Few Christians in the West say anything about the Muslim persecution of Christians, and those who do generally ignore the root causes of that persecution. They don’t want to harm the “Muslim-Christian dialogue” in which they place so much hope, and which has not saved one single Christian from being murdered.

Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk (by me) at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.”

Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians.

“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

“Francis Spins Failed Treaty with Grand Imam,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, February 4, 2022:

VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis is trumpeting his concordat with Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb as a triumph — despite the dramatic rise in Islamic persecution of Christians since the two leaders signed the Abu Dhabi declaration three years ago.

In a video message marking the third anniversary of the declaration on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed by Francis and el-Tayeb on Feb. 4, 2019, the pope saluted the world’s preeminent Sunni Muslim leader for walking with him over the last three years.

“This is a good day to extend a hand, to celebrate our unity in diversity — unity, not uniformity, unity in diversity — in order to say to the communities in which we live that the time of fraternity has arrived,” Francis declared.

Contradicting the biblical teaching that confers God’s promise to Abraham on those who “belong to Christ” (Galatians 3:7, 29), Francis included Muslims in “the promise of his descendants.”

The “promise has also been fulfilled in our lives, that of a fraternity as vast and bright as the stars of heaven!” Francis exclaimed, citing his own March 2021 address, delivered during the “Interreligious Meeting at the Plain of Ur.”

Speaking to Church Militant, Islamic historian Robert Spencer said that the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries had skyrocketed since Francis signed his declaration with el-Tayeb.

Spencer, author of bestselling The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, elaborated:

The pope is whistling in the dark. The pact has not been a success — except from the standpoint of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb, who emphasized that building bridges with non-Muslims was solely for the purpose of bringing them into Islam, not for any genuine dialogue.

This is exemplified by the fact that the pope keeps telling Christians they must live fraternally with Muslims, while the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, his great friend, has made no comparable call to Muslims not to destroy churches, persecute Christians, etc.