African Christianity: Dealing With Real Genocide

The silence on this genocide is appalling:

A meme making the rounds shows Africans wearing kufiyahs, and has these words: “Christians in Nigeria disguise themselves as Palestinians so people will care about them being genocided.” Yep, that says it all. REAL genocide taking place against Christians in places like Nigeria and Sudan is being completely ignored by all the usual suspects: the media, the chattering classes, the rent-a-crowd, the left, most leaders and politicians, and even some “conservatives” and “Christians”.

All we are getting from the anti-genocide left and their fellow travellers is dead silence. Consider what an actual genocide, and not a media-created one, in fact looks like. Since 2009 in Nigeria there have been 18,000 churches burned, 5 million people displaced, and 52,000+ people killed. In this year alone some 7000 Christians have been killed.

Just one short video of many on this is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzhWRmVHhk

As to Sudan, one writer says this: “The atrocities in Sudan continue unabated with 460 people slaughtered in cold blood at a maternity hospital. 2,000 were killed in two days by Islamist paramilitaries. Bloodstains are visible from space through satellite images. So where is the outrage?”

Nigel Jones says this about the situation in Sudan:

It was an ethnic massacre so bad that it could be seen from space. Satellites picked up bloodied patches of soil in North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, after Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) swept into the besieged city. Pools of blood and piles of bodies were identified. Thousands of people are feared to have died in the appalling violence. Many thousands more have fled for their lives. Others remain trapped in the city.

 

The scenes of slaughter were so blatant that it should have brought marchers out on to the streets of London in passionate protest. But there wasn’t a peep from the usual suspects. Was this because the killings did not take place in Gaza or the West Bank, but in Sudan, one of Africa’s largest countries? The perpetrators, of course, weren’t the Israeli Defence Force, but Sudanese militants fighting a vicious civil war in the vast country.

 

The RSF, which had been besieging the town of El Fasher for eighteen months, is primarily an ethnically Arab group. The victims in the most recent atrocities appear to be black Africans in the famine and war-torn Darfur province of eastern Sudan. When El Fasher finally fell, helpless civilians were gunned down in cold blood. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – including patients and their families – were killed. The Sudan Doctors’ Network said that RSF fighters had ‘cold bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present’.

 

But seemingly this was of little interest to the marchers here in Britain, whose protests against ‘Genocide’ by ‘Zionists’ in Gaza have regularly disfigured the streets of our capital since Hamas carried out their pogrom on October 7th 2023 – the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Do black lives matter? https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/do-black-lives-still-matter/

Here is the answer to the question of ‘Where is the outrage?’: No Jews, no news. Israel and the Jews are the punching bag of the world. Any and all problems are attributed to them, be it war, economic crises, or your flat tire on the way to work.

As mentioned, the left of course is the centre of all this hypocrisy, but alt-right groups are increasingly to blame here as well. In the new Os Guinness book, America Agnostes, he speaks to this. As I said in my review of the book:

[Guinness] does see the left as the main threat. But – and this is a big but – he rightly worries about the new alt-Right. He says this near the end of his book:

 

“The menace of the Left is quite plainly the greater and more obvious danger to the Republic. But patriots should be alert to the extremism now re-emerging more strongly on the populist Right and the ‘Dark Right’ – the irresponsible call to isolationism, the resuscitation of Hitler and other authoritarian leaders, the denigration of Churchill and those who struggled for liberty, and the horror and the evil of antisemitism and religiously rationalised hatred of the Jews and Israel.” https://billmuehlenberg.com/2025/11/04/os-guinness-on-americas-250th-anniversary/  

I went on in my piece to mention the obvious characters: people like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes. Their hatred of Israel and the Jews, especially by Fuentes, is high grade diabolical and nutzoid. When you start praising Hitler and Stalin, or not calling them out, you know you are in dark and demonic territory.

I also said a very important 40-minute video by Ben Shapiro is a must watch. He features one quote after another by these folks. If you are not sick in your stomach after watching it, you might need to check your pulse. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRJlL5mOF8  

Many other important conservatives and Christians have been calling these folks out. John Stonestreet of the Colson Center just penned a piece titled “That Tucker Carlson Interview: Why Anti-Semitism Must Be Condemned”. Here is part of what he had to say:

The Christian idea that humans are made in the image and likeness of God is the only source for universal human dignity, human rights, and human value in human history. As philosopher Luc Ferry wrote in his book, A Brief History of Thought, “Christianity was to introduce the notion that men were equal in dignity, an unprecedented idea at the time and one to which the world owes its entire democratic inheritance.”

 

Of course, Christianity received its understanding of how God created people from the Hebrew Old Testament. 

