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Nigerian Genocide: Christian Persecution 2014
Nigeria prides itself on its diversity, unity and peaceful nature. But over the past few years, Nigeria has been anything but peaceful and its people anything but united.
A war is brewing. Muslim extremists have declared war on Nigeria’s Christians. Rising terrorist groups, and emboldened Muslim tribes, has decided that it is time that Nigeria is rid of its Christians. They have promised to annihilate them, and they are making good on that promise.
With Boko Haram and the Fulani tribes continually attacking Christians, many times with the aid of the government, genocide is brewing in the name of Allah.
The military makes small efforts, if any, and the government is at a stalemate. Citizens are enraged and becoming forlorn as they watch the impotency of their government. Parents die waiting for their kidnapped children to be rescued. Worshippers are slaughtered in their churches. Whole villages are razed to the ground. People are scattered into the wilderness, seeking escape.
And yet, the world stands by.
With millions displaced, thousands dying, and elections coming, Nigeria is being shaken at its core. Almost half of its population is in danger of extinction, terrorists are seizing territory away from the government, and Nigeria’s promise of peace and unity is barely even a dream.
A war is brewing. Muslim extremists have declared war on Nigeria’s Christians. Rising terrorist groups, and emboldened Muslim tribes, has decided that it is time that Nigeria is rid of its Christians. They have promised to annihilate them, and they are making good on that promise.
With Boko Haram and the Fulani tribes continually attacking Christians, many times with the aid of the government, genocide is brewing in the name of Allah.
The military makes small efforts, if any, and the government is at a stalemate. Citizens are enraged and becoming forlorn as they watch the impotency of their government. Parents die waiting for their kidnapped children to be rescued. Worshippers are slaughtered in their churches. Whole villages are razed to the ground. People are scattered into the wilderness, seeking escape.
And yet, the world stands by.
With millions displaced, thousands dying, and elections coming, Nigeria is being shaken at its core. Almost half of its population is in danger of extinction, terrorists are seizing territory away from the government, and Nigeria’s promise of peace and unity is barely even a dream.
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First published March 6, 2015
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Laura Murray
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April 18, 2022
I want to preface this by saying that I'm grateful to the author for bringing this genocide to my attention. I think it's critically important that we pay attention to it and other genocides.
This book covers the Nigerian genocide. Christians in Nigeria are being murdered by Fulani cattlemen and Boko Haram terrorists, and their basis is their compatriots Christianity. It is not ok in any world to murder, much less commit genocide.
I can tell the author did a lot of research, but this book read like an academic essay, and I guess I was looking more for literature. The author spends a large amount of the book qualifying the conflict as a genocide and makes the argumentative conclusion several times. I think that it could be established once and the rest of the book written with the fact that this conflict is in fact a genocide, and one based on the victims' religion.
At the end of the book, the author goes into depth as to why it is that Nigerian Christians do not renounce their faith. They do this by exploring Christian beliefs. What bugged me about this part was how the author went about it. It wasn't, "Nigerian Christians believe x and y about Jesus," but more the declaration that Jesus did x and y and that that was reality and not explicitly Christian belief. Perhaps it was done with a bias on the author's part, but for those that do not share those beliefs, it was off-putting to say the least.
All in all an okayish book.
This book covers the Nigerian genocide. Christians in Nigeria are being murdered by Fulani cattlemen and Boko Haram terrorists, and their basis is their compatriots Christianity. It is not ok in any world to murder, much less commit genocide.
I can tell the author did a lot of research, but this book read like an academic essay, and I guess I was looking more for literature. The author spends a large amount of the book qualifying the conflict as a genocide and makes the argumentative conclusion several times. I think that it could be established once and the rest of the book written with the fact that this conflict is in fact a genocide, and one based on the victims' religion.
At the end of the book, the author goes into depth as to why it is that Nigerian Christians do not renounce their faith. They do this by exploring Christian beliefs. What bugged me about this part was how the author went about it. It wasn't, "Nigerian Christians believe x and y about Jesus," but more the declaration that Jesus did x and y and that that was reality and not explicitly Christian belief. Perhaps it was done with a bias on the author's part, but for those that do not share those beliefs, it was off-putting to say the least.
All in all an okayish book.
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