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The David Horowitz Freedom Center spent a lot of time bringing attention to the Muslim genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Before his death, Charlie Kirk spread our work around, and the Trump administration fortunately listened. And yet it also unfortunately adapted a false narrative in which the tremendous genocide of Christians was just the work of the local Al Qaeda. And that’s simply not true. These are the broader work of the local Muslim ‘Fulani’ population.
This excellent account captures some of what’s really going on.
Driving through the vast, scorched landscape, I hear the words that have followed me all day. ‘They roasted the pastor and his wife alive in the church. We heard their screams.’
Bricks lie scattered in the scrub. Concrete blocks jut from the earth like jagged teeth. Roofs have collapsed inward.
And then come the churches.
Burned-out shell after burned-out shell. Crosses broken. Windows blown through. One has been gutted by fire, another reduced to rubble.
It’s as though someone has tried to erase every visible sign of Christianity from this land.
For more than two decades, this stretch of Nigeria’s Middle Belt – the faultline where the largely Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south – has convulsed in recurring waves of bloodshed…
In the face of all this, calling the violence here merely a ‘farmer–herder conflict’, as government officials try to do, begins to sound like a diplomatic euphemism. It’s true that land is in high demand and grazing routes are contested. But that explanation alone feels inadequate when you witness for yourself the ruins of so many churches – and hear the stories of so many slaughtered Christians.
We arrive in the village of Gwet, parking by a collection of abandoned houses, destroyed fields and another ruined church. In truth, we’re not exactly welcome. The people who committed these atrocities – Muslim Fulani herdsmen – can be seen in the distance: the new, unchallenged masters of this once devoutly Christian area.
Yes, Boko Haram attacks and kills Christians, but much like ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Hamas in Israel, or the Al Qaeda regime in Syria, t’s just the tip of the spear for the larger genocidal campaign by a Sunni Muslim group against another population.
The pattern has been identical across the years and locations. Night raids. Armed, baying men descending on sleeping Christian communities. Houses torched; men, women and children cut down or slaughtered in their beds; churches set ablaze. By dawn, whole settlements are smoking ruins.
‘Jonas’ is 29 years old. He cradles his metal machete like a comfort blanket. ‘For firewood,’ he says, ‘but also’, he adds, looking at the Fulani in the distance, ‘for protection.’ We stand in the blackened remains of his family home. This is the first time he’s dared to come back since May 16, 2023: the day his world was destroyed.
He starts to remember. Early that morning, Fulani families had been seen nearby gathering cattle and belongings, moving in unusually large numbers. Within hours they stormed his village screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and calling the Christians living there infidels. They fired into homes, chased families out and burned everything they could. They were methodical in their savagery. ‘We were terrified,’ he tells me. ‘We ran and hid in the bush and then fled.’
Ten people once lived in his home: his parents, wife and younger brothers. They were farmers. Now the Fulani cattle graze the family’s field beyond their ruined church.
‘The churches are always their main target,’ he says. It is an attack at the heart of their faith…
In 48 blood-spattered hours between December 23 and Christmas Day, mobs attacked at least 17 rural communities in the Plateau areas of Bokkos and Barkin Ladi, murdering at least 200 and injuring 500 more. Although no group claimed responsibility, residents insist it was the Fulani.
They also insist the date was deliberate. In the days before the attacks, warnings had circulated: ‘Be careful how you celebrate Christmas – or you may not celebrate at all.’
There’s plenty more there and I encourage you to read all of it, but the bottom line is to remember this is not just ‘Al Qaeda’.
This is a genocidal campaign by a Muslim population against a Christian population. This is how Islam expands. Its borders are always red because they bleed with the blood of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and all non-Muslims.
It’s not just a matter of tracking down a few terrorists, it’s about facing the reality that this is what Islam is.
And it’s not just at work in Nigeria or in Africa, it’s at work in Europe and America.
The Muslims want to be the only(False)region on Earth and burn all the Christian Churches and replace them with their False Temples of their False Gods Allah/Muhamed
Trump is very bold on many subjects, but he seems unwilling to state the horrific truth about Islam. There are some courageous souls in Texas and Oklahoma who are daring to take a firm stand against the spread of Islam in their states. Nigeria would make a great ‘Exhibit A’ in enlightening our country to how barbaric, dangerous, and anti-American, Islam is. If only we had more courageous voices at the highest levels.
I know that. part of the world, and had some Fulani friends when I lived there. They didn’t strike me as religious as much as tribal, by which I mean they identified as belonging to one group and they readily identified out-group people as “others;’ This was recognizable by the language they spoke, and possibly lighter skin complexion, but you had to be there to see it.
And I don’t recall many mosques, or minarets, or muezzin calls to prayer, or seeing people engaged in prayer. It was more of a group identification, as people in the USA might identify as NY Yankees fans, or Rotarians, or Chevy drivers — it’s an identification that is in the background but doesn’t drive you to kill your neighbor. Until it does, as it has in northern Nigeria.
The same scourge has come to the Central African Republic, where I lived for five years. Little strong religious identification there until the Wagner Group arrived to “protect’ the government and led the country to chaos that gradually devolved into Muslim vs. non-Muslim warfare. That was after my time. When I was there I don’t remember any such violence or struggle, although admittedly I lived in the southern part of the country, where Islam hardly existed.
I have often wondered what blew up the Muslim violence all over the Sahel. Certainly there were factions allied with ISIS that engaged in violence, but it’s hard to understand why then when they had coexisted for generations before..
Young generations flare up, ignited by fanatical rabble-rousers who exploit their ignorance. The pattern reoccurs in political, social and religious contexts, but now the internet fans the flames.
Fulani, Boko Haram, the Nigerian President. They’re all in on the jihad genocide of Christians.
President Trump has reportedly sent 200 military advisors to Nigeria to “address” the jihad genocide. What an impotent waste of resources, manpower and money. They won’t accomplish anything at all. Only drones and missiles would be effective, as in Iran, Syria, and the Gaza Strip.
After 80 years of idiotic foreign policies, it’s obvious that the powers that be in America don’t learn from continuous failure.
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for bringing this story forward.
Many people have and still suffer “ethnic cleansing.” Genocide is and always has been us. The globalist proposition known as the “rules based international order” is helpless to do anything about it. Hard power will always call the tune and everyone will dance. Until we come to grips with that ugly truth, there is no remedy. God alone raises up nations and determines their times and boundaries. May He have mercy upon us.
“God alone raises up nations…”
That was true in “time past;” mostly it centered around His program with Israel. Nations like Assyria, Baby.on, Egypt.
God is just not working nations today. His message today is to individuals. The message of “reconciliation.”
“…God…hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” 2 Cor. 5:19.
We’re in the dispensation of the grace of God, Eph. 3. Nations will factor in again when the prophetic program resumes.
“May He have mercy upon us.”
He already has. He will spare the believer in Christ today, from “the wrath to come.”
“…delivered us from the wrath to come.” 1 Thess. 1:10.
It’s likely to work as well in Africa as it did in the ME. Christians unfortunately don’t seem to have it in them to get it together to understand what is going on.
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(kjv)
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” (niv)
This is a prophesy and a curse ad we’re living it!
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(kjv)
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” (niv)
This is a prophesy and a curse and we’re living it!
There is no peace with these people. It’s in their DNA, it’s in their culture, it’s in their creed and it’s in their satanic religion.
They lust after the power of oppression and bloodshed.
There is no detente with myzzlymz – there is no spiritual wisdom. Their premise is false and they have spun the lie to hostility and bloodshed for centuries.
This has been the curse of humanity and it’s high time intel from all nations form to put a stop to it globally!