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Islamic JihadLikewise, the Arab Christian population is decreasing rapidly in the Middle East countries; they havebeen fleeing mainly to the West to escape discrimination and persecution. The city of Bethlehem in the WestBank in Palestine, once dominated by Christians, is now a predominantly Muslim city. Christians constituted60 percent of the population in 1990, which dwindled to 40 percent in 2000 and currently stand at only about15 percent. According to Justus Reid Weiner, an international human rights lawyer and lecturer at the HebrewUniversity, with connivance and even abetment of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, Christian Arabs sufferfrequent human rights abuses at the hands of Muslims, which include, ‘intimidation, beatings, land theft,firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture,kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion.’ 383 These problems force them to migrateelsewhere. On the other hand, the city of Nazareth, the birthplace of Jesus in Israel—dominated by Christianssince 1848—continues to be a dominantly Christian city. According to an estimate based on recent trends, theChristian community may disappear altogether from the Muslim-controlled Palestinian territories of WestBank and Gaza within the next fifteen years as a result of their increasing persecution and maltreatment. 384On the other hand, the Muslim population continues to swell in Hindu-majority India. Muslims inNigeria constituted about 40 percent of the population at the time of gaining independence from Britain in1960, but are now probably in the majority. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, there were 43.5 percent Muslims prior tothe mid-1990 civil war; their number increased to over 50 percent in 2008. In Israel, despite large influx ofJewish immigrants from all over the world, Muslims continue to maintain their proportion of the population.In whichever country Muslims are minorities, they are either growing faster than the rest or maintaining theirshare of the population. But non-Muslim minorities in Islamic countries have been dwindling fast withoutexceptions.Shahada, the fundamental creed of Islam, says, "There is no God but Allah" [Quran 6:102,106;2:163]. Islam—the religious, social, cultural and political order sanctioned by Allah, the supreme only truesovereign of the universe—must replace all else and dominate over all peoples. For establishing an allembracingIslamic cultural imperialism—that is, Islam, as the only and the complete way of life for allpeoples as demanded by Allah—Muslims must wage Jihad in whatsoever way they can [Quran 2:193, 8:39].The ongoing pogrom of non-Muslims in Islamic countries, which goes on with little opposition from thewider Muslim populace, is, consciously or subconsciously, the enforcement of the Islamic culturalimperialism—a fundamental writ of Islam.Therefore, the vast treasure of cultural and civilizational heritage, which humankind has lost due toIslamic onslaughts, is not a cause of regret for the overwhelming majority of Muslims. To devout Muslims, itis instead a cause for jubilation; because, their destruction is a meritorious and divinely binding duty for them.Naipaul rightly noted: ‘It (Islam) has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you haveto destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture doesnot exist, it doesn’t matter.’’ 385 A campaign to finish off the vestiges of jahiliyah religion, tradition, cultureand heritage that comes within the power of Muslims is ongoing in full measure across the continents.Muslims must transform the entire world into a uniform Arabo-Islamic society by founding an imperialIslamic state globally—in which, Islam will be the only ideology and the complete guide to all aspects of lifefor all. In today’s postcolonial Muslim world, such a socio-cultural transformation has been taking place at anever accelerating rate, particularly where Muslims dominate the population. The process of Araboislamizationof the global culture has now started even in the West by Muslim immigrants.383. Weiner JR (2008) Palestinian Crimes against Christian Arabs and Their Manipulation against Israel, in Institutefor Global Jewish Affairs Bulletin, No. 72, 1 September 2008384. Lefkovits E, ‘Christian groups in PA to disappear’, Jerusalem Post, 04 December 2007385. Ezard J, Nobel dream comes true for VS Naipaul, The Guardian, 12 October, 2001129