As Christians Continue to be Killed in Nigeria, the West Remains Largely Silent
(LifeSiteNews) — According to an April report by British non-governmental organization (NGO) Release International, Nigerian soldiers shot at students protesting over sparse military protection for a Christian-majority area which had been unceasingly attacked by the mainly Muslim Fulani militia.
Fulani attackers targeted Chikam village in the central Nigeria Plateau state on April 18, killing a computer science student named Dading James Jordan, as well as a mother and her child. On April 19, these attackers also killed 14 more locals in the village.
That same day, Plateau State University students carried Jordan’s body to their campus, but media reports indicate that Nigerian soldiers responded with fire, killing one student and wounding another.
Reports have surfaced alleging that the students had set fire to a military checkpoint. The military admitted that it had opened fire at “angry students” burning down the military checkpoint “when the soldiers tried to stop them from protesting.”
The Release International report stated that while Nigerian authorities “have acknowledged that two students were shot by security forces,” the authorities claim it was stray bullets that hit the students when “the army opened fire,” during what they labeled “emotional protests.”
The same report indicated that other sources alleged that more students were injured, slamming the army for “twice opening fire on civilian protesters in the space of a week.”
Release International said that “convoys of motorcycles, each carrying three armed Fulani terrorists, continue to wreak havoc by attacking villages.”
Subsequently, the British NGO urged for a comprehensive public probe into the episode in light of Nigerian authorities’ failure to tackle increasing allegations of human rights breaches by soldiers in the region.
For months, Nigeria’s Plateau state and its civilian farmers have been one of the many targets of attacks by Islamist extremists. Over the past year, Plateau State has witnessed hundreds of massacres of unarmed villagers by Fulani Islamist terrorists, such as the notorious Christmas eve 2023 coordinated attack by Islamist terrorists that killed hundreds. For months, swarms of armed, radicalized Muslim terrorists have laid siege to 151 villages and small towns in a bid to take over and control the land, according to Barrister Solomon Dalyop, who heads a large, majority-Christian indigenous tribal association.
Other parts of the country are not spared from Islamist attacks either. At the beginning of March this year, the Islamist jihadist group Boko Haram abducted around 400 individuals from a camp for internally displaced persons in the northern state of Borno. A few days later, 287 children were kidnapped from a school in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna.
“Students were kidnapped from the school premises on Thursday morning around 8:00 am (local time). About 287 students are still in the hands of the bandits, 100 from the primary side and 187 from the secondary school,” the state’s police spokesman Mansur Hassan told CNN, continuing, “Over 300 students were initially kidnapped, but some were rescued.”
Targets of Islamist attacks are usually Christians and girls seeking a “Western” education, or a mix of both.
Take, for instance, the case of Leah Sharibu. In 2018, Leah was kidnapped by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) group at the age of 14 with her 109 classmates. Although ISWAP terrorists murdered five girls and freed most of the others, they informed Leah that she would only be liberated if she renounced her Christian faith and converted to Islam. Heroically, Leah dismissed the offer and is allegedly still held under captivity in 2024.
Based on Open Doors research as of March this year, over 37,500 people are estimated to have been killed since Boko Haram’s insurgency began in 2011. Another report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa lamented the kidnapping of a further 2,400 Christians over a six month period from 2022 to 2023.
Moreover, a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) released in February 2024 stated that the year 2023 marked the bloodiest year of Islamic attacks against Christians in Nigeria, with over 8,000 killed and thousands more abducted and forcibly displaced.
“The combined forces of the Government protected Islamic Jihadists and the country’s Security Forces (NSFc) are directly and vicariously accountable for hacking to death in 2023 of no fewer than 8,222 defenseless Christians – covering a period of 13 months or Jan (2023) -Jan (2024),” the report, signed by the Director of Intersociety, Emeka Umeaglalasi, among others, claimed.
As per the Intersociety report, a wide range of actors, including Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen, staged the killings, murdering at least 5,100 Christians. Additionally, Boko Haram and related entities, Jihadist Fulani Bandits, and “Islamic-inspired” security forces were responsible for hundreds, if not thousands, of Christian deaths.
Notably, the same Intersociety report stated that the January 2023 to January 2024 killings signified “the deadliest in recent years,” decrying the Nigerian government and security forces for failing to “rise to the occasion.” It posited that “the massacre of Christians in Nigeria is unmistakably systematic, well coordinated and premeditated; a fundamental part of the ‘State Jihadism Project’”.
“Nigeria has become the second deadliest Genocide-Country in the world accounting for more than 150,000 religiously motivated defenseless civilian deaths since 2009,” the report states, alluding to the year when Boko Haram began its campaign to launch Islamist rule.
