"It's a subject that has become ever more urgent this year with violence against Christians in Syria, where Islamists have been engaged in 'religious cleansing', and in Egypt, which saw the worst anti-Christian violence in centuries.

Over the weekend the leading Catholic in Iraq, Patriarch Louis Sako, was in Rome where he lamented the west's apathy, after a decade in which 1,000 Iraqi Christians have been murdered, over 60 churches bombed, and a pre-war population of one million reduced to 200,000 at most.

He said: 'We feel forgotten and isolated. We sometimes wonder, if they kill us all, what would be the reaction of Christians in the West? Would they do something then?'"

"For those who make no effort to press for religious freedom and security in the Middle East, because they are scared of appearing Islamophobic, how do you think history will judge that excuse?"
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/edwest/2013/12/if-they-kill-us-all-what-would-be-the-reaction-of-christians-in-the-west/