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Is a new and shocking wave of anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle East and the developing world? Consider the following:

More than half the Jews in Iraq have been driven out of the country; those that remain are forced to pay a fine or leave their homes. Some are forced to marry Muslims.

In Syria, towns and villages where Jews have lived for centuries are now almost entirely Muslim; these communities have fled to safer parts of the country, where they hope to escape an anti-Semitic massacre.

In Egypt, the new regime is surreptitiously encouraging attacks on synagogues; the Jews, despised for their supposed wealth, fear that the “Arab spring” is about to release centuries of pent-up anti-Semitic hatred.

In Nigeria, Jews have been attacked and killed while studying scripture. In Bangladesh, Jewish children are being forced into madrassas. In Pakistan, the body of an 11-year-old Jewish boy was discovered this week; he’d been tortured to death and his lips sliced off.

You won’t have heard about this atrocious persecution. That’s because – forgive me – I’ve played one of the oldest tricks in the journalist’s book. For Jews, read Christians. For anti-Semitic, read anti-Christian. For synagogues read churches.

I hope Jewish readers won’t take offence: I’m not denying that actual anti-Semitism is spreading like a virus throughout Arab societies. It’s just that, if these attacks against Christians were being directed against Jews, the precedent of the Holocaust would shock the world into action....

This new persecution is the result of the simultaneous revival of militant Islam in many countries. We can say that with confidence. What we can’t say, however, is that there is a co-ordinated Islamic plot to exterminate Christianity as a stepping stone to a universal caliphate.

Conspiracy theorists may derive emotional satisfaction from this idea, but it doesn’t correspond to the messy politics of the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Also, it lets the “Christian” West off the hook.

Those believing there isn't a war against religious minorities will churn out any lies to uphold their spin.

The article does have a point about how had these attacks been against Jews there would have been a bigger coverage

More than half the Jews in Iraq have been driven out of the country; those that remain are forced to pay a fine or leave their homes. Some are forced to marry Muslims.

In Syria, towns and villages where Jews have lived for centuries are now almost entirely Muslim; these communities have fled to safer parts of the country, where they hope to escape an anti-Semitic massacre.

In Egypt, the new regime is surreptitiously encouraging attacks on synagogues; the Jews, despised for their supposed wealth, fear that the “Arab spring” is about to release centuries of pent-up anti-Semitic hatred.

In Nigeria, Jews have been attacked and killed while studying scripture. In Bangladesh, Jewish children are being forced into madrassas. In Pakistan, the body of an 11-year-old Jewish boy was discovered this week; he’d been tortured to death and his lips sliced off.

What we can’t say, however, is that there is a co-ordinated Islamic plot to exterminate Christianity..

I wrote:The conspiracy theory according to the author is a co-ordinated effort to exterminate Christians.

You can have a "war" or persecution, according to the author, without believing in coordinated extermination programs.

I wrote:As the author points out by example, there is a war against Christians by radical Muslims:

troll wrote:No, he says that these separate events do not constitute a co-ordinated plot to exterminate Christianity. Fail.

rayznack wrote:But we can agree the situation of Christians today is no different from Jews a few centuries prior..

Is a new and shocking wave of anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle East and the developing world? Consider the following:

But hey, if you and your blogger friends want to believe that there is a world-wide anti-Christian conspiracy that is like the historic persecution of Jews

you'll have to explain how come in your home country there are over 1000 anti-Semitic incidents each year, but you can only point to a lesser number of anti-Christian attacks +worldwide+?

I wrote:How isn't Christian persecution in the Muslim world like Jewish persecution?

Shouldn't you be tackling your fellow Americans who commit the 1000+ anti-Semitic incidents as well? Why dream up a worldwide conspiracy of Muslim persecution?