Attacks on Evangelical Christians by government-controlled Arab press outlets have received too little attention by the West. In a recent example in a leading Egyptian weekly, an influential professor wrote that Evangelicals in America could pose a greater danger to the world than Nazi Germany.

Arab television also frequently berates Evangelicals. Programs on Saudi Iqra TV and Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV have featured guests saying Evangelicals were involved in planning the attacks of September 11, 2001. The most popular form of defamation of Evangelicals, however, centers on President Bush’s religious beliefs.

In an article titled “Impeaching Bush” in the January 5-11 edition of an Egyptian government weekly, Al-Ahram, a political science professor at Cairo University, Hassan Nafaa, expressed his displeasure with the results of the 2004 election. He said if “the American people [would] decide to oust the current president … this decision [would have heralded] the end of the age of the neo-cons and perhaps the beginning of the collapse of their Evangelist Imperialist project.”

The article also addressed Mr. Bush’s becoming a born-again Christian: “Suddenly he was gripped with the desire to repent and to be born again … a group of neo-con radicals latched onto him and began to mould him to serve their power-hungry designs which entailed capitalizing on the growing tide of American Christian fundamentalism…” Ms. Nafaa ended his column by calling for Mr. Bush, who is “more dangerous than Osama bin Laden” to be removed from power.

In an Al-Ahram article from the weekly’s October 6-12, 2005 edition, Mr. Nafaa spoke to “the decline of liberalism,” in the West, which he connected to American Evangelicals: “The collapse of the USSR opened the path for the Right in America, particularly its extreme Christian fundamentalist wing. This wing has local and international ambitions at the core of which is a discriminatory and racist agenda that poses a greater danger to political liberalism than communism and, perhaps, even Nazism.”

An article titled “The Real Axis of Evil” by A. Al-Agha, which appeared on December 18 in Syria’s leading government daily, Teshreen, the writer mentioned an “axis of evil” inside America: “Fundamental Christianity, or if you prefer the Evangelicals in the United States, can be termed one part of this axis … It would not be a stretch to claim that religion in the United States and most likely throughout the areas of the world where the United States holds sway is Zionist controlled … Anything Islamic or of Arab origin is deemed evil .”

Influential Arab and Muslim Americans such as a professor at the University of Delaware and Fellow at the influential Brookings Institution’s Saban Center, Muqtedar Khan, often write about American Evangelicals in the Arab press. In the June 5-11, 2003 edition of Al-Ahram Mr. Khan said, “One of the reasons for the growing Islamophobia in this country is the anti-Muslim rhetoric coming from the Evangelical Christian community.” He added, “I must remind readers that hate mongering is not common in the Christian communities of North America. It is indeed a rare but egregious blemish found only among the Evangelists.”

In an article published in the American Muslim Minaret Magazine in July 2003, Mr. Khan suggested Evangelicals’ problem with Muslims lies in mass conversions of Americans to Islam: “Christian Evangelists are seeking to stem the tide of conversions to Islam. By demonizing Muhammad as a pedophile and a polygamist they hope to generate enough distaste for Islam that it becomes difficult for more open and tolerant Americans to be accepting of Muslims and Islam. They also hope that they can reverse the growth of Islam in America … attracting thousands of converts … While the traffic from Christianity to Islam is very heavy, the reverse flow, much to the frustration of the Evangelists, is barely a trickle. This tirade of hate from the Evangelists is merely the continuation of a very old Christian preoccupation with the demonization of Muhammad. Christian thinkers have always abused the Prophet of Islam. A famous example is Dante, who in his ‘Inferno’ … throws him in the bowels of hell.”

The Arab government-controlled press’s contempt for non-Muslims is not limited to Evangelicals. Hatred of other Christians, Jews, Hindus, and others can also be found daily.

Mr. Stalinsky is the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute.