Islamic terrorists massacred hundreds of Christians across Nigeria on Christmas Eve. In an attack that lasted several hours, Muslim Fulani militants shot Christian farmers, hacked defenseless women and children with machetes, and torched churches.
Although the European Parliament intends to express “solidarity” with the victims, it appears keen to shift the blame to the brutal ideologues responsible and instead pin the atrocities on so-called climate change.
genocide of Christians
according to According to Open Doors International, Nigeria is the sixth most brutal place in the world for Christians, which is bad news for its approximately 140 million Christian residents. Inside and outside the country’s northern sharia states, Christians are routinely subjected to forced Islamization, forced marriage, murder, torture, kidnapping, rape, and other ideologically motivated atrocities.
Nearly 5,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria last year alone, accounting for 82% of all Christians killed for their faith in 2023. report National Catholic Register.
2022 Genocide Monitor shown Jihadists massacred 6,000 civilians, mostly Christians, in the first three months of the year, and the numbers have continued to rise.
Wildred Anagbe, the Nigerian Bishop of the Diocese of Makurdi, believes the bloodshed amounts to genocide. tell The CNA said the Christian population was being “gradually and systematically” decimated by Islamists through “killings, kidnappings, torture and church burnings.”
Mark Lipdo, program coordinator at the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian charity that supports Christians in Nigeria, said: Said “Local Nigerians see these attacks as jihad, like the jihad of 200 years ago, which is why they are targeting Christmas and why they are targeting churches,” Christianity Today said. Reported.
“What’s going on now is a religious war,” Lipdo added.
Genocide Watch noted that terrorists killed more than 350,000 people in Nigeria between 2009 and 2022.
Climate change genocide
There were at least 200 Christians reportedly He was killed in a series of terrorist attacks in 26 Christian communities in Nigeria’s Central Highlands State between December 23 and Christmas Day 2023. Other estimates put the death toll at more than 230.
Majid Macham returned to the area to celebrate Christmas with his family. Said Reuters reported: “We were taken without our knowledge and those who could escape ran into the bushes. A significant number of those who could not escape were captured and killed with machetes.”
After the marauders shot his brother in the leg, Matcham dragged him into the bushes where he hid for the night.
Alliance Defending Freedom International I got it. The attack left hundreds more injured, eight churches burned, and another 15,000 people internally displaced.
As footage of mass graves spread online, Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto Diocese told Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu: “There is no excuse before God and the Nigerian people.” report C.N.A.
empty gesture
Western organizations have suggested that the attacks, although often perceived as ethnic and religious conflicts, are mainly driven by severe weather patterns.
Reuters, citing an anonymous expert, floated the idea that “conflicts are not based on ethnic or religious differences but on the availability of resources.”
The activities of the International Crisis Group are as follows: supported George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and quoted According to Biden’s State Department, Claim “Climate change has exacerbated violence between farmers and pastoralists.”
“The security implications of changing weather patterns are becoming increasingly evident in deadly land resource conflicts between farmers and pastoralists across the continent,” the group added.
The European Parliament similarly appears prepared to frame this persecution not as a sustained holy war but as a resource conflict triggered by the specter of anthropogenic climate change.
Members of the Green/European Freedom Alliance, a political group concerned about climate change, motion For last week’s resolution, which criticized the gross underestimation of the Christian death toll and the use of religious terms to describe the conflict. After all, “several factors need to be considered, including competition for land caused by rapid climate change.”
The proposed resolution urges Congress to “instrumentalize farmer-herder conflicts to spread religious-based hatred” and “[l] We call on the Nigerian authorities to identify and take meaningful steps to address all the root causes of violence in Plateau State, including competition for scarce resources, environmental degradation, and the absence of effective mediation systems. ”
The People Concerned about Climate Change resolution also calls on European authorities to facilitate the migration of Africans to Europe and to “ensure humanitarian assistance to people affected and displaced by violence and climate change.” I would have asked him to do it.
The European Parliament ultimately passed a revised version. solutionThe resolution begins strongly by acknowledging the killing of Nigerian Christians by “Islamic terrorist groups” and the destruction of 18,000 churches and 2,200 Christian schools since 2009. However, the resolution largely reverts to the language originally drafted by those concerned about climate change.
“There are a combination of factors that promote conflict, including territorial disputes, ethnic tensions, access to scarce resources, and environmental degradation, among others,” the European resolution states.
The parliamentarians also acknowledged the role of “climate change, competition for scarce resources, and the disappearance of effective mediation systems in exacerbating farmer-herder conflicts.”
ADF International highlighted Various members of parliament have criticized this resolution.
Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament, Bert-Jan Luijsen, said: “To say that it is just a conflict between farmers and herders does not acknowledge the other causes, which are causing the death and destruction. They’re Islamic extremists.”
György Herbeny, a Hungarian politician and member of parliament, said: “Some people are so blinded by ideology that they are completely indifferent to human suffering when it comes to Christians. They misunderstand the timing of the attacks, brutal killings and destruction of churches. “We can only understand the impact of the incident.” Persecution of Christians, and we should be able to say so. ”
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