Why are muslims persecuting christians

In Bangladesh, the blogger Avijit Roy avoided jail for his secularist writings, but he was hacked to death by members of an Islamist terrorist group in Interfaith marriages are banned in many places.

To penalize and deter foreign officials from perpetrating crimes, the Biden administration should continue and expand the Trump administration policy of targeted sanctions. With the exception of the Rohingya, persecution of Muslims has generally failed to garner high-level attention from governments and civil society. India and its government under Prime Minster Narendra Modi also seems to get a pass. President Donald Trump was silent on riots targeting Muslims in Delhi during his visit there last February.

The world barely batted an eye when Modi provocatively laid a foundation stone for a Hindu temple on the site of the former Babri Mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya, a spot that has been contested between Hindus and Muslims since the 19th century. And there is virtually no discussion of the limited religious rights of Muslims in Muslim-majority countries. The incoming administration of U. President-elect Joe Biden should respond to the persecution of Muslims in concrete ways while also advancing religious freedom for all.

First, on Xinjiang, the Biden administration should initiate high-level outreach to majority-Muslim countries, replicating the informal coalition that emerged on the Rohingya issue. It will not be easy, as China can and will push back in ways Myanmar cannot. As one diplomat from an Arab country emphasized to me, China plays rough.

For Washington to unite allies and impose a cost for silence, leaders of Muslim-majority nations will need personal overtures from Biden and his prospective secretary of state, Antony Blinken. Naming and shaming governments for not responding to Chinese persecution of Muslims can bring public pressure to bear. Second, the United States should contest every space where China has been working to destroy human rights. While visiting Geneva in my U. It was tasteless and Orwellian.

How was it allowed? Because China strong-arms small countries, pressures U. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. Abstract precis: The persecution of Christians remains a pressing reality in the forty-four Muslim-majority countries stretching from North Africa through the Middle East and into Asia.

If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution or have your own login and password to Project MUSE. It also highlights how states, and state-sponsored social media, sometimes incite hatred and publish propaganda against Christians, especially in Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Turkish Christian citizens have often been stereotyped as not real Turks but as western collaborators. The report says freedom of religious belief can also act as a means of helping those suffering gender discrimination, since there is clear evidence that female Christians suffer disproportionately.

An intent to erase all evidence of the Christian presence was made plain by the removal of crosses, the destruction of church buildings and other church symbols. Where these and other incidents meet the tests of genocide, governments will be required to bring perpetrators to justice, aid victims and take preventative measures for the future.

The main impact of such genocidal acts against Christians is exodus. UCA News monitors the content of the comments and reserves the right to remove posts that contains abusive, offensive, racist, threatening or harassing comments or personal attacks of any kind.

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