It’s like 20 9/11s — or 50 October 7s. That’s approximately how many Christians have been murdered by Islamic jihadists in Africa just during the past decade. This “silent genocide,” as one ex-U.S. diplomat puts it, is still ongoing, too. It’s all part of an Islamic State (ISIS) effort to establish a new caliphate. And progress is being made on this front, as jihadist groups are poised to take over several African countries.
That’s not all there is on the Christian persecution front, either. Another report holds that Eurasian Christian communities are being destroyed with Israeli arms — funded by the U.S.
Regarding the Africa story, history is perhaps repeating itself. Unbeknownst to most, Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa by the 400s A.D. In fact, the region at the time had more Christians than Europe did.
That is, until the jihadists arrived.
Shortly after Islam’s 622 birth, Muslim armies swept across North Africa, and the rest is history. Today, less that one percent of the region’s population is Christian.
This will be sub-Saharan Africa’s fate, too, if the jihadists have their way. As website Global Fight Against Terrorism Funding reports:
ISIS terrorists are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa, according to international observers. Military groups linked to Islamic terrorists have been held responsible for a swathe of attacks in the area in recent months.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), attacks on Christians are increasing in the region…. Photos released recently by the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) show four attacks on Christian villages in Mozambique, with churches burned down, corpses of what the jihadists call “infidels” left strewn on the ground. MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital: “What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community.
“That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa — take over the whole country or most of several countries — is dangerous.”
These terrorists play for keeps, too. As radio station WFIW informed Thursday, Fernandez, who’s also a former U.S. diplomat, explained
that the goal of these jihadist groups is “eliminating Christian communities,” as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are “given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’”
“Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.”
The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month.
The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children.
In a separate report, the U.N.’s humanitarian office said the wave of attacks between July 20 and July 28 across three districts in Cabo Delgado caused the surge in displacements.
While the United Nations references attacks, its reporting has not detailed deaths or specified the targets. At least nine Christians in the Cabo Delgado province were reportedly killed in separate attacks by Islamic insurgents during that timeframe.
“I’m no fan of the United Nations in general, but I think what they’re doing is kind of the lowest common denominator,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “It’s kind of easy to be vague like that. The fact that some of this and some of the worst of it is happening because of a deep anti-Christian animus, hatred of Christians, religiously-based hatred of Christians is something that the UN usually doesn’t like to talk about.”
For sure, especially since anti-Christian hatred has a home at the UN itself.
As to the brutality, the following recent videos illustrate it, putting images to the words.
Unfortunately, the war on Christianity isn’t unique to Africa. Below, for instance, is a recent news piece about a massacre of Christians (and Druze) in Syria.
Then there’s the aforementioned story about the U.S.’s funding of anti-Christian activity. At issue is a politics-makes-strange-bedfellows partnership between Israel and Azerbaijan (Iran, their mutual enemy, unites them). According to The American Conservative, reporting Wednesday:
Recently, political commentator Ana Kasparian [asserted] that Israel armed Azerbaijan to erase the Armenian people from Karabakh. She referenced the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian region legally part of Azerbaijan. After Azerbaijan’s decisive 2023 victory, the world witnessed scenes of mass exodus: Armenian Christians choosing to burn their own homes rather than surrender them, ancient churches being desecrated, and over 100,000 people fleeing under military pressure. Freedom House confirmed this as ethnic cleansing — enabled by Israeli-supplied drones and surveillance tech.
Here’s where U.S. policy becomes complicit: America sends Israel $3.8 billion annually in military aid…, and spent $17.9 billion on aid to Israel in the year following October 2023.
Azerbaijan is such a bad actor, do note, that U.S. law actually prohibits us from selling arms to it. Israel, however, is not thus constrained.
Of course, the blind eye turned to Christian persecution won’t surprise anyone acquainted with the now very militantly secular West. Just consider Britain, which once spread Christianity to the very corners of the Earth. Police there recently threatened to arrest a pastor after he was attacked by a Muslim mob. His sin?
He expounded upon the differences between Christianity and Islam while holding a Koran.
U.K. cops also recently arrested activist Tommy Robinson (again), this time for posting social-media messages such as “F___ Hamas.”
But, hey, don’t be surprised. Western authorities well know that they have to protect the religion of peace.