Scarcely a day passes that media personalities aren\u2019t sounding the alarm over the relentless march of \u201cIslamism\u201d\u2014i.e. militant Islam.\u00a0 To hear them tell it, one could be forgiven for thinking that \u201cIslamism\u201d\u2014exemplified by the likes of ISIS\u2014is mere centimeters away from destroying both America and Israel.<\/p>\n
Of course, this is hysteria.\u00a0 Jihadists are dangerous individuals, for sure, but America and Israel have ample resources with which to protect their citizens.<\/p>\n
Such, however, cannot be said for the Christians <\/em>of dozens of countries <\/em>around the world who daily suffer unimaginable predations at the hands of the Muslim majorities of their homelands.<\/p>\n Take Niger, for example.\u00a0 This West African country has a population of 17 million people.\u00a0 About 98 percent of Niger\u2019s inhabitants are Muslims.\u00a0 The remaining 350,000 consists of Christians and animists.<\/p>\n In January, following the Charlie Hebdo incident a continent away, Muslims ravaged Christian communities from town to town.\u00a0 The mobs looted, burned, desecrated, and destroyed churches while unleashing violence\u2014including lethal violence\u2014on vulnerable Christians.\u00a0 In the capital city of Niamey alone, 45 churches were burned, 173 people injured, and five murdered.<\/p>\n Yet it wasn\u2019t just churches that were destroyed.<\/p>\n An orphanage<\/em> and a school<\/em> were both torched as well.<\/p>\n A Christian from the town of Zinder conveyed the sense of terror that has overcome his community.\u00a0 \u201cThey are looking for Christians.\u00a0 They burned everything with any Christian symbols on it, whether Catholic or Evangelical.\u201d<\/p>\n Another Christian said bluntly: \u201cWe are living in fear.\u00a0 Many Christians won\u2019t sleep in their own homes for fear of being attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n Those who witnessed the attacks are traumatized by the memories of hordes of people, particularly young boys, ransacking their places of worship before igniting them in flames.<\/p>\n The archbishop of Niamey explained that the Muslim marauders were \u201cgoing around asking, \u2018Are you Allahu Akbar or are you Alleluia\u2019\u201d in their attempts to \u201cto identify Christians in the city.\u201d He desperately asked: \u201cWhat are they going to do next?\u201d<\/p>\n Nearly 400 homeless Christians are now living in military camps in Zinder.\u00a0 Some Christians, however, have returned to their homes.\u00a0 But they know the violence is far from over, for their Muslim victimizers are demanding the release of those who authorities managed to arrest.<\/p>\n More recently, the violence has escalated\u2014and, as it turns out, suspicions regarding Boko Haram\u2019s involvement that were raised last month have been confirmed.<\/p>\n Diffa is a border region between Niger and Nigeria.\u00a0 The latter just declared a State of Emergency in response to a series of assaults courtesy of Boko Haram.<\/p>\n Thousands of Christians (and others) are evacuating Diffa and heading to Zinder city.\u00a0 Families have been separated.\u00a0 According to the BBC, one evacuee, a female, was desperately trying to find her loved ones.\u00a0 \u201cI left home when I heard the blast at Tattasai market and went looking for my children.\u201d\u00a0 Although she left Diffa the day before, she stated that \u201cI have no peace of mind because I could not locate my mother, my son, my aunties and my other relatives.\u201d\u00a0 The woman continued: \u201cEverybody went their separate way and I did not meet any of them on my way here.\u201d<\/p>\n The refugee explained that while she searched nearly \u201ceverywhere\u201d in Zinder, she had been unable to find her son.<\/p>\n The Christians in Nigeria can relate.\u00a0 Since the rise of Boko Haram, roughly 3.2 million<\/em> residents have left their homes. According to Open Borders, an organization dedicated to \u201cserving persecuted Christians worldwide,\u201d a Nigerian official told the BBC last month that as many as 2,000 people<\/em> may have been murdered in the northeastern town of Baga: bodies littered the streets and the entire town had been burned to the ground.<\/p>\n In the Borno State capital of Maiduguri, a suicide bombing claimed the lives of 16 people and injured 20 more.<\/p>\n The bomber turned out to be a 10 year-old girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n As if the displaced citizens of Nigeria and Niger didn\u2019t already have it rough enough, Nigeria\u2019s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has just launched an investigation into reports that the refugee camps <\/em>are being used for purposes of raping and child trafficking.<\/p>\n According to a report published by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), hundreds of girls have been delivered to the slave traffic.\u00a0 Quoted in the report is a nurse who says that many girls were brought to her hospital upon being raped.\u00a0 The ICIR report also mentions that not only are refugees being enslaved and sexually brutalized; they are as well tortured with knives and fire.<\/p>\n Christian minorities <\/em>in Islamic nations the globe over are being made to endure merciless oppression.\u00a0 And yet for all of the constant chatter over \u201cIslamism\u201d that we hear from Americans and, for that matter, such representatives of Israel as its Prime Minister, we hear little to nothing about the untold numbers of Christians who find themselves at the mercies of their murderous Islamic persecutors.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scarcely a day passes that media personalities aren\u2019t sounding the alarm over the relentless march of \u201cIslamism\u201d\u2014i.e. militant Islam.\u00a0 To hear them tell it, one could be forgiven for thinking that \u201cIslamism\u201d\u2014exemplified by the likes of ISIS\u2014is mere centimeters away from destroying both America and Israel. 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