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More Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians have in Gaza.
Why isn’t the Left protesting?
This “Genocide” has been ongoing for Decades but is finally reaching the awareness of Americans
It will be interesting to see how BOTH sides respond to Trumps SUDDEN Threats to this Massive African Nation
The Leftoids have a problem …They are sworn to push back on everything Trump Does. There will be some on the right who will want Trump to stay out of the affairs of Foreign nations
However there are 237 Million people in Nigeria and 100 Million are Christians…They of course will be very Supportive on any assistance Americans can provide
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Jeff Childers has a piece on this issue today
SEE FIRST COMMENT
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In what might be the week’s best but least-appreciated news, Fox ran a story yesterday headlined, “Trump designates Nigeria as ‘country of particular concern’ over widespread Christian persecution, killings.” The sub-headline added, “Open Doors reports nearly 70% of Christians killed worldwide for their faith last year were in Nigeria.”
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Nigeria is Africa’s giant; a massive nation of dazzling contradictions. Stretching from the lush mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta to the sun-bleached dunes of the Sahel Desert, it hums with restless energy. Over 237 million people —the largest population on the continent— crowd its bustling cities and villages, speaking more than 500 languages and uneasily practicing Christianity, Islam, and weird ancient tribal faiths all alongside each other.
Lagos, Nigeria’s beating commercial heart, is a kinetic sprawl of glass towers, traffic jams, and entrepreneurial frenzy; the north, by contrast, is arid and austere, dotted with mosques and the lingering shadow of extremist insurgencies. Oil wealth gushes from its southern soils, yet much of the country remains poor, improvising, and defiant — a land perpetually on the edge of chaos and greatness, both blessed and burdened by off-the-charts political corruption and its natural abundance, which is perpetually just out of reach.
Top Nigerian exports include the aforementioned oil (Nigeria is Africa’s top oil producer), cashew nuts, limestone, gold, and emails from Nigerian princes seeking help from American seniors with small online problems and offering to speed up their computer.
Nigeria’s Christianization began in the 1800s, not by Europeans— but by Africans freed from slavery. It is now one of the most Christian nations on earth, with over 100 million believers, rivaling or surpassing U.S. numbers. Yet that same vibrant faith has made it a target: what began as salvation delivered by freedmen now faces persecution through homegrown terror.
For more than a decade, Nigeria’s Christian communities have been subjected to a brutal and persistent campaign of violence—burned-out villages, congregations cut down, kidnappings, and scores who simply vanish in the night raids. According to Newsweek’s count, an astonishing 125,000 Christians have been martyred in Nigeria since 2009. A UN report added that over two million more have been displaced, as Christians flee Nigeria’s tumultuous north.
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A recent Washington Post editorial called Nigerian Christians “the most persecuted religious group globally, yet are often invisible.” By ‘invisible,’ that means invisible to corporate media, and not in the Halloween, ‘invisible man’ sense, but in the sense that they studiously ignore the entire subject like it was an income tax bill they plan to claim they never received.
The main offender is the Islamic group Boko Haram. Its trademarks are terror and spectacle. In 2014, they kidnapped and enslaved 276 teenage schoolgirls in a single assault on a high-school dormitory. They often arm children —including girls as young as ten— as suicide bombers. They conduct night raids on Christian villages, where entire congregations disappear forever by dawn. They hold actual slave markets in captured territories in the murky badlands where Nigeria’s borders blur with Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.
The story is literally made for TV. But the media won’t touch it.
With global attention firmly planted on more sympathetic crises, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Ukraine, the Nigerian persecutions often go maddeningly unreported— or if reported at all, get footnoted in paragraph eighteen of mind-numbing foreign-desk copy. That is in spite of the fact of the staggering scale of Nigerian persecution. In many recent years, the number of Christians killed in Nigeria is “often more than in the rest of the world combined.”
Finally though, after decades of invisibility, social media has been spreading the story that corporate media refuses to cover. As recently as last month, Bill Maher blasted the lack of any protests about Islamic groups persecuting Nigerian Christians. It does make you wonder.
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CLIP: Bill Maher tells Nancy Mace, “if you don’t know about what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck” (0:44).
? Yesterday, President Trump entered the chat. He posted a strong message on Truth Social —now the official government newswire— and announced the legal designation of Nigeria as “a Country of Particular Concern.”
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Trump’s “particular concern” designation arises from the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA). IFRA is a federal statute requiring the State Department to identify governments that engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”
When a country meets that State Department standard, it becomes a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) — IFRA’s highest warning level. It’s not a symbolic gesture. It unlocks a specific menu of legal consequences, potential sanctions, and foreign-policy tools. The President’s CPC designation placed Nigeria in the unfortunate company of North Korea, China, and Iran.
When the U.S. previously designated Myanmar and Sudan as CPCs, sanctions and aid suspensions followed within months. Options include canceling foreign aid grants, banning travel, and freezing Nigerian assets, including goats. President Trump has asked Congressmen Riley Moore (R-W.V.) and Tom Cole (R-Ok.) to provide recommendations. Both men have long advocated for action. Representative Cole, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, tweeted yesterday that bills are already drafted and await only the end of the government shutdown.
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The official Nigerian government stubbornly denies that any religious genocide is happening. Like Diddy, they seem to be quibbling over Boko Haram’s motives, not denying that Christians are being murdered in droves. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, told Newsweek yesterday, “For the avoidance of any doubt, and out of respect for all the victims and survivors around the world of this unique and appalling crimes against humanity, let the record show that there is no genocide, now or ever, in Nigeria.”
There remains a vast desert between recognition of the problem and any tangible resolution for persecuted Nigerian Christians, but they just received the attention of the world’s most powerful man. At this bitter stage, the survivors have a new reason to hope.