Tango01 | 23 Feb 2018 9:41 p.m. PST |
"ARMED men stormed through 15 villages to massacre Christians and destroy their churches in a violent crackdown against the religion in Nigeria. Dozens of people have been killed after the gangs ransacked towns and villages to clear them of all aspects of the Christian faith. Houses belonging to believers have also been razed with authorities doing little to help, an anti-persecution watchdog claimed. Open Doors spoke to one Christian who described the broad daylight attack carried out by a group of Fulani – one of Africa's largest ethnicities. A spokeswoman said: "One attack took place in broad daylight, as people were about to go to church…"
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Cacique Caribe | 23 Feb 2018 10:22 p.m. PST |
That's because all the attention is on other more useful news, like Myanmar. Dan |
goragrad | 23 Feb 2018 11:12 p.m. PST |
On the other hand CC if the religions in the incident were reversed…. |
Cacique Caribe | 23 Feb 2018 11:15 p.m. PST |
Yes. Then Nigeria would be getting all the US media attention then. Nigeria even tried to sweep Boko Haram under the media rug this week, as if mission accomplished, by claiming that all the Christian girls kidnapped in 2014 had been rescued/returned when there are still about 100 unaccounted for: link Not much ever got said on US media about the Christian schoolboys who were beheaded, burned alive or castrated, or the ones who were sent north as slaves, even though that also took place in 2014, just a few weeks before the schoolgirls were rounded up. Not even a hashtag for them. And thousands of boys have been targeted by Boko Haram since 2014. One wouldn't know it by watching just US mainstream/network news. As a result, most Americans are clueless about this: link And now Boko Haram claims to be poised to begin the school rounds again, visiting Christian schools just like they did in 2014. Like last time, boys who refuse to convert to Islam will probably get slaughtered in horrific ways. And girls will be forced to convert and will be taken as female sex slaves or concubines. Dan |
Sobieski | 24 Feb 2018 4:43 a.m. PST |
This stuff is horrible, but so is what is going on in Burma. |
Striker | 24 Feb 2018 5:21 a.m. PST |
And to think that with "24 hour news services" there'd be time for more reporting on all things around the globe and home. If only someone would make one of these services? We've got the troops stationed all over Africa so it shouldn't be hard to drop in a surprise for would be attackers. And to game it I would run Spectre Ops, 2-4 SF teams against a large group of GM-run troops. |
Ferd45231 | 24 Feb 2018 5:42 a.m. PST |
Read the Economist. They are much more worldly in their reporting than 90% of American broadcast or print media. H |
StoneMtnMinis | 24 Feb 2018 8:32 a.m. PST |
It is being reported right after the news of the on-going socialist disaster in Venezuela. It is almost as if the dead stream media doesn't want us to know news that doesn't support their ideology. Nah, that would never happen. |
daler240D | 25 Feb 2018 4:17 p.m. PST |
Nothing about sub Saharan Africa ever gets reported in the US. |
Cacique Caribe | 25 Feb 2018 4:51 p.m. PST |
Au contraríe. After the girls got kidnapped in 2014, we had nothing except that non stop for a long while. On every network. An incredible thing for our ADHD population. And then they all even came up with a hashtag, advertised both on social media and schools, which is a big deal for this society now. It took every fiber of their being just to come up with that, as their grand gesture of commitment and concern. The boys who were slaughtered and enslaved a few weeks earlier didn't even get a hashtag. I guess it wasn't useful news, unlike how it was with the girls. We should have been bombarded with news about both. Specially since, despite international warnings, the group that did this had just been removed from the list of terrorist organizations shortly before their bigger terror sprees began in 2014. Dan PS. We used to hear a lot more about African countries long ago via US media. The good along with the bad. Despite all the apparent news sources, in every type of media you want, in the US now only the most useful news gets to us via our networks. If we want more then we have to look for non-US news outlets. |
USAFpilot | 27 Feb 2018 7:33 a.m. PST |
The main stream media has been controlled by leftists for a long time now. What is even scarier is how the communists have completely taken over the education system in this country and have influenced a whole new generation. |
Cacique Caribe | 27 Feb 2018 9:50 a.m. PST |
USAFPilot Agreed! Except that most of those wannabes wouldn't last 5 minutes in the world they are helping create. Like a Cuban exile friend tells me, those useful idiots are like shampoo, while the real dangerous ones are like the water …. After the shampoo gets enough water to lather up and do its job, the loosening up of the dirt, it then gets completely rinsed off, along with the dirt. Dan PS. Old Cold War ideology at play, except now mostly directed from within … mostly: YouTube link |
Howler | 27 Feb 2018 10:09 p.m. PST |
I see this pattern on national news: Trump bashing (lots and lots of it), All the presidents men that Mueller is getting and the inevitability that Trump is going down, bad weather, fires, slanting left national situations (NRA bad, guns bad, left leaning opponents of reason are national heroes, and some feel good story to finish it off. Oh yeah, they also wish us a good night. I find very little deserving of applause from mainstream media. In fact, one of my biggest questions is why.I do not understand their apparent hate and deliberate distortions. |
Cacique Caribe | 28 Feb 2018 2:43 a.m. PST |
The illusion of choice in US news media. So many news channels and outlets to choose from. It boggles the mind. Yet all of them speak out of the exact same set of talking points. Imagine that! Dan |
Silurian | 28 Feb 2018 6:47 a.m. PST |
How many tens of thousands of educators are there in the US? They're all communist are they? And only recently so, such that the 'new generation' have been influenced? I wonder how many we have here on TMP that have been insulted by the above posts? Shouldn't all this stuff be in the Blue Fez? It hardly pertains to ultramodern warfare, let alone wargaming? |
USAFpilot | 28 Feb 2018 8:42 a.m. PST |
Silurian you are right, it's not all teachers. Most teachers are fine outstanding citizens. I was thinking of some of the school administrators in California who do things like ban our National Anthem from being played because they think it is "outdated and racially insensitive." And that teacher in California who went on an anti-military rant telling his students that those serving are the "lowest of the low." And the school which banned students from wearing an image of the American flag on their shirt. There are countless examples of this type of nonsense going on in our schools. I think over the course of many years that leftist have risen in our education system and are pushing their radical ideology on students. American education is ranked poorly compared to other industrialized nations. Our students are falling way behind. |
Grattan54 | 04 Jan 2024 7:16 p.m. PST |
Still going on. Saw a report that 52,000 Christians were murdered in 2023. Yet, this goes completely under the radar. |
35thOVI | 04 Jan 2024 7:42 p.m. PST |
Not totally ignored, but largely so by the MSM. This is blacks killing blacks. It's also Christians being exterminated by Muslims. That does not fit the agenda of those in the colleges and the media, "educated" in those same colleges. The agenda of the white colonialist killing and subjugating the perceived dark skinned native. Such is the coverage we get of Israel's war in Gaza. That DOES fit their narrative, angenda and what they have been indoctrinated into believing. The same for the Uyghur genocide in China. Does not fit the agenda. You can find the information out there, if you are willing to look on the web. "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."
Subject: Continued Massacres of Christians in Nigeria Ensured by Citizen Disarmament
link Subject: Amid killings of Christians, experts warn Nigeria may risk ‘religious war' | Crux
link Subject: Nigeria Is A Killing Field Of Defenseless Christians link |