“The blood of thousands of Nigerian martyrs cries out for justice.”
A few weeks ago on his Real Time program, host Bill Maher broke ranks with his mainstream media compatriots, as he occasionally does, to fault them for the widespread ignorance of the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria. He observed correctly that the Boko Haram Muslim terror group there is “literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.” He even had statistics at the ready: “They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009, they’ve burned 18,000 churches.” He concluded, “Where are the kids protesting this?”
The mainstream media are not covering it, and “the kids” aren’t protesting it, because the purportedly compassionate Left is at best indifferent to, and at worst approves of, the suffering and extermination of Christians. In their multiculturalist mindset, Christianity is categorized as Eurocentric (read: “white”) and therefore oppressive and evil. For a similar reason, Leftists refuse to connect Islam with terrorism because Muslims are grouped with the sacrosanct “Other” – “brown” victims of Judeo-Christian, capitalist, white supremacist oppression. Hence, the Left freely hurls accusations of “Islamophobia” but there is no “Christophobia” equivalent.
This week my colleague Robert Spencer pointed out at Jihad Watch that the Al Jazeera network, the “CNN of the Arab world,” had previously rebutted Maher’s observation with this gaslighting doozy of an editorial: “No, Bill Maher, There is No ‘Christian Genocide’ in Nigeria.” Spencer says of the piece that “the hypocrisy is staggering and the inversion of reality total,” but hey, as the Muslim prophet Muhammad is claimed to have said, “War is deceit.”
The Al Jazeera article was written by Gimba Kakanda, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Research and Analytics in the Office of the Vice President (I don’t know how he gets all that on a business card). Kakanda argues that “allegations” of a Christian genocide in Nigeria are merely “coordinated attacks” by “foreign actors” who “ignore [the country’s] complexities and manipulate longstanding ethnic and resource-based tensions to advance sectarian agendas.” He declared that “claims of a religious war between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria are simplistic” and ignore “ethnic rivalries, land disputes, and criminality.”
Kakanda zeroed in on Bill Maher’s “sensationalized account” based on “largely fabricated claims and manipulated images from unverified outlets.” He dismissed it as “misinformation – aimed at maligning Nigeria” because of its “support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict.”
“While Western media often highlight attacks on churches and Christian communities,” Kakanda writes, the reality is that Boko Haram kills Muslims too, so “the real danger lies in media outlets portraying Boko Haram… as representative of Islam.” Characterizing their “indiscriminate” violence as “a strictly anti-Christian campaign is propaganda.” --->READ MORE HERE
On September 28, 2025, the Nigerian Federal Government and its President Bola Tinubu released a statement refuting “false claims of religious genocide in Nigeria.” Yet the reality Nigerian Christians face tells an entirely different story.
Over 52,000 Christians living in Nigeria have been murdered since 2009 with more than 7,000 murders occurring this year alone. The gut-wrenching photos and videos online depict Islamic terrorist groups hunting innocent Nigerians down with assault rifles and burning them alive, setting hillsides ablaze, firing lines, burning churches to the ground and mass burials. A staggering 80% of Christian deaths worldwide come from Nigeria.
All for the “crime” of accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
According to watchdog group Open Doors’ World Watch List 2025 Report, of the nearly 106.6 million Nigerian Christians, about 3.3 million are currently considered internally displaced people (IDPs), having been driven from their homes by violence. More than 19,000 churches have been decimated, and more than 10,000 schools have been closed in Northern Nigeria, leaving millions of children illiterate and vulnerable to forced marriage and poverty. Abductions have become commonplace, with victims being held for huge ransoms. Women are being sexually assaulted and trafficked. Christians are being killed on the spot for speaking ill of Muhammed or Islam. The very names of Christians in Nigeria – many of which reference Biblical figures like David, Esther, and Samuel – put them at risk of losing their lives.
This all comes at the hands of several Islamic terrorist groups, including Boko Haram and their powerful split ISWAP (Islamic State in West Africa Province, also known as ISIS-West Africa), Ansaru, Fulani militants, and a more recent jihadist terrorist group Lakurawa.
The violence has mainly occurred in Nigeria’s northern states and Middle Belt, where Fulani herdsmen and armed bandits have targeted assaults on predominantly Christian farming communities. Northern Nigeria is also home to 12 states governed by Sharia Law, which supersedes Nigeria’s Constitution outlining the right to religious freedom. There has also been an increase in violence in the southern Nigerian states in recent years, where most of the Nigerian Christian population (71%) resides.
This is the true reality the body of Christ in Nigeria faces today – a major global genocide. Yet there has been radio silence, aside from a few blips, from the mainstream media. Turn any corner in a major city and you are likely to see pro-Palestinian protests. But as Bill Maher recently called out on his show “Real Time,” “Where are the kids protesting this?” --->READ MORE HEREFOLLOW LINK BELOW TO A RELEVANT STORY:
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