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With so much focus on smearing the country of Israel, you probably haven’t read much about the massacres in Nigeria.
Well, Islamists have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing about 15 million people from their homes. Medieval sexual violence and torture are regularly practiced by Islamist militants, who also recruit children into their terrorist army. Thousands of churches and schools have been burned down. Catholic priests are regularly targeted for kidnapping.
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The victims of Boko Haram and other Islamist groups in Nigeria aren’t members of any army. Their government has never fired missiles at neighbors or sent soldiers to rape and murder unsuspecting concertgoers or suicide bombers into cities to blow up pizzerias.
Yet, as far as I know, there have been no college protests or rallies in the streets of American cities decrying the systemic ethnic cleansing by Muslim forces. The Israel-obsessed right-wing podcasters, who claim to stand for Christian values and decency, barely, if ever, mention the slaughter of their co-religionists. They’re too busy with another topic.
In Sudan, another civil war has broken out. About 150,000 civilians have been murdered so far, while about 12 million have been displaced from their homes. Again, Christians, along with non-Arab minorities, are among the most vulnerable. Much like Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sudanese Armed Forces, backed by countries like Turkey and Iran, enjoy producing gleeful videos of their wanton killing sprees. On the other side of the war is the Rapid Support Forces, not much better, which, not long ago, had teamed up with SAF to ethnically cleanse the Sudanese population of non-Arabs.
Yet, this campaign of extermination garners no mentions from the “Squad.” Ben & Jerry’s co-founder hasn’t created a special flavor for the millions of victims of the Sudanese Islamist. The leaders of France, Britain, and Canada have yet to preen in front of the cameras as they recognize a nonexistent state for the minorities of Sudan. The Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate in New York City, who’s spent his adult life pretending to be a humanitarian, doesn’t think it worth mentioning this Islamist barbarism.
Do the young people, left and right, who’ve been propagandized into believing that Israel, and American Jews, are their enemy understand all of this going on? Probably not. Israel’s imaginary genocide dominates news coverage because progressive Democrats are obsessed with “colonizers,” and the populist social media bigots use the Jewish state to spread their own paranoia.
The other day, a tragically ignorant college student asked a question of Vice President JD Vance regarding Israel’s alleged power over the United States, adding that Jews were known to “persecute” Christians. The vice president, to his shame, did nothing to dissuade the underlying premise of the question, instead promising that President Donald Trump would never allow Israel to drag us into a long war — as if this was the goal of our longtime ally.
In the real world, there are exceptionally few places where Christians are safe in the Middle East outside of Israel. Christians, who predate Muslims in the Middle East by centuries, have been driven out or massacred in most Islamic nations. In the 20 years since Iraq was freed from Saddam Hussein, the Christian population has shrunk from 1.4 million to about 120,000. In Syria, the Christian population has dramatically contracted as well and is in constant danger. Christians made up somewhere around 80% of the Lebanese population at one point. Now it is under 30%. In Turkey, where Muslims have hit a hat trick of genocides (Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks), the Christian population has shrunk from about 20% to somewhere around .2%. The Coptic Christians of Egypt live in constant fear.
The Christian population in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has seen a significant decrease since the Palestinians took control. If Israel annexed Christ’s birthplace, Bethlehem, tomorrow, the Christian population would immediately explode.
It’s difficult not to notice that Islamists are generally given a pass by the same Westerners who spend their days accusing Israel of war crimes. Those who rail against AIPAC, one of many American groups lobbying for foreign policy goals, never seem to care about the billions the petro-sheiks of Qatar have dumped into our institutions to corrode Western values. Conversion to Christianity, incidentally, is still an apostasy in Qatar, punishable by the death sentence.
Now, if we ignore the Syrian civil war, the Yemeni civil war, the Libyan civil war, the Somali civil war, the Sudanese civil war, the Myanmar civil war, the Western Sahara conflict, the Sahel-Jihadist conflict, the Boko Haram terrorist army in Nigeria, the Central African Republic conflict, the Mozambique insurgency, the Ethiopia-Tigray war, the Philippines Mindanao clash, and the terrorism in Kashmir and Europe and so on, then Islam is indeed a peaceful religion.
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Not that Israel-obsessives care about Muslim victims, either, mind you. In Yemen, Iran-funded Houthis have sparked another civil war. Somewhere around 17 million people teeter on the edge of starvation daily, including over a million children. You won’t see any flotillas packed with privileged celebrities dressed in keffiyehs headed to a Yemeni port to feed children in hunger. Of course not. Unlike the Israelis, who gave activists air-conditioned rooms and airline tickets back to the comforts of their European homes, the Houthis would almost surely be less gracious.
There are no protests over Turkish ethnic cleansing efforts of Kurds from their own nation to northern Syria and Iraq. There are no big banners flown at left-wing protests condemning the Chicoms’ ethnic cleansing campaigns against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Dzungar, Hui, and others.
