While the US House “voted for legislation to monitor and combat Islamophobia globally,” and Canada is about to appoint a Special Representative on combatting Islamophobia, who is monitoring the abuses committed by Muslims globally in the name of Islam?
The massive tally of abuses against Christians in Nigeria, religious minorities and dissidents in Iran, and others in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere, are all being ignored. Likewise, jihadists in the Palestinian territories who are stabbing and blowing up Israelis are also mostly ignored. All while a microscope is being used to try to find incidents judged to be “Islamophobic” in the West.
According to David Curry, the CEO of the Christian Aid group Open Doors, “Northern Nigeria is really the epicenter of jihadi violence right now.”
“Exclusive – Aid Group: Nigeria the World’s ‘Epicenter of Jihadi Violence,’ Army Sending Unarmed Soldiers to Fight,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, January 21, 2022:
Islamist violence against Christians in Nigeria – a country estimated to be about half Christian – has reached catastrophic levels and places the country at risk of being home to a new Islamic State-style caliphate, David Curry, the CEO of the Christian Aid group Open Doors, told Breitbart News in an interview this week.
Open Doors released its annual World Watch List, an in-depth ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian, on Wednesday. Nigeria earned the list’s number seven ranking, up two spots from the year before. Open Doors classifies persecution in Nigeria as “extreme.”
The increase in Christian persecution in Nigeria is particularly notable this year given the decision by the administration of President Joe Biden to remove the country from the State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom in November. Supporters of the move make the case that the violence against Christians in the country occurs at the hands of two major jihadist groups, the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram and Fulani Muslim terrorists, and not directly from the Nigerian government. In conversation on Wednesday, however, Curry observed that the Nigerian government has done “almost nothing” to protect Christians in the country.
“Northern Nigeria is really the epicenter of jihadi violence right now,” Curry told Breitbart News. “There’s a band across the African continent, it’s called the Sahel region. It includes northern Nigeria but it goes over into Cameroon, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger. All of these countries are seeing a giant jump [in anti-Christian violence] because of Boko Haram, which is an ISIS-affiliated group, and the Fulani.”
Bodies of Christian massacred by the ‘mainly Muslim’ Fulani lie in a mass grave after 500 Christians were slaughtered in a 3-hour orgy of violence against Christian villages in northern Nigeria in 2010.
Bodies of Christian massacred by the ‘mainly Muslim’ Fulani lie in a mass grave after 500 Christians were slaughtered in a 3-hour orgy of violence against Christian villages in northern Nigeria in 2010.Curry’s assessment echoes what President Muhammadu Buhari has himself said of the country.
“Africa is the new frontline of global militancy,” Buhari wrote in a column for the Financial Times last year, proposing that the solution to the problem should come at the hands of the West.
Curry explained that the major increase in jihadist violence against Christians in the country began in 2014 – the year Boko Haram made international headlines by abducting nearly 300 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, a town in northern Nigeria’s Borno state. As of the seventh anniversary of the kidnappings last year, over 100 of the victims remain missing.
At the time, Boko Haram was a local jihadist group known for attacking schools and opposing the secular education of girls in particular. Boko Haram has since adopted the formal name “Islamic State West Africa Province” (ISWAP) and pledged allegiance to ISIS. The Nigerian government has used the name change to falsely claim victory over “Boko Haram” and blame all subsequent Boko Haram attacks on “ISWAP.”
In the years after the Chibok kidnappings, groups of Fulani herdsman terrorists have increased attacks on Christian communities in northern Nigeria, raiding known Christian communities and massacring their populations.
“While all citizens of northern Nigeria are subject to threats and violence, Christians are often specifically targeted because of their faith — ISWAP and Boko Haram want to eliminate the Christian presence in Nigeria, and Muslim Fulani militants attack Christian villages specifically,” Open Doors’ World Watch List details. “In addition to the violence risks, Christians in some of Nigeria’s northern states also live under Shariah law, where they face discrimination and treatment as second-class citizens. Christians who convert from Islam also face rejection from their families, often pressured to recant their faith in Jesus; sometimes, they are even violently attacked.”
“The government, which is run by President Buhari who is himself historically from the Fulani tribe, have done almost nothing as nearly 5,000 people were killed for their faith this year alone, and millions of others displaced,” Curry explained. “You have thousands of kids who are kidnapped, young girls, out of school. Over a thousand kids this year alone. So you can imagine if we had 1000 young girls kidnapped out of American schools, people would be going nuts.”
Curry lamented that Buhari has offered no meaningful defense support to affected communities.
“They’re sending the Nigerian military into the north of the country without weapons, without bullets, without the sorts of things that a civil society needs to protect against major armed Islamic terrorists,” Curry asserted.
