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Nigeria: Priest says persecution of Christians part of President’s plan for “Islamization of Nigeria”

Sep 6, 2019 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Christian persecution in Muslim countries is rooted in Islamic supremacist hate and intolerance of pluralism; it is also rooted in Islamic doctrine, which divides the world into the House of War (Dar al Harb) and the House of Islam. In normative Islam, it is the duty of Muslims to force disbelievers (the House of War) to become believers or accept the hegemony of Islamic law (the House of Islam) as a primary duty. If infidels refuse to become Muslims, then they are relegated to the inferior status of dhimmitude, and face a range of abuses.

In Nigeria, where the persecution of Christians is at alarming levels, local prelates have issued a warning:

The ongoing slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is part of a “hidden agenda” to convert the nation to Islam, an agenda that reaches to the highest echelons of the nation’s leadership. Father Valentine Obinna, a priest of the Aba diocese in Nigeria, told the online Catholic news outlet Crux that the recent murders of priests and other Christians are not isolated events but are tied to a long-term program of the “Islamization of Nigeria.”

Islamization does not stop in Nigeria. It is the plan for the world, in accordance with normative Islam.

“Prelates: Nation’s Leaders Seek ‘Islamization of Nigeria,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, September 5, 2019:

The ongoing slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is part of a “hidden agenda” to convert the nation to Islam, an agenda that reaches to the highest echelons of the nation’s leadership, according to local prelates.

Father Valentine Obinna, a priest of the Aba diocese in Nigeria, told the online Catholic news outlet Crux that the recent murders of priests and other Christians are not isolated events but are tied to a long-term program of the “Islamization of Nigeria.”

“It’s obvious. It’s underground. It’s trying to make the whole country a Muslim country,” Father Obinna said. “But they are trying to do that in a context with a strong presence of Christians, and that’s why it becomes very difficult for him,” he said, in reference to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

The reason Christians have become targets is that Buhari and those in power “want to make sure the whole country becomes a Muslim country,” and they are using Boko Haram and the Fulani to achieve that objective, he said.

“People read the handwriting on the wall,” Obinna said.

In one of the most underreported stories of the year, Nigeria has seen rampant attacks on the Christian population of the country.

A recent report by the Jubilee Campaign asserted that 52 lethal, anti-Christian attacks took place in Nigeria during the first six months of 2019.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian-based International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law declared that some 2,400 Christians were killed by the Fulani in 2018 alone. And Nigeria’s Daily Post reported last year that from June 2015 to June 2018, Fulani militants “killed 8,800 Christians and other non-Muslims,” torching “not less than 1,000″ churches and other places of worship during the same period….

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  1. gravenimage says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Nigeria: Priest says persecution of Christians part of President’s plan for “Islamization of Nigeria”
    …………………

    This *may* be part of Buhari’s plan–he is himself Muslim Certainly, he is doing nothing to stop these atrocities.

  2. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    The only resolution is like Sudan, two states. A defended national border is highly effective against the hijrah and jihad.

  3. somehistory says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    Meanwhile, back at the vatacan, pope guy is saying down with those who use fossil fuels.

    “THE ENVIRONMENTALIST POPE ISSUES A WARNING
    Pope Francis again laments the alleged environmental consequences of capitalism.September 6, 2019 Discover The Networks
    released a written message stating that this is “a season to reflect on our lifestyles,” to become fully aware of how people “act like tyrants with regards to creation,” and to take “prophetic actions” to save the planet.”
    ******************************

    The Bible in Revelation makes it clear in chapter 13, that satan the devil…”the original serpent”…his wild beast and his false prophet will use the “sword” to force everyone on earth to take the “number of the beast on their forehead and on their hand,” and if not, then they will be killed.

    This is happening right before our very eyes. molsims in control…working for satan and his beast…to force the rest of mankind to become slaves to their fake ‘god’ and to their fake ‘prophet,’ the mass murdering, raper of children and the devil’s wild beast. And the pope..who claims to be working for Christ…is working mouth to mouth with the moslims. He says to take “prophetic actions”

    what he is doing in helping islam, are “actions” that Jesus included in His prophecies.

    As long as this is allowed to happen, until Christ returns and sets things right, Christians will be persecuted to the death.

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    Here it is: “some 2,400 Christians were killed by the Fulani in 2018 alone”.

    I have been watching the Nigeria’s jihad against the Christians for the last 20 years. I was accurate in estimating that over 1,000 Christians and as many as 2,000 were killed every year by jihadists since the 1990s.

    This has reached the levels of a true genocide … 100,000 Christians killed every 10 years in Nigeria as a minimum.

    WHY ARE THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IGNORNING IT???

    • Kay says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 10:04 pm

      It’s a travesty and unconscionable that the msm has ignored it.
      What percentage Christian was Nigeria 20 years ago and percentage Christian now?

  5. Angemon says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 5:18 am

    The reason Christians have become targets is that Buhari and those in power “want to make sure the whole country becomes a Muslim country,” and they are using Boko Haram and the Fulani to achieve that objective, he said.

    Were it not for the untold number of Christians they’d have to go through, I’d love to see the Fulani and Boko Haram finally having their way with Buhari…

  6. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    Father Valentine Obinna is right on the money! Thank you Mrs. Douglass-Williams for publishing this!!! In 2001 at an Islamic seminar in Kaduna, then-General Buhari stated: “I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria. God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.” (Soure: Babatunde Oyewole, “Insurgency and Buhari’s call for full Sharia”)
    I was in Nigeria last month and the pro-Islamic government has no intention whatsoever to help Christians!! Genocide is being committed! If anyone is interested:
    https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/08/11/the-unknown-christian-genocide-in-nigeria/

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 7, 2019 at 10:08 pm

      Thanks for that grim view on the ground.

  7. KWJ says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 7:25 pm

    In a mainstream newspaper-I think it was the Washington Post-they chalked it up to a land dispute between the Fulani and farmers. Shhh…can’t look like we’re siding with Christians despite all the massacres.’ It has the feel of Uganda, Sudan and probably funded by Islamic petro dollars who just like Muhammad, when he offered a ragtag group to join up with his jihad and booty, told them they needed to become Muslims as part of the deal.

    Not much changes. Obviously people in the USA are easily bought off too. Pete Buttigieg will probably blame the Nigerian problem on climate change just as he said the Syrian civil war has been affected by climate change, a ludicrous, illogical idea that should have had him laughed off the stage. The only climate change there has been the financial climate, such as Syria doesn’t owe the IMF any money and countries have differing opinions about where pipelines should go and autocrats.

    People are facing existential threats right now.

    …and the Pope is the epitome of sinning. Where is his humanity? Sometimes he gives lip service to Christian persecution in Islamic countries and China but hardly enough. At this rate he should be going to Confession 5x a day.

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