Why Christians should care about Anti-Muslim sentiments

Last week's shooting and mass murder in Norway has shocked the Scandinavian, European, and global community. But the forces and emotions behind the attack were anything but a surprise. The gunman claimed he hoped to spark an anti-Muslim revolution (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43878104#43878104). Over the last decade anti-Muslim sentiments have rapidly grown through Europe ranging from racist threats in France against northern African Muslims to immigration laws requiring conservative Muslims from speaking out publicly against immorality. All these efforts designed to dissuade Muslims from immigrating to their country and communities.
I believe these actions, as well as the most recent tragic events in Norway, require Christians to speak out on behalf of the Islamic community; this is much more than an issue "someone else" is having to deal with. First, we have the great ethic of Christ to love our neighbor and live as salt and light of the earth. The Muslim community is experience a great injustice, most recently at the hands of a person claiming allegiance with Christianity. Not only is this wrong, but it continues to close doors for the Gospel in Muslim communities.
Second, we need to see these actions against Islam in the big picture and understand the motivating forces behind it. The reason Europe has reacted so negatively to Islam is because European Muslims are dedicated and committed to living out their faith and a very conservative morality which flies in the face and condemns most European lifestyles. Anything, therefore, that the masses of postmodern, post-Christian Europe encounters as contrary to their new ways of living they reject and condemn. This world hates anything that bears any resemblance to goodness, and though we know the doctrines of Islam to be false, there is no denying their moral practices resemble many of the virtues of the Bible.
It is only a matter of time before those behind the anti-Muslim attacks set their sights squarely on the Church. There was a time when many though Islam would soon become the worldwide dominant religion; but I now think it clear that it will be Secularism; the view that man is supreme in his knowledge and reason, and is free to pursue whatever makes him happy. Anti-Muslim sentiments are an indicator of the rising Secularist sentiments and should disturb Christians.
We, therefore, have a responsibility as neighbors to defend Muslims as well as people of the Word to denounce Secularism and immorality.