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destroyed all the historic artifacts they came across. There are currently
only 20 small mosques still standing in Cambodia.
Tens of thousands of human bones and skulls of people killed by
the Khmer Rouge, including Muslims, are now on display in a museum
in Phnom Penh. Just as with Chechnya and East Turkestan, the events
in Cambodia expose to the world the true face of communist savagery.

TANZANIA UGANDA
KENYA
Pressure Cannot
RWANDA
Halt the Rise of BURUNDI

Islamic
Consciousness
TANZANIA
Muslims came to the cen-
tral-southeastern African
country of Tanzania from the
Indian subcontinent. As a re- ZAMBIA
sult of their missionary activi- MALAWI
MOZAMBIQUE
ties, the local population
abandoned paganism and ac-
cepted Islam. There are
Muslims in all 120 tribes in
Tanzania.
Although more than half
the population is Muslim (some 55 percent), Muslims are still treated as
a minority. Christians form a minority of the population but hold the
reins of power. Only six out of 23 government ministries are held by
Muslims. Muslims may represent more than half of the population, but
the country is still described as half Christian and half "local religions."
The 9 million Muslims are also facing a systematic policy of
Christianization. Students who fail to abide by Christian rules in mid-
dle schools are expelled. In the same way that Islamic bodies and orga-
nizations are forbidden, so too is spreading Islam. The government has