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Last weekend\u2019s scenes of anti-Christian mob violence in Cairo, against a background of churches in flames, is a powerful reminder of a grim reality: Non-Muslim communities have become endangered species throughout much of the Islamic world.<\/p>\n

Some statesmen have begun to acknowledge the existential crisis facing non-Muslims. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Amine Gemayel warned earlier this year that Islamic extremists are waging a war of \u201cgenocide,\u2019\u2019 while French President Nicolas Sarkozy now refers to the region\u2019s Christians as the victims of \u201ca perverse program of . . . religious cleansing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The most sensational acts of anti-Christian terror command headlines \u2014 for a moment. Such was the case when 41 worshippers at Baghdad\u2019s Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church were held hostage and then massacred by Islamic extremists last October, and 23 Egyptian Christians in Alexandria were killed by a bomb blast as they left mass early this year.<\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s only Christian Cabinet member, Shahbaz Bhatti \u2014 the minister for minority affairs \u2014 was shot dead in March. He was a critic of Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy laws.<\/p>\n

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