“A never-ending massacre of Christians being ‘killed for sport’ is reportedly happening in Nigeria, yet the world appears to be largely deaf to the matter,” Fox News reported Saturday. “More than 52,000 Christians ‘have been butchered or hacked to death for being Christians’ since 2009 in Nigeria, according to Intersociety, a civil society group based in Onitsha.”
“Christians are killed for sport, especially Christian children,” Rev. Johnnie Moore, a former commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and president of the Congress of Christian Leaders told Fox. “Entire villages are burnt and pillaged. Thousands of churches have been destroyed. Children and women are hunted.
Hunted and killed by whom?
“Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous country with 206 million people, has grappled for over a decade with an insurgency in the northeast by Islamic extremist rebels of Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State West Africa Province,” The Hill reported in 2022. “The extremists, who have killed more than 35,000 people by a U.N. count, are fighting to establish Shariah law and to stop Western education.”
How can they do that, with Christians estimated in the Fox News report to “represent 46% of Nigeria’s population”?
Easy. The “law-abiding” are disarmed by law.
“In Nigeria, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law,” GunPolicy.org documented [Note the link goes to the Internet Archive, as the site has closed down due to lack of funding.] For those not familiar with that resource, it was a project of the Sydney School of Public Health, and while of a decidedly anti-gun bent, nonetheless provided instructive and useful compilations of gun laws from around the globe.
“[C]ivilians are not allowed to possess machine-guns, military rifles and handguns … private possession of semi-automatic assault weapons [and] private possession of handguns (pistols and revolvers) is prohibited,” the site advised. Add to that licensing, background checks and registration for what they are allowed to own, a prohibition on concealed carry, and stiff criminal penalties for gun law violations, and Nigeria is one of those places where not only are the “law-abiding” at an extreme disadvantage but also a place that has enacted many of the same “commonsense gun safety laws” the Democrats are now furiously trying to impose on Americans.
A more recent synopsis of Nigerian gun laws was posted in a 2023 “Overview of Gun Regulation in Nigeria,” which offers a cognitively dissonant “solution”: Amend Nigeria’s Firearms Act to “enunciate… the right to kill in defense of oneself or in defense of one’s family or property,” while simultaneously advocating “further restrict people from legal access to firearms [and] reduc[e] the circulation of firearms in the country, which will in turn save lives.”
The fraudulently-named Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence recently reissued its “Annual Gun Law Scorecard®” (good grief, they’ve registered it like it has some value), where it rates states from A to F based on how many ridiculous infringements that actually prevent defensive options their (mostly) Democrat co-prohibitionists impose under force of arms. They ought to expand it to rate countries “with strong gun laws.” Nigeria would get an “A++.”
And yes, “the world does appear to be largely deaf” to the massacre, which is curious, especially since it is blacks being slaughtered wholesale. You’d think Giffords and fellow gun-grab groups that rely so strongly on urban members of color, along with black vote panderers Joe Biden and the Democrats, race hustlers like Al Sharpton and the NAACP, and the Council on Islamic American Relations would be all over this, but they’re apparently too busy portraying non-leftist white people as racists and trying to impose Nigerian-style citizen disarmament on all.
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I don’t live under a rock but this is the first I have heard of this for about a year and a half. My understanding was that Islam is taking over the country and killing Christians but we were supposed to be stopping that. I didn’t know it was still going on or that it was so bad. So are we going to blow up the Jihad mosques in America that are calling for Jihad? I mean, fair is fair. If they are going to kill us for being Christians then shouldn’t we show them the same respect? Oh, no,… Read more »
“It’s a long long way from here Don’t you worry yourself my dear It’s a long long way from here” — UB40 “It’s A Long Long Way” Until it isn’t. A recent story told of an opponent to Vladimir Putin that was denied a slot on Russia’s upcoming presidential election ballot. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/23/a-pro-peace-russian-presidential-hopeful-is-blocked-by-the-election-commission/ Not to mention that Putin’s biggest opponent has been in prison for some time now. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/europe/navalny-new-years-eve-message-siberia-prison-intl/index.html Usually those stories get a lot of press here in the states. But not this time because, well, Trump, Colorado and Maine (so far). I’m betting if you’re reading this you’re a… Read more »
There comes a time to cease being law-abiding.
The stiffer the penalties, the less one has to lose when resisting arrest.
Apparently anti-gun mentality is the same all over the world. As long as the government holds all of the power with the ability to genocide you and quell the forces of anti-tyranny they are fine with millions getting killed because those millions cannot defend themselves.
Just so everyone knows, this murderous “religious” cleansing is much more widespread and common than reported. All of this is done by those affiliated with the “religion of peace” — islam and they are empowered by a government that refuses to let their own citizens be armed so as to defend themselves. This is a good example of what America would be like should we ever be disarmed. Make no mistake, there are jihadis in this country. Make no mistake there are cartel operators in this country. I have seen them with my own eyes out here in rural Az.… Read more »
Sheep to the slaughter. Thank God we have the 2nd Amendment. Might come in handy soon.
and this is what awaits Americans when the government takes your guns. maybe a few million butchered bodies littering the United States’ landscape will “awaken” the left leaning lunatics? but then it will be to late.
It’s what happens when the government disarms the people. It just happened to Israeli’s in October. It will happen here as well unless patriots stop it.
Those who obey laws banning guns are doomed to die at the hands of those who don’t.
Is that “sideshow Bob” in the background or just another sports personality?