Didn't Used to Be Muslim
Those who don't know history well are often surprised to learn that Islam has violently conquered a plethora of nations. Antonio Graceffo explains in his 6 September 2026 Gateway Pundit article, The World's Largest Muslim Nations Didn't Used to Be Muslim. Excerpts follow:
Christians are the single most persecuted minority on planet Earth, with almost 5,000 killed for their faith in 2025. This year has been even worse, with more than 7,000 Christians killed in Nigeria alone during the first seven months of 2026...
Amnesty International’s May 2026 report on ADF abuses documented massacres carried out with hammers, axes, machetes, and guns...
In Mozambique, Islamic State Mozambique Province has continued targeting Christian villages in Cabo Delgado throughout 2026...
Religious freedom in Syria has "continued to worsen" since Assad's fall... ongoing attacks on Alawites, Druze, and Christians under the interim government...
In Pakistan, blasphemy-driven mob violence remains active...
A persecution researcher with Open Doors UK put the number of Christians in slave and bonded labor at up to one million...
The places in the world that are now Muslim-majority were not always that way. Iraq was Christian first. Tradition holds that Christianity arrived with St. Thomas the Apostle, and Baghdad served as the seat of the patriarch of the Church of the East for roughly 540 years, from 775 to 1317...
Egypt followed a similar arc. Coptic tradition credits St. Mark with founding the Egyptian church around 42 CE, and Copts remained the majority for centuries after the Arab conquest...
Iran's transformation began with a different faith entirely. Zoroastrianism, the religion of the prophet Zarathustra, dominated pre-Islamic Persia and contributed the concept of paradise to Western religious vocabulary... Iran's official census records the population as 99.38 percent Muslim today...
Syria gave Christianity its name. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch, then a Syrian city, and Damascus is where Saul of Tarsus experienced the conversion that made him the Apostle Paul...
Lebanon was Christian-majority as recently as 1932..
Turkey’s Christian era lasted a millennium under the Byzantine Empire...
Across North Africa, Christianity was the civilizational mainstream...
Indonesia, once dominated by Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms, is now home to more Muslims than any other country on Earth...
The pattern that largely emptied Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey of their Christian populations over centuries is now visible in compressed form on the European continent itself.
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