Syrian
Atrocities Condemned While Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Ignored
posted on June 15, 2012 by Gary DeMar
There’s a bloodbath
going on in Syria. It’s being reported that “Bashar Assad’s forces are
murdering civilians in organized attacks on towns and villages.” Amnesty
International is describing them as crimes against humanity in a 70-page
report.
Assad saw what happened to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Hosni Mubarak in
Egypt. He doesn’t want the same thing to happen to him.
We should be thankful that an organization like Amnesty International
has come forward with
their report. We should also be thankful that the news media and some of our
elected officials are also bringing the atrocities to our attention.
Photographs of mass graves, burned out buses, bombed homes and business,
civilian protests, and hooded rebels are all over the internet.
We should all be grieved by man’s inhumanity to man. Seeing young
children wrapped in white grave
attire and lowered neatly into hastily dug graves is heart wrenching.
Now we come to another gut-wrenching story that is virtually being
ignored by the media and the Obama Administration. Nigeria is experiencing
religious genocide. This isn’t a new story. It’s been going on for months.
Attacks on churches and the slaughter of Christians are being led by Muslim
terrorist leader Boko Haram.
Haram’s end-game is to “to eliminate followers of Christ from the region
and establish an Islamic state.” In a statement published in the Nigerian
newspaper Osun Defender, Haram said the following.
“The Nigerian state and Christians are our enemies and we will be
launching attacks on the Nigerian state and its security apparatus as well as
churches until we achieve our goal of establishing an Islamic state in place of
the secular state.”
Haram can boldly state his genocidal goals and carry them out because
there is almost no one to complain. The mainstream press has been virtually
silent. Because Christians are being attacked, there is little or no concern.
Italy’s International Cooperation Minister Andrea Riccardi condemned the
attack and called for international action to stop Boko Haram.
“Christian blood has again been spilt in Nigeria according to a now
clear plan of
ethnic and religious cleansing,” said Riccardi, who is also the founder of a
Catholic charity active in Africa.
“The international community can no longer look on at this massacre of
innocent people without intervening.”
There is no liberal political capital to be gained for the Obama
administration to make Haram’s Hitler-like actions known to the world.
