Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead.
I’ve already blogged twice in two days about the large-scale massacre of Christians in Jos, Nigeria, here and here.
As is sadly the case when blogging about the decimation of Christian communities across at the hands of Islamic extremists, it rarely drives much Internet traffic to our blog, simply because there is a high degree of apathy in the Western world, and yes, I am including the Christian community.
As long as it’s not on our doorstep, then it really isn’t that important.
However, I’ll not stop highlighting the plight of our Christian brothers and sisters in Islamic lands on this blog, as long as I draw breath.
Anyway, Melanie Phillips has put up a poignant short post in the Spectator:-
The jihad in Nigeria
Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead. The media have described these events as ‘riots’; I 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 described as ‘retaliation ‘ for violent attacks in Jos last January, in which the majority of the victims were Muslim. But as the Barnabas Fund reports, there is evidence that those January attacks were in fact Christian retaliation against Muslim aggression — in particular on that occasion an attack on a church — which has been going on for years.
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.
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