Because the world reels from the years of Biden’s ineptitude and incompetence in dealing with world occasions, having infected the Russia-Ukraine battle, mishandled varied different crises inflicting untold loss of life and devastation in distinction to President Trump’s years of world peace from 2017-2021, critics level out that Biden’s administration has turned a totally blind eye to the continuing genocide of Christians in Nigeria the place a reported 100,000 have been brutally murdered.
Nigeria: A number of Christians had been just lately killed when Fulani Islamists attacked them in Bokkos, Plateau State. Right here, the our bodies of Celina Daniel (37), who was pregnant, and her 5-year-old daughter Juana are loaded for burial. Their family members grieve. They need assistance and prayers. pic.twitter.com/rVqgMbBs40
— Christian Emergency Alliance (@ChristianEmerg1) April 20, 2024
Muslims hacked no less than 8,000 Nigerian Christians to loss of life final yr. Reviews say the previous yr have been one of many deadliest lately. Christians signify 46% of Nigeria’s inhabitants. Based on the Christian Submit, Nigeria is the deadliest place on this planet to comply with Christ.
Final month, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, together with Senators Braun (R-IN) and Rubio (R-FL) despatched a letter to the Biden State Division demanding an evidence for his or her inaction on this humanitarian disaster, noting that the State Division might higher use accessible diplomatic instruments to battle the continuing genocide.
Stated Senator Hawley: “It’s essential to not stand idly by whereas Nigerian Christians proceed to be murdered for his or her religion. We urge you to right away use the instruments at your disposal and re-designate Nigeria as a Nation of Specific Concern. We’ll proceed to conduct oversight and maintain the Biden Administration accountable till you fulfill your obligation underneath the legislation.”
In February, left-wing leaders and the European Union tried to shift blame for the Christian persecutions from Muslims to ‘local weather change’ as having triggered ‘tensions.’
The killings over the previous yr are a part of a long-standing battle in opposition to Christians, courting again to 2009 when Boko Haram began its murderous marketing campaign in Africa’s most populous nation.
Map of Jihadist Massacres in Nigeria(2009 – 2020)
Their predominant goal…Christians pic.twitter.com/Ze1o2JmV3u
— 𝑽 𝒊 𝒔 𝒊 𝒐 𝒏 🇻🇮 (@VisionsVizionz) April 25, 2024
A Catholic non-profit, Worldwide Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Legislation (Intersociety), has complained that the media silence on this ongoing atrocity has made it a ‘silent genocide in opposition to Christians.’
The battle has been happening for years, the UN condemned the state of affairs final yr. Different nonprofits have claimed this persecution in opposition to Christians and different minority teams has been happening for many years.
Former Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX), who was thought of for an Ambassadorship within the Trump Administration and spent years on the International Affairs Committee within the U.S. Home, stated this to the Gateway Pundit concerning the layered dimensions of the disaster in Nigeria and the left-wing response to bizarrely blame all of it on world warming:
“One purpose for this genocide is that the unconventional Muslims hate and wish to rid Nigeria of Christians, as proven within the 299 murdered over Christmas 2023 in Plateau State. A second purpose is that the corruption seeps into the best ranks of generals, and so forth., who steal and don’t defend the Christians. A 3rd purpose appears to be that completely different components of Nigeria, akin to Plateau State, are wealthy in minerals and the Fulani Muslim militants wish to take these sources for themselves. But the U.S. authorities and the U.N. excuse plenty of these murders and land grabbing, saying it’s all from ‘local weather change.’”
The battle, specialists say, worsened after Muslim leaders took over Nigeria.
Democrat consultants to Barack Obama have been closely concerned in Nigerian elections. Obama advisor David Axlerod helped Muslim Muhammadu Buhari defeat then-President and Christian Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. President Jonathan was suggested in that election by a completely different Democrat advisor, Joe Trippi.
Goodluck had gained the Presidency in 2011 in opposition to Buhari by a margin of 59% to 32%. In 2015, Goodluck misplaced the rematch to Buhari by a vote of 45%-54%. Later research indicated irregularities within the election the place votes in areas supporting Goodluck might have been suppressed by being invalidated at a better than regular charge.
Final yr the UK Guardian claimed that worldwide spies and brokers with connections to the State Division and Cambridge Analytica had interfered within the 2015 Nigerian Presidential election, however on behalf of the Christian President Goodluck Jonathan.
Reviews additionally declare that tens of 1000’s of properties, 18,500+ Christian locations of worship, 1000 non secular shrines and a pair of,500 Christian schooling facilities have been destroyed. Over 59,000 sq. kilometers of land that belonged to native Christians and non-Muslims had been taken over and their inhabitants expelled.
Nigeria has 218.5 million inhabitants, the African nation is situated on the Gulf of Guinea.
Some on Twitter have tried to politicize the Nigerian Christian genocide by subtly contrasting it with the struggling of Palestinian civilians as a part of present Israeli operations in opposition to Hamas within the wake of the October seventh terrorism. Israel suffered 1,200 casualties from Hamas on October seventh, and an estimated 34,000 Palestinians have died since Israel responded with army operations in opposition to Hamas. One commenter demanded to know why conservative commentator Candace Owens has not stated extra concerning the Nigerian genocide, and others used it to disgrace Christian pastors who converse out for Palestinians whereas remaining silent on the struggling in Nigeria.
Former Congressman Stockman stated, “This genocide was funded with State Division {dollars} that went into the 2015 election, as a result of Obama’s deep state didn’t desire a Christian chief of a significant African nation. Obama’s legacy after meddling in Nigerian elections is a mountain of useless black Christians.”
Messages left with the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington, DC went unanswered.
