Genocide in Nigeria: The Biden administration’s cover-up

After Biden sent $1B to Palestinians, Israeli deaths from terror attacks rose 900%
February 15, 2023
After Biden sent $1B to Palestinians, Israeli deaths from terror attacks rose 900%
Family and friends attend the funeral of Raphael Ben Eliyahu, a victim of a shooting attack at a Jerusalem synagogue on Friday evening, January 29, 2023. It cost $10,000 to kill a six-year-old boy, and the terrorists have the money. When Secretary of State Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, he boasted of the over billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories.

That aid has come with a very heavy price.

In Feb 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, and 15 in 2017, and 16 in 2016.

In 2020 however only three Israelis were killed.

These numbers reflected the diminished capacity of the Islamic terrorists. The reduction in numbers was not due to the pandemic. 2020 still saw attacks, including firebombings, rocket launches and stabbings, but the success and lethality rates for these attacks were lower.

The numbers turned around dramatically once again in 2021.

In April 2021, the Biden administration restored aid to the PLO. Terror incidents, reflecting attack attempts, shot up sharply from 91 in February and 89 in March to 130 in April.

By May, major fighting resumed with 13 Israelis, including two children, killed.

By the time the year was over, 17 people in Israeli areas had been killed. The over 400% increase in deaths was only the beginning. In 2022, 31 Israelis or people in Israeli areas were killed, up from only 3 in 2020, for a massive 900% increase in casualties since the restoration of foreign aid to the terrorists. This was the worst death toll since 2015 under Obama.

But in January and the first half of February of 2023, 10 Israelis have already been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy.

Three times as many have been killed in a month and a half of 2023 as in all of 2020. That’s a 233% increase over 2020 in just a fraction of a year, but it’s also a marked month-to-month escalation from 2022 which featured no attacks at all in January or February. More people have already been killed by terrorists in 2023 than through most of March in 2022.
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What a difference a billion dollars makes.

While the media has tried to portray the terrorism as “lone wolf” attacks, they’re crowdsourced violence of the kind that Al Qaeda and ISIS helped innovate. But the PLO’s version is unique through its ‘Pay-for-Slay’ program which rewards terrorists, regardless of their formal affiliation, including ISIS and Hamas members, with salaries and payments for their families.

Terrorists are paid based on the length of their prison sentence. That means successful killers can earn $2,000 to $3,000 a month in a part of the world where the average salary is around $700 a month. It’s five times more profitable to be a terrorist than a teacher.

The Palestinian Authority calls for the murder of Jews, praises it and then rewards it.

Muhammad Al-Lahham of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which runs the political movement behind the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority, was caught on video praising the “patriotic conscience” of a terrorist who had killed a rabbi taking his 2-year-old son for a walk in 2022.

The Trump administration cut off aid to the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and Congress passed the Taylor Force Act banning funds from going to finance Pay-to-Slay.

Throughout all this, PLO leadership have been consistent in refusing to stop financing terrorism.

“We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs, prisoners and released prisoners, as some seek, and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs and prisoners,” Abbas had bragged. By “martyrs”, he meant those Islamic terrorists who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks.

Despite this, the Biden administration had restored aid and rebuilt diplomatic relations. Biden and Blinken have met with Abbas. And while they have attacked Israel over everything from letting Jews pray on the Temple Mount (due to Jewish prayers offending Muslim sensibilities) to democratic judicial reform that will limit the unilateral authority of pro-terrorist judges, Biden and Blinken have had nothing to say to the terrorists about the program funding the murder of Jews.
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America First Legal, under Stephen Miller, filed suit against the Biden administration on behalf of the parents of Taylor Force: a non-Jewish Afghanistan war vet murdered in Jerusalem.

“The Biden Administration is well aware that the PA pays Palestinian terrorists to injure or kill innocent Americans and Israelis in Israel. Yet, in blatant violation of the Taylor Force Act, a federal law that prohibits the government from sending American taxpayer dollars to the PA until it stops supporting terrorism, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have resumed payments to the PA after the Trump Administration had stopped these payments in compliance with the Taylor Force Act,” America First Legal declared..

