Six million dead. Ten million enslaved. Twenty-five million displaced. The raging genocide hiding in plain sight — and why you’ve never heard of it.
They say the winners write the history books.
What if the Nazis had won?
The Holocaust would be a vague conspiracy theory — denied, spun, suppressed, purged from the media. Anyone who raised it would be marginalized, branded a fringe lunatic. Israel wouldn’t exist. The Middle East would be under total Islamic domination. And eventually, America would be fighting Nazis on the homefront.
We don’t have to guess what that world looks like. There’s a real example today — chillingly parallel, hiding in plain sight.
Nigeria. An ongoing genocide possibly more bloody than the Holocaust.
Before I go further — the point of that comparison is not to rank the dead. Six million souls is six million souls. The difference is that in Europe, the right side won and wrote the history books — so the world was forced to reckon with what happened. In Nigeria, the wrong side won. And the world is being told there’s nothing to reckon with.
Unlike the Holocaust, Nigerian Christians could in theory spare their lives by converting to Islam and joining the jihad. Hitler gave the Jews no such exit. But no human being should be forcibly converted under torture and death threats. What is happening in Nigeria has its own name, its own horror, and its own demand for the world’s attention. It is jihad. We must respond.
To understand what’s happening today, you first need to know about a place called Biafra. There’s a reason you’ve probably never heard of it. But you should.
Today’s Nigerian genocide did not emerge from chaos. It has a genesis — and from it a consistent ideology, tactics, bloodline, and throne that have never changed. Only adapted.
In 1804, a scholar named Usman dan Fodio led the Fulani — a nomadic Muslim tribe perhaps originally from the Sahara — in a declaration of holy war across West Africa. He built Africa’s largest pre-colonial empire on conquest, mass displacement, and enslavement. He called it the Sokoto Caliphate. Its spiritual authority over Nigeria’s Muslim north has never been broken — not by colonialism, not by independence, not by a constitution. The 20th Sultan sits on that throne today. Same institution. Same ideology. Same bloodline. Same ambitions, tactics, and tribe. Two hundred and twenty-two years and counting.
In 1914, Britain stitched together two incompatible worlds — the Christian south and the Caliphate north — into one colonial territory and named it Nigeria. Administrative convenience. When they granted independence in 1960, they handed the keys to the north and left.
What followed in the southeast — Biafra — was electric. Its people, the Igbo, are among the most remarkable on earth. Renowned for their entrepreneurism, hustle, and integrity. They carry an ancient tradition of descent from the lost tribes of Israel — working synagogues still serve their communities today. They are overwhelmingly Christian.
And they happened to be sitting on one of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves.
In the summer and fall of 1966, organized Islamic mobs killed thirty thousand Igbo across northern Nigeria in coordinated pogroms. On September 29th, the killing erupted simultaneously in at least a dozen cities — a coordination that required planning, not passion. Nearly half the dead were children.
The Igbo drew the only logical conclusion: this forced marriage to a bloodthirsty Caliphate simply wasn’t going to work. On May 30, 1967, after futilely trying to negotiate a structure for peaceful co-existence, Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra.
The Caliphate came with full jihad fury. When military assault couldn’t break them, it imposed a total blockade. They shot down Red Cross planes bringing food for starving children. A federal spokesman stated policy on the record: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war and we have every intention of using it.”
By 1969, more than a thousand children were dying every day. Time, Der Spiegel, the New York Times all ran the photographs. But the West was consumed — Vietnam, Woodstock — and a genocide of Black Africans simply didn’t break through. Britain kept arming the side doing the starving. Why? Igbo oil. Washington called it an internal affair. The UN stood down.
As many as three million dead. Mostly children. Mostly Christian. The world built museums for Hiroshima. It forgot Biafra existed.
On May 29, 1969, a 20-year-old Jewish American student named Bruce Mayrock — a graduate of Flatbush Yeshivah — set himself on fire on the lawn of the United Nations. His sign read: “You must stop the genocide — please save 9 million Biafrans.” He died the next day. No one listened.
Biafra surrendered in January 1970. Every Igbo bank account seized. Each survivor handed twenty pounds. Start over.
Now you know about Biafra. That chapter ended in 1970. The conquest didn’t.
For a brief moment beginning in 2010 — the year of my first of sixteen trips to Nigeria — an accidental Christian president named Goodluck Jonathan started pushing back. For the first time in living memory, the Caliphate’s machine was losing ground. The Obama administration, David Axelrod’s political firm, and the full machinery of Western diplomatic pressure colluded to remove him and install Muhammadu Buhari — former military dictator, open Sharia advocate, the man Boko Haram chose as their preferred government mediator.
Since 2009: 125,000 documented Christian deaths. 60,000 peaceful Muslims killed. Nearly 19,000 churches destroyed. Ten to twelve million displaced. I stood in Bokkos months after the 2023 Christmas Massacre and saw mountains of fresh dirt where illegal strip-mining operations had moved in behind the killing. The people erased. The machinery arrived.
