COMMENTARY: Muslims Must Stop Attacking, Killing Christians in Islamic Nations

There have been several attacks -- some of which have been deadly -- by fanatic Muslims against innocent Christians living in predominantly Islamic nations in recent months, and these barbaric attacks must be laid to rest immediately.

On March 12, 2010, a mob of Muslims -- estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 -- hurled stones at a Coptic Christian Church in Egypt during prayer services. The Muslims then went inside the church and assaulted people. At least 25 Christians were seriously injured and required hospital treatment. The reason for the Muslim attack was that a wall had been built around the church, without asking the Muslims for permission to do so.

On the evening of January 6, 2010 -- following a Christmas service at a Coptic Christian Church in Egypt -- three Muslims drove by the church and fired at the parishioners with machine guns as they were leaving the church. Seven people were killed, and several more were injured.

Also in Egypt, a court in the city of Assuit earlier this month acquitted four Muslims accused of killing a 61-year-old Coptic Christian on October 19, 2009. The Muslims fired 31 bullets into the man's head and then beheaded him, according to several witnesses. Christians were enraged over the acquittal, which brought back memories of O.J. Simpson's acquittal of a double murder by a predominantly black jury some 15 years earlier.

I can continue with more examples of Muslim barbarism and the failure of the courts to punish these barbarians accordingly, but I believe that I have already made my point clear.

Egypt is the worst Islamic nation with respect to its treatment -- or more precisely mistreatment -- of Christians. Pakistan can be considered a close second to Egypt. I remember a case last month of a girl in her early teens being a house cleaner for a Pakistani doctor who killed her for eating some food from the refrigerator. The Pakistani doctor was not the least bit sorry for murdering a Christian girl.

Other predominantly Islamic countries have treated Christians as "second-class citizens" and think nothing of doing so. For example, last month Turkey was ordered by the high court of the European Union to remove its listing of religion on identification cards of Turkish citizens. Turkey had been using this religion listing in an effort to discriminate against its Christians.

It is now time for this barbaric treatment of Christians to end. Moreover, the courts in predominantly Islamic nations must take this barbaric treatment of Christians more seriously by punishing these barbarians to the full extent of the law.