“The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the PA notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program,” Stuart Force, Taylor’s father, said.
Threat reaches beyond Israel

The Biden administration’s decision to fund the Palestinian Authority has consequences beyond Israel. Islamic terrorism is a global threat and has been a reliable killer of Americans abroad.

“Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the PA that will end up funding terrorism,” Stuart Force appealed.

And the latest wave of violence shows just how ‘fungible’ that money is.

The massive uptick in successful terrorist attacks is not a coincidence. The numbers become more significant when we distinguish between so-called “lone wolf” attacks which are most directly impacted by ‘Pay-to-Slay’ and rocket attacks by other terrorist groups. 14 people were killed in direct terrorist attacks in 2018.

That number dropped to 5 in 2019, the year Trump cut off aid to the PLO. By 2020, it fell to 3, in 2021, the year Biden restored aid, it rose to 4 and then shot up to 32 in 2022 reflecting the ‘slow burn’ effect of fungible aid money being taken away and then restored within a government bureaucracy even if it’s run by and for terrorists.

As the Biden administration continues pumping money into the terrorist entities occupying parts of Israel, the violence is drastically increasing. 2023 is already on track to top 2022, which had the worst numbers since 2015. The level of Islamic terrorism is returning to that of the Obama administration and that means that we can expect an even higher death toll in Israel.
Recently released Israeli Arab terrorist was paid $100,000 by Palestinian Authority

The billion dollars in aid is a factor, but an even bigger factor is that the Biden administration, like its Democrat predecessor, has made no secret of its support for the Palestinian Authority. And the Biden administration has gone even further with its diplomatic support for the PLO regime and its pressure on Israel. The latest murders are the work of a terrorist group that knows that Washington D.C. has its back and will intervene to protect it from Israel.

The Biden administration’s decision to appoint Hady Amr, an open supporter of Islamic terrorism and opponent of the Jewish State, as its key liaison to the PLO, who was inspired by the intifada, has consequences, and dead bodies in Jerusalem are among the most obvious ones.

Islamic terrorism runs on money and foreign support. The Biden administration has provided both. The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Pay-to-Slay.

The pipeline of terror may end with a 6-year-old boy lying dead on a Jerusalem street but it begins with cash coming out of Washington D.C. The attacks of September 11 cost Al Qaeda about half a million dollars.

The cost to the PLO of killing that little boy, his brother and a newly married man going to spend the Sabbath with his wife’s family probably comes out to about $30,000 a year. Or $10,000 per dead Jewish person. That’s a fraction of the millions of dollars in foreign aid which could be used to finance hundreds and thousands of more murders of Jews.

$10,000 to kill a six-year-old boy, another $10,000 to kill his 8-year-old brother. Thanks to the financiers of murdering Jews in the Biden administration, the terrorists have the cash.

And we’re the ones providing it https://worldisraelnews.com/after-biden-sent-1b-to-palestinians-israeli-deaths-rose-900/#comment-6116959126

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Genocide in Nigeria: The Biden administration’s cover-up
February 15, 2023
Genocide in Nigeria: The Biden administration’s cover-up
Site of Boko Haram suicide bomb at church in Potiskum, Nigeria, July 2015. (AP)


In just the first month of 2023, in January alone, Muslims slaughtered approximately 60 Christians in Nigeria, raided churches, and kidnapped women and children.

By Raymond Ibrahim, The Gatestone Institute

Swept under the rug for more than a year, one of the Biden administration’s “sins of omission” are making headlines again.

On November 17, 2021, the State Department inexplicably removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC list). These are nations that either engage in, or tolerate, violations of religious freedom. The Biden State Department removed Nigeria from the list despite strong objections from several human rights organizations, many of which insist that Christians are even undergoing a genocide in Nigeria.

Many observers at the time slammed the State Department for its decision to let Nigeria literally get away with mass murder. Christian Solidarity International said:

“The State Department’s decision to de-list a country where thousands of Christians are killed every year reveals Washington’s true priorities . Removing this largely symbolic sign of concern is a brazen denial of reality and indicates that the U.S. intends to pursue its interests in western Africa through an alliance with Nigeria’s security elite, at the expense of Christians and other victims of widespread sectarian violence . If the U.S. CPC list means anything at all—an open question at this point—Nigeria belongs on it.”

