The New York Times has finally found a victim of Islamic aggression in Nigeria worth reporting on: homosexuals. In a big spread complete with pictures appearing last week, the NYT’s Adam Nossiter wrote “Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law, Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays.”
While it’s all well and good to expose the persecution of any group, why does the NYT remain silent about the much more endemic and savage jihad to “sanitize” Nigeria of Christians—a jihad that has seen countless Christians butchered and countless churches destroyed?
A 2012 meeting of Nigerian church heads concluded that “the pattern of these killings [of Christians] does suggest to us a systematic ethnic and religious cleansing.”
Among other things in the group’s bid to cleanse the Muslim-majority north of all Christian presence, it has threatened to poison the food eaten by Christians and “to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women.” The group frequently storms areas where Christians and Muslims are intermingled—from villages to colleges—and singles the Christians out before slitting their throats.
In 2011 hundreds of Christians were killed and 430 churches destroyed or damaged. In 2012, 900 Christians were slaughtered. Indeed, of all Christians killed around the world in 2012, 70% were killed in the west African nation. In 2013, 612 Christians were killed and some 300 churches destroyed. The year 2014 promises to be the same. Just the other day, over 50 Christians were slaughtered by “Allahu Akbar” screaming jihadis.
Thus, from a purely demographical point of view, we may deduce that for every one man who gets exposed as a homosexual in the privacy of his own home, and killed for it, thousands of Christians expose themselves as infidels whenever they openly congregate and worship inside churches, as they do every Sunday, and get killed for it.
Based on numbers alone, then—assuming the NYT can agree that all human lives are equal, that the life of the Christian is equal in value to the life of the homosexual—the dramatically much bigger story has long been the relentless and genocidal jihad on Nigeria’s millions of Christians.
But of course, it’s not surprising that the NYT in general, reporter Adam Nossiter in particular, are biased concerning whose plight to highlight. The NYT and Nossiter are the very ones who, on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—published a spread equivocating the truth concerning the Muslim persecution of Christians in the African nation… Keep reading
Buraq says
Islam and homosexuality. It’s a bum rap.
Clowns!
Christian A. Beltram says
The biased coverage of the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries is not surprising to me. An interesting parallel to this case is the scant coverage that the New York Times gave to reports of the Nazi extermination of the Jews during World War II. When reports of Nazi atrocities reached the outside world, the New York Times printed them on the back pages of its newspapers. The publishers of the paper did this out of fear that an anti-Semitic backlash against our involvement in World War II would erupt if these stories were printed on the frint pages of its newspapers. Also, the publishers of the New York Times were afraid that people would think that such atrocity reports were exaggerated at best or propaganda at worst.
The shameful behavior of the New York Times staff during World War II should have been a lesson to never to ignor atrocities by persecutors of human beings in the future. It is sad that the staff of the New York Times has not learned this lesson.
jewdog says
Why does the NY Times do gays and not Christians? C’mon Ray, stop bullshitting us; you know that gays are politically correct, but Christians are as passe as sock hops and drive ins. A lot of them are Republicans, especially in Nigeria, where they all belong to fancy country clubs and own yachts.
The Times prints all the news it sees fit to print.
gravenimage says
The New York Times has finally found a victim of While it’s all well and good to expose the persecution of any group, why does the NYT remain silent about the much more endemic and savage jihad to “sanitize” Nigeria of Christians—a jihad that has seen countless Christians butchered and countless churches destroyed?
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A very important question—clearly the New York Times is biased in their coverage here, as they so often are.
They have covered a few stories, but it’s been pretty sparse. Here’s one from 2012:
“2 Attacks in Nigeria Target Christians”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/world/africa/jos-and-biu-attacks-in-nigeria-target-christians.html?_r=0
This is unusual for actually indicating that Christians were the targeted victims—but even here they don’t mention that it was Muslims targeting them.
Far more common, though, are bland headlines like this:
“Toll From Religious and Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Rises to 500”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/world/africa/09nigeria.html
It is only deep in the article following a great deal of implied moral equivalence that they tell you that this was a massacre of Christians.
And that story was from even earlier, in 2010. There is all too little coverage in general, considering that there is a full-on genocide against Christians there.
As far as their focusing on violence against gays, though, my expectations of the NYT are so so low that I am glad to see them covering Muslim violence at all.
I just wonder whether they will actually characterize this as Muslim violence, or if they will indicate who, exactly, is targeting gay people at all?
Given the NYT’s record, I wouldn’t count on them ever actually naming the perpetrators.
Watcher87 says
It’s not only the NYT.
Fox News did a segment on world-wide religious persecution the other evening and never once mentioned “Islam” or Muslims”…
Not even once!