https://www.frontpagemag.com/yes-al-jazeera-there-is-a-christian-genocide-in-nigeria/
A few weeks ago on his Real Time program, host Bill Maher broke ranks with his mainstream media compatriots, as he occasionally does, to fault them for the widespread ignorance of the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria. He observed correctly that the Boko Haram Muslim terror group there is “literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.” He even had statistics at the ready: “They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009, they’ve burned 18,000 churches.” He concluded, “Where are the kids protesting this?”
The mainstream media are not covering it, and “the kids” aren’t protesting it, because the purportedly compassionate Left is at best indifferent to, and at worst approves of, the suffering and extermination of Christians. In their multiculturalist mindset, Christianity is categorized as Eurocentric (read: “white”) and therefore oppressive and evil. For a similar reason, Leftists refuse to connect Islam with terrorism because Muslims are grouped with the sacrosanct “Other” – “brown” victims of Judeo-Christian, capitalist, white supremacist oppression. Hence, the Left freely hurls accusations of “Islamophobia” but there is no “Christophobia” equivalent.
This week my colleague Robert Spencer pointed out at Jihad Watch that the Al Jazeera network, the “CNN of the Arab world,” had previously rebutted Maher’s observation with this gaslighting doozy of an editorial: “No, Bill Maher, There is No ‘Christian Genocide’ in Nigeria.” Spencer says of the piece that “the hypocrisy is staggering and the inversion of reality total,” but hey, as the Muslim prophet Muhammad is claimed to have said, “War is deceit.”
The Al Jazeera article was written by Gimba Kakanda, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Research and Analytics in the Office of the Vice President (I don’t know how he gets all that on a business card). Kakanda argues that “allegations” of a Christian genocide in Nigeria are merely “coordinated attacks” by “foreign actors” who “ignore [the country’s] complexities and manipulate longstanding ethnic and resource-based tensions to advance sectarian agendas.” He declared that “claims of a religious war between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria are simplistic” and ignore “ethnic rivalries, land disputes, and criminality.”
Kakanda zeroed in on Bill Maher’s “sensationalized account” based on “largely fabricated claims and manipulated images from unverified outlets.” He dismissed it as “misinformation – aimed at maligning Nigeria” because of its “support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict.”
