Talk about being brainwashed!
FearGod said,
I'm not going to do your homework for you. And I suppose you pick and chose just what historical evidence you like to believe.
"Much of the region either forcibly or voluntarily converted to Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries. In the Middle Ages, the European Crusades attempted, brutally, repeatedly but ultimately unsuccessfully, to restore Christian hegemony over the region.
Since then, only Lebanon has maintained a Christian population approaching anything like a plurality, although Egypt maintains the single-largest Christian population in the Middle East."
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/christians-middleeast.htm
Is This the End of Christianity
in the Middle East?
ISIS and other extremist movements across the region are
enslaving, killing and uprooting Christians, with no aid in sight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/m...-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html?_r=0
ISIS openly declares that it intends to destroy Christianity by killing Christians who will not convert to Islam and by enslaving Christian women.
It has provided a list of 1,131 Christians that have been killed between 2003 and the rise of ISIS in the summer of 2014. Since then, it has recorded more than a hundred more.
http://blog.acton.org/archives/85931-5-facts-genocide-against-christians-in-the-middle-east.html
Maybe you don't know that
less than 100 years ago Muslims murdered and displaced about a half Million Christians in what is today's Turkey.
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...the city of Izmir hasn’t always been called that. Before it became a Turkish city, it had been Smyrna, a major Greek port and trading center for more than two millennia. Even after becoming part of the Ottoman Empire it remained a primarily Christian city, home to many thousands of Greeks and Armenians.
Until 1922, that is. The week of September 11-17, to be precise. During that period the city was occupied by the forces of Mustafa Kemal, a.k.a. Kemal Attaturk.
The Christian areas of the city were looted and torched, and the Armenians and the Greeks were driven from their homes to flee the city or be slaughtered. Of the 400,000 Christians resident in the city beforehand, virtually none remained, and more than 190,000 were never accounted for. The Archbishop Chrysostomos was among the victims, murdered at the hands of a mob while under the “protection” of French marines. The city, except for the Turkish quarter, was reduced to a smoking ruin.
In the Sudan between 98-99 nearly a million Christians were Murdered at the hands of Muslims. 5,000 villages were burned, and 1,500 churches were burned.
1988-1989 The war induced famine killed some 250,000 people.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A10)
1998 Dec 10,
The death toll from the 15 year civil war was reported to have reached at least 1.9 million. A 40 nation African conference on refugees opened in Khartoum.
(SFC, 12/11/98, p.D3)
http://www.timelines.ws/subjects/Atrocities.HTML
All of Northern Africa was mostly Christian between 1900-1960.
I don't like using WIKI but...
The spread of
Islam into
North Africa reduced the size of Christian congregations as well as their number,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Africa
Who did you say was brainwashed?