The New York Times carried no report about this jihad massacre. Nor did the Washington Post. Nor did CNN. This can’t be blamed on Israel, and it doesn’t affirm the media narrative of Muslim victimhood, and so it didn’t happen.
“As Christians Are Slaughtered, the World Looks Away,” by Madeleine Kearns, The Free Press, June 26, 2025:
It was a night of heavy rainfall in Yelwata, a town in central Nigeria. On Friday June 13, over 500 Christians—many of them women and children—gathered together in temporary shelters in the town’s Market Square. Most of them had fled their homes across the region, hoping to find greater protection in Yelwata from a spate of recent attacks in which Islamist terrorists have massacred Christians.
Earlier in the day, the town’s armed vigilantes and a few policemen had set off to investigate reports of terrorist activity nearby. But this turned out to be a diversion, according to Steven Kefas, a Nigerian journalist.
At around 10:30 p.m., he told me, a “killer squad” of Islamists descended on the town in a three-hour murderous rampage.
Father Ukuma Jonathan, the local parish priest, was in the presbytery with displaced Christians when they heard yells of “Allahu Akbar,” gunfire, and screams. Everyone immediately dropped to the floor, fearing for their lives, according to John Pontifex, head of press and public affairs at Aid to the Church in Need UK, who spoke to Father Jonathan the day after the attack.
The jihadists broke into homes and shelters, murdering people with machetes. They were “cutting them like they were cutting a cow or an animal to be eaten,” said Kefas, who visited Yelwata and interviewed around 30 survivors the week after the massacre. The terrorists then doused their victims’ bodies and homes in petrol and set them ablaze.
“It’s psychological,” said Kefas. “They could just shoot people and move on. So I feel going the extra length of butchering these people is to send a message to the survivors that: ‘Hey, look what we’ve done to these people. That’s what we’re going to do to you if you don’t vacate your land.’ ”
At this writing, the death toll is 218, but it could keep climbing as survivors continue to die from their injuries. Many bodies were burned beyond recognition. Photographs of the aftermath— shared with The Free Press—show charred human remains and buildings’ blood-stained floors and walls. Among the most disturbing images we reviewed showed the bodies of Christians hacked to death with machetes: The corpse of a boy, around 6 or 7 years old, lay flat on his back, his eyes wide open, his shirt covered in blood. His killer had left a giant gash across his face and head. His left hand was hanging loose at the joint; his right hand was severed completely….
As Western governments have turned away from the issue, so too has the mainstream media. “If 10 people are killed in Ukraine, it becomes a major headline across all the newspapers across the world. If 100 people are killed in Gaza, it becomes the major news item on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and co.,” said Kefas. By contrast, several of the Islamist attacks in Nigeria have never been reported by the mainstream media in the West; it has been left to the small Christian press to cover the story.
“Over 200 people were slaughtered. You can’t find it on CNN. CNN will not make it a topic. Al Jazeera will not make it a topic where you have guests coming to analyze this situation,” said Kefas.
His assessment was blunt: “The international community has failed these people.”…
somehistory says
More on this can be found
“Massacre of over 100 villagers in Christian area of Nigeria elicits response from president”
“With President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in attendance at a meeting in the state capital of Makurdi, the paramount ruler of the Tiv tribe, James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse, stated that attacks such as the June 13-14 massacre in Yelwata village were not the result of sectarian conflict.
“It’s not herders-farmers clashes, not communal clashes or reprisal attacks,” Ayatse said, according to outlet TruthNigeria. “It is a calculated, well-planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land-grabbing campaign by herder terrorists and bandits.””
“While some Muslim Fulani herdsmen still assert a claim on obsolete grazing routes of lands that have been owned for decades by predominantly Christian farmers, the cattlemen’s heavily armed assaults of the last several years on villages of largely weaponless farmers contradict the “herder-farmer clash” narrative still touted by Tinubu and Nigerian academics and parroted by officials of foreign governments and non-governmental organizations.
“Wrong diagnosis will always lead to wrong treatment: this is war,” Ayatse said, noting that for decades, herdsmen have launched unprovoked attacks on the largely defenseless Tiv and Idoma peoples.
While not visiting the devastated Yelwata people, Tinubu told security officials at the Benue Government House in Makurdi to “get those criminals out.”
“The suspected herdsmen in the Yelwata attack came from different directions at the same time, shooting sporadically, a resident told The Associated Press. They also destroyed a year’s worth of harvest of staple foods, he said.”
So the AP had the story. But did they report on it?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/massacre-of-over-100-villagers-in-christian-area-of-nigeria-elicits-response-from-president/ar-AA1HfeI4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7d3ba06d474146cc96a3b9b78e0fc485&ei=32
Tony Rice says
Where is the Pope, where is the Archbishop of Canterbury, useless pair, more concerned what individuals do in private consensually. Abdication of duty.
mike says
by the time the fake media, UN & nations around the world and speak up
it will be to late
the dragging on the worlds feet is by design
If the Nigeria’s Muslims ever are confronted and told to stop
The Muslims my just say ok because after the ethnic cleansing will have been completed
Rich says
This started decades ago, but has gained since the jihadist’ realized there was no downside to their ideology, as the western liberals and their covering media would not pay any attention to their slaughtering of any and all people that weren’t their flavor of Islam.
Bet your bottom dollar, if it were Christian’s slaughtering black Muslims, the leftist and their left media would do everything in their power to bring it to their outlets non stop 24/7, 365!
Black Christian’s, white Christian’s it doesn’t matter how many are murdered, and tens of thousands have been and continue to be murdered by the scum of the earth.
When will the western world realize we’ve been in a religious war that will never stop until one side is wiped out.
James Lincoln says
All the while, the mainstream media acts as if the slaughter is not even happening.
Pres. Trump needs to call this out – very publicly.
Rufolino says
You bet.
joanofark06 says
On his first term, Trump enjoyed an Iftar dinner inside the White House, with many of Trump’s favorite Muslim’s at the table.
Not only that, but Trump invited the Nigerian president (Buhari) on the White House lawn, to lavish praises on him.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-buhari-federal-republic-nigeria-joint-press-conference/
So no, the Snake poem read by Trump in his first term, is dead as dead can be. And I’ll be surprised if Trump would say a few words about this incident, but sadly I won’t be holding my breath.
Kevin Kraemer says
The Nigerian government is complicit to the ongoing slaughtering of Christians. They think that if they confront the evil of muhamadism it will create civil unrest. Well duh! The muhamadists have free reign knowing nothing will be done because of the cowardice of those supposedly in power. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely!
somehistory says
The government is run by the same scum….moz scums.
andy says
Islam is the only perpetrator of Genocide. Where are all the Christian leaders and Pope? 80 million Hindus have been killed in Indian subcontinent and many million Buddhists since 11 century. Most of the original people of Iran (Zorarastrians) were killed by Muslims. Some fled to India and prospering.
Patriot Concerned says
You think these people would arm themselves with all the killing these jihadis’ are causing.
OLD GUY says
Sadly gun control rules in most of these countries and or these people can’t afford them.