Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, has killed more people in the name of jihad than the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the findings of a new report. Since 2000, when twelve Northern Nigerian states began implementing or more fully enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, “between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians” have been killed. This is “a conservative estimate.”
In addition, “1.3 million Christians have become internally displaced or forced to relocate elsewhere,” and “13,000 churches have been closed or destroyed altogether.” Countless “thousands of Christian businesses, houses and other property have been destroyed.”
The report alludes to a number of other factors that connect the growth of the Nigerian jihad to the growth of the global jihad. The rise of anti-Christian, Islamic supremacism “did not emerge in Northern Nigeria until the 1980s, when Nigerian scholars and students returned from Arabic countries influenced by Wahhabi and Salafist teaching. Each year, thousands of West African Muslims get free scholarships to pursue their studies in the Sunni Arab countries; this has had a major impact on Nigerian culture.”
This “major impact” is not limited to Nigeria. Saudi Arabia annually spends over $100 billion disseminating “Wahhabi and Salafist teaching”—or what growing numbers of Muslims refer to as “true Islam”—including through European and American mosques. Behind the radicalization of ISIS, Boko Haram, and Lone Wolf jihadis stand America’s best Muslim friends and allies.
Another important finding from the report is that, “Not just radical Islam, Boko Haram being the most notable example, but also Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen and the Northern Muslim political and religious elite are also major actors of targeted violence towards the Christian minority.”
Most recently, on March 2, Nigerian human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe sent an email saying: “I arrived Nigeria a few days ago to investigate what appears to be the worst massacre by Muslim [Hausa-Fulani] herdsmen… Over 500 Christian villagers were slain in one night.” Similarly, according to a West African source, “Once Boko Haram is defeated, the problem will not be solved. Christians living under Sharia law are facing discrimination and marginalization and have limited to no access to federal rights.”
The report finally finds that much of the anti-Christian violence derives from the historical “migration of Muslims into non-Muslim territories in northern Nigeria to promote the Islamic religious and missionary agenda in all parts of northern Nigeria.” In other words, what Christians in Nigeria are experiencing is a live snapshot of what millions of Christians and other non-Muslims have experienced since the seventh century, when Islam “migrated” to their borders: violence, persecution, enslavement, and the destruction of churches.
All of these findings contradict the Obama Administration’s official narrative concerning the unrest in Nigeria. For years, the administration refused to list Boko Haram — which has slaughtered more Christians and “apostates” than even ISIS — as a terrorist organization. It finally did so in November 2013, after several years of pressure from lawmakers, human rights activists, and lobbyists.
Even so, the Obama Administration refuses to associate Boko Haram — an organization that defines itself in purely Islamic terms — with Islam, just as it refuses to associate the Islamic State with Islam. Although Boko Haram and its allies have yet to miss a year when they do not bomb or burn several churches during Christmas or Easter celebrations, on Easter Day, 2012, after the organization had murdered 39 Christian worshippers, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said: “I want to take this opportunity to stress one key point and that is that religion is not driving extremist violence” in the Muslim-majority north.
So what is? The administration attributes to Boko Haram the same motivation it attributes to the Islamic State — or as President Bill Clinton once memorably put it in a reference to Boko Haram’s murder campaign: “inequality” and “poverty” are “what’s fueling all this stuff.”
That assessment is similar to the Obama Administration’s claim that “a lack of opportunity for jobs” is what created ISIS; or CIA John Brennan’s claim that the global jihad is “fed a lot of times by, you know, political repression, by economic, you know, disenfranchisement, by, you know, lack of education and ignorance, so there — there are a number of phenomena right now that I think are fueling the fires of, you know, this ideology.”
Appeasing the jihadis has been the administration’s policy, or in the words of Clinton’s advice to the Nigerian government: “[I]t is almost impossible to cure a problem based on violence with violence.” Countless decapitated Christian heads later, when Nigerian forces killed 30 Boko Haram members in a particularly strong offensive carried out in May 2013, Reuters reported that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “issued a strongly worded statement” to the Nigerian president: “We are … deeply concerned,” he said, “by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko Haram.
In the final analysis, Christian life in Muslim-majority areas of Nigeria is merely a microcosm of Christian life in Muslim-majority nations around the world. Christians are being persecuted and killed, their churches banned, burned or bombed. Thanks to Saudi petrodollars, the men behind the persecution are almost always “influenced by Wahhabi and Salafist teaching,” and include not just “extremists,” but also the “political and religious elite.” In all cases, the Obama Administration looks the other way, while insisting that the jihad is a product of “inequality,” “poverty” and “a lack of opportunity for jobs” — never of Islamic teaching.
‘“We are … deeply concerned,” he said, “by credible allegations that
Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations,
which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko
Haram.’
