Solomon continued: "From Afghanistan to Algeria, Indonesia to Iran, at best there is the insidious daily obstruction of the rights of Christians by marginalising them to a low citizenship status, especially when it comes to jobs, or a place at university."
A photograph in Release's Witness magazine vividly portrays what can happen. In the image a young woman hides her face as four grim-faced policemen clad in black escort her from her home. Her shame is obvious. Her friends watch anxiously as she is led away to face charges.
The picture, Release explains, is of a woman in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, who has failed to wear an Islamic headscarf.
"The police are Islamic law enforcement officers. Their task is to enforce Sharia law, with its strict rules on dress, alcohol consumption and sexual behaviour," said Release.
Andy Dipper, head of Release International, said: "We receive daily reports of the persecution of Christians in Islamic nations, especially where Sharia law - strict Islamic law - applies.
"We should be concerned about the increase of Islamic influence in our society because we love truth and righteousness and the freedom to worship God - not because we are afraid."
A British judge jailed four men for 40 years each on Wednesday for the 21/7 attempted suicide bombings on London's transport system in a plot he said had clearly been masterminded by al Qaeda. The failed attack came two weeks after 52 people were killed in the 7/7 attacks.
Judge Adrian Fulford said that the four men, Muktah Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman, all Muslims of African origin, were guilty of conspiracy to murder.
Fulford declared he had no doubt their botched attempt to bomb three underground trains and a bus on July 21, 2005, had been directed by Osama bin Laden's group.
The second wave of attacks only failed because, although the detonators fired, the bombs did not explode.
"This was a viable, indeed a very nearly successful, attempt at mass murder," Fulford told the court. "These were not truly isolated events but ... coordinated and connected in that I have no doubt they were part of an al Qaeda inspired and controlled sequence of attacks."
Sentencing them, Fulford ruled they should stay in jail for a minimum of 40 years, the maximum sentence he said he could impose in light of other terrorism cases.
The men looked impassive as the sentences were handed down. As they left the courtroom, Reuters reported that Osman clutched a Koran to his chest.
