This cannot be blamed on Israel, the perpetrators have protected victim status among leftists, and the victim group is not among the left’s recognized victim classes, so this will get little or no attention.
An update on this story. “Christian villages in Nigeria reeling after Christmas attacks leave nearly 200 dead,” by Peter Pinedo, CNA, December 27, 2023:
Catholic and Nigerian leaders are demanding government action as Christian villages in the central Nigerian state of Plateau are reeling from a series of Christmas weekend attacks that left nearly 200 Christian Nigerians dead.
Photos obtained by CNA show victims of the attacks being buried in mass graves, underscoring the scale of the bloodshed.
“This indeed has been a gory Christmas for us,” Plateau governor Caleb Mutfwang said in a Tuesday statement that noted the attacks were “well-coordinated” and carried out using “heavy weapons.”
Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Diocese in northern Nigeria meanwhile called on the newly elected Nigerian president Bola Tinubu to take immediate action to protect the Nigerian people, telling him: “You have no excuses before God or the people of Nigeria” and that “neither God nor history will forgive you if you fail.”
The bishop’s address, which was published by the Nigeria Catholic Network, also emphasized that “Nigerians have almost lost hope” that “a government can really and truly care for them” and that “our politicians will put our interests first and find a way to deal with the cancer of corruption.”
According to accounts by several local news sources and human rights activists, 198 Christians were killed in a series of terror attacks in 26 Christian communities in Plateau. The attacks began the night of Dec. 23 and continued through Christmas Day.
Maria Lozano, a representative for the papal relief group Aid to the Church in Need, told CNA that the Christmas attacks made the weekend “one of the most violent [times] in the area’s history.” She said she believes that a radicalized Islamic tribe known as the Fulani is responsible for the latest violence.
The attack also marks another instance of terrorists targeting Christian Nigerians on significant Christian feast days such as in the 2022 Pentecost massacre that killed 50 Christian villagers. Lozano said the attacks were carried out because of a combination of reasons including ethnic and religious strife between the Christian farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen.
She pointed out that the timing of the attacks had “religious undertones.”
Lozano also emphasized that a “lack of response from the government” over the years has worsened the situation in the region and that tangible government support has been largely absent after the Christmas massacre. The absence of government support, Lozano said, has forced Christian churches to take on the “primary responsibility of providing assistance.”…
Tony Rice says
The Muslims in Nigeria are only doing what they are instructed and expected to do in their holy book, the Koran.. That is where the trouble starts , why is it not banned throughout the world as a book of hate ,ordering it’s followers to kill all infidels if we won’t submit to Allah . And what is known re HIS Prophet, 4 –6–8/9.
sam says
Clearly officials like it ! or they deny without bothering to seek out themselves what is stated and advised to Muslims
Jerry says
You mean the Arabic language precursor to Mein Kampf, cobbled together by the followers of the plundere for profit who proclaimed himself the last snd final prophetwho planned to plunder and conquer the Ecole world?
loek says
Not quite sure what the digits mean at the end Tony. Forgive my ignorance.
Tatanka says
Pieceful Islam sas usual
tim gallagher says
islam’s vicious, murderously violent scum carrying on with their usual “peaceful” actions. I believe that the Muslim scum would be behaving even worse right now because their itch to murder and rape non-Muslims would have been fired up to a higher level by the hamas actions when they invaded Israel. Muslims would be very keen to emulate their evil heroes from hamas. islam is nothing but a load of barbaric, evil shit and it needs to be flushed down history’s toliet to advance mankind. islam keeps so many people in the dark ages of primitive barbarity.
James Lincoln says
Again, crickets from dopey Francis.
OLD GUY says
Wake up America islam is coming for you and it will be deadly and brutal. If a politician is PRO-Islam or open borders check their background and funding sources.