Even for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan federal commission that monitors and reports on religious freedom to the U.S. government and Congress, the Biden administration’s decision to delist Nigeria was “inexplicable,” a reflection of “turning a blind eye” to “particularly severe religious freedom violations.”

The reason many were shocked is that in Nigeria, Christians are being butchered — purged — at an alarming rate.

According to an August 2021 report, since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009 — first at the hands of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization, and later by the Fulani, Muslim herdsmen also motivated by jihadist ideology — 43,000 Christians were murdered, and 18,500 were abducted (never to be seen again and assumed to be dead). During the same time-frame, approximately 17,500 churches and 2,000 Christian schools were torched and destroyed.

Since the publication of that August 2021 report, things have only gotten worse. According to the latest figures, in 2022 alone, 90% of all Christians killed for their faith around the world — 5,014 Christians to be exact — were slaughtered in Nigeria. On average, that is 14 Christians in Nigeria killed for their faith every day — at least one Christian every two hours.

Little has changed with the new year. In January 2023 alone, Muslims slaughtered approximately 60 Christians in Nigeria, raided churches, and kidnapped women and children.

During one of these raids on a church, on Sunday, January 15, Muslims terrorists burned Fr. Isaac Achi, a Catholic priest, alive. They also shot and wounded his assistant priest. Discussing another massacre of Christians, on January 19, a clergyman said:

“The images of the attack are horrifying, and I keep saying that not even ISIS is capable of such brutality. After killing, these guys decapitated some and took the parts away as proof to whoever is the sponsor.”

Such sadism is not exceptional. In another recent attack on a Christian village, the jihadists cut off the breast of a Christian woman.

Recently, however, in response to this unabated assault on Christians, on January 31, 2023, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for not only the return of Nigeria to the State Department’s CPC list, but for the appointment of a special ambassador to monitor the situation.

The eight-page resolution is worth reading in its entirety. Some of its most noteworthy revelations include the purely Islamic motives of those terrorizing Christians in Nigeria.

Although the Fulani — the one Muslim demographic most responsible for the butchery of Christians — are regularly portrayed in the West as impoverished and non-ideologically motivated herdsmen merely competing for scarce resources, the resolution correctly notes that the Fulani are working to reestablish a “caliphate.” The resolution adds:

“[The Fulani] demonstrated a clear intent to target Christians and symbols of Christian identity such as churches, and, during attacks, shouted ‘Allah u Akbar,’ ‘destroy the infidels,’ and ‘wipe out the infidels.’ [Despite this] the Department of State mischaracterizes or incompletely characterizes the increasing incidents of large scale violence in Nigeria’s northern and central rural regions as ‘communal clashes’ between Muslim herders and Christian farmers, solely attributable to competition for scarce natural resources resulting from climate change.”

This is no exaggeration. Just last summer, after Muslim Fulani massacred more than 40 Christians as they peacefully worshipped inside their church on Pentecost Sunday (June 5, 2022), the president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, issued a statement exonerating the Fulani and blaming the weather.

However, as a Nigerian nun, Sister Monica Chikwe, once observed:

“It’s tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ and screaming ‘Death to Christians.'”

Or as the Christian Association of Nigeria once asked:

“How can it be a [secular or economic] clash when one group [Muslims] is persistently attacking, killing, maiming, destroying, and the other group [Christians] is persistently being killed, maimed and their places of worship destroyed?”

The new resolution also, rather refreshingly, calls out Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari — himself a Fulani, who “has favored and promoted fellow Fulani and other northern Muslim ethnic groups,” while others, chief among them Christians, “are denied equal rights.” There is reason to believe that the Nigerian president has done much worse than discriminate, with several leading Christians in Nigeria accusing him of being complicit in their persecution.

Smith’s resolution concludes:

“(1) the Secretary of State should immediately designate Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, as mandated by the International Religious Freedom 7 Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.); and
(2) in order to ensure that the Secretary of State receives more complete and accurate reporting and analysis, the President should promptly appoint a person of recognized distinction in the fields of religious freedom and human rights as ‘Special Envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region’ with the rank of Ambassador, who reports directly to the Secretary of State and coordinates United States Government efforts to monitor and combat atrocities there.”

