“Christians are experiencing ‘genocidal, religious-based violence’ in many parts of Africa as Islamic terror groups gain greater traction on the continent, according to Save the Persecuted Christians, a U.S.-based charity.”
This global crisis perpetrated by jihadists continues to be mostly ignored.
Unfortunately, Islamic supremacists and those who cover for them are busy hammering in the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, which includes ignoring the human suffering associated with jihad violence and intimidating people into submission. Fortunately:
Senegalese Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye has summoned journalists to help wake people up to the gravity of the jihad threat posed by Islamists.
Most journalists today no longer report the truth, but have become activists working on behalf of whoever pays them to advance their agenda.
Seven months ago, Fox News did a report that showed Christian persecution was close to “genocide levels,” but was being largely ignored because of “political correctness.”
“Report: Islamic Persecution of Christians ‘Gaining Traction’ in Africa,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, December 11, 2019:
ROME — Christians are experiencing “genocidal, religious-based violence” in many parts of Africa as Islamic terror groups gain greater traction on the continent, according to Save the Persecuted Christians, a U.S.-based charity.
The West needs to come to terms with the fact that what is going on in Africa is “genocidal, religious-based violence, enacted against Christians by Sharia supremacist extremist groups,” said Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians, in an interview published Wednesday with Crux, an international Catholic news outlet.
“They must also come to terms with the fact that the Islamic State has not been defeated, but has merely moved to new territory in Africa and is a growing threat not only there but, if allowed to flourish, to the interests of the United States, Europe and the world,” Mr. Laugesen said.
Several factors are contributing to the increase of Christian persecution in Africa, he said, not least of which is the steady growth of Christianity itself.
“Because Christianity is experiencing its greatest growth in Africa, Christians are increasingly seen as a threat to Muslim-dominated lands and governments,” Laugesen said. “Mass territories of uninhabited, ungoverned regions provide easy cover for Islamic terror group activities.”
“Combined with extreme poverty, joblessness and well-established routes for illegal arms dealing and the illicit slave trade, resource-rich African countries north of the equator provide fertile ground for Islamic State fighters fleeing the Middle East and are looking for new territories to dominate,” he added.
Laugesen underscored the importance of acknowledging the religious nature of the persecution, which is often dishonestly portrayed in the West as merely economic or ethnic in nature. A case in point is Nigeria, he said, where government-backed Fulani militants regularly kill Christians with impunity.
“State support of extremist groups has been widely alleged in the Fulani-dominated federal government of Nigeria, which seems incapable of, or unwilling to, address increasing mass slaughter of Christians and rampant kidnappings-for-ransom by so-called Fulani herdsmen,” Laugesen said….
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Africa: Genocidal Islamic persecution of Christians gaining traction…
People shouldn’t have to come into JW and Geller Report to get this news, it should be on the front page of every major newspaper. But that’s the way our leftist controlled media is, they shill for islam all the time and conceal facts which only makes us more vulnerable to subversion and terror. So many of our politicians and media are willing accomplices to islam’s takeover of America and the West. I honestly think they hate America and want to destroy her. And in order to achieve that end the media ignores the epidemic of violence against Christians in muslim countries. The last thing our complicit media wants is the public to be fully informed about the mass crimes muslims are doing for their “religion.” And I’ll go further and suggest that another factor is the racism the media has for Africa, they don’t care because most Christian victims are not white. They only accuse us “islamophobes” of racism because they have nothing better to offer as a rebuttal, but in reality they are the racists cuz they don’t think black people who are killed for religious bigotry are worth reporting on. You would never see this kind of color bias in JW or Geller Report, two organizations that have always valued the rights of all people equally. It’s sad that our mainstream media doesn’t have the same set of guiding principles that JW has in reporting the crimes and dangers of islam. There would be less terror and confusion about islam if the media and politicians would start being honest about the threats islam brings. If you are informed about a threat then you are better able to deal with it. But our media doesn’t want us to deal with it, they want us to succumb to it and be multicultural with something that wants us dead or enslaved. Some of these media folks are bad people, and we have to let them know we are fully aware of what they are up to. And that we are against their evil agenda and won’t allow them to profit from their racism and subversion anymore.
Nina says
So clearly and correctly stated. I can’t even criticize them for double parking. How do those of us who care reverse this?
fred kingsbury says
please ponder the post i left below
toomanyhobbies says
that would be nice but the media at large are COWARDS….
