Comic and HBO host Invoice Maher — an atheist — is sounding the alarm on behalf of Christians.
The “Actual Time with Invoice Maher” host spoke on his discuss present Friday concerning the plight of believers in Nigeria, the place a little-covered Christian genocide is underway. Christians there, he stated, are being “systematically killed,” calling out the hypocrisy of these hyper-focused on Gaza whereas ignoring a bonafide assault towards a folks group within the African nation.
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“[T]he indisputable fact that this problem has not gotten on folks’s radar, it’s fairly superb,” he stated. “Should you don’t know what’s happening in Nigeria, your media sources suck; you might be in a bubble.”
Maher continued, “I’m not a Christian, however they’re systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100 thousand since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 church buildings. These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. That is a lot extra of a genocide try than what’s going on in Gaza. They’re actually trying to wipe out the Christian inhabitants of a complete nation.”
“The place are the youngsters protesting this?” Maher requested.
In August, the Nigeria-based NGO Worldwide Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Regulation reported Islamic jihadists have killed 125,009 Christians since 2009, with 19,100 church buildings burned down in the identical time interval. And, because the starting of this 12 months, terrorists have murdered greater than 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria.
Open Doorways, a watchdog for Christian persecution, ranks Nigeria as No. 7 on its World Watch Checklist.
“In accordance with Open Doorways analysis,” the group reported, “extra Christians are killed for his or her religion in Nigeria than in the remainder of the world mixed.”
