Such stories come out of Nigeria with numbing regularity, but they don’t fit the narrative our moral superiors want us to accept, so they get little notice.
“Suspected Fulanis Kill 22 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, January 28, 2022:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Plateau state on Saturday (Jan. 22), after 18 Christians were slain in another area of the state on Jan. 11, sources said.
In the two attacks, eight other Christians were reported wounded, and in one village 24 homes were burned down.
The armed assailants ambushed Christians in Dong village, on the outskirts of Jos in Jos North County, on Saturday (Jan. 22) at about 6 p.m., killing four and wounding two others, area resident Rejoice Johnson said.
“Dong, our community, has constantly been attacked by armed Muslim Fulani terrorists in the recent past,” Johnson said. “We need your prayers.”
The unprovoked attacks led to protests on Sunday (Jan. 23). Fulani herdsmen also attacked the area in May, killing seven Christians.
“Dong village has served as a place of refuge for displaced Christians since 2017,” said Yil Gonsum, an aid worker in Jos. “In 2018, hundreds of displaced Christians from Miango District fled to Dong village seeking refuge, but now both the displaced and resident Christians have severally been attacked by the herdsmen.”
On Jan. 11 in Ancha village, in Miango District of Bassa County, suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked at midnight, killing 18 Christians, after having ambushed other Christians the previous day, said area resident Danjuma Auta.
Davidson Malison, a representative of the predominantly Christian Irigwe ethnic group, confirmed the Jan. 11 killings in a press statement, noting that six of those slain were children.
“The Rigwe ethnic nationality has been visited by yet another deadly and lethal attack by Fulani terrorists (as testified by victims that survived) in the early hours of 12 midnight of Jan. 11, at Ancha village,” said Malison, spokesman for the Irigwe Development Association. “The attack, which lasted for over two hours undistracted and unchecked, led to the killing of 18 Christians, with six other Christians injured, while over 24 households with over 100 residential rooms were razed down.”
Cars, motorcycles and harvested food crops also were destroyed and many valuables stolen, he said….
“Again, the perpetrators are not invisible and untouchable or ghosts but Muslim Fulani herdsmen who have been fingered to be behind these dastardly acts,” Malison said. “Therefore, if rule of law is to be strictly adhered to, then these herdsmen must be brought out instantly and be subjected to face the full wrath of law.”
Christians in Ancha and nearby areas also suffered attacks on Jan. 7, Dec. 31 and Dec. 25, he said, resulting in several deaths….
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a recent report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.
Michael Copeland says
“some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology”.
This is the view of the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Belief (APPG)
Memo to the APPG:
That “radical Islamist ideology” is Islam, ordinary true-to-the-source-texts Islam.
It is not something different.
Michael Copeland says
‘Jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols,’
Hassan al-Banna,
founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, in “The Way of Jihad”.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115hhrg31367/html/CHRG-115hhrg31367.htm
Second memo to APPG:
Jihad is an obligation in Islam
Robert Frankling says
This is a true genocide combined with ethnic cleansing. The Muslims in north-east Nigeria intend to create a Muslim-only country of their own.
James Lincoln says
Open Doors WORLD WATCH LIST REPORT 2021 THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS:
“Nigeria: the slaughter continues” page 15
https://media.opendoorsuk.org/document/pdf/WorldWatchListreport-2021.pdf
Kuffar says
Christians need to start fighting back in the manner of their adversaries. Ambush them and kill their herds. Kill enough and they will stop.
OLD GUY says
Islam and all the benefits coming to a neighborhood near you soon. Open borders to this ideology is going to results in a lot of pain and deaths in America that could have been avoided. Nothing good will come from allowing these people into our country. Islam is totally against diversity, women’s rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, LGBTQ, democracy and on and on. I guess if you want to be told what to do and when to do it islam may be for you, total domination is the islamic plan for your future.
ceres says
Islamic horror everywhere yet we are supposed to feel sorry for muslims and be charged with islamophobia if we dare tell the truth about islam.
Where are the Christians in the rest of the world..why aren’t they forming a solid group aiding the christians and other non-muslims in the islamic world who are trully suffering genocide?
Why don’t the Christians demand the UN, US, EU stop the slaughter by muslims but they say nothing and the western media just ignores it all to our utter shame!!!