Boko Haram Kills in the Name of God

For John, BLUF:  Nationhood requires a degree of unity, something Nigeria struggles with.  Boko Haram, a terrorist group, infamous for kidnapping school girls, is not willing to compromise for national unity.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Archbishop Says Christians Slaughtered ‘Like Chickens’ in Nigeria

Here is the sub-headline:

A Nigerian archbishop has decried the slaughter of Christians in his country and the media silence surrounding it, declaring that “Christians are being killed like chickens.”

This is from last year, but Boko Haram is still out there, enforcing its view of God by killing those who do not agree with them.

From 30 April 2019, in Breitbart, by Mr Thomas D Williams, PhD.

Here is the lede plus four:

Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso told LifeSiteNews said that in the Muslim-dominated northwest of the country people live in constant fear, especially in the state of Kaduna where he resides.

“It is one of the states where everybody walks around afraid.  There are kidnappers and bandits and they are killing people.  Villages are being burned down,” Archbishop Ndagoso said in an article published Monday.

“In other parts of the country if something happens, the president shows up. But here people are being killed and nothing is being done about it,” he said.

Ndagoso says there is “a systemic persecution of Christians in these states” but the nation’s leaders “do not have the political will to address the issues, to enforce the provisions of the constitution regarding the equality of religions and the equality of citizens before the law.”

Since last October, the archbishop says, “there have been serious attacks in villages especially in my archdiocese of Kaduna.  Hundreds and hundreds of villagers have been killed.”

The term Boko Harem is usually translated as "Western education is forbidden".

It is one thing to think that everyone else's vision of God a flawed.  It is another to slaughter such people for their supposed error.  This is the kind of ideology which should not be allowed to spread.  But, it must be treated as a criminal activity, as it is, what with depriving others of their lives (civil rights), without conviction in a court of law.  If their law, in territory they control, allows it, it is one thing.  It is another to use force of arms to expand that territory.

Cameroon is not the only African nation with persecution.

Hat tip to my wife, Martha, who found this article.

Regards  —  Cliff