Although this resolution makes a strong case to return Nigeria to the CPC list, based on precedent, there is reason to doubt it will have the desired effect.

For a start, by removing Nigeria from the CPC list in November, 2021, the Biden administration was simply returning to the status quo. Although jihadists had slaughtered and terrorized Nigeria’s Christians all during President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure, when Biden was his Vice President (2009-2017), and although the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom had, beginning in 2009 and every year afterwards, repeatedly urged that Nigeria be designated as a Country of Particular Concern, the Obama administration had obstinately refused to comply.

It was only in 2020, under the Trump administration, that Nigeria was first designated as a CPC — only to be removed the following year under Biden.

To his credit, President Donald Trump had also forthrightly asked the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari — whom many Nigerian officials insist Obama helped bring to power — “Why are you killing Christians?”

Not only did the Obama State Department refuse to designate Nigeria as a CPC for eight years; during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State (2009-2013), she went so far as to refuse to designate Boko Haram in Nigeria as a “terrorist” organization — even though Boko Haram (which roughly translates as “Western education is forbidden”) is a notorious jihadist group that has slaughtered more Christians and bombed more churches than the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined.

As is happening now under Biden’s State Department, Clinton’s refusal had persisted despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and more than a dozen Senators and House Representatives for her to designate Boko Haram.

Hillary Clinton’s husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, insisted in 2012 that “inequality” and “poverty” are “what’s fueling all this stuff” — a reference to ideologically driven Muslims slaughtering thousands of Christians. This callousness is reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s response to the murders of Americans in Benghazi, Libya: “What difference at this point does it make?”

In 2014, Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria. It was an incident that made headlines and therefore required a response. Publicly, Clinton bemoaned the lot of the kidnapped girls: “The seizure of these young women by this radical extremist group, Boko Haram, is abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible.” Meanwhile, as a 2014 report pointed out”

“The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.”

Indeed, two years earlier, in 2012, when Clinton was actively shielding Boko Haram from the terrorist label, a spokesman for the group announced that they were planning on doing something just like they did at Chibok—to “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women” — though that too was ignored by Clinton.

Notably, although news media initially presented the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls as Muslims, it later came out that they were Christians, at which point the media quickly lost interest.

Recently, former Rep. Frank Wolf (R- Va), rhetorically asked:

“Does anyone remember hashtag BringBackOurGirls? Well, whatever happened, where’re all those guys who went on television and [posted] the hashtag 50% of the girls did not return. I met with some of the Chibok parents. They wonder what in the name is the world doing.”

Once again, the Biden Administration seems to be prioritizing yet another ruthless dictatorship as more important than a genocide – this time, one persecuting Christians, not Uyghurs. What other reason could there be not to rename Nigeria a “country of particular concern”?

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West, Sword and Scimitar, Crucified Again, and The Al Qaeda Reader, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Genocidio in Nigeria: l'insabbiamento dell'amministrazione Biden
15 febbraio 2023
Genocidio in Nigeria: l'insabbiamento dell'amministrazione Biden
Sito dell'attentato suicida di Boko Haram nella chiesa di Potiskum, Nigeria, luglio 2015. (AP)

Solo nel primo mese del 2023, solo a gennaio, i musulmani hanno massacrato circa 60 cristiani in Nigeria, fatto irruzione nelle chiese e rapito donne e bambini.

Di Raymond Ibrahim, The Gatestone Institute

Nascosto sotto il tappeto per più di un anno, uno dei "peccati di omissione" dell'amministrazione Biden sta tornando a fare notizia.

Il 17 novembre 2021, il Dipartimento di Stato ha inspiegabilmente rimosso la Nigeria dalla sua lista dei Paesi di particolare interesse (lista CPC). Si tratta di nazioni che praticano o tollerano violazioni della libertà religiosa. Il Dipartimento di Stato di Biden ha rimosso la Nigeria dalla lista nonostante le forti obiezioni di diverse organizzazioni per i diritti umani, molte delle quali insistono sul fatto che i cristiani stiano addirittura subendo un genocidio in Nigeria.

