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On Friday, October 31, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social the momentous announcement that he is taking action to end the ongoing massacre of Nigerian Christians at the hands of the ruthless terror group Boko Haram and other jihadists:
Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” — But that is the least of it.
He went on to say that “something must be done!” and declared that he has asked for an investigation and report on the crisis from Rep. Riley Moore and Chairman Tom Cole of the House Appropriations Committee. “The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries,” Trump continued. “We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!”
The following day, Trump added this warning:
If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!
War Secretary Pete Hegseth chimed in on X:
Yes sir. The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately. The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
Bravo. The literal genocide in Nigeria (as opposed to the fabricated Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians) being perpetrated by unchecked jihad is particularly egregious and barbaric. The worldwide holy war Islam is waging against Jews and Christians must be countered and crushed.
The administration of Joe Biden (or Kamala Harris, had she won in 2024) would never have taken action like Trump’s, because Democrats don’t care about the genocide of Christians, who are the most persecuted religious group in the world. This is partly because the Left is godless and partly because the slaughter of Christians cannot be politically weaponized to further the progressive agenda.
As my Freedom Center colleague Daniel Greenfield has noted, Trump’s announcement came shortly after the late Charlie Kirk, whose recent assassination continues to be celebrated and mocked by the demonic Left, retweeted a Freedom Center article drawing attention to the Nigerian genocide.
Last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) too sounded the alarm:
Officials in Nigeria are ignoring and even facilitating the mass murder of Christians by Islamist jihadists. It’s time to hold those responsible accountable. My Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act would target these officials with powerful sanctions and other tools.
In a rare celebrity departure from Trump Derangement Syndrome, rap superstar Nicki Minaj took to her nearly 28 million followers on X to praise and thank Trump and his team for “taking seriously” the “mass slaughter”:
Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.
No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.
Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice.
Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian. Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.
Bravo. It’s sad to say that such an innocuous statement from someone in the entertainment arena requires a certain courage to stand apart from the progressive mob, who wouldn’t praise Trump if he personally cured cancer, and who are far more agitated about the chimera of “Islamophobia” than the actual butchery of Christians, whether in Africa or in the Western world itself.
But Nikki Minaj’s moment as the Unlikely Voice of Reason was short-lived. In response to a Muslim fan who tweeted to the rapper that “Faith should unite, not divide us,” Minaj replied, “Exactly & there are ‘extremists’ in every religion.”
Well, yes, that statement is true in the most generic sense, but let’s get real, Nikki: nowhere in the world are Christians slaughtering Muslims, much less in the name of Jesus Christ. But everywhere in the Muslim world where Christians are a minority, they face – at best –dhimmitude, and – at worst – brutal eradication.
In a statement to Newsweek, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, denied that any genocide is taking place in Nigeria: “For the avoidance of any doubt, and out of respect for all the victims and survivors around the world of this unique and appalling crime against humanity, let the record show that there is no genocide, now or ever, in Nigeria.” Let the record show that this statement is demonstrably false.
Nigeria’s Muslim President Bola Ahmed Tinubu also denies any persecution against Christians in his country, having recently described that charge as “a lie from the pit of hell.”
The “pit of hell” better describes what the Christians of Nigeria have been living in under Muslim persecution since at least the early 2000s. Ending the jihad is long overdue, and thanks to Donald Trump, the Christian community there may be getting a helping hand out of that pit.
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Where is the Pope on the slaughtering of Christians. Probably getting his thirty pieces of silver from the Islamic Regime.
Don’t forget his prayer room for muslims in the Vatican. I wonder if he prays on his knees to Allah?
Eradication of radical Islam is what is needed – everywhere.
The only difference between Islam and “radical Islam” is that the “radicals” take Islam seriously and want established Sharia in Nigeria and all over the world while others do not.
Difference is radical
Musselmen want to kill you. Moderate musselmen want the radical musselman to kill you.
There is no such thing as “radical” islam. Even Erdogan scoffed at that and said, “there is only islam”.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria”
Why wait? Stop the aid now. Why are we even giving Nigeria so much aid to begin with?
Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide. Yet, the media is silent.
Oh, did someone finally notice that Boko Haram is killing Christians wholesale in Nigeria?
C’mon Trump…..wipe ’em out.
Nigeria today, home ground tomorrow. Get the message out.
It is a great sport of the Muslims to slaughter and torture Christians. President Trump’s strong stance on this will likely save many Christians from the blood thirsty Muslims. I know of some special ops that have been active to thwart Boca Haran’s constant brutality against Christians in the past. There is probably more going on behind the scenes especially since the president has highlighted this barbaric group.
What is needed is to cleanse the earth of these psychopathic degenerates. Thank God that our president is taking this matter to heart. He is probably the first president that will protect the slaughter of believers in Nigeria.
The Nigerian government is NOT capable of protecting Christians. It has NOT acknowledged for over twenty years that Christians are a key target of Islamic jihad, even though ISIS, Boko Haram and others have themselves said that Christians are targeted.
A lot of computer fraud and scamming originates in Nigeria. They don’t know how to police anything there.
🙏🙏🙏. Deus Volt 1098 AD
Liberals seemed to have forgotten but freedom of religion was one of the 4 freedoms that their hero FDR said we were fighting the WWII for. Finally someone is speaking out that the Nigerian govt. cannot ignore.
No foreign wars. No boots on the ground. No stupid interventions or wasteful sanctions.
Why? One: We cannot win a war when we cannot even name the enemy.
The enemy is Islam.
Attacking Boko Haram as though it’s a state actor that will fade away when it’s supply lines are degraded is about as practical as any ‘fight’ against a Muslim group.
That said, I have no problem with Trump threatening these murderers.
Cut their aid now. All of it. Tariff the hell out of them. Make Tinubu bend the knee.
And grease a few terrorists.
Send the message.
To the isolationists: The American Empire exists. So stuff yourself.
We can make it work for us, or let the Left use it against us.
What can I say?
If you don’t understand, see what happens tomorrow in NYC.
When we refuse to defend our civilization – and hand the keys to the kingdom to those who hate our living guts –
– we will get foreign enemy illiterates electing our domestic enemies to powerful positions in what was once our most powerful city.
Hello western civilization. You can ignore or distort Islamic genocide of Jews. Now try to ignore the murder of Christians. Boko is not even telling you that it’s the fault of their victims. It’s been a successful way to blind you to reality. But who gives a damn about Jews? The big secret is that Christians are on the menu as the entree right after the Jewish appetizer. It’s written in someone’s holy book.