Recent claims of a Christian killing in Nigeria have been shot down by the Christian Association of Nigeria, which said the stories were m...
Recent claims of a Christian killing in Nigeria have been shot down by the Christian Association of Nigeria, which said the stories were made up by people from outside of Nigeria.
Bill Maher, an American comedian and HBO show, recently said that Christians were being killed in Nigeria and blamed Islamists in the country for it.
As someone who is not Christian, I can say that the Christians in Nigeria are being killed on a regular basis. Since 2009, they've killed more than 100,000 people. 18,000 churches have been burned down. This is Boko Haram, the group of Islamists. People are trying to kill a lot more people here than in Gaza. "They are literally trying to get rid of all the Christians in a whole country," Maher said.
Also, US Senator Ted Cruz said that officials in the Nigerian government were "ignorant of and even helped with the mass murder of Christians by Islamist jihadists." He also said it was sad that Nigerian Christians are being killed because of their religion by Islamist terrorist groups and that they were "forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria." It's high time to make the Nigerian leaders who make these things possible pay for them.
The Texas Senator said he has presented the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act to the US Senate so that those responsible can be held responsible. This bill would target these officials with strong sanctions and other tools.
Additionally, Riley Moore, who is a US Congressman from West Virginia's 2nd District, sent a letter to Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, asking him to make Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). He also told Rubio that he should stop selling arms and giving technical help to countries that do so until the Nigerian government shows that it is serious about stopping the killing and persecution of Christians.
In an interview with Guardian Nigeria on Tuesday, Abimbola Ayuba, who is the Director of National Issues and Social Welfare at CAN, said that killings were happening but that Christians were not the only ones being targeted.
"All I have to say is that there are real facts all over the place about the rise in killings in Nigeria." It's not true that the killings have happened in a certain way.
"In places where Christians are in charge, like Benue, it will look like Christians are being killed. "But this same insurgency has killed several Muslims during their early morning prayers; they attack them in their mosques, kill them, kidnap people, and do other things," Ayuba said.
Further, he said that some groups use the situation to get attention from other countries.
"Our situation is sometimes used against us by groups that know how to get what they want from foreign interests."
"Those outside our system have every right to look in, but we also have every right to report the truth." Yes, the fact that this uprising has been going on for too long is a worry. It's also not clear why so many people are being killed. Ayuba said, "If they open fire in a market, the bullets don't look for a Christian or a Muslim or even a baby."
He told everyone to work together to put an end to the uprising and warned them not to look for help from other countries.
"Now all we need to do is work together to stop this uprising and deal with the problems that come with groupthink."
"Why go to America when you can file your petition in this Senate?" When they talk about Nigeria as a country of interest, we will all pay in the end. "But those who run abroad to find sympathy know why they do that," Ayuba said.