…it should interest you to know that the same kind of lunatic islamists who want all Jews dead (to be distinguished from Muslims who want to live in peace – and they most certainly exist), have identical intentions regarding Christians.
Nigeria is a country that is roughly half Christian and half Islamic. And, within that country, slaughter of Christians has become an ongoing reality. Over the past 14 years, an estimated 52,000 Christians (NOT a typo) have been killed by lunatic islamists.
And, of course, the United Nations has virtually nothing to say about it. No condemnations, no demands for peace, no troops sent to protect innocent Christians, nothing.
From Paul Tilsley’s article for the New York Post:
A never-ending massacre of Christians being “killed for sport” is reportedly happening in Nigeria, yet the world appears to be largely deaf to the matter.
While much of the world this week has been celebrating a beginning – Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ – in Nigeria they are mourning the end of life – the deaths of more than 100 Christians – as the world remains virtually silent.
Armed bandits ran amok, according to Amnesty International, in some 20 communities across central Nigeria, killing more than 140. In a country where accurate statistics are traditionally hard to come by, some sources have put the death toll closer to 200.
The Christians were killed in a wide swath across an invisible line that separates the mostly Muslim north and the predominately Christian south in the country’s Plateau State. According to multiple sources, Christians represent 46% of Nigeria’s population.
More than 52,000 Christians “have been butchered or hacked to death for being Christians” since 2009 in Nigeria, according to Intersociety, a civil society group based in Onitsha.
“The U.S. Mission in Nigeria condemned the recent attacks in Plateau State and expressed heartfelt condolences for the tragic loss of life,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital in response to a question. Calling for accountability, the spokesperson added, “We are deeply concerned by the violence, and we are monitoring the situation.”
“Not a day goes by when Christians are not terrorized in western Africa in the most grotesque ways imaginable,” he continued. “Christians are killed for sport, especially Christian children. For every massacre which you hear about there are probably ten others which happened in the shadows. The death tolls are routinely in the hundreds.”
“Entire villages are burnt and pillaged. Thousands of churches have been destroyed. Children and women are hunted. Countless Christians have been kidnapped. I met one pastor whose two previous churches were burned down. Yet, he stayed in harm’s way because he was determined to be a light in the darkness, even if it [costs] him his life, and it probably will.”
“There is an economic factor in the conflict, but economics are omnipresent in all similar conflicts, so this cannot explain the violence in the same way as the jihadi ideology explains it. The goal of the Nigerian jihadists is to expulse the Christians towards the south, then to eliminate them.”
“There are multiple Muslim communities who reject jihadism and seek coexistence. After [the] ethnic cleansing of the Christians, the jihadists [in Nigeria] will turn against moderate and reformist Muslims, as in Afghanistan or in Iran. The U.S., EU and the U.N. must create a platform for Muslim moderates and Christians in Nigeria and provide support to civil society. Nigeria could be fixed.”
It is hard for any decent human being not to be sickened to the core by this unremitting, unrelenting carnage by lunatic fringe islamic haters. And, as the article points out, “There are multiple Muslm communities who reject jihadism and seek coexistence”.
But as long as the world remains silent, as long as the UN – in another of the countless examples of its utter uselessness – looks the other way, and as long as our mainstream media pretend the ongoing slaughter doesn’t exist (hey, they’re Christians, so nothing to talk about, right?) it will continue unabated.
Bottom line? Nigerian Christians are up against what Israel faces every day.
But Israel is able to fight back, while the Christians of Nigeria are helpless victims.
And if they did fight back successfully, the same UN and same media that don’t give a damn about these slaughters would suddenly discover just how brutal Christians are. Just as they have with Israelis fighting back in Gaza.
It’s time – make that long past time – for some people to see things as they are.
