(Front Page Magazine/Weekly Standard) Amitai Etzioni - Christians are being killed, often at places of worship, in several countries with Islamic majorities or governments, not because they are Westerners or Americans (many are neither) but because they are Christians. On October 17, Muslim extremists killed 6 Christians and wounded 143 in Zamboanga, Philippines. On September 25, militant Muslims shot dead 7 Christian Pakistanis execution-style in Karachi, the fifth such attack in the last twelve months. A religious war between Muslim Eritrea and Christian Ethiopia in which tens of thousands perished raged for more than 30 years. Indonesian Muslim militants killed many East Timorese Christians, while thousands of Indonesian Christians died during riots in the Moluccan Islands in 2000. The bloody war in Sudan pits the Muslim government in the North against the Christian and animist South. In Nigeria, armed conflicts between Muslims and Christians have erupted and thousands have died as Muslims try to impose a strict version of the sharia legal code. In the Ivory Coast, Muslims in the North have been attacking Christians in the South. In January 2000, scores of Coptic Christians were killed in Egypt.
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