Peter Buckley says
There are many Africans who are STILL threatened with persecution even having fled to the West. JW readers can help them out here:
https://mailchi.mp/ofwi/nigerian-christian-family-facing-threats-of-death-needs-a-christmas-miracle?e=f04e88f364
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Thanks, I just donated $20.00 to OFWI for the family. I know it ain’t much but money is always tight around Xmas time. Morufat Ogunkoya converted from islam Christianity and that takes courage, everyone knows that muslim apostates are susceptible to murder. The West isn’t doing enough to help Christians in muslim countries who are getting murdered and abused for allah. We got terrorists in the West sucking our welfare, certainly this woman and her 3 kids deserves the benefit of the doubt. Sure, she could be a fake convert but I doubt it, I watched the video and she seems credible to me. And it’s no surprise to hear how her father tried to beat and torture her with a hot iron, this is how brainwashed these people are for islam. They’d rather act like hateful pr*cks to their own family than live like a godly person. I found her kids credible too with their own testimony. No family should be subjected to this kind of abuse for any religion, let alone a demented religion like islam. I wish them the best, I only hope the relevant government officials do the right thing to save this family from the religious terror that threatens them.
FAST EDDIE says
Here we go again. You would think all would learn. This young generation hasn’t got a clue. Heil? Not me.
elee says
Aaaah the glories of self-determination! After half a century of it, should compassionate first-worlders desire that their governments intervene? What do you suppose the lndigenous Christians might prefer? Oh and come to think of it, Islam in Africa didnt work too well for the first 700 years either, did it? Well, except of course for the slave traders……well, clearly I have no insight into how these people think. If I were king of the world theyd have freedom and tolerance and clean drinking water……..they seem to prefer lots of Uzis instead, and who are we to immpose our values on other peoples cultures?
gravenimage says
If sneering would help, then I see that Christians threatened with genocide from Muslims are in luck here…
elee says
Compassionate intervention might or might not work. Can anything help? If I thought crying would help Id try that.
gravenimage says
The first thing to do is to spread the truth of what is happening there, elee.
gravenimage says
Africa: Genocidal Islamic persecution of Christians gaining traction as world remains mostly indifferent
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It always amazes me how many Americans have heard nothing at all about this.
Del says
As expected, not a word in the Canadian Media. Almost nothing. Once in a while we find out about the rape gangs in Britain or the no-go zones in Sweden and France, but very little.
Special note: Not a single word from Ardern in New Zealand. NZ is rapidly becoming another no-go zone. particularly for human rights, personal freedoms and freedom of speech.
paul 316 says
Where’s the OUTRAGE??? It amazes me how we Christians can hear of these atrocities and few from the Christian leadership is standing up and denouncing this genocide. And why is there no cry for the persecuted Christians to be brought here to America so they can be given a new start like all the illegals that the left so want’s to bring here. EVERYTIME someone in Christian leadership is allowed to speak they should start with condemning the genocide, then make valid and truthful remarks about the religion of peace and bring light to the oppressed and their struggle. Yes, we should pray for the persecuted, but where is the fire of compassion for those who are being savagely murdered in the name of a dead and impotent god? The world needs to wake up for the carnage of islam will roll over all of us and soon all the West will have the face of the Arab nightmare.
fred says
As dark, depressing, barbaric, and dystopian this ‘Christian genocide’ is, and by the way not dissimilar to what the Christians did to other non-believers in it’s horrific past, i’m always stunned by these current reports why the Christian God and His Divine Son never intervene on behalf of their prayerful faithful. Are the fervent prayers of millions and millions of the victims and their Christian brethren around the world not being heard? If they are heard just not responded to by these totally INdifferent deities? Why would that be? Just perhaps these cosmic beings don’t exist and never did. Are they pure figments of wishful imaginations which humans have a great history and propensity to fabricate since prehistoric times? Is it not a curious thing that the Biblical Sky-Daddy Lord and His Superman Son will answer the mundane prayers like finding lost keys and locating a perfect parking spot, yet are nowhere to be found or heard from in the more important and profound situations like the persecution, torture, and murder of his flock in Muslim countries, or how about the millions of innocent children suffering unimaginable and excruciating pain and anguish on a daily basis starving around the world, dying of bone cancer, and other hideous diseases and abuses. No need to mention (but i will) NOT preventing the rampant, wide spread abuse, rape, and other unseemly violations by the Lord’s clergy to untold millions of innocent children by the Catholic Cult and other ‘moral’, ‘righteous’, and oh so ‘pious’ Christian denominations.
