Nigeria is about 50% Christian. Those Christians are being increasingly subjected to a ruthless persecution, not only by Boko Haram but also by so-called Fulani “herdsmen” who are also jihadists. Since human rights organizations and other global bodies do not adequately take up the cause of Christian and other religious minority persecution at the hands of the Islamic jihadis, let’s hope that this State Department action will help the cause of religious freedom to be advanced in Nigeria, as well as in Islamic states.
Emeka Umeagbalasi, board chair of the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, stated:
October was one of the deadliest months this year, with Islamic extremists killing 260 Christians and 100 Muslims.
“The senseless killings mostly took place in the Middle Belt Region of Nigeria particularly in the States of Kaduna (Southern part), Plateau, Adamawa, Benue and Borno (Northeast) and were perpetrated by state actor and non-state actor Jihadists. The killings, perpetrated in the name of ‘Islam,’ are done with reckless abandon despite heavy presence and deployment of soldiers in all the 36 States of Nigeria and the Abuja,” the monitoring group said in its October report.
“Trump Sends State Department to Nigeria Amid Massacre of Hundreds of Christians by Islamic Radicals,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, November 8, 2018:
The U.S. State Department is headed to Nigeria this week amid the massacre of hundreds of Christians at the hands of various Islamic radical factions. Killings had spiked in October.
The State Department says on it website that the visit will be part of a wider focus on promoting stronger trade and commercial ties between the U.S. and several Africa countries, with the final stop in Abuja.
International Christian Concern noted that in April 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration signed a deal with the Nigerian government for purchasing 12 fighter jets, intended to be used to fight militants and bring an end to the killings of Christians and other civilians.
With the terrorist actions of Boko Haram, and separately other Islamic radicals who are presenting themselves as Fulani herdsmen, continuing in full force, however, ICC said that the Trump administration has “big decisions” to make concerning its strategy with Nigeria.
“Many are hoping that this week the Trump administration would stand up in support of religious freedoms in Nigeria,” the watchdog group said.
Emeka Umeagbalasi, board chair of the Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, shared with The Christian Post that October was one of the deadliest months this year, with Islamic extremists killing 260 Christians and 100 Muslims.
“The senseless killings mostly took place in the Middle Belt Region of Nigeria particularly in the States of Kaduna (Southern part), Plateau, Adamawa, Benue and Borno (Northeast) and were perpetrated by state actor and non-state actor Jihadists. The killings, perpetrated in the name of ‘Islam,’ are done with reckless abandon despite heavy presence and deployment of soldiers in all the 36 States of Nigeria and the Abuja,” the monitoring group said in its October report.
“The continuation and escalation of the killings mostly targeted at members of the Nigerian Christian Faith are also politically motivated whereby those perpetrating same and their backers in the corridors of power who brazenly aid and abet them are hailed among largely illiterate Muslim population in the North as the ‘true defenders of Allah and Islamic Faith;’ capable of robotically galloping their electoral popularity among the illiterate Muslim population in the north ahead of the country’s presidential poll in February 2019.”….
Malcolm Jackson says
Why does Nigel Farage promote Islam in the UK, and wish the UK to surrender to Islam.
What is it that Nigel Farage finds so attractive about Islam?
Mac-101 says
Money, Buggery, Satan?
Andy says
Look What Trump Does To the King of Morocco For Sleeping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Ur4ReTZeo
Mac-101 says
Black CHRISTIAN Lives don’t Matter to Libs and Globalist?
Roderick MacUalraig says
Agreed. No lives matter to the totalitarians.
Mac-101 says
Millions of Americans and BILLIONS around the world will die if /WHEN the Globalist Scum gain total control of THEIR NWO!
Michael Copeland says
Nigeria’s President is a muslim, Muhammadu Buhari, He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army.
The President is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria. The President is also the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Nigerian soldiers are muslim
The jihad killings will continue.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Baucent says
And he is of the Fulani tribe. Nigeria needs to be divided into two countries a North and South. It’s the only solution to the religious divide and violence from the predominantly muslim northerners.
Steve says
Our brothers and sisters need our help. God bless America, God bless President Trump.
