“The terror group has caused over 50,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.” Tell me more about how someone said something “Islamophobic” to someone in a supermarket. “BREAKING: Nigerian Soldiers Foil Boko Haram Attack On ‘Repentant Terrorists’ Rehabilitation Camp In Borno,” Sahara Reporters, November 19, 2021 (thanks to […]
Nigeria: Muslims block road, kidnap Christian travelers, let the Muslims go on their way
This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, while releasing six others who could recite them. In Mali, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” took hostages, freeing those who […]
Nigeria: Jihad group top dog Abubakar Shekau kills himself when cornered by rival jihadis
Shekau’s rivals described him as “the big troublemaker, persecutor and destructive leader of the nation.” Why? They objected to Shekau’s “indiscriminate targeting of Muslim civilians and use of women suicide bombers.” But jihad massacres of non-Muslims? They had no problem with that. “Boko Haram leader ‘kills self’ in fight with rival jihadists,” AFP, June 6, […]
Nigeria: Muslims seek out and murder two Christians and two Muslims they didn’t think were Islamic enough
When jihadis kill fellow Muslims, Western analysts use the murders to argue that the jihadis aren’t really Islamic at all. The Islamic State West Africa Province, however, offers a different explanation for why it kills Muslims: “We are fighting unbelievers; Christians and any other person or group going against the teaching of Islam even if […]
Seven years after Nigerian government first declared them defeated, Islamic jihadis murder 30 soldiers
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is the faction of the Boko Haram jihad group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS. The Nigerian government has repeatedly boasted that it has defeated Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, or was just about to do so. It vowed to […]
Nigeria: Muslim group overruns town, forcing government troops and several hundred residents to flee
When the jihadis can make the troops flee, it is clear which side has the upper hand and is winning the war. “Residents flee Islamist insurgent attack on town in northeast Nigeria,” Reuters, January 17, 2021: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Government troops and several hundred residents have been forced to flee after Islamist insurgents overran […]
Nigeria: Muslims force five men to kneel and say ‘I am a Christian’ before murdering them
Christians in Nigeria are victimized on a near-daily basis now, while the international media remains completely indifferent. Muslim perpetrators and Christian victims? That doesn’t fit their narrative. “ISWAP Terrorists Execute Five Christians in Nigeria, Video Shows,” Morning Star News, December 31, 2020: JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist terrorists who kidnapped 11 Christians […]
Nigeria: Muslims enter Christian village, start shooting, murder 12 people, kidnap women and children
If the international media took any notice of this at all, which they will not do because it doesn’t fit their global narrative of Christian oppressors and Muslim victims, it would take the form of hand-wringing articles about “Islamophobia” in Nigeria. “Islamist Militants Kill, Kidnap Christians in Northeast Nigeria,” Morning Star News, November 4, 2020: […]
Impunity in Nigeria: Islamic State releases gruesome video showing their murder of a soldier and a police officer
The Nigerian government has repeatedly boasted that it has defeated Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, or was just about to do so. It vowed to defeat Boko Haram by the end of 2014. And by the end of 2015. In mid-2017 it called the movement a […]
Nigeria: Muslims murder 20 soldiers, destroy 750 homes, make nearly 1,000 homeless in jihad attack on town
No one will care. The world’s “human rights” organizations will be too busy with their latest conference on “Islamophobia.” “Islamic State group in Nigeria kills 20 soldiers, displaces 1,000 people,” Reuters, January 9, 2020: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – About 20 soldiers were killed and nearly 1,000 people made homeless in a militant attack on a town […]