Middle East: Genocide Warning
Petition the President to Act on Behalf of Endangered Christian Communities and other Religious Minorities
Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has issued a Genocide Warning for Christian communities and other religious minorities in North Africa and the broader Islamic Middle East! Dr. John Eibner, the CEO of CSI-USA, is calling on President Barack Obama to make genocide prevention a priority in America’s Middle East policy.
Click here to read Dr. Eibner’s letter to President Obama
CSI has also launched a petition campaign to President Barack Obama, urging him to respond to this crisis of survival. This petition will also be sent to the Republican presidential candidates.
Please take a moment to sign this urgent petition to the President!
CSI's Genocide Warning echoes that of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who declared earlier this year:
"We cannot accept and thereby facilitate what looks more and more like a particularly perverse program of religious cleansing in the Middle East."
Religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Baha'i, Yezidis, Sabeans, Ahmadias, and others, have lived in the region for millennia, and still number over twelve million. Read the full list of conditions for genocide that exist in the Middle East below.
Attacks against Christians and other religious minorities in the past year show that anti-minority violence, from state and non-state actors, is becoming disturbingly commonplace in the Middle East.
Read stories of persecution here
These attacks are inspired by a widespread culture of Islamic supremacism - a kindred spirit of the white supremacism and anti-Semitism that have stained the record of Western Civilization.
President Obama must act quickly. Millions of lives and the future of a religiously pluralistic civilization are at stake.
Special Commentaries: The Crisis of Survival for Middle East Christians and other Religious Minorities
"After Arab Spring, danger arises for 
Christians"
By Jeff Jacoby - December 7, 2011
The harrying of non-Muslim minorities in the Middle East is hardly a new phenomenon — nearly all of the Arab world’s Jews were driven out long ago — but the rise of radical Islam has lethally intensified the problem. Last month, Christian Solidarity International, a respected human-rights organization with deep experience in the region, warned that Christians there may be facing genocide. “The crisis of survival for non-Muslim communities is especially acute in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, and Pakistan,’’ the group’s CEO, John Eibner, wrote in a letter to President Obama, imploring him to act urgently to prevent the kind of “religious cleansing’’ that eradicated Turkey’s “once-thriving Christian communities’’ a century ago.
It takes more than voting to sustain decent democratic values. Totalitarians from Hitler to Hamas, after all, have come to power via the ballot. Revolts and demonstrations may topple Arab dictators, and their replacements may be chosen in elections. But there will be no Arab Spring without pluralism, freedom, and tolerance.
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