Molti osservatori all'epoca criticarono il Dipartimento di Stato per la sua decisione di lasciare che la Nigeria se la cavasse letteralmente con un omicidio di massa. Solidarietà Cristiana Internazionale ha detto:

“La decisione del Dipartimento di Stato di cancellare dalla lista un paese in cui migliaia di cristiani vengono uccisi ogni anno rivela le vere priorità di Washington . Rimuovere questo segno di preoccupazione in gran parte simbolico è una sfacciata negazione della realtà e indica che gli Stati Uniti intendono perseguire i propri interessi nell'Africa occidentale attraverso un'alleanza con l'élite della sicurezza nigeriana, a spese dei cristiani e di altre vittime della diffusa violenza settaria... Se l'elenco del CPC degli Stati Uniti significa qualcosa - una questione aperta a questo punto - la Nigeria vi appartiene".

Anche per la Commissione statunitense per la libertà religiosa internazionale (USCIRF), una commissione federale indipendente e bipartisan che monitora e riferisce sulla libertà religiosa al governo e al Congresso degli Stati Uniti, la decisione dell'amministrazione Biden di eliminare la Nigeria dalla lista è stata "inspiegabile", un riflesso della "rivolta un occhio” su “violazioni della libertà religiosa particolarmente gravi”.

Il motivo per cui molti sono rimasti scioccati è che in Nigeria i cristiani vengono massacrati - epurati - a un ritmo allarmante.

Secondo un rapporto dell'agosto 2021, da quando l'insurrezione islamica è iniziata sul serio nel luglio 2009 - prima per mano di Boko Haram, un'organizzazione terroristica islamica, e successivamente dei Fulani, pastori musulmani anch'essi motivati dall'ideologia jihadista - 43.000 cristiani sono stati assassinati, e 18.500 furono rapiti (per non essere mai più visti e ritenuti morti). Nello stesso lasso di tempo, circa 17.500 chiese e 2.000 scuole cristiane furono date alle fiamme e distrutte.

Dalla pubblicazione di quel rapporto dell'agosto 2021, le cose sono solo peggiorate. Secondo gli ultimi dati, solo nel 2022, il 90% di tutti i cristiani uccisi per la propria fede in tutto il mondo - 5.014 cristiani per l'esattezza - sono stati massacrati in Nigeria. In media, ogni giorno in Nigeria vengono uccisi 14 cristiani per la loro fede, almeno un cristiano ogni due ore.

Poco è cambiato con il nuovo anno. Solo nel gennaio 2023, i musulmani hanno massacrato circa 60 cristiani in Nigeria, fatto irruzione nelle chiese e rapito donne e bambini.

Durante uno di questi raid contro una chiesa, domenica 15 gennaio, terroristi musulmani hanno bruciato p. Isaac Achi, prete cattolico, vivo. Hanno anche sparato e ferito il suo assistente sacerdote. Discutendo di un altro massacro di cristiani, il 19 gennaio, un ecclesiastico ha detto:

“Le immagini dell'attacco sono orribili e continuo a dire che nemmeno l'ISIS è capace di tanta brutalità. Dopo aver ucciso, questi ragazzi ne hanno decapitato alcuni e ne hanno portato via le parti come prova per chiunque sia lo sponsor.

Tale sadismo non è eccezionale. In un altro recente attacco a un villaggio cristiano, i jihadisti hanno tagliato il seno a una donna cristiana.

Di recente, tuttavia, in risposta a questo incessante assalto ai cristiani, il 31 gennaio 2023, il deputato Chris Smith (R-NJ), ha presentato una risoluzione bipartisan che chiede non solo il ritorno della Nigeria nella lista del CPC del Dipartimento di Stato, ma anche la nomina di un ambasciatore speciale per monitorare la situazione.

La risoluzione di otto pagine merita di essere letta nella sua interezza. Alcune delle sue rivelazioni più degne di nota includono i motivi puramente islamici di coloro che terrorizzano i cristiani in Nigeria.

