“Despite several calls to the governor and his deputy, and other security apparatus, the government remained silent as the atrocities continued. The Fulani were able to carry out their deadly attack. They stayed for hours in the vicinity, moving at will, unchallenged.”
Why? Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari clearly has no sympathy for the victims. He shares the world view of the jihadi attackers.
“Armed gangs WIPE OUT 15 villages in mass Christian slaughter in Nigeria,” by Joey Millar, Express, February 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
ARMED men stormed through 15 villages to massacre Christians and destroy their churches in a violent crackdown against the religion in Nigeria.
Dozens of people have been killed after the gangs ransacked towns and villages to clear them of all aspects of the Christian faith.
Houses belonging to believers have also been razed with authorities doing little to help, an anti-persecution watchdog claimed.
Open Doors spoke to one Christian who described the broad daylight attack carried out by a group of Fulani – one of Africa’s largest ethnicities.
A spokeswoman said: “One attack took place in broad daylight, as people were about to go to church.
“The assailants chased and killed the villagers and burned down nine churches and many more houses.”
Christian persecution is a major problem in Nigeria which has been exacerbated by the spread of radical Islamic teaching and practice.
The shocked witness said Christians needed more protection from the country’s leader or lives would continue to be lost.
They said: “Despite several calls to the governor and his deputy, and other security apparatus, the government remained silent as the atrocities continued.
“The Fulani were able to carry out their deadly attack. They stayed for hours in the vicinity, moving at will, unchallenged.”…
In the central state of Nasarawa, 25 villages have been destroyed since January 15….
A spokesman for the Concerned Indigenous Tiv People group said: “Since the outbreak of the crisis on January 15 this year, due to the Fulani /herdsmen attack on our villages, leading to the displacement of Tiv in their ancestral homes, the Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Almakura, has done very little to bring the situation under control.”
Other attacks have taken place in Benue State and across the Middle Belt region of the country. The Army has now been deployed to certain areas in order to stop the violence.
A spokeswoman for Open Doors said: “Believers experience discrimination and exclusion, and violence from militant Islamic groups, resulting in the loss of property, land, livelihood, physical injury or death; this is spreading southwards.
“Corruption has enfeebled the state and made it ill-equipped to protect Christians. Rivalry between ethnic groups and raids by Fulani herdsmen compound the persecution. Converts face rejection from their Muslim families and pressure to recant.”
Niemoller says
How many? 150, 1500, or 150,000+? Is this not genocide? (Answer: Yes, it’s genocide of non-Muslims by Muslims) Is this not Rwanda all over again? (I guess the left is waiting to see the numbers before making any conclusions, after all, those Muslims are scary, plus they’re allies in the fight against the global menace of white bubbas who fly Confederate flags; saw one in Thailand the other day in fact. It was in an old James Bond movie, but still).
And where is the UN? (Answer: Islamically infected, and worthless). Where are all those proud black people emerging from “Black Panther” only to see headlines (albeit in the back pages of the MSM) of authentic Africans (ones who are free and have integrated Christianity with their culture) being slaughtered by slaves of Muhammad, i.e. mindless recruits to a violent foreign invasion of Arab culture intending to replace African culture, i.e., replace “Wakanda”.
The left says “Never again,” but they are too P.C. to even read Jihad Watch to become really woke, much less act in self-defense.
Papa Whiskey says
Is this not Rwanda all over again?
No — actually, it’s Armenia all over again.
mortimer says
Between 1,000 and 3,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria every year for the last 20 years. That’s some 20 – 50 Christians murdered by MUSLIMS every single week.
Niemoller says
Yep, that’s a better example, because the Armenian Genocide could accurately be called the “Turkish Muslim Jihad to Exterminate Christian Armenians.”
Islam, not a day goes by without Muslims mass murdering somewhere in the name of their prophet.
John Vieira says
History is not taught…history WILL repeat itself. The ‘scourge’ that introduced the last Dark Age is once more in the ascendant and whereas they operated between Cadiz and Delhi and points North and South in between before they were finally brought to bay…they have been exported to North America and flooded Europe further than they have ever been and menacing further South in Africa…in the meanwhile our politicians and media continue to sell us out and suck up the “taqiyya’ proffered to them along with the Petro$$$…Wonder if they will get a chance to spend them???
