Nigerian Christians continue to be butchered daily for their religious beliefs, but you will be hard-pressed to find a media outlet willing even to mention it.
For three straight days last month, from Dec. 23 to Christmas Day, 198 Nigerian Christians were brutally murdered with “heavy weapons” in what were considered by the Nigerian state of Plateau’s Gov. Caleb Mutfwang to be “well-coordinated” attacks. The assaults were carried out by local radical Muslim combatants.
This awful tragedy is unfortunately nothing new for Nigeria. Christians have been routinely brutalized across the nation for nearly two decades since an Islamic uprising that took place there in 2009. Since then, as Intersociety reports, over 52,000 Christians have been killed in similar attacks, 14 million others have been forced to flee for their lives, and their lands have been occupied by the Muslim terrorists that invaded.
These attacks have been described as “genocidal” in nature. The hope of Nigerian Christians nationwide is wavering as these Muslim radicals have gone largely unpunished by the Nigerian government. Nigerian Christian leaders say the situation is so bad that there is even suspicion that they have a nefarious deal with the government to allow their fellow Christians to continue to suffer.
As despicable as the human rights atrocities are, one wonders why almost no media network has talked about them at all. Only Christian and Nigerian networks have reported the situation. The few outlets that have covered the killings, such as Reuters, have largely shrugged off the religious aspects of the massacres. Instead, they have transformed the story into another climate change argument, claiming that dry climates in Nigeria’s northern regions have forced the attackers into Christian lands.
Astonishingly, in 2021, after the harrowing situation of Nigerian Christians was raised in a national meeting, the U.S. Department of State instead removed Nigeria from the list of countries it has designated for concern over religious freedom. The government explicitly denied and rejected the evidence.
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It is quite fascinating to observe many media outlets pump out pro-Palestinian propaganda despite the fact that Palestinians overwhelmingly, at 75%, support Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians. Clearly, the media are more sympathetic toward radical Islamic militancy than Christian persecution.
Simply put, the media does not like Christians, so they do not care to report about their struggles across the globe. Nigeria is not alone. For as much as the media praise being seen and heard, they see to it that persecuted Christians are not.