“In many cases, they’re unarmed or they send them with guns without the bullets to fight them. And these terrorists have weapons, they’ve been funded,” Curry said. The result, he concluded, is that the soldiers simply refuse to fight, giving the terrorists freedom to attack.
“That is how this has continued to grow and it will, if left unchecked, continue to become a caliphate much like ISIS had in Iraq and Syria a few years ago,” he predicted.
mortimer says
At least 2,000 Nigerian Christians are being murdered by Muslim terrorists every year and their homes, churches and buildings are being destroyed. The object of the Muslims is to ethnically cleanse north-eastern Nigeria of all Christians and to make a Sharia-compliant region of Muslims only.
Islam is losing millions of adherents every year throughout Africa. Africans know that. But Nigeria is the site of the biggest Muslim backlash to this hemorrhaging.
Islam is losing and everyone knows it. This ethnic cleansing is being permitted by jihadists within the Nigerian police and government. They could stop it if they wished.
Rafael says
The America that told Ottoman Empire that it was representing the biggest Christian nation no longer exists. They only turn a blind eye to the current genocides of African and Middle Eastern Christians which is documented to supported by the fascistic and racistic Turkish State. If America does not defend Christians, then other countries should defend them, say Brazil, the second biggest Christian country.
I deeply know how Middle Eastern Christians suffer from these evil ideological combination of Islamofascism, Islamoracism, Islamoterrorism. It is clear that both America and Canada abandoned Christians to their own fate at the hands of blood thirsty creatures that ever existed since the beggining of humanity.
gravenimage says
I’m not sure we should get involved in other wars in Dar-al-Islam. But we *should* cut aid for nations involved in presecuting Christians, as well as give fleeing Christians and other Infidels asylum.
tunde says
I have a question for anyone willing to help me. What is the best and most effective way to begin speaking out against Islam and the jihad that ensues from it? I had (and still do have) a YouTube channel with over 2K subs, but I work full time now and finding the time and energy to record and edit can be exhausting. But when I read posts like this, it makes my blood boil and want to begin speaking out again.
gravenimage says
Depends what you want to do, Tunde. You can find what others are doing, make a study of them, and then see what you can bring to the fight against Jihad.
You can find some good anti-Jihad work on YouTube from those like David Wood and apostate prophet. There are others.
David Wood’s work is to my mind particularly effective. Here are some:
https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/davidwood
He often works with Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch.
Please keep in mind that YouTube has been known for shutting down opposition to Jihad. Procede with caution. And good luck! We need more people in the Counter Jihad!
I’m sure others here have more advice.
gravenimage says
Nigeria described as world ‘epicenter of jihadi violence,’ Christian persecution at ‘catastrophic levels’
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How many in the West even know about the Jihad genocide against Christians? Too few.
OLD GUY says
The Muslim/Islamic migration invasion will bring this violence and hate to a neighborhood near you vary shortly. Thanks Lets-Go-Brandon. Odds are we already have thousands of these islamic terrorist already in America, and it won’t take long for them to go into action against all non-islamic citizens.
ceres says
A Nigerian friend said he was returning to Nigeria to die as muslims would murder him. He said his village had been nice to muslims but they kept coming and then slaughtered 40 and stole , raped…These evil black muslims think they are doing allah’s will and they are killing so all the religion is allah’s but they will not be rewarded as black people are abeed, slaves, the lowest whether muslim or not. Islam is a white, arab supremacist ideology as mohammad is described in hadith as white while black people..
Tirmidhi hadith 38 Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Allah created Adam when He had to create him and He struck his right shoulder and there emitted from it white offspring as if they were white ants. He struck his left shoulder and there emitted from it THE BLACK OFFSPRINGS as if they were charcoal. He then said (to those who had been emitted) from the right (shoulder): For Paradise and I do not mind. Then He said to those (who had been emitted) from his left shoulder: They are for HELL and I do not mind. Transmitted by Ahmad. (ALIM CDROM)
“Abu Darda’ reported God’s messenger as saying, “God created Adam when He created him and struck his right shoulder and brought forth his offspring white like small ants. And he struck his left shoulder and brought forth his offspring BLACK as though they were charcoal. Then He said to the party on his right said, ‘To paradise, and I do not care’, and He said to the party in his left shoulder ‘To hell, and I do not care’.” Ahmad transmitted it. (Mishkat Al Masabih (supposedly the improved version of Masabih al-Sunnah –a collection of sunnah) English translation with explanatory notes by Dr. James Robson [Sh. Muhammad Ahsraf Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters, Lahore-Pakistan, Reprint 1990], Volume I, Chapter IV, Book I.- Faith, pp. 31-32 (see http://www.answering-islam.org/Index/B/blackskin.html)