and must only be converted peacefully — but Islamic culture must be broken by force.
This is why I don’t believe in a government that is neutral on matters of religion. Sooner or later, the Muzis are going to come knocking on our door here in the USA — and when that happens our democracy will vote to allow them in, all nice and legal.
The U.S. Constitution as it stands cannot survive in a world where Islam exists. Eventually, the First Amendment will have to go, or America will have to go. There is no choice. Islam is incompatible with any other form of religion. Any state that tolerates the free exercise of religion will end up infected with the Muslim virus, against which only a vigorous and militant Christian culture can stand. In the end, only a constitutionally Christian state can repel and drive out Islam. Sooner or later there will be such a state.
I seriously doubt if that state will be the United States of America, however.