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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/08/the-shameful-silence-over-the-slaughter-of-nigerias-christians/

Towards the end of September, comedian Bill Maher provoked social-media outrage by asking a simple question: why does the coverage of Gaza get so much mainstream-media attention when the persecution of Christians in Nigeria gets almost none?

‘They are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria’, he said on his talk show, Real Time:

‘They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches… These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.’

You wouldn’t think of someone like Maher – a self-described ‘apatheist’ (‘I don’t know what happens when you die, and I don’t care’) – as suddenly becoming the most prominent voice on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. But he’s absolutely right. They are being slaughtered en masse.

So far this year, over 7,000 Christians have been targeted and killed for their faith. Thousands were also killed the year before, and thousands in the year before that. Sometimes hundreds are murdered at once, as in the town of Yelewat in June, or in the village of Zikke in April. Holy days are preferred for big attacks, as in the Christmas massacre of 2023, when pastors were beheaded and churches burned down in Plateau State, or the attack on St Francis Xavier Church, in the town of Owo on Pentecost Sunday 2022.

Attackers can be terrorist groups like Boko Haram and the West African branch of Islamic State, or more amorphous groups like the Fulani herder militants. Christians are also abducted and forced into marriages throughout the country, but especially in Nigeria’s northern states. The intent is to kill or displace Christians in large numbers and take greater control of their ancestral lands.

Of course, this is not to say that all mass violence in Nigeria is religiously motivated. It isn’t. Many Muslims, especially those who resist the Islamists, are also attacked in horrific episodes, like the mosque attack in Katsina State in August.

But the scale of the deliberate attacks on Christians is impossible to deny. The states with the most violence against Christians are within Nigeria’s so-called Middle Belt, which borders the Sharia states in Nigeria’s north. Every week brings new and terrible stories of death. But the official line is to deny the existence of any religious persecution.

Such denials fly in the face of reality. Christians are only a minority in northern Nigeria, but they are five-to-eight times more likely to be killed by jihadists than Muslims. Many northern states also have Sharia criminal laws that mandate the death penalty for alleged blasphemy, such as Kano state, where Sufi musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has been facing death row since 2020. Sharif-Aminu is only still alive because he has been able to appeal this medieval decision, but others, like university student Deborah Yakubu, have been less fortunate. In May 2022, Yakubu was stoned to death in Sokoto state because she was overheard thanking Jesus after an exam. Mob attacks against so-called blasphemers usually go unpunished.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/synagogue-attack-manchester-germany-terror

A day after an Islamist rampage against a British synagogue and two days after the indictment in Berlin of three suspected Hamas members for planning terror attacks in Germany, German chancellor Friedrich Merz and French president Emanuel Macron met in Saarbrücken, Germany, and warned of . . . right-wing threats to European democracies. Neither said a word about the Manchester assault or the Berlin indictment.

Instead, Merz announced to the European potentates commemorating the 35th anniversary of German reunification that “our liberal way of life is under attack, from both outside and within.” German broadcaster Deutsche Welle decoded for the clueless: Merz’s enemy “within” was the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s voice for immigration restrictionism.

Macron connected those external and internal threats: “authoritarian countries” outside Europe are “aligned with the extreme parties” inside Europe, he said. Europe’s “extreme parties” embrace a “new nationalism,” based on “hate of the other,” according to Macron. Unless European democrats fend off the “dark Enlightenment,” the European continent would become “like many others,” filled with “conspiracy theorists, extremes, noise, and fury.”

It required no decoding to pick up the reference to the North American continent.

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier took up the same theme: political forces looking to undermine democratic institutions and poison debate with hatred were gathering strength, especially in Germany’s East—another boilerplate reference to the AfD. “Let’s not allow our democracy to be further damaged,” said Steinmeier.

The Saarbrücken speeches illustrate a key rule of contemporary European power: wheresoever two or more members of the European elite gather together, they will denounce the “far right,” right-wing “extremists,” and “dangerous nationalists.” They will ignore Islamist violence. In Saarbrücken, Merz did not note that attacks on Jews in Germany have been spiraling upward. Merz did not mention Germany’s knifing assaults by first- and second-generation immigrants or the fact that immigrants and their progeny commit a vast disproportion of crime.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/09/about-the-jews/

Van Jones, the CNN host and commentator, recently complained that neither the global left nor the mainstream media are covering the horrific violence against Nigerian civilians by Islamic terrorists.

True, they are not reporting the slaughter.

Truer still, they should be.

However, Van Jones went completely off the rails when he blamed “the Jews.”

Or as he put it, “No Jews, no news”—a stereotyped statement as anti-Semitic as it is untrue.

In truth, lots of mass violence worldwide is ignored.

Unlike Trump, neither the left nor the mainstream media cared much for the recent mass ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians from Nagorno-Karabakh—more than 120,000—by Azerbaijani Muslims.

Nor did they report much on the dangerous May 2025 “mini” war between nuclear Pakistan and nuclear India, prompted by a mass killing by Pakistani terrorists.

These mostly ignored mass evacuations, terrorist acts, and ethnic cleansings had nothing to do with Jones’s absurd idea of “no Jews, no news.”

Nor were they neglected because of the color of the dead.