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“Nigeria has fully become a killing field of defenseless Christians”: Muslims murder 350 in first months of 2020

Mar 17, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The world yawns, and turns to the next report about “Islamophobia.”

“350 Nigerian Christians killed in first 2 months of 2020: NGO report,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, March 11, 2020:

A Nigerian civil society organization claims that no fewer than 350 Christians have been killed across the West African country since the start of 2020 and estimates that about 11,500 Christians have been killed since 2015.

“Nigeria has fully become a killing field of defenseless Christians,” the Anambra-based nongovernmental organization International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) said this week in a new special report, titled “Nigeria: A Killing Field Of Defenseless Christians.”

“Available statistics have shown that between 11,500 and 12,000 Christian deaths were recorded in the past 57 months or since June 2015 when the present central government of Nigeria came on board. Out of this figure, Jihadist Fulani herdsmen accounted for 7,400 Christian deaths, Boko Haram 4,000 and the ‘Highway Bandits’ 150-200.”

The organization, which is headed by Christian criminologist Emeka Umeagbalasi, has monitored violence against Christians in Nigeria since 2010 through a team of criminologists, lawyers, journalists, security, and peace and conflict studies graduates.

Nigeria has been marred by violence in the last decade-plus due to the rise of extremist organizations in the northeast like Boko Haram and its splinter group, the Islamic State’s West Africa Province.

In recent years, massacres carried out by radicalized Fulani herders against predominantly Christian farming villages in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have also driven communities from their homes.

Additionally, bandit gangs have been responsible for carrying out kidnappings along some major highways.

The United Nations estimates that about 2 million people have been internally displaced across Nigeria and 11 million people in need of assistance. An additional 550,000 are said to be displaced in neighboring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

“While 100 percent of the victims of Jihadist Herdsmen attacks across Nigeria are Christians, the estimated 4,000 Christians killed by Boko Haram were part of the estimated 6,000 [people in total] massacred by the sect since June 2015,” the report explains.

“Generally, many, if not most of the victims of Boko Haram/ISWAP attacks in Nigeria’s Northeast are Christians. On the part of ‘Bandits/Highway Kidnappers’ in Northern Nigeria, most of their rural victims are Muslims while many, if not most, of their roadside victims are Christians traveling to northern or southern parts of the country using the Birnin-Gwari Federal Road, near Kaduna, etc.”

For its monitoring and documentation, Intersociety relies on what it deems to be credible local and foreign media reports, government accounts, international rights groups, eyewitness accounts and reports from various Christian bodies in the country.

Intersociety reports that Fulani herdsmen accounted for 250 of the 350 deaths recorded in January and February 2020 while Boko Haram and highway bandit gangs are responsible for 100 deaths.

In the past two months, Intersociety reports that radical Fulani militants have carried out attacks in Nasarawa, Adamawa and Edo in addition to some other locations throughout the country.

Last year, Intersociety reported that no fewer than 2,400 Christians were killed by Fulani radicals in 2018. In 2019, according to the group, between 1,000 to 1,200 Christians were killed by Fulani attackers.

While reports have indicated an increase in deadly Boko Haram attacks beginning in December 2019, Intersociety noted that Boko Haram attacks targeting Christians since January 2020 intensified in Borno, Adamawa and Taraba States.

“[The attacks are] claiming between 50 and 70 Christian lives and loss of churches and other buildings belonging to Christians,” the report explains, adding that Boko Haram was responsible for killing at least 1,000 citizens in 2019….

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  1. Ray Jarman says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 2:04 pm

    All the while, the press in the west just sleeps or worse defends these subhuman creatures while innocent Christian mostly farmers are slaughtered on a daily basis. Not even Fox or Newsmax air reports of these massacres.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 4:09 am

      Between 1,000 and 2,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by Muslims every year in the last 25 years. Do the math.

      If 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims had been persecuted to death by Western Christians, would there be an outcry, do you think?

      • Stephen James says

        Mar 18, 2020 at 8:59 am

        Last I checked Christians don’t just go around senselessly murdering Muslims. Collateral damage from a war is much different. But you also have to ask why predominately Muslim nations are always at war.