In statements to OSV News, Umeagbalasi of Intersociety Nigeria said:
In Nigeria, more than 1000 churches were closed down last year. Since 2009, between 18,500 and 19,000 churches have been attacked and burnt down. In Plateau (state) alone, you have more than 50 Christian communities chased away from their communities by jihadists. The killing of Christians has continued because nothing is being done, the international community is silent.
Nigerian Bishop Wildred Anagbe of the Makurdi Diocese could not agree more, acknowledging to Catholic News Agency (CNA) that the Christian population in his country is being “gradually and systematically” decimated by Islamists through “killings, kidnappings, torture, and burning of churches.”
Also, Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria, previously declared that “if we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct.”
During such prevalent attacks, Nigeria’s Christian population is often specifically, though not only, targeted.
However, the West has kept mostly mum on the murders of thousands of Christians killed for their faith each year, with those who are more vocal still largely hesitant to explicitly name the ideological causes for such violence and killings.
In February 2024, the globalist European Parliament (EP) denounced the 2023 Christmas Eve slaughter of Nigerian Christians and urged for action to be taken against Islamist groups, blaming “climate change” and “environmental degradation”as root causes of these instances of Christian persecution.
In response to the EP’s condemnation, Dr. Georgia Du Plessis, Legal Officer for ADF International, said:
While we applaud the European Parliament’s recognition of the horrific Christmas massacre targeting Christians, we are disappointed that the resolution downplays the religious causes of the violence while highlighting issues such as climate change. Climate change does not cause people to massacre whole Christian villages.
During an EP debate, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voiced reservations about efforts to gloss over the role of Islamic extremism and terrorism in brutal killings and assaults targeting Christians in Nigeria.
MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR) declared that “saying that it is a mere conflict between farmers and herders fails to acknowledge the other causes. It is Muslim extremists causing death and destruction.”
Similarly, MEP György Hölvényi (EPP) reiterated Ruissen’s views:
Blinded by ideology, some people are totally insensitive to human suffering when it comes to Christians. The timing of the attacks, brutal killings, and destruction of churches cannot be misinterpreted and can only be understood as the persecution of Christians and we should be able to say so.
Likewise, the International Crisis Group, backed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and quoted by the U.S. State Department under Joe Biden, has alleged that “climate change has aggravated” “farmer-herder violence.”
“Increasingly, the security implications of changing weather patterns are visible in deadly land resource disputes between farmers and herders across the continent,” the group proclaimed.
Similarly downplaying the role of jihadist Islam in massacres of Christians in Nigeria, the U.S. State Department declared in its “2022 Report on International Religious Freedom: Nigeria”:
While much of the violence involved predominantly Muslim herders and, depending on location, either predominantly Christian or Muslim farmers … banditry and other criminality, not animosity between particular religious groups or on the basis of religion, were the primary drivers of intercommunal violence.
According to an article in Providence Magazine in March 2024, 62,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria since 2000, prompting former President Donald Trump to put Nigeria on its list of violators of religious freedom. Nonetheless, Biden removed Nigeria from the list when he assumed power.
In turn, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins slammed the Biden administration’s seeming lack of concern.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) was appalled by the State Department’s omission of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) in 2022. In a press release, the commission declared that it “finds it inexplicable that the Department of State did not include Nigeria or India in its latest designations of Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), turning a blind eye to both countries’ particularly severe religious freedom violations.” On May 1 2024, the USCIRF published its report including Nigeria as one of the countries with the worst religious persecution worldwide.
Former Rep. Frank Wolf, a member of the commission, denounced Antony Blinken’s failure to consider Nigeria under the aforementioned CPC list as “sorely disappointing.” Wolf, who acted as a Republican member of Congress from Virginia for years, was the author of the 1998 bill setting up the CPC designations.
He asserted: “Congress should exercise its oversight authority to ensure religious freedom is a policy priority in Nigeria [and] support appointing a Special Envoy for Nigeria [and the] Lake Chad Region.”
Christians, located primarily in the south of Nigeria, make up approximately 48.1% of the country’s population while Muslims, located mainly in the north, comprise around 50%.
Arguably, the silence of Western elites in the face of the large-scale persecution of Christians in Nigeria is linked to a refusal to admit the risks that unbridled Islamic immigration could bring to their very soil.
