It would create an arab-arab dialogue about how to make progress. It would create a legal system of strong minority rights because the facts on the ground dictate that eventually, the christian majority will turn into a christian minority so the founding fathers will be very interested in the rule of law and equal rights.

I don’t have a lot of confidence that this is where we are going but it is a viable way out if people would have the vision to see it.

Also the website of Project Open book documents the persecution of Christians in the Islamic World.

http://www.domini.org/openbook

by Bat Ye’or (professor of history; Jewish Egyptian exile now living in the West, I believe)
- Islam and Dhimmitude
- The Dhimmi
- The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam
- Dhimmitude.org – http://www.dhimmitude.org/

by Ibn Warraq (pen name of Muslim apostate)
- Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
- Why I am not a Muslim

by Bernard Lewis (Middle East scholar):
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
- The Jews of Islam
- What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity
- Semites and Anti-Semites
- The Muslim Discovery of Europe
- many other scholarly books and articles

You are right. I probably should have written, “without generating much organized reaction from Christians elsewhere.”

Pat Robertson’s CBN had a local radio station set up in Lebanon with regular reports on the plight of Christians to his US cable outlet.

CBN was also in Sudan along with a Pat Robertson funded NGO running food and other “non-lethal” aid to the Christians in the civil war there.