Leslie wrote about the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, describing it as a major flop.
Our California correspondent also brought up her awful Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has used it as a way to bash President Donald Trump and brag about the state’s “clean” energy.
Well, I wanted to bring attention to a deal Newsom signed at the conference.
Newsom boasted about a “clean” energy deal he inked with Nigeria, but omitted a fact about the African country.
Yes, Nigeria is in the midst of a multi-year Christian genocide.
Let’s go back to April 2014.
Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria since 2002, but became international news in 2014 when the terrorists kidnapped 276 schoolgirls.
It launched the #BringBackOurGirls movement, which did absolutely nothing.
Over 80 girls are still missing.
But Boko Haram has continued to slaughter Christians across Nigeria.
According to Open Doors, Nigeria is ranked seventh when it comes to religious persecution.
The country is home to over 106 million Christians, making up 46.5% of the population.
But it’s not just murder. Boko Haram and other terrorists abduct priests, sell women into sex slavery, burn down villages, etc:
According to a report issued in August by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), an African nongovernmental group that documents human rights violations, in the first seven months of this year alone, more than 7,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria.Christians of various denominations and moderate Muslims regularly die at the hands of Boko Haram, Fulani militants and other violent actors.Numbers vary and are difficult to verify, but between 2009 and 2023 in Nigeria, Intersociety reports at least 52,000 Christians killed, 18,500 abducted and unlikely to have survived, and more than 20,000 churches and Christian schools attacked.
Most of the attacks happen in northern Nigeria:
Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have explicitly and repeatedly declared Christians as targets. And many victims have told us that when Fulani militants attack, they don’t just shout “Allahu Akbar” (“God is most great”)—they also yell, “We will destroy all Christians.”According to the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa, who has painstakingly collected data on civilian violence and deaths in the region, the trends are clear: More Christians are killed by the extremists than Muslims—given the relative population size of Muslims and Christians in northern states. In fact, if you are a Christian, you are 6.5 times more likely to be killed than a Muslim and 5.1 times more likely to be abducted. This does not make the suffering of a Muslim less tragic; it just makes it less likely.
President Donald Trump already told the Pentagon to prepare for any action if Nigeria doesn’t end the persecution.
Unfortunately, the violence isn’t limited to Nigeria. We’ve documented other attacks, especially in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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