Carol Jackson says
They will “BURN IN HELL” alpng with people who allow this “INJUSTICE!!”
Ray Jarman says
No it is not Rwanda as that nation has produced a leader in Paul Kagame who has risen above far above most African leaders. Nigeria has yet to elect one honest man to the presidency since the take over by the dictatorship soon after oil was discovered in Nigeria. From Abacha to the now Buhari, the Nigerian people have had no leader who has had any concern for anything other than their bank accounts. He continues to lie about defeating Boko Haram even as people in Borno State are continuously slaughtered, and even President Trump has kept silent about Buhari’s ineptness or maybe intentional neglect of his own nations’ people.
The Fulani have been killing Christians from Plato State towards the southern states like Enugu as they graze their cattle along the roads where Christians live for many years. When the Christians protest much less try to prevent their agriculture and raising of sheep from destruction, these nomadic murdering thugs of the cult slaughter every villager in site regardless of age or sex. I have been talking about this for some time and when I worked at the Embassy in Abuja, no one wanted to hear my complaints about them and refused to hear from the survivors of these atrocities.
Mr. Spencer, please keep the torch burning brightly and apprising the world of these atrocities.
brenrod says
but the churches and the pope said these muslims should be welcomed into our homes?
bonnie louise loranger says
They are wrong. This pope is an islamist and a communist. Do not listen to him
Dylan Moreland says
Amen
Binyomin Silverman says
No it it is like a Kristal-nacht against Christians
Rich Meadows says
I love your words… Very well said, sir! I would like to hear more from you on the subject…
Pet Charles says
What is topping Christians from taking guns and retaliating? What is topping Christians from exterminating Muslims from their space? What is topping Christians in Europe from blowing up mosques in retaliation against jihad attacks? Are Muslims the only people who know how to commit genocide?
Ragdoll says
Because we are not mindless, bloodthirsty savages like them.
Michael says
The Jews have a saying: “Whoever is compassionate to the cruel will be cruel to the compassionate.”
This is a wise saying, and it justifies waging war against the Fulani as it justified what God ordered the Israelites to do to the Canaanites. If you can’t kill the people, then destroy their herds so that they starve.
mark says
the christians surely fought back in the bible..why not now? God knows who is right and who is wrong…
David E says
Book, chapter and verse please.
Lila says
Self-protection is of primary importance. God has never suggested that we not protect ourselves.
Debra Sheffer says
Do they have weapons to defend themselves or has gun control taken their weapons away ?
Prakash Shah says
You will have to become a savage like these wild savage Muslims otherwise there will not be any existence of the Christians in the world…. Why do all the European countries welcome all these terrorists Muslims in their countries… Just to wipe out all the Christians from the Europe…. Stop all these warm welcome to Muslims and start demolishing all the mousques from the Europe otherwise all these Muslims will demolish all their Christian cultures and people… Wake up and take weopans in the hands just to kill all these Muslims terrorists… Just do not take interest only in Fucking…
Laura says
But the only way to beat them is by being even more terrible than them.
Lois E Schwarz says
you need to experience a war my lady Laura. Just because you take up arms to protect yourself and your children, doesn’t mean you then get a heart that is evil. No, no… a good person with love in their heart can kill another human being that is EVIL.. evil does exist in this world my dear. Real evil.. There are a lot of people that have never been in a war and can not even understand what it is like. It wakes you up. It makes you really understand and it gives you compassion 10 fold more than those who have never been in devastation.
Michael Copeland says
The Nigerian Christians are too poor to be able to buy guns.
ElderlyZionist says
In the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70, the predominantly Christian Igbo people tried to secede from Nigeria and form their own state, Biafra. They were defeated with famine, carnage and great suffering. The Christians of Nigeria have been subdued ever since. Although Nigeria has sometimes elected a Christian President, the northern Muslims dominate the army and the economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War
Lois E Schwarz says
My heart cries.. Too much sorrow in the world and i am so saddened. May our Lord be with the President of the United States and may we try to help those that can not help themselves.
sunday Agbe says
not so mr. James, immediately the government or soldiers noticed that you have a gun you will be arrested and possibly kill you, if you are a christian
Muhammad Al-Hayelotu says
Can TWO WRONGS ever make a right?