An example of the willful, blind stupidity that permeates every corner of the west and of America in particular. And these idiots believe they’re the smartest people on the planet. As part of an administration elected by the people……twice………the latter are equally to blame for this gross incompetence. The belief that this back handed support for these barbaric, murderous “freedom fighters” will result in a diminution of the atrocities, is convoluted, intellectual wishful thinking in the extreme. As long as this kind of thinking holds sway the genocide the west chooses to reject and ignore will only get much worse.
This is rooted in malignant cowardice. The feckless western leadership know, deep down in their gut, that they’ve nothing to fear from the persecuted victims and everything to fear from these Islamic butchers. It’s the classic reaction of the mob who join forces with the bully to curry favor and avoid becoming the target of his irrational. psychopathic rage. It’s going on fifteen years after 9/11 and the motivation and nature of an enemy growing stronger and spreading like a plague around the world remains immune from any criticism which has been so effectively classified as hateful, racist, Islamophobic speech that few dare to even utter the word, Muslim, in any context even remotely connected to terrorism.
It is not all of America who walk blindly behind those who coddle Islam, but the Liberal Democrates alone. The rest of the American People can clearly see what is fact and what is not, what is our greatest danger and what is not. Our Greatest danger has been sitting in the POTUS seat for two years. From there he has appointed Muslim Brotherhood Members into our highest ranking government positions, from there, he and his miniums are making it possiboe for Islam to form a caliphate….Its name is ISIS. It is NOT all of America, the greater number of those that oppose the Liberal Democratic Mindset are deemed “Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists, Terrorists, Christian Extreemists” . I call them…AMERICANs.
The guy sitting in the oval office has been there for 7 going on 8 years. He was a flawed candidate well before his election in 2008 with enough skeletons in his closet that a complicit media would have used to destroy the candidacy and reputation of any republican or conservative running for president.
The majority of Americans who voted for the 1st “Black,” “hope and change” candidate may be excused for being the victims of a media con job of massive proportions but what could be the excuse for a majority of the electorate voting for him in 2012 after the con became evident during his 1st term. Draw your own conclusions. Let’s be kind and call it ignorance rather than stupidity.
In all other respects I’m with you 100%.
He also managed to get Goodluck Jonathan voted out as Nigeria’s Christian president who was accused of incompetence by Obama and Kerry after they refused to give Nigeria military aid and intelligence on Boko Haram’s troop movements and hideouts. Jonathan was replaced by a devout, Muslim who once took over Nigeria in a military coup, and managed to win the election for president after Obama made sure Johnathan was blamed for his refusal to help Nigeria defeat Boko Haram. Read my long post above for more details of Obama’s cockroach behavior, his refusal to help Christians who are being slaughtered in all 56 Islamic nations, and his never ending attempts to divide Jerusalem and destroy the Jewish nation of Israel or even blame the Islamic terrorists who are stabbing and running over Israeli Jews in daily terror attacks.
Jesus Christ said it would happen and told us why (it was the way He was treated due to the hatred of Him and the Truth He spoke and it would be the same for those who try to live their lives by His commandments), but it sure is hard to read about.
To read of the slaughter and destruction of the most peaceful of people on earth by the most violent, vile, evil adherents of the satanic cult of islam makes the heart hurt. One cannot expect that the *rulers* of the governments would care, as Jesus said they would not, but it still is painful to see that they do nothing to help.
One of the worst aspects is that they actually *help* the murderers…with weapons, with support, with their words of excuse to condone what is being done. And to lie and say it is not because those being killed are of a different religion, but the murderers don’t have jobs. Going so far as to condemn any action to put an end to the slaughter by rounding up or killing the murderers.
All of this is not going unnoticed by our Sovereign Lord Jehovah and His Son to Whom He has given all authority to destroy those enemies of His children on earth. We must continue to pray fervently, daily, for Him to do His will on earth, to bring His Kingdom, to put a final and complete end to the evil being done.
Prayerfully, yet honestly, said, Waiting! Thank you!
Jesus is also weeping, both for His raped, labour-/sex-enlaved and murdered, Sisters and Brothers all around the world …not just in Africa and the Middle East.
But our Messiah is also weeping because of the prayerlessness of we, momentarily, safe and secure Christians from this demonically induced horror which has been refuelled, post Ottoman Turks Islamic Caliphate, after only about 100 years in the last 1,400!
Obama, Clinton & Kerry think they will be remembered in posterity for their ‘tolerance’ of Muslims. Instead, they’ll be remembered as weak, much like Chamberlain and the American isolationists during WWII are.
The only “Islamophobes” are the braindead cuckolds who bend over backwards to please Islam.
