All of this is real and has to be noticed but as Rehman Chishti MP has said, 80 per cent of the persecution of Christians that is taking place today is taking place in the Islamic world. This is a fact that cannot be denied, and the question is, why? We are faced in the Islamic world and indeed beyond that, with something that is not just the faith of pious Muslims-Christians should respect the faith of other people even if they disagree with them, and they should certainly love the other person even if they disagree with that person — but this is not about personal faith or even the faith of a community; this is about a comprehensive political, social and economic ideology. That is what Islamism is. Now of course there are moderate Muslim voices. Many of them are my friends; I admire them. Sometimes they are very courageous, like the former Grand Mufti of Egypt, but in most places their voice is not prevailing, so we have situations of increasing hardship for Christians and others in the Muslim world.
Some Muslim organisations now say that they have renounced violence. We welcome that. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt claims that it has renounced violence. That's excellent. The Tablighi Jamaat say they have never been violent; I think that is true. The Jamaat has one of its headquarters in Raiwind, of which I was Bishop, so I do know a little about this, but the question is: if people belong to an ideological movement like the Tablighi Jamaat, or like the Ikhwan, can they then go on to something that is violent and extremist?
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