Islamic Persecution of Christians

ICC Note

“This global persecution of Christianity is still in progress but in most cases is ignored by the mass media and Christians in the west.”

Friday, January 11, 2008 Islam (wasthepoperight)-A book that relates the untold story of the murder of 45 million Christians in the 20th century alone has caused controversy in Italy . The author of The New Persecuted: Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs, Antonio Socci, has been accused of “demonizing Islam” by raising the issue of Christian suffering in the Muslim world.

Socci provides evidence that in the past 2,000 years some 70 million Christians have been killed primarily or exclusively for the reason of their faith, two-thirds in the past 100 years alone, with Joseph Stalin as the chief culprit. He says that an average of 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990, the vast majority by Muslims in the Third World . Chronicling attacks, pogroms and wars in East Timor, Indonesia, Sudan , Egypt , Pakistan , India , and the Balkans, Socci identifies Islamic extremism as the main danger. And yet, says he, “This global persecution of Christianity is still in progress but in most cases is ignored by the mass media and Christians in the west.”