Sebbene i Fulani - l'unico gruppo demografico musulmano più responsabile del massacro dei cristiani - siano regolarmente descritti in Occidente come pastori impoveriti e non ideologicamente motivati che si limitano a competere per le scarse risorse, la risoluzione rileva correttamente che i Fulani stanno lavorando per ristabilire un "califfato .” La delibera aggiunge:

“[I Fulani] hanno dimostrato un chiaro intento di prendere di mira i cristiani e i simboli dell'identità cristiana come le chiese e, durante gli attacchi, hanno gridato 'Allah u Akbar', 'distruggi gli infedeli' e 'spazza via gli infedeli'... [Nonostante this] il Dipartimento di Stato caratterizza male o caratterizza in modo incompleto i crescenti episodi di violenza su larga scala in Nigregioni rurali settentrionali e centrali dell'Eria come "scontri comunitari" tra pastori musulmani e agricoltori cristiani, attribuibili esclusivamente alla competizione per le scarse risorse naturali derivanti dal cambiamento climatico.

Questa non è un'esagerazione. Proprio la scorsa estate, dopo che i Fulani musulmani hanno massacrato più di 40 cristiani mentre pregavano pacificamente all'interno della loro chiesa la domenica di Pentecoste (5 giugno 2022), il presidente dell'Irlanda, Michael Higgins, ha rilasciato una dichiarazione in cui scagionava i Fulani e incolpava il tempo.

Tuttavia, come osservò una volta una suora nigeriana, suor Monica Chikwe:

“È difficile dire ai cristiani nigeriani che questo non è un conflitto religioso, poiché quello che vedono sono combattenti fulani vestiti interamente di nero, che cantano ‘Allahu Akbar!’ e urlano ‘Morte ai cristiani'”.

O come ha chiesto una volta l'Associazione Cristiana della Nigeria:

"Come può essere uno scontro [secolare o economico] quando un gruppo [i musulmani] attacca, uccide, mutila, distrugge con insistenza e l'altro gruppo [i cristiani] viene costantemente ucciso, mutilato e i loro luoghi di culto distrutti?"

La nuova risoluzione richiama anche, in modo piuttosto rinfrescante, il presidente nigeriano Muhammadu Buhari, lui stesso un Fulani, che "ha favorito e promosso i compagni Fulani e altri gruppi etnici musulmani del nord", mentre ad altri, in primis i cristiani, "è negata la parità di diritti". C'è motivo di credere che il presidente nigeriano abbia fatto molto peggio che discriminare, con diversi importanti cristiani in Nigeria che lo accusano di essere complice della loro persecuzione.

La risoluzione di Smith conclude:

“(1) il Segretario di Stato dovrebbe immediatamente designare la Nigeria come 'paese di particolare interesse' per aver commesso e tollerato violazioni sistematiche, continue ed eclatanti della libertà religiosa, come richiesto dall'International Religious Freedom 7 Act del 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401 e segg.); E
(2) al fine di garantire che il Segretario di Stato riceva rapporti e analisi più completi e accurati, il Presidente dovrebbe nominare prontamente una persona di riconosciuta distinzione nei settori della libertà religiosa e dei diritti umani come "Inviato speciale per la Nigeria e il Lago Ciad Region' con il grado di Ambasciatore, che riferisce direttamente al Segretario di Stato e coordina gli sforzi del governo degli Stati Uniti per monitorare e combattere le atrocità in quel luogo.

Sebbene questa risoluzione rappresenti un valido motivo per riportare la Nigeria nell'elenco del PCC, sulla base di precedenti, vi è motivo di dubitare che avrà l'effetto desiderato.

Per cominciare, rimuovendo la Nigeria dall'elenco del PCC nel novembre 2021, l'amministrazione Biden stava semplicemente tornando allo status quo. Sebbene i jihadisti abbiano massacrato e terrorizzato i cristiani della Nigeria durante tutti gli otto anni di mandato del presidente Barack Obama, quando Biden era il suo vicepresidente (2009-2017), e sebbene la Commissione statunitense per la libertà religiosa internazionale avesse, a partire dal 2009 e ogni anno successivo, ripetutamente sollecitato affinché la Nigeria fosse designata come Paese di particolare interesse, l'amministrazione Obama si era ostinatamente rifiutata di conformarsi.

È stato solo nel 2020, sotto l'amministrazione Trump, che la Nigeria è stata designata per la prima volta come PCC, per poi essere rimossa l'anno successivo sotto Biden.