paul 316 says
…not dissimilar to what Christians did to other non-believers…
The Crusades lasted for less than two hundred years and was primarily against muslims who had attacked the Christians through their jihad, which by the way has been on going for better than 1400 years, since the inception of islam, but hey, I’m sure you’re more of a historian on the subject than I am. As for the “Biblical Sky-Daddy Lord and his Superman Son as being indifferent, I’ll stand with Jesus Christ, He did warn that in the last days perilous times shall come and also “there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Luke21:25,26. Fred, you seem to think God is supposed to be like a genie in a bottle, ask and you receive, abracadabra, POOF!!!!!! It’s a SIN issue, islam.
fred kingsbury says
It would take a massive volume to list all the evil atrocities the Christians and their theocracies waged on humanity…. and you wouldn’t read it anyway. and regarding your delusional point about the ‘last days’, which the faithful have been proclaiming since the beginning of the 2000 yr. old cult, and you obviously believe is happening now, (in fact deliriously ecstatic about it), then stop your complaining and pearl clutching about what those evil Muslims are perpetrating. In your view they are part of God’s plan, doing what He wants to hasten the dawn of Armeggeddon… so please publicity proclaim your heartfelt support for those barbaric Muslims… they are great soldiers for your Lord and are laying the foundation for your final journey to heaven where you can sip wine and play checkers with Jesus for all eternity. 🙂
paul 316 says
Well Fred, you assume that I am Catholic. WRONG. You know what happens when you start assuming things? ….r i g h t? God will not hasten nor delay Armageddon, it will happen as He sees fit. Since you seem to have all the answers, lay it on me, is there a heaven , a hell, a Satan, a One True God?
paul 316 says
Waiting…..
Wellington says
I am an agnostic, fred kingsbury, don’t have a shred of a religious sentiment or belief, but it is imperative to comprehend, which you do not, that when Christians acted badly in the name of their creed they were violating the tenets of their faith, contra Muslims who are instructed by their belief system to wage war upon all humanity “until all religion is with Allah.” {Sura 8:39}
Moreover, Christianity, as well as Judaism, places a tremendous emphasis on the dignity and worth of the individual, contra Islam again. For Christ’s sake, can’t you even figure out that the Christian theological blueprint is not a recipe for repression of democratic tenets in this world but that the Islamic theological blueprint most surely is? After all, ideology matters greatly and the ideology of Christianity (Judaism too) is not a threat to freedom and equality under the law on this earth. By contrast, Islam most surely is.
Wise up. But you won’t as long as you engage in moronic relativistic reasoning. And again I remind you I am not religious in the least. Yeah, wake up and wise up. Until you do about this “matter” you are destined to function in perpetual ignoramus mode.
paul 316 says
Wellington
Enlightening, well said and funny too. I like that!
Wellington says
Thank you, paul 316.
You know, in this massive fight against what Islam has in store for all of mankind— Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, agnostics, atheists, et al.—it is keenly important, supremely important, to remember that Islam is the enemy of us all; it means to enslave the lot of us to one degree or another (you know, the submission rot per Sura 9:29 and so many other reprehensible Suras—hey, ain’t they all?).
At other times when not combating Mo’s warped, violence-prone and control-freak creed, religious people other than Muslims and non-religious people can agree to disagree on an amicable basis (preferably while enjoying some fine repasts like a good beer and a BLT). But Islam is devoid of this capacity, of a free thought interchange and exercise with no violence lurking anywhere around, as it is of sundry other capacities (e.g., a true Golden Rule for all in this world).
Islam most surely is, as I have noted before here at JW, the turd in the punch bowl of world religions. I greatly prefer that no such turd exists in the first place. Alas, it does and it goes by the name of “Islam.” Damn.
Best to you and yours and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
paul 316 says
Wellington,
+1 Best to you and yours, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Cheers!
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Wellington. And if fred kingsbury thinks that Jihadists do not also target Agnostics and Atheists–as well as all other unbelievers, whether they sneer at Christians or not–he is *much* mistaken.
For myself, I don’t want to see anyone die at the hands of Jihadists.
gravenimage says
More sneering at Christian victims. One need not believe in Christianity to think that genocide of Christians is wrong–and not put it in sneer quotes.
And no–Christianity does not teach either the abuse of children or slaughtering unbelievers. Islam certainly does, though.
J D.S says
Western leaders are COWARDS when it comes to addressing what Islam actually is.
FORCE AND FEAR those two things along with the apostate law have held Islam in place all these many centuries. The FEAR part of that is working well today for the “Muslim Plan” Our so called leaders are AFRAID to speak out and take action to put a stop to Islamic incursion into the west and they will still be afraid when the sword unscathed throat…What to do? If it isn’t already too late??? STOP being afraid if being called islamophobic, bigot, racist, etc and take back their countries.
