"All these Christians, my colleagues and friends, live in dire peril for expressing their religious observation."

The same is true for Muslims living in the U.S. Even Sikhs are killed for expressing their religion and they aren't even Muslims but ignorantly mistaken for them.

Christians have a history of ramming their religion down the throats of others so any retaliation is simply "the chickens coming home to roost". I'm not saying that this is moral or right but a cause and effect engendered by religion. It's a case of "my god is bigger than your god."

Religious fanaticism, promoting wars, silencing others who don't believe they way they do, organizing shaming cults, promoting mythology, Muslim and Christian extremism are exactly the same thing, as Hindu and Muslim wars, Jewish and Muslim wars, Catholic and Jewish wars (historically), Catholic and Protestant wars, the list goes on and is accessible to all who care to see it.

The idea that Christians are somehow above atrocities delivered in their name is specious, silly, misleading, and are bullies on the school ground who when beaten by other bullies cry "uncle".

As long as religion prevails, we will see more of this whining, beating and violence.