Of course GHook this happens to all Christian minorities in Muslim countries, they get coerced to convert to Islam, sometimes its by violence sometimes its not.
The worst is Lebanon. In the up until the 80s, Lebanon had a Christian MAJORITY! Even without the Palestinian population of Lebanon, the Lebanese Christian population is getting phased out, ethnically cleansed if you will!
Estimates range from as low as 10% to as high as 20%!!! That is a far cry from the 60% they had in the 1970s!!!
Although Lebanon is the worst, Egypt is getting very bad. The Christians total population is shrinking each year. Syria is actively ethically cleansing the Christian population (both sides the so called freedom fighters and the ASSSad regime are both targeting them). Iraq has already gotten rid of their Christians (Iraqi Christians have one safe place - KURDISTAN). Christians aren't allowed in Saudi Arabia. Turkey is 99% MUSLIM, so much for the so called secular regime! The world is silent on the plight of the Christians, but protects Muslim agritators and extremist!
Lebanon's dispossessed come home: Robert Fisk in Damour on the scars of an orgy of ethnic cleansing - World - News - The Independent
Georges Naufal was standing next to the Christian home from which he was ethnically cleansed 17 years ago. 'Those of us who lived in the centre of Damour hid in the church for the night as the shells fell around us,' he said, prowling along the back of the broken- walled villa in which he once lived with his mother and father.
'How can we forget what happened? It was 22 January. We knew the Palestinians and Muslim forces were coming. It was our last night here. We had no time to take our belongings. In the church, 450 of us spent the night, along with Father Labaki. That day, my nephew, Antoine Chahoub, had been killed in the old palace on the hill above us, hit in the chest by a rocket-propelled grenade. He was only 20