One of the world's leading authorities on religious persecution sees a connection between the Osama Bin Laden terror network and persecution directed against Christians in a host of countries.
'He's tied in with a lot of persecution,' said Dr. Paul Marshall, British-born author of Their Blood Cries Out, and a senior fellow at the Centre for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. 'In many settings it's radicals within his network who are carrying out persecution. This is going on in the Philippines, Indonesia, and to some extent Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and, of course, Afghanistan.'
Marshall said Bin Laden is allied with other terrorist groups in Algeria and Nigeria who have been killing Christians. 'Bin Laden's had a lot of co-operation with Sudan - a major country in the world killing Christians', Marshall said. 'The death toll in Sudan since 1998 is two million; that is more than every war in the Middle East in this past century. Most of these victims are Christians.'