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent and vicious jihadists Muslims in Nigeria with their murderous persecution of Christians in that country aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
revereridesagain says
You can’t do anything to help black Christians in Africa being slaughtered by black Muslims. The Left doesn’t care what happens to them unless there is a White Man to blame, and if you try to help you are dismissed as “self-serving”. Every time I think the Left can’t get more vile, they prove me wrong.
WPM says
+1
Black of Black violence is acceptable to SJW here in America. Be it in Africa , or the streets of Chicago ,in SJW eyes if the killing do not involve a white man in authority nothing is to be done or said about it. It is the classic case of” soft “bigoty of libtards group think. The SJW will blame economic pressure, green house gases, past European occupation that end over 100 years ago ,nothing to do with Islam.
Frank Anderson says
Selling any weapons to a muslim for the purpose of killing muslims is an act of absurdity without having some kind of switch to disable the weapons if they are used contrary to the commitments involved in the purchase. It would be better to have open target areas where US owned, operated and controlled drones take out beautifully obvious targets such as the vehicles and riders shown in the picture, while keeping any ground exposure to a dead minimum. Yes, spending a hundred thousand dollars for a precision guided munition to take out a ten thousand dollar 4 wheeler, a ten thousand dollar heavy machine gun and 2 terrorists is expensive. But ten of those PGM’s are far cheaper than a single US soldier killed or wounded. We can make all the PGM’s we want. Each of our lives is an irreplaceable treasure, contrary to the beliefs and practices of islam.
Until John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, I held the State Department in complete disregard. Perhaps there may be reason to hope for better.
Frank Anderson says
Additional: In Vietnam, 40 plus years ago it took according to reports I read the firing of 137,000 rifle cartridges to produce 1 dead communist. At prices those days the delivered cost of all those cartridges, including all the weapons, transportation and people, was at least 1 dollar per round. That is more or less 5 today. So we are looking at over 750,000 dollars per kill using old technology, also involving at least 1 US loss for every more or less 10 kills. RPV’s (remotely piloted vehicles) with PGM’s (Precision Guided Munitions) are a bargain. Depending on others to do our work has been shown to be a constant failure, including for example the escape of Osama in Afghanistan to hide in plain sight in Pakistan for more than 10 years. If you want something done right either do it yourself or give it to a US Marine.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Christine Williams, you always carry false report. The so-called persecutions of mithraist christians never exist in Nigeria. over 98% of Boko Haram victims in the dominant Muslim states of Borno and Yobe are Muslims where there very few christians. midlebelt is a mixture of Muslims ànd mithraist christians within the same tribes and they envy Hausa muslims who dominate business activities competing with Igbos and Yoruba who come from the south. Those mithraist christians from the middlbelt or central Nigeria vow to cleanse Hausa, Igbo and Yorubas from the area to take away their wealths as they don’t know how to conduct modern business to create wealth, they simply engage in manual farming that brings them into Warfare with Fulani herdmen over grazing right. They killed Fulanis, raped their beautiful wives and daughters with foreskins and fulanis have to take revenge, hence hues and cries all over the world.
Christine, you lied to say mithraist christians are about 50% .Even if Animists who worship idols are counted as mithraist christians, mithraist christians are less than 40% .Remember, Northern Nigeria is 2/3 of Nigeria and Muslims are over 90% .south west is the largest in the south and over 70% of Yorubas who inhabit south west are Muslims.
gravenimage says
The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Christine Williams, you always carry false report. The so-called persecutions of mithraist christians never exist in Nigeria.
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What a bald-faced lie. Muslims have been mass murdering Christians in Nigeria for many years. Biafra in the 1960s was a Jihad against Christians who wanted to escape Jihad. And Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has said that Muslims have the right to slaughter all those who have not submitted to Islam.
More:
over 98% of Boko Haram victims in the dominant Muslim states of Borno and Yobe are Muslims where there very few christians.
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That there are some places where Muslims are murdering each other does not mean that Muslims are not also murdering Infidels. Why do Muslims always point to Muslims murdering each other as though this is a mitigating factor?
And the reason there are fewer Christians in the north of Nigeria is that Muslims have driven out or murdered most of them there already.
