About 100 million Christians are subject to persecution in 60 countries, according to Open Doors, a Christian ministry. For example, 40 churches have been destroyed in Iraq and a similar number in Nigeria. What can be done? I asked Jasser, a Muslim American, a physician who served 11 years in the U.S. Navy on ships, at the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the U.S. Congress who is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and author of "The Battle for the Soul of Islam." He told me he called for "the protection of rights based on a separation of mosque and state - which is the only way to defeat the ascendancy of Islamism (political Islam)." He believes "Islam needs to go through the same reform" as America did in writing the First Amendment to the Constitution, stating "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18079
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