For example, a report on April 21 this year by the German tabloid newspaper Bild, quoting a study by the Lower Saxony Criminology Research Institute, disclosed that Muslim schoolchildren in the German state of Lower Saxony regarded religious rules as more important than German law, with 67.8% of schoolchildren polled declaring that the “rules of the Quran are more important to me than the laws in Germany”; 45.8% saying that Islamic theocratic rule is the best form of state government, with over half contending that it is only their religion that provides answers to the “problems of our times.”
Alarmingly, 35.3% of respondents in the German study contended that offenses against Islam and its prophet could justify a violent attack. Over a fifth of respondents stated that the “threat to Islam posed by the Western world” was a good reason for a violent Muslim response.
To boot, French broadcaster Europe 1, citing a recent report by the Paris Police Headquarters, stated that 77% of the perpetrators of the 97 rapes that were solved across Paris in 2023 were not French, and many were “addicted to drugs, unemployed and homeless”.
Fortunately, some Western government entities and international groups are becoming more vocal about the scale of religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In February 2024, members of the U.S. Congress voted to urge the Biden administration to confront Nigeria for its lack of freedom with respect to Christianity, and place the nation back on the CPC list.
That being said, if the West continues to overlook the rise in violence against Christians in Nigeria, or any country for that matter, it may not be long before the deadly erosion of the faith makes its way to local soil.
Biden Health Official Pressured Transgender Health Organization to Remove Age Limit for Trans Surgeries
An unsealed court document has revealed that a top health official within the administration of President Joe Biden successfully pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to drop age limit guidelines for transgender procedures.
The WPATH, an international transgender health nonprofit organization, initially drafted guidelines in 2021 with a proposed age minimum for various procedures: 17 for genital surgeries and hysterectomies; 16 for breast augmentation and facial surgeries; 15 for mastectomies; and 14 for hormonal treatments. However, the finalized guidelines and WPATH’s eighth edition of its standards of care, released in September 2022, had no age limits for transgender procedures.
This was revealed in a lawsuit filed in Alabama court by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of five transgender children and their families contesting the state’s ban on transgender surgeries. The lawsuit uncovered emails detailing the interactions between WPATH’s advisory group and Sarah Boateng, then chief of staff to Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
One email indicated Boateng’s belief that specifying ages under 18 could lead to “devastating legislation for trans care.” Another email stressed Levine’s fear that the WPATH’s 2021 draft would make it difficult for American transgender youths to get access to the procedures.
“We sent the document to Admiral Levine … She liked the SOC-8 very much, but she was very concerned that having ages (mainly for surgery) will affect access to health care for trans youth and maybe adults too,” a WPATH member wrote in one internal email released by James Cantor, a psychologist and critic of adolescent transgender procedures, who submitted the emails as evidence to support Alabama in the lawsuit.
“Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and [Levine] and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse… She asked us to remove them,” the email continued, referring to Levine, who identifies as a transgender woman.
In the filing, Cantor stated that the WPATH “capitulated and removed the text in violation of its own process despite the preference of its own committee members to retain the age limits” after a pressure campaign.
“We heard your [Levine’s] comments regarding the minimal age criteria for transgender healthcare adolescents; the potential negative outcome of these minimal ages as recommendations in the US … Consequently, we have changes to the SOC 8 in this respect,” an email from a WPATH member, apparently sent to Levine, stated.
Biden admin has been battling with the Republicans about transgender ban on minors for several years now
In the past few years, the Biden administration has been contesting the transgender ban on minors in court.
The administration has been arguing that denying transgender minors access to gender-affirming healthcare violates the equal protection and due process guarantees under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
As red states Texas, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Idaho, North Dakota, Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama tried to ban surgical procedures and hormonal treatments for transgender youth, several blue states have introduced “sanctuary state” laws that protect medical providers who conduct transgender procedures on adolescents from facing legal penalties.
Head over to MedicalViolence.com for more stories about transgender treatments.
US President Joe Biden Says He’s Proud To Be A ‘Black Woman’
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CNN Senior Reporter Admits he has Never Seen Worse Polling Numbers for an Incumbent President
CNN senior reporter Harry Enten has called the results of a recent CBS News/YouGovpoll the worst number for a sitting president.
A day after the CNN presidential debate, CBS Newsand YouGovconducted a poll among 1,130 registered voters. The survey reveals that 72 percent of the respondents doubt President Joe Biden’s fitness to serve, including 46 percent of Democrats.
Some 86 percent of respondents believe Biden should step aside because of his old age, 71 percent because of his overall performance in office, 66 percent because of his record as president and 59 percent because of his inability to campaign effectively. (Related: POLL: Biden’s approval rating drops to new record low.)
Moreover, 72 percent of voters now believe that Biden does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president, compared to the 65 percent who said so earlier in June. Additionally, 41 percent of Democratic voters believe the same, compared to 29 percent in a February poll.