More:
midlebelt is a mixture of Muslims ànd mithraist (sic) christians within the same tribes and they envy Hausa muslims who dominate business activities competing with Igbos and Yoruba who come from the south. Those mithraist (sic) christians from the middlbelt or central Nigeria vow to cleanse Hausa, Igbo and Yorubas from the area to take away their wealths as they don’t know how to conduct modern business to create wealth, they simply engage in manual farming that brings them into Warfare with Fulani herdmen over grazing right. They killed Fulanis, raped their beautiful wives and daughters with foreskins and fulanis have to take revenge, hence hues and cries all over the world.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed has made such claims before–that Christians at some unspecified and unproven point in the past have harmed Muslims, and that Muslims slaughtering them in perpetuity is just “revenge”.
He has also made the bizarre claim many times that uncircumcised men have “hard foreskins” that terrify women. Just ludicrous. He knows as little about history as he does about human anatomy.
More:
Christine, you lied to say mithraist christians are about 50% .Even if Animists who worship idols are counted as mithraist christians, mithraist christians are less than 40% .Remember, Northern Nigeria is 2/3 of Nigeria and Muslims are over 90% .south west is the largest in the south and over 70% of Yorubas who inhabit south west are Muslims.
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Nigeria is 48.9% Muslim, 48.3% Christian, and 2.8% other. That is indeed about half Christian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria
It seems that Ibrahim itace muhammed is both denying Muslim slaughter of Christians, and hoping that it has been even more successful than it has been. *Ugh*.
somehistory says
As long as there are moslims, there will be the murder of Christians by moslims. Just as it is with moslims killing Jews. As long as islam exists, there will be many, many murders.
Thankfully, we are deep into “the time of the end” and this means that islam too comes to its deserved end. Once and for all.
ninetyninepct says
Where there is Islam, there is violence. Where there is violence, there is likely Islam.
Indiana Tom says
Better to send Special Forces with weapons to train the non-Muslims with.
Frank Anderson says
I.T., still remembering your recommendation of Bill Warner’s books. There is more than one way to win a war. I have one multi-service, one paratrooper, and many Marines in my circle of close and long time friends. All have done excellent work for our country.
PATRICIA KOENIG says
Finally! It is about time the US Government did something about the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria!
gravenimage says
Trump sends State Department to Nigeria amid massacres of Christians by jihadists
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Well, this is good–but given that the leader of Nigeria is himself a Muslim, this is not apt to do much good.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, it appears that you are not conversant with the genesis of Biafran secessionist rebellion in Nigeria. when Igbos led bloody military coup killing all political leaders from the North like sardauna and Tafawa and Samuel Akintola a mithraist christian from Yorubas, a mithraist christian military leader Jack Yakubu Gowon from plateau North central Nigeria led counter coup ousting Igbo military leaders. Then colonel ojukwu a mithraist christian led Igbos to seced from Nigeria, but Yorubas led by a mithraist christian Awolowo refused to support the breaking of Nigeria. That was what led to civil war in Nigeria and Igbos were defeated and Nigeria remained united. So, the Igbos secessionist rebellion was never based on religion, but ethnic jingoism.
gravenimage says
What a lot of claptrap from Ibrahim itace muhammed.
“Fitzgerald: Remember Biafra!”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/12/fitzgerald-remember-biafra
And the Jihad against Christians and animists in Nigeria continues to this day–this is what Ibrahim itace muhammed considers “united”–a place where Muslims can continue to kidnap, rape, and slaughter Christians.
Vicky says
Not only did President Trump give Nigerian President Buhari, weapons and troops to train his soldiers, he gave him a huge amount of taxpayer money. President Buhari, and some of his cabinet members, are also members of the Fulani herdsmen clan that are slaughtering Christians. Some Christian leaders and human rights workers claim this is the reason efforts to quell the butchery have been unsuccessful.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
vicky, you must an ignorant liar and mischiefmaker. Buhari and only 3 of his ministers are not the same as fulani herdmen, They are called Hausa/fulani among farmers who have conflicts with fulani herdmen over grazing land and farming land. À fool !!
ninetyninepct says
Sorry muhamed – taqiyya.
gravenimage says
Of course, Ibrahim itace muhammed does not explain why Buhari is doing next to nothing to protect Nigerian Christians from Jihad–and is pretending it has nothing to do with his being Muslim himself.
ninetyninepct says
Sorry muhamed — taqiyya,
ninetyninepct says
Canada buys oil from Nigeria. Nigerian blood oil.That then finances the Muslim killers.