Today, March 15, is “International Day to Combat Islamophobia”—a United Nations-designated observance first proclaimed in 2022 via General Assembly.
The momentum has since intensified. In 2024, another resolution—“Measures to Combat Islamophobia”—was passed. It goes beyond condemnation, urging member states to enact “concrete measures,” especially blasphemy-style laws to suppress “hate”—better known as free—speech. This resolution also established a UN Special Envoy to drive global efforts.
The push continues: tomorrow, March 16, the UN hosts a high-level event in New York titled “Addressing Islamophobia and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief – the Nexus to Human Rights.”
While there are many ways to debunk the supposed need to “combat Islamophobia,” one need only turn to why the UN chose March 15 to expose its rank hypocrisy.
On March 15, 2019, an armed Australian man, Brenton Tarrant, entered two mosques in New Zealand and opened fire on their Muslim worshippers, killing 51 and injuring 40.
Therefore, March 15 was chosen to remind you of this awful incident.
So far, so good—except, that is, for one pesky question: If one attack on a mosque was enough for the UN to institutionalize a special day to speak up for Islam, what about the countless, often worse, Muslim attacks on non-Muslim places of worship? Why have they not elicited a similar response from the UN and other governmental bodies?
Consider just some of the fatal Muslim attacks on Christian churches in recent years (listed in descending order by number of victims).
Brace yourself.
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Sri Lanka (April 21, 2019): On Easter Sunday, Muslim terrorists bombed three churches and three hotels; 359 people, mostly Christians, were killed and more than 500 injured.
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Nigeria (April 20, 2014): On Easter Sunday, Islamic terrorists torched a packed church; 150 Christians were burned alive.
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Pakistan (March 27, 2016): Following Easter Sunday church services, Islamic terrorists bombed a park where Christians had congregated; more than 70 — mostly women and children — were killed. “There was human flesh on the walls of our house,” recalled a witness.
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Democratic Republic of Congo (February, 2025): Muslim militants of the Allied Democratic Forces rounded up and marched 70 Christians to a Protestant church, tied them up, and decapitated all of them with knives.
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Iraq (Oct. 31, 2011): Muslims stormed a church in Baghdad during worship and opened fire indiscriminately before detonating their suicide vests. Nearly 60 Christians — including women, children, and even babies — were killed. (This massive list continues below.)
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