wally1 wrote on Feb 8
th, 2015 at 4:44pm:
Muslims slaughtered in afghanistan by the west.
Israel attacking syrian military posts
African christian militias attacking muslims.
Muslims slaughterd and butchered by Buddhists in Burma.
Muslims slaughtered by drones in Yemen by america.
Muslims slaughtered by drones in Pakistan by America
These are Muslims behaving badly.
While Christians are indeed suffering extreme persecution in North Korea, these fall into the realm of the temporal and aberrant. Something as simple as overthrowing the North Korean regime would likely end persecution there overnight -- just as the fall of Communist Soviet Union saw religious persecution come to a quick close.
In the Islamic world, however, a similar scenario would not alleviate the sufferings of Christians one iota. Quite the opposite; where dictators fall (often thanks to U.S. intervention) -- Saddam in Iraq, Qaddafi in Libya, and ongoing attempts against Assad in Syria -- Christian persecution dramatically rises.
Today Iraq is the third worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Syria fourth, and Libya 13th.
The reason for this dichotomy is that Christian persecution by non-Muslims (mostly communists) is often rooted in a particular regime. Conversely, Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and far transcends this or that regime or ruler. It is part and parcel of the history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam -- hence its tenacity; hence its ubiquity.
Moreover, atheistic communism is a relatively new phenomenon -- about a century old -- and, over the years, its rule (if not variants of its ideology) has greatly waned, so that only a handful of nations today are communist.
On the other hand, Muslim persecution of Christians is as old as Islam. It is a well-documented, even if suppressed, history.