Stacy Girl says
Is it wrong to defend oneself against murderous attacks? You find wrong here in this justification only. Admit it.
6woods says
What exactly do you mean by that, muhammad? Do you mean It’s wrong of Christians to defend themselves? Would you say the same to muslims who’ve been attacked? Of course you wouldn’t.
Bob says
I barely made it home alive, during the 9-11 attack in NY.. Eight years of Obama and his sympathy and pandering for Muslims, combined with an open border, mentality led to many terror inspired events. If HRC would been elected, it might have caused civil war as she was fully for an open border policy and Muslim sympathy. Thank goodness Trump won and hope there is more banning of Terror torn country immigrants. ISIS got handily defeated during Trumps first year in office, while Obama gave millions to terror groups..
Hank Simpson says
Yeah, Obama was totally pandering to Muslims when he nailed Osama bin Laden.
brenrod says
the pope and the worldwide christian leaders?
Dylan Moreland says
The pope is not Christian!
Skibnik says
Because Jesus says to turn the other cheek and pray for your enemy. Violence only begets more violence and in the end God will be the ultimate judge. The greatest sin here is where are all the Christian countries of the world? They are standing by and doing nothing. Where is the UN to put pressure on the government of Nigeria to step in an stop these atrocities from happening? Unfortunately Nigeria is not a oil rich state and will be ignored just like the genocide of Rwanda was ignored until it was too little too late.
Ray Jarman says
Skibnik, I hate to tell you this but Nigeria is on of the major oil producers in the world and probably the largest in Nigeria. Also it is the oil that brought the legitimate government down in 1966 soon after oil was discovered near Port Harcourt. The problem is that the people of Nigeria have yet to reap the benefits of the oil revenues since not only the dictatorships of the Bambiggina and Abacha stole the money. When one enters the bedroom of Abacha’s mansion, he needs a pair of binoculars to see the bed and the entire bathroom had gold plated pipes. Obasanjo was no different as he accumulated over seven billion dollars in back accounts around the world. Nigeria receives more than enough money to fully arm its military in an effort to eradicate both Boko Haram and the Fulani.
Ray Jarman says
I should have stated “the largest in Africa” not Nigeria. A disconnect between brain and fingers.
Joshua says
Yes but turning the other cheek is for when they insult you not when there trying to rape and kill you.
MFritz says
And once again Soros-ibrahim has nothing to say. Not paid, not trolled, not from Nigeria.
Jo Ann Gray says
My heart us grieved. With tears I cry out to God to pleade help. Their lives will not go unpunished and martys are rewarded!
Wazza says
More from the religion of peace, we have not seen this on Aussie news yet, media are more concerned with Trump and Russia than real news, these Nigerian Christians have been persecuted for too long
But and hopefully so, when they decide turning the other cheek does not work with these slimey mongrels and fight back like the Buddhists in Myanmar, and we know how the media and the UN spun that tale, poor Rohingyas, just wanting to exist, failing to mention the murders being carried out on Monks and others
Isabel says
Remember doctor wee wa (i cannot remember how to spell his name) but thise murders were atrocities to stamp out the TV hosts and his friends who dared to question. A tribunal held iver night and then they were killed
brenrod says
christian leadership is the problem, they say islam is the religion of peace and we should welcome muslims
Jack Holan says
The question is what will the West and USA do?
Krishna says
Dear African Christians you are under siege
Eur says
I have spoken with Nigerians who have come to Spain and told me horrible things. There are good Muslims in Nigeria … but those who form murderous militias are always the same … the Muslims and always with the same objective, their fucking jihad.
mortimer says
WELL SAID, Mr. Spencer! Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari obviously shares the world view of the jihadi attackers.
The President’s inaction shows that GENOCIDE against Christians and ETHNIC CLEANSING have the been given the GO-AHEAD by the TOP LEVELS of the Nigerian government!
