Islamic Fulani militants attacked a Christian church last week, burning it to the ground resulting in the deaths of five Christians.
Shaken, but resolute in their faith, the congregation met in the ruins of the church to pray.
As Oil London wrote, ‘There is a real genocide happening right now in Nigeria. Yet the world remains silent. Christians are being persecuted and massacred by Islamists.’
Nigerian Christians are made of steel.
Islamists burned down their church. They showed up to worship in the burnt building. pic.twitter.com/p0Q2PtgE3e
— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) June 22, 2024
Genocide Watch says that 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered since 2000. These religiously-motivated killings have been undertaken by a range of Islamic groups including Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province, and the Fulani militias who are thought to be responsible for the most recent attack.
They also report that 23 three priests have been kidnapped in 2022 and in December of 2023, 140 Nigerian Christians were killed in multiple rural villages.
From Religion Unplugged:
‘Most of the victims [of these repeated attacks] are women and children who were unable to escape from invaders…’
The article adds a comment from The US Commission on International Religious Freedom:
‘This is particularly true in north-central Nigeria, where ethno-nationalist fighters affiliated with the predominantly Muslim Fulani community attack vulnerable Christian civilians with impunity.’
Statistics from the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law claim 14 million Christians have been forced to flee their homes in recent years. 2,300 Christian schools have been destroyed, and 18,000 churches destroyed.
More than 8,000 Nigerian Christians were killed in 2023.
‘The combined forces of government-protected Islamic Jihadists and the country’s Security Forces are directly and vicariously accountable for hacking to death in 2023 of no fewer than 8,222 defenceless Christians – covering a period of 13 months.’
The report adds, ‘Nigeria has become the second deadliest Genocide-Country in the world accounting for more than 150,000 religiously motivated defenceless civilian deaths since 2009.’
The global community likes to talk about displacement, refugees, and colonisation – yet says nothing about the 59,000 square kilometres of land occupied and owned by Christians and non-Muslims which has been forcibly acquired through murder and terror in Nigeria.
Christians are not allowed to be victims in the eyes of the virtuous West. It interferes with the carefully crafted neo-Marxist narrative of the evil Christian colonialists who must, by definition, always be the perpetrators. The ‘black and white’ ideology of young Western competitive virtue-signallers has no ability to explain the murder of black Christians in third-world nations. Nor, apparently, can it explain why so many impoverished people around the world are converting to Christianity as their spiritual salvation instead of accepting the cold embrace of revolutionary socialism.
If there is a genocide taking place against Christians, which there is, it means something is fundamentally wrong with the way our university class is taught to view the world.
To that end we ask, where are the university protests? Where is the outrage? Why aren’t we seeing ‘end the Christian genocide’ written on banners in our streets?
The lives and lands of Christians appear to be worth very little to the average child of privilege.
The explicit aim of these Islamic groups operating in Nigeria is to eradicate non-Muslims, steal their land, burn their churches, and kill anyone who refuses to convert. Added to the horror, the Muslim herdsmen attacking Christian farmers have been known to kidnap young Christian school girls to marry them off to Muslim men, fuelling a child-sex slave trade.
It is a genocide. An Islamic genocide against Christians. A ‘silent genocide’, according to those on the ground frustrated by the sheer disinterest from Western nations.
To my knowledge, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has not given any tearful addresses about Nigerian Christians to the camera or called on the international community to ‘do something’ to stop the genocide. We do not shower public money on these Christian communities who share far more with Australia spiritually than the anti-West Palestinians and their democratically elected terrorist regime, Hamas.
The Australian government is far more likely to give money to the Taliban than it is to help a Nigerian Christian community rebuild a church, and we certainly aren’t falling over to help Christian refugees. They go to the back of the queue behind repatriating ISIS brides.
The most dangerous countries to be a Christian in are, in order, North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and India. The Sudan is not far behind.
Countries where violence against Christians is of highest concern are: Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Cameroon, Central African Republic, India, Mali, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
When it comes to the destruction of Christian churches, the results may surprise, with China topping the list with an astonishing 3,088 churches either attacked or closed as of 2020.
Christianity is the fastest growing religion in China, and it is doing so in the shadows, forced underground by the Communist Party who are just as jealous and ruthless as the Islamic terror groups when it comes to killing off their ideological competition.
The Prime Minister has never said a cross word about Xi Jinping’s handling of Christians, yet the CCP has burned Bibles, shut churches, destroyed religious relics, and forced Christians to sign documents renouncing their faith. The CCP has forced families to take down images of Jesus and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and Xi Jinping.
It seems our government’s approach to persecution, suffering, and human rights violations has more to do with our potential trade deals than it does with basic morality. The West is no longer a beacon of moral principle, it is a consumer of third-world cheap labour and is suffering its own ideological crisis at the hands of creeping Marxism and fringe activism that hunts young children for radical causes.
Certainly, the Christian West is no friend to Christians in need.
