This is likely to be true, as Muslim soldiers who share the ideology of the jihad attackers will be, at very least, reluctant to move against them, and perhaps eager to share in their jihad.
“In Meeting with President, Pastors in Nigeria Say Military Complicit in Attacks on Christians,” Morning Star News, November 28, 2018:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria this month delivered a sharp rebuke, saying the military is complicit in attacks on Christians.
With the governor of Plateau state in attendance, the Rev. Dacholom Datiri, president of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), delivered a report to Buhari at the presidential villa on Nov. 6 stating that 646 Christians in Plateau state alone were killed from March through October.
“The narrative has been that these people are killed by unknown gunmen, or suspected herdsmen, or that there have been farmer-herders clashes,” Datiri said in the report, obtained by Morning Star News. “All these are deceptive narratives deliberately framed to conceal the truth and continue to perpetrate the evil.”
The truth, he said, is that Muslim Fulani militias heavily armed with sophisticated guns, including AK47s, machine guns, and rocket-propelled grenades have attacked and killed Christians.
“After the attacks, it is the Fulani herders that settle and graze their cattle on the farms of the victims,” Datiri said in the report to the president. “The proficiency and mode of operation in all of these attacks, as testified by the surviving victims, leaves us in no doubt of the complicity of the military being used as hired mercenaries by the Fulani militias. On this, we are disappointed, and sadly so, that the government has not delivered on her constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property.”
Datiri said the herdsmen in collaboration with Boko Haram jihadists and other Muslim militants in the areas of Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bassa and Bokkos destroyed 30 church buildings and 4,436 Christian homes, sending 38,000 Christians into 10 camps for displaced persons from March through October.
“Are we to believe that the armed forces sent to keep peace go with the instructions to protect them?” Datiri said. “The implication is that they protect the aggressors and leave the victims mercilessly helpless.”
Datiri pointed out that as the figures pertain only to Plateau state, they do not include those killed by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.
For his part, Plateau Gov. Simon Lalong reportedly faulted Muslim and other community leaders for compounding the crisis of violence in the state by hiding criminals.
Buhari, a Fulani Muslim, responded to the Christian leaders by saying he did not doubt COCIN’s report on the atrocities committed against their communities.
“The communities (in Plateau) have lived long enough to know that there is nothing they can do without each other than to live together in harmony,” Buhari said. “As leaders, we must persuade the upcoming generation using every channel, particularly the educational institutions, to live together with our neighbors.”
Christian and Muslim leaders have to work harder to convince the upcoming generation that they must live together in the same country, Buhari said.
“It is not all Muslims that are against Christians, and neither are all Christians against Muslims,” he said. “In our security arrangement, the police is in the frontline in making sure that communities irrespective of ethnic or religious bias live together in peace.”…
Boko Haram, whose name is loosely translated as, “Western education is a sin,” has fought for more than nine years to impose Islamic law on all of Nigeria, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing more than 2 million. Boko Haram militants reportedly warned parents of the returned Dapchi girls not to send their daughters back to school….
Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population, while Muslims living primarily in the north and middle belt account for 45 percent.
Nigeria ranked 14th on Open Doors’ 2018 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution.
Max says
Great Article Mr Robert Spencer, As a Christian living in Nigeria, I can say without a doubt that its Jesus Christ who protects his followers and keep them safe from the hands of these evil Governments,(yes Governments cos it even includes former US president Obama) it’s no secret that Boko Haram are 100% Islamic terrorist group hellbent on destroying both western & Christian civilizations, the truth is, given the fact that most leaders at the northern part of the country are Islamic & also Hausa or/& Fulani by tribe, the movements of these terrorist groups have flourished even though the the current presidency promised to end boko haram, instead we have death toll rising, a shaken and well intimidated Borno state (Boko haram’s major area of occupation) military and worse still the same Islamic president Buhari is releasing alleged rehabilitated former boko haram members the previous presidential(Christian) administration was able to contain lol.
Also one can look at the fact that the president is Fulani, and though the killer Fulani herdsmen had been an issue in certain parts of the country before the current presidency, the movement of these killer headsmen greatly increased in his tenure as it has become a serious epidemic, instantly becoming well spread geographically throughout the country & more rigorous, yet they have been reluctant to label them terrorist & instead of the government taking them head on(as a security threat), they call for farmers to be more hospitable lol. Someone wants to explain to me how I should be hospitable to grazers who come uninvited to my farmland, graze over my crops, carryout kidnapping, violent subjugation & killings… Yes someone is saying,” it is (killer fulani herdsmen attack) a tribal issue not Islamic &/or Muslims farmers are often affected too, true point, but I’m sorry that’s a weak argument for people who shout “Allahu Akbar” when they kill farmers leaving peacefully in their own lands, yes still 100% associated with Islam, plus, I never met or even heard of a Christian Fulani Herdsmen, and I’m 100% sure “Killer Christian” will continue to be figure of speech, never literal.
Anyone out there can do some research to find out how these.killer & terrorist movement flourish with the help of these Islamic leaders who are merely performing the scripts handed to them to perform, just so much out there.
