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1) Don't be silly. 2) It, unfortunately, doesn't require Muslims to be in the majority of the entire country, for them to persecute Christians. Just look at Boko Haram. Islam has been in Ethiopia since Mohammed, and the east is majority Muslim. There is sectarian fighting within the Orthodox sects, but that doesn't mean there is no Muslim persecution. 3) Islam has been spreading in all of these countries and Christians are often forced to leave. Egypt is a rare, recent counter-example, moving from place 25/50 to place 40/50 on the persecution list, after the Muslim Brotherhood government was overthrown. (Reminder to everyone that Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.)

I understand you might see it differently, but I’m being completely serious about this. Islam has been persecuted since it's beginning, something common for all prophets that have spoken divine truth. Its establishment in Ethiopa was even due to Arab persecution. Muslims were welcomed in Ethiopia by a Christian King and other peace treaties were signed with Christians in Egypt and Oman during Muhammed's lifetime ﷺ. Boko Haram is a great example of the extreme fundamentalism that we both agree is a concern (Ilaga militia in the Philippines being an example of this extremism on the Catholic side). Islam has aways succeeded most when it worked in union with Christianity and that has seemed worked pretty well for Chrstianity too from my reading of history. Free speach on nostr isn't going to go very far if we just get cenralized into isolated communities. We have a small but growing muslim community here on nostr that is quite diverse and balanced, and many of them actually take insperstion from you and the folks building GitCitadel so seeing posts that easily can be read as islamophobic come across just feeding into sentiments of pursecution, which I really don't think is your intention. Personally I'd like to see nostr as a place where Muslims and Christians can return to a mutually beneficial position of power rather than get caught up in Twitter style debates. That's an area of opportunity you can lean into if you want. Anyhow, here's me being silly: View quoted note →

I'm sorry, but islamaphobia isn't a real psychological diagnosis. It just means that you don't agree with some or all of Islam's tenents. This should not be pathologized. Categorizing anyone who disagrees with your philosophy as being mentally ill or criminal, is why we are now here, fighting censorship. If I thought Islam were correct, I would be Muslim. But I do not, so I am not. I think any religion that doesn't fully ascribe to the Nicene Creed is a false religion, and I have never pretended otherwise or been afraid to say so, openly. My God is an awesome god. I am not working so hard, for free, for years, in order to help Muslims. I am doing it to help my own people. But I understand that the freedoms of conscience, association, and assembly are universal goods and inalienable human rights, and we are designing the systems to be universally applicable and hope they inspire similar projects. Most Muslims are not my enemies. I can differentiate between particularly rabid and violent members of a particualar movement and individual people. Not all Muslims are Boko Haram, just as not all atheists are Nazis. And, at any rate, Christians are called to love their enemies, so lucky the man who can call us enemies. I think everyone should have all of the information they need to make their own choices about what they believe or do not believe. They are free to make the wrong choice. I won't stop them, I will fight anyone who tries to stop them, and I will champion their right to be wrong. May the best ideas win.

I am aware. I have had colleagues from Iran, who were Christians and Zoroastrians. I think the latter actually have it harder, but the government definitely isn't keen on Bible thumpers.