"Africa remains a continent at risk. Of its fifty-three States, seventeen are experiencing military conflicts, either internally or with other States. I am thinking in particular of Sudan where, in addition a cruel war, a terrible human tragedy is unfolding; Eritrea and Ethiopia which are once again in dispute; and Sierra Leone, where the people are still the victims of merciless struggles. On this great continent there are up to eight million refugees and displaced persons practically abandoned to their fate. The countries of the Great Lakes region still bear open wounds resulting from the excesses of ethnocentrism, and they are struggling amid poverty and insecurity; this is also the case in Rwanda and Burundi, where an embargo is further aggravating the situation. The Democratic Republic of Congo still has far to go in working out its transition and experiencing the stability to which its people legitimately aspire, as the massacres which recently occurred at the very beginning of the year near the town of Uvira testify. Angola remains in search of a peace which cannot be found and in these days is experiencing a development which causes great concern and which has not spared the Catholic Church. The reports regularly coming to me from these tormented regions confirm my conviction that war is always destructive of our humanity, and that peace is undoubtedly the pre-condition for human rights. To all these peoples, who often send me pleas for help, I wish to give the assurance that I am close to them. May they know also that the Holy See is sparing no effort to bring about an end to their sufferings and to find equitable solutions to the existing serious problems, on both the political and humanitarian levels."
Pope John Paul II 11 January 1999
He knows much better than you (believe me) in which Muslim country Christian are treated better or worse. To make it clearer for you - compare the situation of Christians in Iraq (or Syria, also ruled by secularist BAATH) with the situation in our "friend" Saudi Arabia.
After the regime change in Baghdad the position of Christians ther will deteriorate, but those who want this war will not give a hoot (and Pope knows it too).
Good measure of involvement into Muslim extremism is the fact that while Al-Queda and Saudies supported Muslim terrorists in Yugoslavia, Baghdad gave support to Belgrade.