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fred kingsbury says
agree with all you stated… it is common sense and obvious. my views below are ‘theologically’ based and maybe worth pondering
Linda Rivera says
Western leaders are Not Cowards. NOT afraid. They’re EVIL. They crave severe Muslim persecution of our people.
They want Jews, Christians and other non Muslim innocents to suffer to the utmost.
OLD GUY says
Where is the POPE to protect his flock? Instead he continues to kiss up to islam while christians are being murdered all around him.
fred kingsbury says
isn’t it funny (and tragic) how people are brainwashed to think that the Pope and his Christian cult are the paragons of virtue and morality while he not only protects Islam from criticism but protects 1000’s of his evil priests from criminal prosecution for child molestation and rape.
paul 316 says
Tragic! How is it that the priests, bishops, cardinals etc. do no time for the molestations/rapes and they are allowed to buy their way out of prison sentences, what is up with the justice system? It’s horrid! Chrislam has got to go!
Wellington says
fred kingsbury: The present Pope is a disgrace. Here we agree.
As for his protecting predator priests, I don’t think he is completely culpable here, though still not nearly good enough, and he should definitely stop with the nonsense about Satan inspiring predator priests. Satan had nothing to do with it (for the record, I don’t even believe that Satan exists). These damn execrable priests had everything to do with “it.” Enough with the “Satan excuse.”
As for your comment about “paragons of virtue and morality,” again you miss the big picture. Here it is: Christianity in its theory, in its theological blueprint, in no way condones what aberrant priests and a now foolish Pope have sanctioned or made excuses for. Quite the contrary.
But Islam, as Robert Spencer himself has noted, is unique among world religions. While all societies experience rape, Islam is alone in condoning it (examples proving this to be found in Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70—what the “right hand possesses” and such execrable nonsense, none of which, even remotely, is to be found in the New Testament).
Get this. If you don’t, then you are condemned to eternal ignorance based on very silly and uninformed relativistic reasoning.
Let me put it to you another way by way of a question: Would the world not be far better off if every Muslim woke up tomorrow a devout Christian? Your answer here, and please do respond, will convey a great deal. A great deal to be sure.
fred says
First of all you misrepresent and straw-man my views. My intention was not to compare the past and present horrors and barbarism of Christianity vs. Islam. There are huge differences (and some similarities… especially in the realm of aggressively pursuing repressive theocracies – look at Christianity in the dark ages – not too dissimilar to Islam now). Too many Christians deflect it’s horrid past and transparently attempt to sanitize the whole project…. just so embarrassing. Christianity for the most part went through a series of reformations in its history… and certainly NOT because of a more careful reading of its retrograde scripture, but was dragged kicking and fighting into humane reformations specifically because of the outside pressures of modernity, science, reason, and intellectual honesty. To clarify, name one thing that science has discovered as true that any religion has overturned by its theology. Now, name a hundred dogmas of faith-based religion that have been overturned (or at least challenged effectively) by reason and science… that would be ridiculously easy to do. Secondly, one would have to be willfully blind not to acknowledge that Islam is by far the most dangerous, evil, barbaric, retrograde, and toxic massive faith-based cult our world has to face. No argument there from me – we are in total agreement. Thirdly, i submit the underlying problem with Islam as with every FAITH-BASED religion is FAITH itself. Beliefs have consequences and religious, blind-faith beliefs have, as we see historically and presently, devastating and deadly consequences. To paraphrase the Noble Laureate Stephen Weinberg, “Good people do good things, evil people do evil things, but for a good people to do evil things… it takes religion.” The ONLY way well-educated, prosperous, psychologically stable men will fly planes at 500 miles an hour into buildings, kill others for apostasy, every horrible flavor of misogyny, enforce women to live in cloth bags, marry girls as young as 12 years old, create rape cultures, mutilate the genitals of girls and boys, subjugate and abuse/kill non-believers, freethinkers, and homosexuals, engage in endless beheadings, torture, enslavement, and on and on… is ONLY because these minds and hearts are so deeply corrupted by the faith-based truth claims written in ancient books they deem ‘holy’ and ‘sacred’. And why do they deem them true? Because the books themselves proclaim it so. How’s that for great logic? It’s like believing the adventures of Superman or Spiderman are true by the mere act of reading comic books. Criticizing and deeply analyzing these manuscripts and how they were cobbled together by ignorant, superstitious, unevolved men from the bronze-age is crucially important. Criticizing faith itself should no longer be taboo…. the future of our civilization depends on that kind of courageous inquiry. Lastly, every single devout Christian reading this knows exactly what it is like to be a freethinker/agnostic/atheist/skeptic because that is exactly their position is when it comes to viewing other faith-based religions/cults and their proclamations and dogmas. Turn that kind of inquiry on your own belief system with total intellectual and emotional honesty. It is beyond obvious that if any Christian here was born and raised in a Muslim country by devout Islamic parents and indoctrinated since birth then they would be filled with the certainty that Islam is the one true faith and all other faiths are false, incomplete, or illegitimate. What does that tell you? Ponder all this deeply my friends.
gravenimage says
Christianity is criticized all the time. Muslims believe that criticism of Islam should get the death penalty.