“Look at this, voters who say that Biden has the mental health to be president. It was just 35 percent pre-debate. Look where it’s dropped to now, post-debate, 27 percent. How about ‘not that he should be running’ for president? It was 37 percent pre-debate. It’s now 28 percent. I have never seen numbers this bad for an incumbent president during my lifetime,” Enten stated in dismay.
“I mean, ‘mental health to be president’ at just 27 percent? You might say, okay, that’s low, but a lot of people thought Biden was too old back in 2020,” continued Enten. “These numbers looked nothing like this back in 2020. These numbers were bad already, and the truth is, they have gotten just considerably worse, even in just a few days after that first presidential debate.”
Enten: Democrats could replace Biden but there is no other Democratic candidate with better numbers
Due to the increasing number of voters who want Biden to aside following his poor performance in the recent debate, some Democratic officials have suggested the same.
“It’s hard to argue that we shouldn’t nominate someone else,” a Democratic consultant who works on down-ballot races said.
“He’s a good man; he loves his country; he’s doing the best that he can,” said Van Jones, a one-time adviser to former President Barack Obama and a strong supporter of Biden. “But he had a chance… tonight to restore [the] confidence of the country and of the base, and he failed to do that. And I think there are a lot of people who are going to want to see him take a different course now.”
This, in turn, resulted in the discussion of potential alternatives for the Nov. 5 ballot. But Enten noted that while Democrats could potentially replace Biden, no candidate has significantly better numbers than him.
“I went back and looked at the polling versus Donald Trump for a bunch of different Democrats that have been suggested: Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris. Look at this, they all trail Donald Trump. So the idea here that we’re somehow going to get this magic bullet, that there’s somehow going to be some Democrat who can beat Donald Trump easily, I just don’t see it in the numbers,” Enten explained.
“At this particular point, if Joe Biden takes on Donald Trump, he’s trailing. If there’s another Democrat who runs against Donald Trump, they too are trailing. Any Democrat who entered the race right now, at least among those that are being suggested by a bunch of folks, would all enter the race at this particular point as an underdog to former President Donald Trump.”
Head over to JoeBiden.news for more stories about the incumbent president.
Germany: Iranian Migrant who was Shot and Killed by Police Officer Stabbed a Police Intern
After a police officer shot and killed an Iranian migrant in the German city of Lauf an der Pegnitz, located close to the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, public prosecutors are releasing more details of the case, which revealed just how dramatic the encounter was for the police officers involved.
The attack, which occurred on June 30, made headlines in Germany after dramatic footage showed the attacker lying on the ground with a gunshot wound. The incident also forced the scenic city to shut down its entire train station.
The facts now reveal that the attacker had stabbed a police trainee who was reportedly looking to become a police sergeant, according to Bild. The only thing that saved him from serious injury or potential death was the protective vest he was wearing at the time.
Rabenschwarzer Tag für alle Zuggäste in Lauf an der #Pegnitz. Es kam zu erheblichen Verspätungen! Schuld war ein Iraner!#Messermann #Messerangriff #Iraner pic.twitter.com/LW5gQrlYH3
— Tim Kellner (@TimKoffiziell) July 1, 2024
When a group of three officers arrived on scene to reports of a man with a knife, the Iranian man, who was gripping a knife in his hand, tried to open the police officers’ patrol car door. The officers managed to drive a few meters further, while the man hit their vehicle.
The officers then got out and pepper sprayed the Iranian man and even fired a warning shot into the air, but the Iranian still managed to charge them and stab the police trainee. The officer then shot the Iranian man in the stomach, killing him.
24 hours. 10 reports of knife attacks. The offenders: All migrants.
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) July 4, 2024
This is Germany 2024 ?? pic.twitter.com/IgQQqACAz9
Public prosecutor Heike Klotzbücher told Bild that the Iranian man was a “tolerated” asylum seeker, which means he was rejected but was still allowed to stay in Germany. The man had been convicted of a number of offenses, but the prosecutor did not disclose what type of offenses.
The AfD calls for deportations and border protections after crime data shows stabbings have soared in just one year. https://t.co/DoSFNg8NZj
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 9, 2024
Authorities have yet to establish a motive behind the attack and the case remains under investigation.
Images of the man lying on the ground were published on various news sites across Germany. The attack comes after a wave of knife attacks in Germany and violent incidents involving foreigners, with perhaps the most prominent case involving an Islamic Afghan knife attacker who managed to stab a German police officer to death in Mannheim. The known Islamist had lived in Germany illegally for eight years, according to police sources.
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