{"id":65108,"date":"2025-10-02T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=65108"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:45:15","slug":"there-is-a-strategy-to-annihilate-all-christians-and-islamize-nigeria-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/there-is-a-strategy-to-annihilate-all-christians-and-islamize-nigeria-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Er is een strategie om alle christenen uit te roeien en Nigeria te islamiseren, zegt expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Some of the coffins of 73 Christians from Benue State, central Nigeria, massacred by Fulani jihadists in 2018. \/ Credit: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 29, 2025 \/ 16:53 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

Attacks against Christian communities, especially in northern Nigeria, are not an isolated phenomenon but rather a strategy to \u201cannihilate them all and Islamize the country,\u201d said Emeka Umeagbalasi, a criminologist and researcher.<\/p>\n

The expert has spent 30 years denouncing human rights violations in his country and is clear that \u201cthis is not simply a case of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have documented the coordinated and systematic murder of an entire people; therefore we are clearly talking about a Christian genocide,\u201d he told ACI Prensa, CNA\u2019s Spanish-language news partner.<\/p>\n

Umeagbalasi, the director of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has just published a report<\/a> with chilling data on the violence that extremists carry out every day against those who profess the Christian faith.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t pray out loud so they do it in secret<\/h2>\n

The nongovernmental organization estimates that in the north of the country there are some 40 million Christians who \u201ccannot pray out loud\u201d because it is extremely dangerous. \u201cThey do it in secret, at night. No one dares to openly confess their faith. If you do, you risk being killed for \u2018blasphemy,\u2019\u201d the expert said.<\/p>\n

Thus, he warned against a \u201csystematic strategy to achieve the extermination of Christians,\u201d which, he alleged, is supported by the complicity of the state and the passivity of the international community.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday in northern Nigeria, it\u2019s almost impossible to live as a Christian, and if the trend continues, within half a century we will no longer be a country with religious pluralism,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n

One of the most serious issues documented by the organization he leads is precisely the \u201ccomplicity\u201d of the Nigerian state.<\/p>\n

\u201cComplicity is part of an expansive policy by the Nigerian government to Islamize the country,\u201d he charged. According to Umeagbalasi, during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari (2015\u20132023), a former military officer of Fulani origin, Nigeria experienced a significant deterioration in internal security.<\/p>\n

Although Buhari came to power with the promise of defeating jihadist groups and restoring stability, the truth is that both Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have consolidated their control over large areas of the northeast of the country in recent years.<\/p>\n

There is a \u2018national Islamization project\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe jihadists have seized political power and have since launched a national Islamization project,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

To justify the Nigerian state\u2019s inaction, Umeagbalasi cited the paradigmatic case of mass kidnappings in Kaduna state in the country\u2019s north. In this area, various armed groups linked to radicalized Fulani herders frequently attack Christian villages, with security forces making no attempt to prevent them. In fact, according to the expert, the Nigerian government tends to downplay this violence, describing it simply as \u201ccommunity crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than 850 Christians remain captive in several camps in the Rijana area, very close to a military base. This began in December 2024, and they remain held by jihadists to this day. Between December and August 2025, more than 100 prisoners were killed there. How is it possible that all this is happening just a few kilometers from military installations without anyone taking action?\u201d the activist asked.<\/p>\n

Parishes virtually empty for fear of attacks<\/h2>\n

Volgens het Nigerian Bishops\u2019 Conference<\/a>, at least 145 Catholic priests have been kidnapped since 2015. However, investigations by Intersociety <\/a>raise that number to 250 Catholic clergy attacked, along with another 350 ministers of various Christian denominations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Catholic Church and the bishops in Nigeria are doing what they can, but there are limits to what they dare to say publicly,\u201d Umeagbalasi explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t openly acknowledge, for example, that many parishes in the north of the country are practically empty for fear of attacks. But we, however, can tell the truth, and we do it to help them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Violence has profoundly altered the religious balance in Nigeria. \u201cThe jihadists\u2019 goal is to eliminate Christians,\u201d the director of Intersociety warned.<\/p>\n

The mass displacements to internally displaced persons camps \u2014 and beyond the country\u2019s borders, to Cameroon or Chad \u2014 are further evidence of the magnitude of the problem. \u201cWhen they destroy your church, attack your community, and threaten your life, you have no choice but to flee,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

The kidnapping business<\/h2>\n

In other research, the African security and strategy consultancy SBM Intelligence documented in its annual report, \u201cEconomics of Nigeria\u2019s Kidnap Industry, 2025 Update<\/a>,\u201d that 4,722 people were kidnapped between July 2024 and June 2025 by extremist groups. Among the victims were 18 priests.<\/p>\n

For the release of these thousands of hostages, people paid in Nigerian currency approximately 2.57 billion naira ($1.72 million), which is approximately 10% of what the kidnappers were demanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe priests and nuns have families who end up paying ransoms even though the Catholic Church officially refuses to negotiate. In addition, the kidnappers keep the cars used by the clerics, which they end up selling on the black market. A car stolen from a priest can fetch up to 10 million naira ($6,727) on the black market,\u201d\u00a0Umeagbalasi explained. <\/p>\n

Dit verhaal <\/em>werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd <\/em><\/a>door ACI Prensa, de Spaanstalige nieuwspartner van CNA. Het is vertaald en bewerkt door CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n

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