A suo merito, il presidente Donald Trump aveva anche chiesto apertamente al presidente nigeriano, Muhammadu Buhari - che molti funzionari nigeriani insistono che Obama abbia contribuito a portare al potere - "Perché uccidi i cristiani?"

Non solo il Dipartimento di Stato di Obama ha rifiutato di designare la Nigeria come PCC per otto anni; durante il mandato di Hillary Clinton come Segretario di Stato (2009-2013), è arrivata al punto di rifiutare di designare Boko Haram in Nigeria come un'organizzazione "terrorista" - anche se Boko Haram (che si traduce approssimativamente come "l'istruzione occidentale è proibita") è un famigerato gruppo jihadista che ha massacrato più cristiani e bombardato più chiese dello Stato islamico in Iraq e Siria messi insieme.

Come sta accadendo ora sotto il Dipartimento di Stato di Biden, il rifiuto della Clinton è continuato nonostante le sollecitazioni del Dipartimento di Giustizia, dell'FBI, della CIA e di più di una dozzina di senatori e rappresentanti della Camera affinché designasse Boko Haram.

Il marito di Hillary Clinton, l'ex presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton, nel 2012 ha insistito sul fatto che "disuguaglianza" e "povertà" sono "ciò che alimenta tutta questa roba" - un riferimento ai musulmani guidati dall'ideologia che massacrano migliaia di cristiani. Questa insensibilità ricorda la risposta di Hillary Clinton agli omicidi di americani a Bengasi, in Libia: "Che differenza fa a questo punto?"

Nel 2014, Boko Haram ha rapito quasi 300 studentesse di Chibok, in Nigeria. È stato un incidente che ha fatto notizia e quindi ha richiesto una risposta. Pubblicamente, Clinton ha lamentato la sorte delle ragazze rapite: "Il sequestro di queste giovani donne da parte di questo gruppo estremista radicale, Boko Haram, è abominevole, è criminale, è un atto di terrorismo e merita davvero la risposta più completa possibile". Nel frattempo, come ha sottolineato un rapporto del 2014”

«Il Dipartimento di Stato sotto Hillary Clinton si è battuto duramente per due anni contro l'inserimento del gruppo militante legato ad al Qaeda Boko Haram nella sua lista ufficiale di organizzazioni terroristiche straniere. E ora, legislatori ed ex funzionari statunitensi affermano che la decisione potrebbe aver ostacolato la capacità del governo americano di affrontare il gruppo nigeriano che ha scioccato il mondo rapendo centinaia di ragazze innocenti”.

In effetti, due anni prima, nel 2012, quando Clinton stava proteggendo attivamente Boko Haram dall'etichetta di terrorista, un portavoce del gruppo annunciò che stavano progettando di fare qualcosa proprio come fecero a Chibok: “incutere paura nei cristiani del potere dell'Islam rapendo le loro donne” – sebbene anche questo sia stato ignorato da Clinton.

In particolare, sebbene i media abbiano inizialmente presentato le studentesse di Chibok rapite come musulmane, in seguito è emerso che erano cristiane, a quel punto i media hanno rapidamente perso interesse.

Di recente, l'ex rappresentante Frank Wolf (R-Va), ha chiesto retoricamente:

“Qualcuno ricorda l'hashtag BringBackOurGirls? Bene, qualunque cosa sia successa, dove sono tutti quei ragazzi che sono andati in televisione e [hanno postato] l'hashtag... Il 50% delle ragazze non è tornata. Ho incontrato alcuni dei genitori di Chibok. Si chiedono cosa stia facendo il mondo nel nome.

Ancora una volta, l'amministrazione Biden sembra dare la priorità a un'altra spietata dittatura come più importante di un genocidio, questa volta perseguitando i cristiani, non gli uiguri. Quale altra ragione potrebbe esserci per non ribattezzare la Nigeria un “paese di particolare interesse”?

Raymond Ibrahim, autore di Defenders of the West, Sword and Scimitar, Crucified Again e The Al Qaeda Reader, è Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow presso il Gatestone Institute e Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow presso il Middle East Forum.
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