Data Tables: Muslim societies that embrace Sharia overall, or regarding enforcement of Islamic blasphemy law, have the worst global Christian persecution indices, and harbor populations with the highest prevalence—by far—of extreme antisemitism. Western European & U.S. Muslims bring that disproportionate extreme antisemitism to the West

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Christian persecution data: https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/persecution/countries/
Sharia/Blasphemy data: Imprisonment, but also with potential lethal punishment in 7 countries: Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, and Mauritania https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/ ; See also https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/2023%20Blasphemy%20Law%20Compendium.pdf ; https://persecution.org/2025/04/14/court-declares-nigerias-blasphemy-laws-violate-international-human-rights-standards/; https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf ; Iran was polled separately in 2013 by Pew https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/06/11/iranians-views-mixed-on-political-role-for-religious-figures/

*Lebanon is now a Muslim majority country
Extreme antisemitism data 2024: https://www.adl.org/adl-global-100-index-antisemitism
Sharia/Blasphemy data: Imprisonment, but also with potential lethal punishment in 7 countries: Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, and Mauritania https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/ ; See also https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/2023%20Blasphemy%20Law%20Compendium.pdf ; https://persecution.org/2025/04/14/court-declares-nigerias-blasphemy-laws-violate-international-human-rights-standards/; https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf

https://andrewbostom.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LOIA_NewPreface_Jan.-2020.pdf; https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/412

Andrew G. Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (Prometheus, 2005) and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism " (Prometheus, November, 2008) You can contact Dr. Bostom at @andrewbostom.net

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