The International Crisis Group calls it farmer-herder conflict. This narrative was crafted by a career Sharia propagandist funded by George Soros, promoted by Washington lobbyists, and adopted by every major Western outlet until it became the official story. Meanwhile, Salisu Shehu — the world’s leading boko haram scholar (literally, Western education is forbidden) — runs the federal agency controlling what fifty million Nigerian children are taught. The winners are literally writing the history books. Right now.
Jewish human rights scholar Charles Jacobs puts it simply: “What is happening to the Nigerian Christians is exactly what happened to the Jews living near Gaza — jihadists storming the innocent, murder, torture, people burned alive, kidnapped as slaves and sex slaves, all to the screams of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ Jihad is jihad, worldwide.”
A genocide is raging in Nigeria right now. Today. While you read this. And the world is being told it’s a weather problem.
Now you know better.
Tell someone.
The history books got it wrong. Let’s make it right.
Known popularly in Nigeria as The EarthShaker, Mike Arnold is the author of EPICENTER: Nigeria, Radical Islam, and the War for Global Order (#1 Amazon Bestseller) and founder of Africa Arise International, which operates Arise Academy schools serving more than 600 displaced children in IDP camps in Nigeria (letusriseafrica.org). He writes at mikearnold.org.
CryHavoc says
If I am called a bloodthirsty warmonger, so be it. Peace and trust will not win this conflict. The only thing nihilist Islamist understand is crushing force. the Nigerian Christians need to weapon up and deal with these assholes in their own coin.
somehistory says
One cannot “weapon up” when someone has stolen all resources, and holds a gun to the head.
Each Christian must decide for himself how he can attempt to defend himself and his family. Being told to “weapon up” and “deal,” is not the solution.
Taffy says
Even if they just weapon up sufficiently to shoot back, these jihadists, untrained as an organized army or militia, will flee as the first rerun fire ensues.
With no armed resistance, the jihadis just walk into a village or church and kill everyone at point blank. A group of rag Tah jihadis will fold as soon as the rerun fire starts.
Most of the Holocaust atrocities were documented by German photographers, but upon liberation of the camps, Eisenhower orders the military photographers to document everything so that the history books could never be rewritten claiming that the atrocities were an exaggeration or that they never happened.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Taffy.
My wife’s cousin is a Navy SEAL instructor.
He told me that there ARE ways to arm the Christians.
It’s just not being done…
Troybeam says
Before guns were made people knew of ways to protect themselves, nowadays people expect others to come in save them.
There are ways for the people to save themselves, they just don’t.
Stive says
Freedom costs a lot but if people win it’s worth it. I do not wish people to fight back to become bad inside also but to successfully separate needed violent action still preserving their humanity when all done. I’ve never seen reported Nigerian christians defending or fighting back. It seems odd. Be it Nigeria, Iran or anywhere, crude weapons can be made. The Russian bartender Molotov mixed a strong cocktail. Can even drop off he drink to thirsty IRGC down below. Even a squad of practiced bow and arrow people can do a lot. Human creativity is endless if there is enough will.
Wellington says
Here is a major difference between Islam and all other major religions of the world: Islam is a death cult and no other major religion of the world is. This is partially why (yes, there are certainly other reasons) the world would be almost infinitely better off if every Muslim woke up tomorrow a Christian, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist.
Islam is awful and it serves no good purpose on this tiny planet we all inhabit. I loathe it. And for the record, there is no Allah but if there is may this deity strike me dead tonight.
Be back tomorrow. Count on it.
Victoria says
Islam would have died out long ago and not gotten anywhere if it weren’t for London.
London is the problem. London has always been the problem.
Wellington says
I don’t think it’s that simple.
ploome says
and oil
]they are nothing without oil
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I agree, and it didn’t start w/ the present king. It dates back to the 19th century and the Crimean War as well as the Great Games. There would never have been a Pakistan had the Brits not dismantled the one Sikh kingdom that ever existed in Punjab. B/w the Marathas and the Sikhs, the entire subcontinent could have had the same levels of success that Ferdinand & Isabell’s Reconquista did in Iberia
The best thing to happen to Britain would be for them to split up, and England, Scotland and Wales all individually and separately fighting the mohammedan infiltrators in their midst. Oh, and for this to happen, England should not be the successor state to Britain the way Russia was to the Soviet Union or Serbia was to Yugoslavia
gravenimage says
The claim that Jihad terror is “London” is mistaken.
Andrew says
I have no doubt there are some good muslims in the world. That said, the would likely be a far better place if…take your pick…100mm 500mm,a billion muslims were dead.
Victoria says
The “right side” did NOT win WWII. They merely hid their ties/control of the Nazis and changed their tactics.
Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner says
It is my understanding that that the Nazi-Arab alliance who WAS allowed to continue and strenghthen and presents itself today mainly as the self-prolcaimed “Palestinian” lie of land rights to Israel.
gravenimage says
The idea that all would be well if only Hitler were able to wipe out all the Jews and continue his love affair with Islam is utterly perverse.
somehistory says
Some of us here, did indeed know some of this. Some may have known more than others here.
