Among the many agenda points begun by Barack Obama in the White House and continued by Joe Biden was the nation’s tolerant position on the persecution of Christians, especially in Nigeria.
There, Islamists have been, for years, slaughtering members of the Christian faith.
It has reached a point now that President Donald Trump has taken dramatic action, labeling the African nation a “country of particular concern” because of its death agenda.
A Fox report said the announcement of the designation on Friday cited the “widespread killings.”
“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a ‘COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN’ — But that is the least of it.”
He called for action against those persecuting people for their faith.
Trump announced he has told Reps. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., and members of the House Appropriations Committee to investigate and then report.
“The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries,” Trump said. “We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!”
It was an abrupt turnabout from Obama’s agenda. Obama, who once went overseas and declared that America no longer was a Christian nation, actually was accused by former Nigerian leaders of no less than facilitating the attacks on Christians.
A WND report from Obama’s second term explained how Goodluck Jonathan, then just out of office as Nigeria’s president, wrote in “My Transition Hours,” that, Obama had taken the “unusual step” of telling Nigerians how to vote for their president.
“In that video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the ‘next chapter’ by their votes. Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [Muslim-led] opposition to form a new government,” the report said.
In fact, when Jonathan won an initial round of ballot counts, residents of Muslim-majority northern states rioted.
Eventually, the Muslim candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was declared the winner.
“That the Obama administration may have imposed its will on a foreign country’s politics and elections is hardly unprecedented. Recall the administration’s partiality for the Muslim Brotherhood during and after 2012 presidential elections in Egypt; or its unsuccessful efforts to oust Israeli prime minister Netanyahu with U.S. taxpayers’ money; or its efforts – with an admittedly unverified ‘dossier’ … to prevent then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump from being elected, or by discussing an ‘insurance policy’ in the event that Trump won,” a columnist explained.
“So in Nigeria, the Obama administration, it seems, sought to right the apparently intolerable wrong of having a duly elected Christian president in a more than 50 percent Christian nation.”
Columnist Raymond Ibrahim said, “The Obama administration insisted that violence and bloodshed in Nigeria – almost all of which was committed by Muslims against Christians – had nothing to do with religion. This despite the fact that Boko Haram – which was engaging in ISIS type of atrocities: slaughter, kidnap, rape, plunder, slavery, torture before ISIS was even born – presented its terrorism as a jihad. In one instance it even called on President Jonathan to ‘repent and forsake Christianity’ and convert to Islam as the price for peace.”
Obama then refused to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization until years after pressure from lawmakers and human rights groups.
The report noted, “Then when a conference was scheduled in the U.S. for the governors’ of Nigeria’s states, the Obama administration blocked the visa of the region’s only Christian governor.”
The Fox report said Trump’s action was triggered after “entire villages have been burned to the ground, worshipers killed during Sunday services, and thousands displaced by Islamist groups sweeping through the country’s northern and central regions.”
Islamists have killed “hundreds” of Christians this year alone.
Fox reported, “According to the international watchdog group Open Doors, nearly 70% of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide last year were in Nigeria. The group warns that Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Fulani militant herders are responsible for most of the bloodshed, often targeting Christian farmers in the country’s Middle Belt.”