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[Mr Khan]

Chairman-Mao said:

Mr Khan said:

Chairman-Mao said:

All I know is if I built a big Christian church in the centre of Islamabad it would be burned down very quickly. Muslims hate the USA but at least the US is tolerant of religions.

Syria's got churches, Egypt has a sizable Coptic minority, Lebanon's got 'em, Indonesia's the largest Muslim-populated country on earth, and seems to handle diversity well enough (outside of Bali, but that was high-profile al-qaeda stuff, and not entirely home-grown)

Well there may be churches in these countries, but that doesn't mean Christians get equal rights in these countries, where as in most western nations treat everyone equally by law.

I can't speak for Syria or Egypt (though both of their governments have proven to have a certain secular commitment), but i know Lebanon actually had the opposite problem (Christian minority oppressing Muslims), which was one of the contributing factors to their civil war (the bigger cause being Israel and Syria both trying to use Lebanon as a puppet)