Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians

Article publisher: 
Breitbart
Article date: 
22 March 2019
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National News
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Political leaders and public figures were falling over themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of crickets....

The bizarre aspect of the coverage was not, in fact, the attention paid to a heinous crime committed in New Zealand, but the absolute silence surrounding the simultaneous massacre of scores of Christians by Muslim militants in Africa.

As Breitbart News alone reported among major news outlets, Fulani jihadists racked up a death toll of over 120 Christians over the past three weeks in central Nigeria,...

The left sees Christians in the United States as part of the problem and seeks to undermine their credibility and influence at every turn rather than emboldening them.

Anti-Christian bias has been rightly called “the last acceptable prejudice,” one that few bother condemning.

“No one much cares about offending Christians,” wrote the coalition of African-American pastors in an essay last Tuesday. “In fact, mocking, belittling, and blaspheming Christianity is becoming a bit of a trend in our culture. Anti-Christian bigotry truly is the last acceptable prejudice.”...

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The Not So Soft Bigotry of Liberal Media's Racism - Western media's blatant anti-Christian/Jewish pro-Islamic bias, by Jim O'Neill, Canada Free Press, March 22, 2019:

Africa is still to many Western minds a vast, unmapped continent…even the most liberal and global of media outlets pay its politics and economics scant attention.

The faces of those who have died in these atrocities are being hidden from view.

We are denied the chance to protest to our own politicians on behalf of the victims. And they are being written off as participants in “clashes”—these unarmed women, children and old people, who have been buried in mass graves.—Michael JensenNigerian farmers are under attack, so why don’t we hear about it?

What we have is a genocide. They [Muslims] are trying to displace the Christians, they are trying to possess their land and they are trying to impose their religion on the so-called infidels and pagans who they consider Christians to be,” explained international human rights attorney Emmanuel Ogebe. Gary LaneWhat’s Behind the Genocide That’s Left 6,000 Nigerian Christians Dead

“Please don’t make the same mistake as was made with the genocide in Rwanda.  It happened under our noses, but no one stopped it.”—David NussmanAt least 120 killed in recent attacks as deadly violence continues for over a year”...