I caught on to David Woods dissection of Islam & exposing Islam for the joke, deception & barbaric ideology that it is, didn’t take long to realize that it is of the devil, anyway from there I easily came across your work too, I think you all do great, may God Bless you all, guide, keep & protect you all, Amen…
As a Christian living in such Muslim majority country (though living in the southern part were Islamist are infiltrating & growing but still lesser than non Muslims), the importance of your works & the exposure it brings cannot be overemphasized, keep it up & Once again, God Bless you all!
Andy says
Ex-imam explains what Muslims get wrong about Jesus, details family’s persecution for following Christ
https://www.christianpost.com/news/ex-imam-explains-what-muslims-get-wrong-about-jesus-details-familys-persecution-for-christ.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=7ae84583f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_28_05_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-7ae84583f7-2248173
mortimer says
Thanks, Max, for speaking out. Islam is a supremacist religion and Muslims are required to be supremacists. It’s quite simple.
The world must intervene in this.
Muslims will secretly hope that Boko Haram fulfils its mission of KILLING, EXTERMINATING, ENSLAVING and ETHNICALLY CLEANSING Christians from Nigeria.
Max says
Anytime Mortimer, God Bless
gravenimage says
Stay safe,Max.
Max says
Thanks, Peace✌
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr spencer, it is false statistics to say mithraist christians account for 51% of Nigerian population even if animists who worship idols are counted as mithraist christians, mithraist christians are less than 40%.The mithraist christian leaders are lying that muslim military men are aiding Fulani herdmen, it is mithraist Christian military men aiding wild Birom mithraist christian barbarians in carry out mass killings of Muslims in plateau state central Nigeria where more than 50,000 Hausa muslims were killed ,their houses and properties burnt. when wild Birom mithraist christians extended such genocidal killings to Fulani herdmen in the forest, raping their beautiful wives and daughters with foreskins and taking away their cows, the fulanis retaliated .Hence these lies by these mithraist christian leaders. Fools!!
mortimer says
Ibrahim, only total morons think Mithraism influenced Christianity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlF0gVedODE&t=133s
mortimer says
Ibrahim, who is the ‘fool’? You believe in K.4.23-24 which endorses the GENOCIDAL RAPE of MARRIED CAPTIVES … don’t you? Or is Allah WRONG? Is Allah WRONG about GENOCIDAL RAPE, Ibrahim? Tell us.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, Ibrahim itace muhammed has said here several times that Muslims have the right to rape Infidels in Jihad. *Ugh*.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr spencer, it is false statistics to say mithraist christians account for 51% of Nigerian population even if animists who worship idols are counted as mithraist christians, mithraist christians are less than 40%.
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Notable that Ibrahim itace muhammed’s main issue here is being upset that Christians could possibly outnumber Muslims anywhere on earth.
I have seen various figures for Nigeria, ranging from the figure given above of slightly over 50% to as 48%. Really, this difference is not all that great.
But as a Muslim supremacist Ibrahim itace muhammed always wants to believe the Muslims have forcibly converted or slaughtered enough Christians and other Infidels to make up the majority.
More:
The mithraist christian leaders are lying that muslim military men are aiding Fulani herdmen, it is mithraist Christian military men aiding wild Birom mithraist christian barbarians in carry out mass killings of Muslims in plateau state central Nigeria where more than 50,000 Hausa muslims were killed ,their houses and properties burnt. when wild Birom mithraist christians extended such genocidal killings to Fulani herdmen in the forest, raping their beautiful wives and daughters with foreskins and taking away their cows, the fulanis retaliated .Hence these lies by these mithraist christian leaders. Fools!!
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Of course, there is no such case as this. I have called Ibrahim itace muhammed out on these figures before, and asked for citations. He has, unsurprisingly, never offered any–because they do not exist.
It is also bizarre that he would say this,given that he has affirmed many times that Muslims have the right to slaughter any Infidels who do not submit to Islam.
Some may be wondering at the weird reference to “foreskins”–Ibrahim itace muhammed has made the truly odd claim that uncircumcised men’s foreskins are “large and hard” and scar women for life.
He understands nothing about human anatomy.
This is more projection, in any case, since he has also crowed that Muslims have the right to rape Infidels in Jihad.
infidel says
I’m really amazed.. How do U find excuses after pathetic excuses for even the most horrific and indefensible attacks of Jehaad? But then it is a Muslim thing isn’t it to tell lies after lies after lies…
martin says
Well done for allways exposing the depraved, satan like lying nature that islam gives you as a muslim.
martin says
That was for ibrodumb
gravenimage says
Nigeria: In meeting with President, Christian leaders say military is complicit in jihad attacks on Christians
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Almost certainly the case–especially given the Nigerian president’s being Muslim.
infidel says
It is DISGRACE AND A SHAME that the UN is DOING NOTHING about the virtual EXTERMINATION of peaceful CHRISTIANS in Nigeria. What the MAD Muslims are doing to the Christians there is an unconscionable crime against humanity. THE UN HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS..Shame on this org.
infidel says
In London Muslims take the cover of being Asians after committing the worst of sexual crimes and there in Nigeria, they take the cover of Fulani herdsmen to cover up their crimes of mass murder of innocents..!!!!