How much have you heard about this in the mainstream media, compared to the claims of persecution of Muslims by Christians in the Central African Republic and by Buddhists in Burma? When the perpetrators are Islamic jihadists, the mainstream media and the world “human rights community” goes strangely silent. Why is that? Is every last mainstream media reporter in the world convinced that innocent Muslims will be victimized if they report honestly and fully about Islamic jihad activity? Are innocent Catholics victimized by honest reporting of the priest sex scandals? Of course not — and the argument is just as preposterous in this context.
“Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency ‘affects millions,'” from the BBC, March 26 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
More than three million people are facing a humanitarian crisis in three northern Nigerian states hit by an Islamist-led insurgency, the government’s relief agency has said.
The conflict has displaced about 250,000 people since January, it added.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three states last year to crush the insurgency.
However, the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks in recent months.
The group operates mostly in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where the state of emergency is in force.
‘Unprecedented crisis’In a statement, the Nigerian government’s National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said the “needs of the affected population are increasing by the day and the support of all is urgently required”.
Borno was worst affected, with about 1.3 million people – most of them women, children and the elderly – in need of aid, Nema said.
In Adamawa, the number stood at around one million and in Yobe at more than 770,000, it said.
About 250,000 people were living in camps or with relatives and friends after being forced out of their homes, the agency added.
Nigerian Red Cross Society representative Soji Adeniyi said what has happening in the north-east was unprecedented.
“We have never had this kind of displacement caused by conflicts before in the country,” he is quoted by Nigeria’s privately-owned This Day newspaper as saying.
Earlier this month, Boko Haram fighters attacked an army barracks in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
Its fighters also looted and torched several villages and towns in the state after launching attacks with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
Last month, the group was accused of killing at least 29 people in an attack on a rural boarding school in Yobe.
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009 to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.
The president insists that the state of emergency has been effective, saying the militants have been confined to a small area near the border with Cameroon.
Salah says
“When the perpetrators are Islamic jihadists, the mainstream media and the world “human rights community” goes strangely silent. Why is that?”
Fear? complicity? both?
I think it’s more than that, it’s GODLESSNESS.
Aitch says
Sadly we suffer this in the UK. Any comment or question about Islam leads to accusations of Islamaphobia and racism. Even if you are quoting official government statistics!
Christian persecution is rife where it comes into contact with Islam and there is no end or hope in site.
Paleologos says
Robert,
Keep up your brave work.
As you, I, and most all the legitimate posters out here know, …
… crucial in the fight against the spread of islam is the understanding that islam is an anti-western ideology, masquerading as a religion, seeking the conquering and subjugation of the infidel world.
Until that concept is fully grasped by enough people who are willing to act overtly to contain, and, where possible, eliminate islam, the fight will go on.
R/
Paleologos
ibn Muslim says
> seeking the conquering and subjugation of the infidel world.
Well, at least someone fights for the establishmemt of Kingdom of God on Earth. I have read Bible and know what it says 🙂
RG says
To ‘ibn muslim’ – Do you even have a clue what ‘Paleologos’ is talking about??? He/ she certainly is not defending your imbecilic 7th century garbage!
And if you have actually read the Bible, then you have no excuse before God Almighty, when He asks you why you told people that his Book (the Bible) was full of lies!!!! WAKE UP! “LET GOD BE TRUE, AND EVERY MAN A LIAR”! Yeah, that’s in the Bible!!!! Hmmm….I wonder how mohammed excaped that one????? Oh, ahhh, how could I forget, he’s the “perfect” man!!!! YOU IMBECILE, WAKE UP!!!!! Your “religion” is from Hell, and that’s exactly where you’re going to end up too!!! And, trust me, there won’t be any emoticans or smiley faces IN HELL!!!!!
gravenimage says
“ibn Muslim”—another pious apologist *for evil*.
Look at the genocide he is lauding. *Ugh*.
Transmaster says
It was the same way during the Vietnam war. The North Vietnamese army would massacre whole villages. Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge killed millions, The Soviet sponsored wars in Ethiopia, and Angola killed hundreds of thousands. You could here crickets chirping above the news reports about this. But when one American service member killed one person it was a war crime, oh the humanity, oh the UN, American Troops are jack booted thugs, Nazi storm troopers. I will never, ever, ever forgive the MSM for what they did. No stories of heroism, no reporting on the children saved, no reporting of field commanders telling their warriors not to give all of their MRI’s to hungry children, Nothing about the lengths they went to save badly wounded children often at the risk of their own lives. NOT ONE WORD. I have had many returning Soldiers and Marines tell what they watched, and read what passed for news reporting on Iraq, and Afghanistan bared no relationship to what was really going on. So why should it be any different reporting on 7th century barbarians.
Paleologos says
Transmaster, I hear you.
I worked in the JFK Library, and grew to love JFK.
But his Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, was his worst appointment.
McNamara was retained by LBJ, one of our worst presidents. The two of them micromanaged Vietnam into this nation’s first war defeat, and 50,000 plus U.S. war dead.
Now your Reeboks are made in Vietnam.
Idiots who love rewriting history always pin anything bad about Vietnam on Richard Nixon.
The only presidents I hold in more contempt than LBJ are Jimmy Carter, a brainless anti-semite peanut farmer, and our current pos muslim POTUS, barry hussein.
If our system worked properly, barry hussein would be tried for treason.
barry hussein …
moron … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
muslim … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqFBpk_1Eo
Yeah, THAT asshole, barry hussein, the obamacare guy.
R/
Paleologos
Jay Boo says
MSM OBCESSION
Al Jazeera affiliated puppet NPR has been saturating their broadcast with non-stop news (turned into commentary )about Ukraine and Crimea of all things.
WHY?
Although they conveniently omit reference to Muslims…
Tartars (Muslim invaders), who make up about 12 percent of Crimea’s population, strongly opposed and largely boycotted the hastily organized March 16 referendum in which Crimea and Russia would become one.
Jay Boo says
NPR recently reported that the main problem in Nigeria is unemployment and that is the root cause of violence.
Transmaster says
The reporting in the States about the whole Crimea issue is so simplistic. The ethnic Ukraine’s have treated the ethnic Russian’s like sh*t every where with in the Ukraine. The Crimea was part of Russia proper until Khrushchev gave it the Ukraine in the early 1950’s. Ukraine itself has only been an independent country for 23 years. Before that it had not been a geographically independent region since the 14th century. The Crimea has a large population of retired Soviet era military personal and Families who look to Russia as their natural allegiance . Only Skynews is getting it right. Frankly I don’t give to hoot from hell what happens in the Ukraine. These “A” holes under Stalin in the first half of the last century starved to death over 20 million of my German ancestors in this region so they can take a flying leap in the Black Sea for all I care.
Transmaster says
Whoops post on the wrong thread, sure wish I could edit here.
Transmaster says
Guess I didn’t after all. Not having a good morning 🙂
Terry says
Thank you for your service, sir. God Bless you.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Over three million people facing humanitarian crisis because of Islamic jihad
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And who will call it genocide?