Muslims are abandoning Islam in Nigeria at a rapid rate, because the choice between MODERNITY and BRONZE-AGE BACKWARDNESS is extremely clear to all.
Islam has nothing to offer Nigeria that is of value. With Islam is fear, discrimination, vigilante murder and STAGNATION. Only local warlords benefit, but no one else. They are trying to bring back the medieval black kingdoms. MESSAGE TO THE WARLORDS: THOSE DAYS ARE GONE.
warren raymond says
Remember when Shrillary & Obama rigged the elections in Nigeria in order to instal the Mohammedan president? They did the same in the Ivory Coast a few years before that.
Donna E E Turner says
Obama’s sons.
PGK says
These are the people we should be helping yes vent them bring them to safety till the situation is taken care of in their nation. Then return them back To their native countries.
Don Wiley says
How can the credibility of this report be confirmed. Shared to fb and was contorted with a snopes (of a different report.) But, cannot find much. What are the villages / churches? I can see how some might be leery.
bea baldridge says
I searched too and found nothing else. Our newsroom, channel 7 in Denver, said it could not be documented so they can’t report it. I searched their ABC page and found this:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-shoot-dead-18-northwestern-nigeria-cattle-53138235
Pastor Steve says
Am in Nigeria right now and have been in Nigeria for the past 4 Decades.
Worse things than what you just read have happened and are still going on without any international coverage.
If you’re waiting for the West and Google to hive you anything, you’ll wait for eternity.
We are on Ground and can confirm to you that what you read was just a tip of the icebers.
Don’t let the Islamic sympathisers in the West and the Google company to show you anything.
If you want gory pictures, I can send you some and you won’t be able to sleep tonight, I bet you.
But it is well.
C says
Be well, steve
Roderick MacUalraig says
Indeed, stay safe.
Ray Jarman says
Pastor Steve, As I was reading your comment I was thinking about what the missionaries of our church said about traveling in Nigeria which was as long as they had the words “MISSIONARY” on the boots of their vehicles, they were never attacked. Does the military still set up check points on the major roads like the one from Abuja to Kano requesting (sometimes demanding) hand outs?
As I am sure you know one of the problems not mentioned in most commentaries concerning the violence in Nigeria is the violent crime in places such as Lagos and Port Harcourt. A friend of mine in Abuja would tell me of his family in Lagos where the tenants in many apartment buildings have to have money on hand so when a gang enters the complex and start knocking on doors, one must open and give them something. If the knock is unanswered, the door is forced open and the apartment is ram sacked and if there inside who did not open the door, they would often be killed. Crime in the Christian cities is so high and the people seem so apathetic that they don’t vote in federal elections which leaves the likes of Buhari (a Muslim) in the office of president. I may be mistaken but I would bet that the population of Lagos and Port Harcourt and other southern cities far outnumber the Hausa states.
I am not saying that the Fulani should exist, on the contrary they should be wiped off the face of the earth. What I am saying and I spoke of it when I lived in Abuja, is that if the people were really interested in an honest government, they would vote for one and yes I know the response from many that if an honest man or woman were to run and win he or she would be killed. Apathy is the underlying reason for much of Nigeria’s ills.
Stay safe and may God Bless you and the other good people trying to help the people of Nigeria and if you meet a Sister by the name ok Mary Joseph, please say hello for me.
brenrod says
christian leadership abandons christians and hides the truth from western christians
boakai ngombu says
not true. the leadership that remains alive and escapes to western countries eventually find that they are “racist” (according to the news outlets) when raising the alarm and are sidelined.
Billy Chickens says
Where was Ibrahim I.M. at the time? Makes me wonder if he was involved.
Eyeswatching says
Templar Knights
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
such bloody clashes between nomadic fulani cattle rearers and farmers has nothing to do with muslim-christian conflicts in Nigeria. It is sinister Christian Association of Nigeria giving such impression. Ugly idiots !!
Billy Chickens says
Oh THERE you are! We though you were out participating in filthy jihad for filthy islam which was spawned from the filthy mind of the filthy devil who told filthy muhammad that he was filthy allah and to write his filthy words down in the filthy quran. Just sayin’.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Christian persecution is a major problem in Nigeria which has been exacerbated by the spread of radical Islamic teaching and practice.”
