The Nigerian outrages Kathryn refers to below have gotten attention because they are so lurid and because of the local fanatics’ demand that all Christians vacate the northern part of the country by today. But persecution of Christians is a permanent feature of every Muslim society. In fact, there’s so much material that Ray Ibrahim does a monthly roundup of reported examples of such events. Some non-Nigeria highlights of the December roundup:

Ethiopia: A video of some 500 Muslims burning down a church on November 29 while crying “Allahu Akbar!”[“Allah is the Greatest!”] appeared. The pretext for burning this church was that it had no “permit”—even though it was built on land owned by Christians for 60 years. …
Malaysia: Parish priests or their church youth leaders had to get a police permit—requiring them to submit their full names and identity card numbers—simply to “visit their fellow church members and belt out ‘Joy to the World,’ [or] ‘Silent Night, Holy Night.’” …
Algeria: In May, a Muslim convert to Christianity was sentenced to a five-year prison term on charges of “insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and with ‘proselytism’ for giving a Muslim a CD about Christianity.” Now the judge has decided “to indefinitely postpone” the man’s appeal, thus “show[ing how] the judicial system keeps Christians in limbo without officially punishing or acquitting them.” …
Kenya: Seven Muslims of Somali descent beat a young Somali Christian unconscious, injuring an eye, less than six weeks after a similar attack on his older brother, saying “we did not succeed in killing your brother, but today we are going to kill you.” His family was presumably Muslim when he was born, so the gang beat him as an “apostate” even though he was raised as a Christian. …