(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Brutal, barbarous machete attacks are reported repeatedly. People are killed and abducted from schools or churches by Muslim attackers who shout "Allahu Akbar!" Christians have asked the government for protection, but it doesn't seem to come.
Moderate Muslims who reject extremism are targeted as well. But Christians "are disproportionately targeted, being more than 5 times as likely to be killed [as] Muslims," according to a legal group.
Nigeria's president strongly denies that there's any religious persecution in his country, and his wife came to America on a mission to do the same--"despite all the evidence of widespread atrocities." Many Western journalists simply accept the Nigerian state's narrative.
But the reports got the attention of the U.S. president. Last November he sent this message: "If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance," and may even take steps to "wipe out" Islamist terrorists.
Some Americans have been sent and may now be working with the Nigerian government to give these targeted communities some help.
from The Free Press
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