Not surprising if Ibrahim is anything to judge by.
If an imam tells his devotees that Christians are drinking the blood of muslim babies during their meetings, i’m sure it is fully believed.
StellaSaidSo says
We know who the ‘ugly idiots’ are, Ibrahim, and it isn’t the Christians.
boakai ngombu says
and the Muslim (slave) organizations – who follow the allah god if islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) is a truth encourager?
oh, and since you seem to be hoping for good in all this bloodletting, why do you support the fula who carry mail, drugs, jewels, in the anus of their cattle? spies they are and they would spy on you to test your adherence to SHARIA (enslavement tool). are you so pure?
Marilyn Griffin says
If the USA insists on taking in refugees/asylees, then it should be these Christians who actually personify persecution for their religion. Persecution is certainly one thing the Muslim hordes are NOT suffering. They are simply running away because there is fighting going on in their countries, but in all the photos, most seem to be men of fighting age. Since most all of those nations have been fighting someone most of the time for a thousand years, this is not an acceptable category for accepting refugees/asylees. I have also read thst msny Somalis here return home annually for weeks/months, so this indicates that 1. Their homelands are NOT too dangerous for them. and 2. They, obviously, lied to get here and have been lying ever since. Yet, stupid America continues to take in these people no matter how many crimes they commit on our citizens.
brenrod says
you have to choose between muslims and christians…. while you wait christians are slaughtered. Why is christian leadership telling you that islam is the religion of peace and tells you to welcome muslims into your home… that is where the problem lies… christian leadership deceiving you.
Eric jones says
No wonder. The current president of Nigeria is a Muslim.
Eric
Roderick MacUalraig says
And how many Christians in America know or care?
utis says
Where is the Pope? He may be taking the Neville Chamberlain route, but where are the other Christian leaders, especially the African-American preachers?
Roderick MacUalraig says
It’s not on their radar. They could give a shit about it.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Éric Jones ,are you aware that wild birom Christians carried out genocidal killings of Fulanis, burning more 1000 of their villages, Igbos killed more than 500 burried thé deads in mass graves, in Benue, Adamawa, tarama and south West. It is now that Fulanis are t’aking revenge. Hence persecutions of christians .may be mithraist christian god decreed that no one should dare talk when christians kill ,while the world should mourn where a single Christian is killed. Dirty idiots !!
brenrod says
taqiyya
C says
“wild” – this guy IS exactly the opposite of it claims to be. a deceiver for certain. but – I think this account is far more likely a tool to stoke response from you. ( not saying the main story is untrue…just this “Itace” guy and he prob also has a “christian identity”. He knows too much about religion ( exp “mithraist”) to be a moslem.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I have to respectfully disagree, at least in part.
Ibrahim throws around a handful of ‘mithra’ ‘facts’, along with a few other things like well known false Talmud quotes, which he almost certainly picked up from dawah websites or some teacher of his, but actually knows very little about any of it.
This is consistent with the kind of argumentation that many islamic apologists use.
That it is all half baked ignorance bothers them not a bit, since all they want to do is shout the loudest and make other muslims think they won the debate anyway.
I’ve yet to encounter a committed muslim apologist who actually values truth in scholarship.
Maranatha says
Why doesn’t the US move in on countries which persecute christians as it moved in on Germany and Italy and Japan a.s.o. in WW 2 .And they brought peace and prosperity for; what ? some 60 years ? and know it starts all over again ? I think Trump should step up on national TV condemn what has been going on not only in Nigeria and declare the state of war and send troops all over the world where people at the hand of muslim supremacist are loosing their property their country and their lifes and then after peace is restored take all the muslims living in western countries and send them back to muslim countries even if they were born and raised in western countries . Would that be islamophobic ? Hell yeah , so what .
ThomasThePaine says
Because the Arabs have bought and paid for most Western World politicians, that’s why!
Politicianophobia says
Snopes is Soros.
Jay says
Defensive war should be used to wipe the Fulani from the face of the Earth.