Remember when the President of Nigeria begged for help re Boko Harams horrific actions against the people of Nigeria? Remember the Young woman and her father came to America and pled for help from the Government to please Stop Boko Harams assult on the people? And their help…was not to he found. Remember also, when Obama threatened to sanction The Nigerian President if he continued to insist Boko Haram be placed on the Terrorist List? Then twitter made it impossible to hide the facts…”bring back our girls” when viral…Ms Barry Hussein Soretoro aka Obama, had to take some sort of action, sh held up a sign, the extent of the help offered against Boko Haram. Now Obama says theres no Christian persecution in the Middle East…..hes near the end of his term…no need to play the role of Black American Christian anymore. TRUE COLORS SHOWING , blatantly
Liberals, being Marxists, see everything from an economic, not a religious, viewpoint.
That IS their “religion.” So to them muslims can’t be dangerous because of general religious doctrines which tell them to hate infidels because their god does, it must be because of specific economic grievances. They ignore that islam was created by rich Muhammad to further enrich himself at everyone else’s expense, and is still perpetrated. And it’s based on Moe’s crime-excusing alibi that god wanted him to commit his crimes!
yes JESUS siad it would be so but HE didn’t say that the so-called Christian would stand by and look without doing a thing other than sitting on it’s hands
298 human beings with my last name, all relatives either close or distant, but still my family, are listed among the three million Jews who have been identified and verified as murdered victims of the Holocaust, along with millions of other non-Jews who died for their religion, their politics, their sexual identity, their social group or national origin. Gays, priests, intellectuals, pacifists, Roma people who are insultingly still called gypsies, Polish laborers, the physically handicapped, the mentally disturbed, and the learning disabled, were systematically exterminated along with six million Jews.
Many Jews are offended when anyone dares to use the Holocaust as an example, but this devout Jew who follows Torah based Judaism must tell it like it is. The lies and propaganda from Barack Hussein Obama and his minions, and their absolute refusal to help almost every single non-Muslim refugee from the Middle East and Muslim Majority nati of Africa and Asia is so totally evil that it is reaching an equivalence to Hitler’s propaganda against the Jews blaming them for Germany’s downfall after starting and losing the First World War or the Inquisitors of the Roman Catholic Church blaming Jews for poisoning the wells to cause the Black Plague or using the blood of murdered Christian babies to make Passover MATZOH.
Like the six million Jewish victims of Hitler, who represented two thirds of Europe’s entire Jewish population, the Millions of Christians living in the world’s 56 Islamic nations are living in constant fear, barely a notch above slave status, beaten and robbed, refused the right to vote, hold office, teach, practice law or medicine, and sentenced to death without evidence for insulting Islam or Mohammad.
Like the Jews of Europe, Millions of Christians living in Islamic nations are murdered or forced to flee their homes without a penny to run for their lives from Islamic jihadi groups like ISIS and Boko Haram. Like the Jews of Europe, the 56 Islamic nations deny the persecution of Christians even exists, and when there is an incident that is documented and undeniable involving the persecution of Christians, the excuses range from false accusations of a Christian raping a Muslim child to Christians tearing pages out of Islamic Holy Books for toilet paper and even spying for Israel to destroy Islam.
And like Hitler and his pals in the Nazi party, Obama refuses to discuss the Christian genocide in the Islamic world, and he spent the first 7 years of his presidency refusing to call the persecution of Christians genocide. His horse face, rich wife marrying Secretary of State Kerry not only refused to add Boko Haram to the list of terrorist groups, but he also warned the Nigerian Christian President not to violate the human rights of the terrorists who have butchered over 10,000 people and burned hundreds of Churches to the ground. Not only did Obama refuse to give Nigeria badly needed military equipment to fight Boko Haram, he refused to even share intelligence with the Nigerian military on Boko Haram’s movements. Then he blamed Nigeria’s Christian President for the failure to stop Boko Haram, which resulted in a Muslim politician who once took control of Nigeria as the head of a military coup to steal the election and become president of Nigeria and put Nigeria’s 80 million Christians back under a government led by political thugs who are doping everything they can to put all 160 million Nigerians under strict Sharia law.
Obama is flooding America with hundreds of thousands of Muslims including many from the Middle East controlled by ISIS who are completely unvetted while refusing to allow Christian refugees from the same areas to seek shelter in America. Last month, Obama approved over 1000 Emergency Visas for Syrian Muslims, and only four for Syrian Christians.
As a result, I am forced to say for the first time ever, the lies and propaganda from Obama about Christian refugees has reached the level of the nazi propaganda against the Jewish people of Europe from Herr Hitler and his rodent pals. Good job Obama. You have finally made it to the top of the list of history’s vilest racist bigot and hater of non-Muslims. I hope you enjoy explaining your behavior to HaShem when you finally stand before him to be judged. I am sure you will live a long, well-protected life at the expense of hard-working merican taxpayers, but even if you live past 100, no one lives forever. HaShem will have the final word on your life, and it would be to sign your praises, you cockroach.