The shameful silence over the slaughter of Nigeria’s Christianshttps://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/08/the-shameful-silence-over-the-slaughter-of-nigerias-christians/Towards the end of September, comedian Bill Maher provoked social-media outrage by asking a simple question: why does the coverage of Gaza get so much mainstream-media attention when the persecution of Christians in Nigeria gets almost none?
‘They are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria’, he said on his talk show, Real Time:
‘They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches… These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.’
You wouldn’t think of someone like Maher – a self-described ‘apatheist’ (‘I don’t know what happens when you die, and I don’t care’) – as suddenly becoming the most prominent voice on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. But he’s absolutely right. They are being slaughtered en masse.
o far this year, over 7,000 Christians have been targeted and killed for their faith. Thousands were also killed the year before, and thousands in the year before that. Sometimes hundreds are murdered at once, as in the town of Yelewat in June, or in the village of Zikke in April. Holy days are preferred for big attacks, as in the Christmas massacre of 2023, when pastors were beheaded and churches burned down in Plateau State, or the attack on St Francis Xavier Church, in the town of Owo on Pentecost Sunday 2022.
MSM, as a whole, hate Christians, so they aren't going give this religio-cide more than minimal coverage. There was no way that LIEden and minions gave a tenth of a s#$t. If Trump, et al, haven't already, uncovered by MSM, asked Nigeria and other relevant countries why in Hades they tolerate the slaughter, it's time they should.
