Nigeria Christian Slaughter

[not_for_sale2025]

I looked hard but couldn't find a reputable media report on this situation in Nigeria.

Apparently the media don't find the Christian slaughters to be newsworthy, perhaps

because the victims are third world humans. Isn't religion wonderful. 

https://providencemag.com/2019/03/mounting-violence-nigeria-tests-trump-africa-policy/ 

[imastawka]

And the victims are mostly women and children.

The caliphate-seeking terrorist group known as Boko Haram, surfacing in 2009 and affiliated with Islamic State since 2015, has murdered more people in Nigeria than Islamic State has done in the Middle East, yet it is rarely covered in major media, leading Frank Gaffney, president of STPC, to condemn the media’s “conspiracy of silence.”

Trump won't help either.

The Trump administration has made clear that it is not the world’s policeman and has been hard-pressed to safely extricate the US military from its 16-year engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In December National Security Advisor John Bolton rolled out the White House’s new “Africa Strategy” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, and this strategy emphasized three pillars, as reported by Col. Chris Wyatt, director of African Studies at the US Army War College.

These pillars are the following: advance US trade and commercial ties; counter the threat from radical Islamic terrorism; and finally, ensure US taxpayer dollars are used effectively and efficiently.

The importance of US trade with Nigeria is obvious: it is the wealthiest and most populated nation in Africa, and it is a major oil producer, ranking as the thirteenth largest in the world.

[cezm]

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@not_for_sale2025 wrote:

I looked hard but couldn't find a reputable media report on this situation in Nigeria.

Apparently the media don't find the Christian slaughters to be newsworthy, perhaps

because the victims are third world humans. Isn't religion wonderful. 

https://providencemag.com/2019/03/mounting-violence-nigeria-tests-trump-africa-policy/ 

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They generally don't find any of the atrocities in any of the African nations newsworthy ... perhaps people just don't want to hear so it's not newsworthy and therefore won't sell papers. Or the western world considers it to be the norm in Africa and therefore not newsworthy.

[springyzone]

There's a whole bucket full of reasons why it isn't considered newsworthy.

First off, this is happening to Christians and if emphasis is given to this, it will be considered muslim bashing.

Second, it is in a third world country where there is a lot of violence anyway. People are more interested in local news or news from areas they might visit or news from areas where the actions might somehow impact on them down the track.

Then as someone mentioned, it includes a lot of women & children. Women get stoned to death in some areas of the world & sometimes for things they could not help eg being raped. Do you hear the women's lib groups of the western world even put up a muttered protest?  They don't. 

[imastawka]

But is that report a true report?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nigeria-christians-muslims/

It's a long read, but this is the conclusion -

The ongoing herder-farmer conflict in Nigeria has claimed thousands of lives in recent years, particularly during an escalation of the violence in 2019 and especially in Kaduna State, where dozens of mostly Christian Adara were reported to have been killed in February and March by mostly Muslim Fulani militants.

Local news reports, as recorded in the Council on Foreign Relations’ Nigeria Security Tracker, largely corroborate the incidents and deaths described by Breitbart and the Christian Solidarity Worldwide non-profit group.

However, reports by Breitbart and the Christian Post website failed readers by presenting a woefully narrow viewpoint on the conflict, emphasizing only the religious affiliations of the participants while neglecting to mention what impartial experts have highlighted as being the primary driving force behind it: a dispute over natural resources and land usage.

Furthermore, while Breitbart’s article provided details of several reported attacks by Fulani herders on farmers in Kaduna State in February and March 2019, it did not mention the attack on the mainly Muslim Fula ethnic group, which was the single largest reported atrocity during the time period in question.

Notwithstanding the fact that some local Christian leaders disputed the death toll presented in that case, Breitbart’s failure to even mention the attack on the Fula group constitutes a glaring omission in any article purporting to be a reliable or impartial examination of what is, to begin with, a volatile and complicated conflict.

[shoppingbag*]

Religion is the ultimate excuse for all sins.

[springyzone]

It sounds to me as if it was indeed a true report in itself but left out some other facts, such as attacks on the muslim groups and some of the other reasons for the conflicts, apart from religion.

I think because all the killing is taking place in a far away area and one that sees regular violence anyway, the newsworthiness of it probably isn't seen as great.

[davidc4430]

More than 130 people from Muslim ethnic group killed in Mali after gunmen disguise themselves as hunters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-24/scores-of-muslim-ethnic-group-killed-in-mali-violence/1093432...

[*kazumi*]

There is lot of killing going around the world, especially in Africa and most of it has nothing to do with religion.   It's the Breitbart  spin to try to claim that white Christians are in danger and discriminated against in the USA, and around the world.  Many of the so called "Islamic" groups are just about as Muslim as the Westboro Baptist Church are Christian.  I would say that the catholic priests who abused children have no right to call themselves Christian either.

[tezza2844]

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@*kazumi* wrote:

There is lot of killing going around the world, especially in Africa and most of it has nothing to do with religion.   It's the Breitbart  spin to try to claim that white Christians are in danger and discriminated against in the USA, and around the world.  Many of the so called "Islamic" groups are just about as Muslim as the Westboro Baptist Church are Christian.  I would say that the catholic priests who abused children have no right to call themselves Christian either.

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Yes, there is a lot of killing going on the moment and the not so distant past. A lot of this is promoted by the MSM deciding what we should know or not know. There is a lot of talk about Christian massacres by Muslims but it is not so one sided, and we tend to forget very conveniently sometimes about the wider picture.  eg: 

"Starting in April 1992, Serbia set out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnian territory by systematically removing all Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks. Serbia, together with ethnic Bosnian Serbs, attacked Bosniaks with former Yugoslavian military equipment and surrounded Sarajevo, the capital city. During the subsequent civil war that lasted from 1992 to 1995, an estimated 100,000people were killed, 80% of whom were Bosniaks. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed as many as 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from the town of Srebrenica. It was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust."

The problem is this sort of killings is not just based on Religion, it can be tribal, territorial or just about anything or resources and the trouble is that the major powers use it to justify their power hungry ambitions and power weilding.