NWO MULTICULTURALISM: This Muslim group is raping, killing, and torturing Nigerian Christians. And it’s getting worse
One
of the women who gathered outside the Colosseum that rainy night in
February was Rebecca Bitrus, a Nigerian Christian who was held captive
by Boko Haram Islamist militants, who savagely beat her and raped her
for the duration of her two-year captivity. She was there to draw
attention to the plight of Christians in Nigeria—especially women and
girls—who face a nearly-constant threat of abduction, sexual assault,
and forced marriage from not only Boko Haram, but other Muslim groups as
well—and Nigerian Christians have been calling on their government and
the international community to notice their plight and come to their
aid.
Rev.
Dr. Soja Bewarang, the chairman of the Denominational Heads of the
Plateau and Christian Association of Nigeria, wrote in an open letter
on June 29 to the federal government that, “We observe the continuous
abduction of underaged Christian girls by Muslim youths who are
forcefully converted to Islam and taken in for marriage without the
consent of their parents…This is even more worrisome as such acts are
supported by several highly placed clerics and Emirs.”
The
situation in Nigeria has been steadily worsening over the past several
months, as Muslim militants attack agrarian Christian communities with
near impunity, murdering pregnant women, killing children, and raping
girls. Thousands of Christians have been killed—Rev. Dr. Soja Bewarang
estimates that over 6,000 have been murdered so far—largely by Islamic
Fulani herdsmen armed with AK-47s and even swords. The government has
been attempting to ignore the religious dimensions of these attacks and
instead claim that this is merely an economic war by herdsmen on
farmers, rather than by Muslims on Christians. Dr. Soja Bewarang’s open letter on behalf of the church leaders of Plateau State begs the government to take action immediately:
The renewed attacks on Christian communities and churches across Nigeria and particularly in the middlebelt of the country where over 6000 persons mostly children, women and the aged have been maimed and killed in night raids by armed Fulani herdsmen have necessitated our outcry through this medium with a view to call on those in government authority, especially the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to stop this senseless and blood shedding in the land and avoid a state of complete anarchy where the people are forced to defend themselves…We are particularly worried at the widespread insecurity in the country where wanton attacks and killings by armed Fulani herdsmen, bandits and terrorists have been taking place on a daily basis in our communities unchallenged despite huge investments in the security agencies. The perpetrators are being deliberately allowed to go scot free. It is even more worrisome that these huge numbers of over 6000 deaths in 2018 alone have been recorded in various attacks, especially in the northern and middle belt states of Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Borno, Zamfara and other states when the country is not in a state of war.The worst that have shocked the world is the recent genocide and blood bath in Barkin Ladi, parts of Bokkos, Riyom and Bassa Local Government Areas of Plateau state. There is no doubt that the sole purpose of these attacks is aimed at ethnic cleansing, land grabbing and forceful ejection of the Christian natives from their ancestral land and heritage.The attacks by the so-called herdsmen across the local areas listed in 11 villages of Plateau state where over 200 persons were brutally killed and our churches destroyed without any intervention from security agencies in spite of several distress calls made to them, further buttresses our concern that the security architecture of the land and the handlers have woefully failed.
In
response, several days after the open letter, the office of Nigerian
President Muhammadu Buhari issued a statement on July 5 suggesting that
the Christian indigenous farmers of the Plateau State surrender a
portion of their ancestral lands to the Islamic Fulani herdsmen who have
been terrorizing them in order to placate them and hopefully stop the
bloodshed. The Nigerian president seems determined to ignore the
religious dimension of the ongoing murders and kidnappings, instead
simplifying the problem to one of grazing territory as well as
resources—a problem that could be solved if the largely-Christian
farmers simply turned over some of their ancestral property to the men
who have been murdering their elderly, kidnapping their girls, and
raping their women.
Femi
Adesina, a special advisor to President Buhari, has now gone as far as
to say that giving the Fulani terrorists land to ranch (under the
dubious presumption that they will cease their harassment of Christian
communities and live side-by-side in harmony) is a good solution to the
ongoing killings because giving up ancestral lands is better than dying.
“In the Plateau state, where we had the recent orgy of killings, the
government has offered land for ranches,” he reportedly stated, “and I
tell you that some people are interested in this thing not being
resolved. You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If
you are talking about ancestral attachment when you are dead, how does
attachment matter?”
The
Nigerian Christians have urged the government to recognize that what is
taking place amounts to a genocide in progress—and that the official
characterization of the ongoing raids by Fulani herdsmen on Christian
farming communities cannot be referred to as a “clash” when only one
side is engaging in violence, while the other side is perpetually
victimized by this violence. They have also decried the arrest and
condemnation of young Christian men defending their communities from
attacks while the Fulani herdsmen continue their violent raids
unmolested and un-arrested by the government, which they point to as
evidence of a government conspiracy to assist the Fulani in their
goals—President Buahri himself, after all, is ethnically Fulani.
Christians
have been persecuted around the world for 2,000 years, from the circus
of the Emperor Nero to the Plateau grasslands of Nigeria, to the gulags
of the Soviet Union and the concentration camps of North Korea. It is
essential that Christians in the West—where Christian communities are
beginning to face marginalization and ostracization, but are thus far
entirely free of the physical persecution and brutal violence
experienced by others around the world—remember these persecuted
communities and do what they can to remember them in prayer, as well as
support organizations that seek to assist those suffering at the hands
of those who hate them for their faith.
The
plight of the Nigerian Christians has gone unnoticed by many, and
raising awareness about what they are enduring is also important.
Thousands of people are being killed by a group that is currently
deadlier in terms of violence even than Boko Haram—but very few people
have head of the Fulani terrorists. That should change.
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