Islamists place $60 million bounty on Egyptian Coptic leader
Michael Coren wanted to have Egyptian Coptic Christian spokesman Father Zakaria Boutros on his show last week, but foreign travel became too difficult for him when Islamists in Iran and Saudi Arabia placed a $60 million bounty on his head.
Through his website and television broadcasts, Fr Boutros is reaching Muslims with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and that’s why the Saudis want him dead.
“We know people are leaving Islam because of what I say and they know people are leaving Islam because of what I say,” he explains. A long pause, then: “People in the West simply don’t understand the significance of this in a world that has not and probably will not embrace pluralism. The Islamic response is not to argue with me but to try to kill me.”
The bounty on Father Boutros is but one example of systemic persecution of Christians in Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Muslim nations.
Church desecration is common, as are public burnings of Bibles and Christian literature. There are also documented cases of Christians being ritually crucified, the rape of Christian girls and the prolonged beating of children, some of them babies. These are not isolated incidents condemned by the state, but part of a reoccurring pattern often ignored and, in some regions, actively encouraged by police and militia.
Muslim-majority countries routinely, and often brutally, deny religious freedom—yet, with rare exceptions, Western news media are silent.
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