 

A commitment to the doctrine of imago Dei requires that Christians oppose any idea that reduces humans to some other identity. Just as Christians must reject LGBTQ ideology and critical race theory for saying what is not true about the human person, Christians must reject anti-Semitism, especially in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s soft-pedal platforming of Nick Fuentes. Hateful views about the Jewish people have been prevalent on the political Left and have now emerged on the political Right. These views must be repudiated no matter which side of the political spectrum they are found. 

 

What will happen now in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s interview may well determine whether Fuentes and his “groyper” movement is mainstreamed or is pushed back beyond the shadowy margins of the conservative movement. Either way, Christians must be first and foremost committed to the biblical description of the universe and the human person over and above any political loyalties. Thus, this growing anti-Semitism coming from the political Right must be soundly condemned. Whether from the Left or the Right, anti-Semitism is morally evil.  

He went on to say this:

Chuck Colson used to say that ideologies are best understood based by how they answer the question, “What’s really wrong with the world.” Throughout history, anti-Semitic movements have answered that question with a who, not a what. Columnist Rod Dreher recently offered this summary of Hannah Arendt’s definitive post-World War II analysis of anti-Semitism in the context of the Nazi rise to power during her generation: 

 

“The basic argument Arendt makes is that anti-Semitism provides a scapegoat that can unite a badly fragmented society around a common enemy, even if it is detached from reality. Jews become the all-purpose enemy whose existence explains society’s troubles with deadly simplicity. The more popular it becomes, the more society becomes conditioned to think of individuals as faceless collective groups. … Moreover, anti-Semitism exploits the willingness of atomized people, devoid of meaning and structure, and their willingness to believe any fiction that restores purpose and order to their lives. And it justifies terror against the Other as a way of restoring the lost order for which people long.”

 

The greatest evils in human history, including the Holocaust, began by identifying a group of people as the problem with the world. https://colsoncenter.org/breakpoint/that-tucker-carlson-interview-why-anti-semitism-must-be-condemned

Voices being heard on the African genocide

Thankfully some are speaking out on the horrific slaughter of Christians in parts of Africa. Indeed, I have noticed that many non-Christians (eg., Bill Maher, Douglas Murray, etc), Jews (eg., Pam Geller, Ben Shapiro, etc) and others are rightly calling this out.

But far too many Christians are silent. Indeed, many of these same “Christians” spent all their time saying “genocide” was happening in Gaza, but they don’t seem to give a crap when real genocide is occurring, and against Christians. Go figure.

Bill Mahar put it this way about the situation in Nigeria: “They are literally trying to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this. They don’t care because the Jews aren’t involved.”

Even President Trump has spoken out against this, saying various options are being considered as part of an American response. As he said several days ago: “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. 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.”

In 2019 Trump was the first President at the UN to have a religious freedom meeting, singling out Nigeria as a country of concern. But Biden undid this when he was in office.

Singer Nicki Manaj strongly supports Trump in this, saying we must do something in support of these persecuted Christians. As she said on X: “Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice.”

What might happen is not clear. It is possible that Trump even sends troops in, but cutting off aid funding would likely be the path taken, if action does happen. I for one am thankful that he is at least raising this matter, while most of the other world leaders are dead silent.

But some “Christians” and “conservatives” are railing against him, saying this is none of our business! Some of these folks think that ‘America First’ means ‘America Only.’ That is a brainless way for them to think. This neo-isolationism, which Guinness rightly warned against, is madness.

Sure, we are not saying America must always be the world’s policeman, but there are times when it is morally right to take some sort of action. If the isolationists and pacifists had their way 80 years ago, we likely would all be speaking German or Japanese right now.

And the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan can be appealed to here. In his discussion of just war thought, ethicist Paul Ramsey said this:

It was a work of charity for the Good Samaritan to give help to the man who fell among thieves. But one step more, it may have been a work of charity for the inn-keeper to hold himself ready to receive beaten and wounded men, and for him to conduct his business so that he was solvent enough to extend credit to the Good Samaritan. By another step it would have been a work of charity, and not of justice alone, to maintain and serve in a police patrol on the Jericho road to prevent such things from happening. By yet another step, it might well be work of charity to resist, by force of arms, any external aggression against the social order that maintains the police patrol along the road to Jericho. This means that, where an enforcement of an ordered community is not effectively present, it may be a work of justice and a work of social charity to resort to other available and effective means of resisting injustice: what do you think Jesus would have made the Samaritan do if he had come upon the scene while the robbers were still at their fell work? https://billmuehlenberg.com/2025/02/05/paul-ramsey-warfare-and-the-good-samaritan/

Whether or not America or any other nation would or should come to the rescue of these persecuted Christians in Africa is a matter of debate. But what cannot be debated by the Christian is the urgent need to pray for them, and to alert others to their tragic plight.

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