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 8:41 pm

      10 die from Corona 19 and it makes national news, yet CULT murders 350 NADA,,,

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    TRANSLATIONS
    “radicalised” ….”extremist” ….”jihadist” = observant hardline muslim.

    As Lt.-Col. Allen West confirms, “these people are doing exactly what this book says”.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 17, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      Absolutely correct translations. Rabid adherents of their filthy book of demonic evil.

  3. LoveWest says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Thank you Robert for the awareness. That is how it is in our daily lives Nigeria.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 17, 2020 at 7:17 pm

      Be safe, LoveWest. Some of us here both know and care.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 17, 2020 at 11:01 pm

      “Stand firm against the machinations of the devil.” Those who “endure to the end, will be saved,” says our Master, Jesus Christ.
      You are not forgotten.

    • Constance West says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 6:50 pm

      This American family’s heart is with you, LoveWest. We would love to have you here!

  4. James Lincoln says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    Perhaps what needs to be developed is a 24/7 cable news channel 100% devoted to exposing jihad terror.

    Something to counter the mainstream media’s reporting or selective non-reporting…

    • Ray Jarman says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 2:20 pm

      I certainly would be inclined to support such a network.

  5. Dude says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    I certainly didn’t hear about that on CNN. It can’t be true. Must be Slamofobia.The religion of peace would never do that.

    Now why would CNN not report such sensational news stories? Have they been commandeered by Jazeera? I guess Trump was right all along and all the news outlets were dead wrong, so now they need to hide their naivety.

    It’s all getting so tiring. I can only laugh or totally destroy Slam with a couple paragraphs. As Robert always says when he’s ready to give up: “What could possibly go wrong?” Then he explains what hell is doomed to happen. Then it does.

  6. black adder says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    Why don’t we hear anything on the news?

  7. Ade Fegan says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    And the left just bitches about Christchurch

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    “Nigeria has fully become a killing field of defenseless Christians”: Muslims murder 350 in first months of 2020
    ………………………..

    Just horrifying. Yet most in the West have no idea what is going on there.

  9. somehistory says

    Mar 17, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Jesus said that the “world hated Him,” and would “hate” His disciples too. He warned of persecution because of this hatred, even to the point of the haters murdering His followers, His “brothers.”

    The “world” is made up of those alienated from our Creator, God, and His Son, Christ Jesus. That “world” of people don’t care what happens to Christians, because they don’t care one iota about Christ or His Father.

    In fact, because that “world” is ruled by satan the devil, it is actually pleased at the destruction and murders. Naturally, that “world” will not complain or try to stop what moslims are doing.

    Those who do care, who show kindness and help toward Chris’t “brothers,” will gain a large reward. (Matthew 25)

  10. OLD GUY says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    Islam tis the “religion” of love and peace, muslims are killing people trying to prove it.

  11. King says

    Mar 19, 2020 at 12:14 am

    Thank you Mr. Spencer for this great piece. Christians in Nigeria are facing unprecedented persecution and violence. Since the former military head of state and ex-dictator – Mohammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, the attacks and assaults on Christian and Jewish communities have escalated to a disturbing and horrendous level. Christians in Nigerian have become victims of premeditated harassment, assaults, kidnappings, torture and extra judicial murders at the hands of a radical Islamic terror groups such as Boko haram, ISIS of West Africa (ISWA), Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), Fulani herdsmen, Myetti Allah, and Nigeria military and security forces who rather than take measures to protect vulnerable and harmless citizens have become complicity. The ultimate aim of the radical Sunni Fulani caliphate is to Islamize and fulanize Nigeria. If nothing is done by global powers and the church quickly, Christianity will be history in Nigeria in few years.

  12. Clifford Fodor says

    Mar 19, 2020 at 1:37 am

    Why isn’t Trump concerned? He claims to be Christian. Doesn’t he care that 350 of his Christian brothers and sisters have been murdered in Nigeria?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 1:10 am

      Trump has actually offered aid and training to Nigeria to safeguard Christians. The problem is that the Nigerian government is Muslim and will do nothing.

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