There hasn’t been much news of the jihad in Nigeria lately, but this is not because things have calmed down. The Nigerian media, apparently under pressure from the government, has begun to imitate the Western media. Instead of noting that these attacks were carried out by “Fulani herdsmen” or “Boko Haram,” which would indicate that they were jihad attacks, Nigerian media outlets have begun referring to the attackers solely as “bandits” or “gunmen,” without giving any hint of their ideology or goals. This removes the jihad in Nigeria, which is advancing aggressively, from the international consciousness, and allows it to continue unimpeded without fear of any international pressure to protect the victims.
“Terrorists Kill 37 Christians in Benue State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, July 21, 2023:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (July 16) killed six Christians in Benue state, Nigeria, the latest of 37 Christians slain the past three weeks in the state, sources said.
The assailants arrived on motorcycles at the predominantly Christian villages of Igba-Ukyor and Tse Baka villages, Ushongo County, at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, said Ushongo resident Bemgba Iortyom.
“The terrorists, who accompanied armed herdsmen, first attacked Igba-Ukyor village, where they killed five Christians, and then proceeded to a second village, Tse Baka, where they killed one Christian,” Iortyom told Morning Star News in a text message.
Two other predominantly Christian communities were attacked in Ukum County on July 8, resulting in the massacre of 30 Christians, area residents said. Zaki Akpuuna and Diom villages were attacked at 11 a.m., said Kartyo Tyoumbur, the Ukum council chairman.
“The band of terrorists was made up of about 20 who were armed with deadly weapons,” Tyoumbur told Morning Star News. “They burned down several houses. Thirty corpses of Christians killed were recovered, while searching for missing Christians is ongoing.”
Saying victims were members of the Universal Reformed Christian Church (NKST) and the Roman Catholic Church, he identified some of the slain in Zaki Akpuuna as Kator Terwase, Aondowase Kator, Albert Tsavnongo, Mbaalumunga Felix, Terzungwe Kartyo, Hangeior Agudu, Terkimbi Umough, Ushahemba Akerchi, Friday Ezekiel, Terwase Mkoholga, Ayu Ageva Vaakaa, John Ikpor, Bem Shima, Vanger Kwaghkaa, Shaagee Tyokaa, Mfedoo Mamfe, Koholga Sase, Iorlumun Dai, Kwaghmande Mngueorga, Msugh Terwase, Ngutor Oraduen, Iortange Uye and Aker Orgema.
On June 30 in Tse Anwhwan village, Logo County, one Christian was killed and two others wounded in an ambush at about 8 p.m., said Council Chairperson Salome Tor.
“The armed men ambushed and opened fire on the victims and murdered one Mr. Saater Apera, a member of the NKST church, and also shot and injured two other Christians,” Tor told Morning Star News. “The incident was reported to the police, and the corpse of the murdered Christian was recovered, while the two injured victims were taken to the hospital for treatment.”…
Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report. It also led the world in Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons. As in the previous year, Nigeria had the second most church attacks and internally displaced people.
In the 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria jumped to sixth place, its highest ranking ever, from No. 7 the previous year.
“Militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and others conduct raids on Christian communities, killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping for ransom or sexual slavery,” the WWL report noted. “This year has also seen this violence spill over into the Christian-majority south of the nation… Nigeria’s government continues to deny this is religious persecution, so violations of Christians’ rights are carried out with impunity.”
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 2020 report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP 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.
Walter Sieruk says
About those vicious Muslim in the nation of Nigeria who murder 37 Christians . They aren’t really going to get away with their killing of those Christians. As the apostle, Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
Wasim says
You are complaining about 37 murders of Christian women. Here is the truth you CANNOT deny.
You seem to forget that Christian Armies have already killed 32 million unarmed Muslim children, women and men only in the 21st century so far:
https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/
Christian Armies continue to kill more than 1 million unarmed Muslim children, women and men every year. That will add another 77 million murders in the proud list of Muslim killers by the end of the 21st century.
Killing even one innocent person is NOT acceptable in Islam. Anyone who commits that crime deserves a death penalty by the Islamic Sharia Law.
But you have no consideration for the more than 100 million Muslim children, women and men that the Christian Armies are going to be killed just in the 21st century.
The US Armed Forces actually ran out of ammunition during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They had to order billions of new bullets so that they could continue killing Muslims.
You are still trying to prove that killing 37 Christian women makes it a genocide.
MD Anthony says
What Natiion has Christian Armies?
Gyomza says
You present fake figures so as to further bury an already dead conscience and to justify the greatest evil presently on earth
marc says
@Wasim shares a pack of lies, then labels it “Holocaust”.
You can read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
somehistory says
mozlus are taught hate and hurt….kidnap, steal, rape, and murder.
The psychopaths among them are gleeful to carry out these commands from their fake prophet….kidnap, steal, rape and murder.
And this happens every day in nigeria where the government is made up of mozlums who are gleeful to see these commands obeyed.
And then the mozlums in other places claim that no such murderous campaign is happening….likely gleefully celebrating it at the same time.
Media is other places play along and say it’s a “conflict” as if the Christians are using guns, machetes, motorcycles, etc. to slaughter mozlums.