Knowing it, and being able to stop it are worlds apart.
bo, the criminal muzzie he is, wants the entire earth to be ruled by those like him. The snake helped the murderers in so very many places while he pretended to be president and further pretending to be Christian, though doing a better job of the first and wickedly deficient on the latter.
Christ Jesus warned His followers of the persecution, “even to death,” which would come. He explained the world’s hatred for Himself and His children as the reason for the persecution and murders.
He said, “You will be hailed before kings and governors.”
Those “kings and governors” are increasingly muzzie.
Just as the article makes clear, there is no one with any political power actually willing to step forward and try to put an end…or even make a dent….in this demonic business of theft and murder.
What Christians understand is that Jesus Christ is the One Who will put an end to it. No, He has not brought that end as yet. And Christians, unlike non-Christians, understand *why* He has not done so yet. But, Christians continue to have faith that He will keep His promises and they hold that faith in all circumstances. It’s that and the hope He encouraged, that keeps them True to their ability to keep going no matter what.
ploome says
not to worry
helps on the way
el Papa and heads of many Proteatant Churches are getting ready to send a strongly worded letter to the muslim hoards.
that’s the ticket….should stop the slaughter
abu taleb says
It is not only un Nigeria, but also in many other African countries and Middle East countries.
Stive says
When I was young, Biafra woke me up to the evils that were current. As an American Israeli Jew in Christ, I have a huge hatred of Britain. Britain did many good things but their evils are greater. The jews suffering the last 2 centuries is mostly Britain’s fault.same with 3rd world nations horrors caused by Britain. Enablers are as guilty as the hands on doers. The man that hires the hitman is just as guilty. When I studied the history of disease in the west and the vaccines introduced only after the diseases were going away from better sanitation I saw another embedded side story of what life was like then. When Britain was at the height of empire and pillaging the world while preaching the gospel as they mass murdered, like British mass murder of Sudan christians and more people’s, Britain at height of empire was a miserable poor sickly country inside on their island. Their own people did not benefit from empire when Britain invaded Afghanistan and Malaysia, hindus and christians were the majority and when Britain left, moslems were the majority.
I look forward to the demise if Britain. Britain will then need a denuked operation.
Please, divine justice, may Britain die. I’m not cold as good brits I know and ones I don’t know, I wish them safe exit from their cursed island.
Wellington says
Calling for the death of Britain is not in any manner going to help the survival of the West. Quite the opposite in fact. Surprise you don’t know this but you don’t.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
Stive says
Not calling for anything but happy with how divine judgement seems to be going. A free Iran is worth a lot more to total humanity than Britain.
Edward Brennan says
Islam must be destroyed, before it destroys us.
It won’t be easy, but we have no choice.
Future generations depend on us.
Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner says
There is another Genocide that is going on now and being hidden – again involving Jihad, oil and western complicity. I refer to the Yezidi Nation – who identiy as the 7000 year old Monotheist indigenous People of what is now called Iraq, Turkey and other Middle Eastern countires. I implore you to write about it.
Sister Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner
volunteer for Yezidi Human Rights – International and co-founder of Canadian Jews and Friends for Yezidi
gravenimage says
Also true.
OLD GUY says
With no doubt a lot of blood will be shed. Islam is a domination that will spread the blood shed of non-islamic people while cheering at their success.
The answer, stop recognizing islam as a religion and recognize it for what to is, the enemy of all non-islamic followers who they will enslave and murder with NO thought. Islamic leaders have declared war on us 1400 years ago, and are carrying out that power play today across the world.
the only thing that will stop islam is their blood shed and kicking their asses back 1400 years.
Alkflaeda says
It occurs to me that, if the Igbo are indeed descended from the lost tribes of Israel, then an alliance with Israel would make a lot of sense. I am not suggesting that they should move to Israel because their numbers would change the world’s only Jewish nation into a Christian country – but Israeli technology and weaponry would be a great help, not least because the North’s excuse that their lands are becoming desert might be remedied by Israeli irrigation techniques. The Fulani would still invade and brutalise those they encountered, of course – they just wouldn’t be able to claim climate as a reason.
somehistory says
The “lost tribes of Israel” is very much misunderstood.
James, the brother of Jesus wrote, “1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.”
Twelve tribes. None “lost.”
After Solomon died, ten of the tribes separated from the two who stayed with Solomon’s son Rehoboam as king. so there were two Kingdoms…the two tribe of Judah, and the ten of Israel.
Some groups of Black people believe they are the “lost tribes.”
When the Temple and City were destroyed by Titus in 70 C.E. all records of who was born into which tribe were lost. But the “tribes” were not.
Kepha says
Islam is genocidal, and excited Adolf Hitler’s admiration.
My prayers are for the Christians from Sudan westwards to Guinea–and of course for those facing the horrors of Nigeria.
gravenimage says
Today’s Hidden Holocaust
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Important piece from Mike Arnold–thank you. I am always shocked at how many have never heard of the genocide of Christians in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.