Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after the latest attacks on Christian villages and churches. The media have described these events as ‘riots’; we would call this a jihadi pogrom. It is but the latest episode in what the media persist in characterising as inter-ethnic violence, but which is in fact a systematic attempt by Muslims to murder and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. The onslaught is falsely described as ‘retaliation ‘ for imagined previous violent attacks. But these attacks on churches and Christians have been going on for years. The Christians haven't yet retaliated.
The fact that the jihad in Africa is widely ignored in the west is not just a moral dereliction of duty. It is a refusal by the west to understand what it is actually up against. What is happening to Nigeria’s Christians makes a mockery of the frenzied western obsession with Israel. To understand the real cause of global tumult we should look carefully at Africa, and the appalling suffering of those upholding the religion that underpins the western world.
We can
look how the animistic tribes of Central Africa, Kenya, Tanzania,
Ghana, Mauritania and Nigeria fell prey to the Jihadis. And how their
struggle continues even today in the conflicts of the Muslims and
Christians in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Somalia
and between the Arabized Northern Sudanese with the Christian Dinka
tribesmen of Southern Sudan and the Muslim but non-Arabized,
darker-skinned tribesmen of Darfur who were forcibly converted to
Islam late in the 18th century Areadi Gaya, the non-Muslim ruler of
Futa Bandu State in West Sudan was forced to embrace Islam after he
was defeated by the Mamelukes of Egypt.
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