Fred says
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Jehovah witnesses, Scientology, you name the faith-based cult, all should be deeply scrutinized and appropriately criticized. Not all are equal in their propensity for delusion, repression, abuse, violence, control, misogyny, fear and guilt provoking, and genocide. No doubt in our current time Islam propagates the mother lode of bad ideas. However, none of them offer a reasoned epistemology or path to the truth of reality and the human condition. Faith in fairy tales and fantasies are not the answer.
Fred says
First of all you misrepresent and straw-man my views. My intention was not to compare the past and present horrors and barbarism of Christianity vs. Islam. There are huge differences (and some similarities… especially in the realm of aggressively pursuing repressive theocracies – look at Christianity in the dark ages – not too dissimilar to Islam now). Too many Christians deflect it’s horrid past and transparently attempt to sanitize the whole project…. just so embarrassing. Christianity for the most part went through a series of reformations in its history… and certainly NOT because of a more careful reading of its retrograde scripture, but was dragged kicking and fighting into humane reformations specifically because of the outside pressures of modernity, science, reason, and intellectual honesty. To clarify, name one thing that science has discovered as true that any religion has overturned by its theology. Now, name a hundred dogmas of faith-based religion that have been overturned (or at least challenged effectively) by reason and science… that would be ridiculously easy to do. Secondly, one would have to be willfully blind not to acknowledge that Islam is by far the most dangerous, evil, barbaric, retrograde, and toxic massive faith-based cult our world has to face. No argument there from me – we are in total agreement. Thirdly, i submit the underlying problem with Islam as with every FAITH-BASED religion is FAITH itself. Beliefs have consequences and religious, blind-faith beliefs have, as we see historically and presently, devastating and deadly consequences. To paraphrase the Noble Laureate Stephen Weinberg, “Good people do good things, evil people do evil things, but for a good people to do evil things… it takes religion.” The ONLY way well-educated, prosperous, psychologically stable men will fly planes at 500 miles an hour into buildings, kill others for apostasy, every horrible flavor of misogyny, enforce women to live in cloth bags, marry girls as young as 12 years old, create rape cultures, mutilate the genitals of girls and boys, subjugate and abuse/kill non-believers, freethinkers, and homosexuals, engage in endless beheadings, torture, enslavement, and on and on… is ONLY because these minds and hearts are so deeply corrupted by the faith-based truth claims written in ancient books they deem ‘holy’ and ‘sacred’. And why do they deem them true? Because the books themselves proclaim it so. How’s that for great logic? It’s like believing the adventures of Superman or Spiderman are true by the mere act of reading comic books. Criticizing and deeply analyzing these manuscripts and how they were cobbled together by ignorant, superstitious, unevolved men from the bronze-age is crucially important. Criticizing faith itself should no longer be taboo…. the future of our civilization depends on that kind of courageous inquiry. Lastly, every single devout Christian reading this knows exactly what it is like to be a freethinker/agnostic/atheist/skeptic because that is exactly their position is when it comes to viewing other faith-based religions/cults and their proclamations and dogmas. Turn that kind of inquiry on your own belief system with total intellectual and emotional honesty. It is beyond obvious that if any Christian here was born and raised in a Muslim country by devout Islamic parents and indoctrinated since birth then they would be filled with the certainty that Islam is the one true faith and all other faiths are false, incomplete, or illegitimate. What does that tell you? Ponder all this deeply my friends.
Linda Rivera says
Rabid anti-Christian God Hater Western leaders want ONLY Muslims imported into our nations. Obama and European governments deported persecuted Christians back to their Muslim countries knowing they would be imprisoned and tortured.
tim gallagher says
It is appalling that this Muslim violence against Christians in Africa doesn’t get far more attention from the western media. What strikes me as being insane is the way that our western politicians and media types and so many average citizens keep thinking that it is somehow a good idea to keep letting Muslims, with this same vicious Muslim supremacist philosophy that is on display in Africa, into our western nations. It seems that nothing can wake some dopes up, nothing can make them face up to unpalatable truths about Islam’s true nature.