Islamic Tolerance Alert. In the U.S., if you dare note that Christians do not enjoy full equality of rights with Muslims in any majority-Muslim country today, you will be vilified as an “Islamophobe.” Unfortunately, however, those who do the vilifying don’t say a thing when stories like this one come out.
“Asylum for Eritrean gospel singer,” from the BBC (thanks to Meilor):
An Eritrean Christian gospel singer who was tortured and detained without charge for two years in her homeland has been granted asylum in Denmark.
Helen Berhane was imprisoned inside a metal shipping container and beaten in an effort to make her recant her faith.
And just what faith did her captors want her to adopt, O BBC?
Freed in December 2006, she took refuge in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, before being granted asylum.
Ms Berhane uses a wheelchair because of severe injuries to her legs and feet sustained in prison beatings….
Her account of the cruel and inhumane treatment she suffered is echoed by the testimony of hundreds of others persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Prisoners say they are routinely subjected to extremes of heat and cold, denied water and sanitation, according to testimony collected from exiles by Release Eritrea, an organisation that campaigns for the rights of religious minorities.