Global Persecutions

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My purpose here is to show a commonality in the way Christians and Muslims each feel -- with reason -- about persecution of their respective fellow-believers. In each case, I have chosen a quotation which utilizes the phrase global persecution. Perhaps each statement will help those who feel passionately about it to understand those who feel no less passionately about the other.

I could have created two other interesting DoubleQuotes by using one or other of the two quotes used here with the following:

One issue, however, has taken the foreign affairs community completely by surprise: global religious persecution. A worldwide report by two British researchers, Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen, notes, "Religious persecution of minority faiths, forcible conversion, desecration of religious sites, the proscribing of beliefs and pervasive discrimination, killings and torture, are daily occurrences at the end of the twentieth century." The victims include Christians, Buddhists, Baha'is, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and animists.

Allen Hertzke and Daniel Philpott, Defending the Faiths, National Interest, Fall 2000
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2000_Fall/ai_65576877

Equally, this third quote could have followed the first two in an extended analysis, which might have incorporated other related insights and tackled a wider terrotory, in which global persecution would have been just one of the issues considered.

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Sources:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/116/44.0.html
http://www.as-sahwah.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=603&pageID=193&pageID=223