http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_12_24/Christians-appear-to-be-most-oppressed-religious-group-report/http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/901492--christianity-arguably-the-most-persecuted-religion-in-the-worldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians#Muslim_worldhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9762745/Christianity-close-to-extinction-in-Middle-East.htmlI've long argued that Christianity is the most oppressed religion in the world, if you simply think about it for one minute and not let the Iraq/Afghanistan war (persecution of Muslims at the hands of Christians, if you believe that our armies are armies of God waging holy war, according to the Taliban and Islamic State of Iraq/Al Qaeda in Iraq, who call us "crusader armies", so if you think that you agree with these groups .....), and think about EVERYWHERE else,
Christianity is systematically targeted in China and North Korea, is illegal in Saudi Arabia, is pretty much illegal in Pakistan, and even if the state doesn't get to them, tens of thousands of backwards Sunni fanatics will (with the state watching on, mind you), Christianity is being wiped off the map in Syria by various Mujahideen groups and factions of the FSA (90%), is targeted every single day in Iraq,
millions of Christians killed in South Sudan by the Arab/Muslim north, hundreds of thousands of Christians killed in Indonesia, the near daily bombing of churches in Nigeria by Boko Haram and by Al Shabaab in Somalia, and the renewed targeting of Copts in Egypt, the second, even third class status of Christians across, pretty much of of North Africa and any Muslim majority nation I have not mentioned,
please, see my sources for much, much more detail.
And lets not forget the intellectual and social war again Christianity in the west. Now with this, I would not care much, if it wasn't for a couple of factors. I think it would be fantastic if most of our populations turned atheist/secular/humanist (though, European Christianity is remarkably secular and watered down anyway) and Christianity would be a think of the past, with no influence over our lives. But the simple fact is, is that there are double standard. Whilst we celebrate the downfall and influence of Christianity, mock it in public etc etc, we do anything we can not do the same for Islam of Judaism, any criticism of Muslims or Jews is instantly brought down at blah blah phobia, blah blah anti-Semitism. We have rather forward, and public groups that at every chance go on about the oppression of Muslims in Burma, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and the Caucuses in Russia, and there are many national, public debates/causes which discuss these issues, but what about the hundreds of thousands off Christians persecuted in South/South east Asia, yet how many of you even know about the existence of groups such as Boko Haram, targeting churches in Nigerian at every Christian festival (three Christmases in a row) or every Sunday, or the mass killing of converts to Christianity in Indonesian my Jemaah Islamiyah?