The story of Yemen's Christians is a microcosm of the story of islam's Christians, as it wholly conforms to the current pattern of oppression for Christians under islam: things were better for Christians—for religious freedom in general—in earlier eras under Western influence; as the muslim world, which for a while was Western-looking, continues returning to islam, the things of islam, its "way," or "sharia"—in this case, hostility to non-muslim worship and apostates—returns; and, as the "Arab Spring" has done elsewhere, islamists now dominate Yemeni politics, bringing to mind the apostate Ibn Yemen's apt question: "What do you think it will be like now [for Christians] that the islamists are in power?"
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