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Holy Massacre: When "Allahu Akbar" Becomes a Death Sentence
A devastating genocide is unfolding against Christians in Nigeria, with over 60 murdered by Muslim Fulani terrorists in coordinated attacks that specifically target Christian communities. Nigerian reporter Masara Kim provides firsthand accounts of horrific violence, including the brutal killing of children as young as three, while the Nigerian government misrepresents these attacks as mere clashes between farmers and herders.
• Attacks follow a pattern: terrorists shouting "Allahu Akbar" attack at night, targeting churches and Christian homes
• Children and women form the majority of victims, with particularly brutal methods of killing
• Over 200 Christians killed in Nigeria's central region since April
• Nigerian government deliberately distorts the narrative to downplay religious motivation
• Evidence suggests a calculated agenda to eliminate Christians and establish an Islamic caliphate
• More than 150 previously Christian communities have been captured, becoming staging grounds for further attacks
• The Muslim-Muslim leadership in Nigeria appears unwilling to protect Christian citizens
• Contrast between Islamic extremism and Christ's teachings on persecution and peacemaking
• Biblical guidance on how Christians should respond to persecution through prayer and solidarity
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The genocide against Christians in Nigeria took an egregious turn for the worse this weekend. Yet another horrifying report is coming out of Nigeria, as over 60 Christians have been murdered by Muslim Fulani terrorists in what is being called a genocide. Where is the global outreach?
Speaker 2:Terrorists shouting Allahu Akbar, have embarked on a mission. You know a village, a mass village, burning mission. This attack started on the evening of May, the 25th on a. Sunday evening with the murder of a pastor.
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Speaker 3:All right, and, as always, like subscribe. Do what you got to do. If you're listening to audio experience, go on over to YouTube. Check out the YouTube, because you're missing it. We have a really, really dope episode today. Not dope because it's cool or anything, but it's sad, it's heartbreaking, but it's happening and so we have to address it.
Speaker 3:And it's a topic of genocide. That's right. Genocide, you say, well, are you throwing around that word loosely? I know a lot of people do. But no, we are being very authentic. We don't want to have any cap, as we say okay, we want to make sure that we're honest and we're real, but, yes, if you don't know what's going on in Nigeria, you need to be aware.
Speaker 3:So we're going to listen to this interview that I saw about a gentleman in Nigeria who is trying to ring the alarm bells about what's happening in north central Nigeria, above Abuja, a little bit east of Abuja, in what they call the plateau region, in the Joss Plateau, and Christians are being killed in numbers, massacred, murdered women and children, and we just don't seem to care because we're just too busy, you know, consuming our cultural American content, and if it doesn't appeal or apply to us, then we just kind of act like it doesn't happen. And also because the world doesn't really care that Christians are getting killed. Ok, and that's a part of it. So for those of us that are believers, I think we have to recognize that, that the world just doesn't really care, you know. So we can talk about politics, we can talk about all these other things, but we as believers have to be aware of the fact that our brothers and sisters across the world are being killed for Christ, while we just kind of enjoy some of our luxuries here as Americans.
Speaker 3:But you know, I don't want to criticize this. I want to make it known so that we, as believers know how to pray and walk alongside our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that are being persecuted around the world. So let's hop into this content. If you haven't heard about it, you're going to want to know, and this is one of many things you might have said. Well, I already heard about this. Well, it's happening again. It's happening all the time, year over year. Christians are being massacred and killed in Nigeria specifically, and I think there's some nefarious things going on with the government, and we'll get to that here a little bit later in the episode, but let's hop into it.
Speaker 1:Is a genocide against Christians happening right now in Nigeria. Well, Masara Kim, a reporter for Truth Nigeria, joins us now. Well, Masara, you recently wrote an article calling this an anti-Christian pogrom. What is actually happening in Nigeria?
Speaker 3:Okay, real quick. Pogrom is like a fancy word for genocide or massacre. It's actually a Russian word that it means violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, and it was particularly used for Jews and it was an organized massacre in about the 20th century in Europe. And this is a Russian word. So a pogrom is a is a massacre. He's being fancy with his words, so if you heard that word no, he's not talking about pilgrim, he says pogrom, p-o-g-r-o-m. Pogrom.
Speaker 2:Simplest way to describe what is going on in Nigeria is a genocide that you know. Just as you said, it is entirely a religious cleansing targeted at Christian communities, and this has been ongoing for several decades now without the world paying attention or at least turning a blind eye.
Speaker 3:So, again, I had to make this point. Is that the reason why the world is turning a blind eye? Because the world doesn't care about Christians. The world is run by the adversary. We know this right. When Jesus was tempted for 40 days and 40 nights and the adversary took him and showed him all the kingdoms of the nations, the nations of the earth, he said if you bow to them, if you bow to me, I will give all this to you. Well, you don't give what you don't have authority over and the world system and the nations within it. They are not interested in spreading the gospel.
Speaker 3:Ok, so this is the reason why, no matter what American president you have, whether it's a Democrat or Republican in office, they don't really tend to care about matters of persecution. We just saw Donald Trump meeting with the new president of Syria, while the new president of Syria is massacring Christians and Alawites all out the country. I don't know if that conversation was even had when they met. Okay, because the world is not fond of Christians, because it pushes back against the economy of the world, it pushes back against the agenda of the world, and this is the reason why you hear in scripture that it says that anyone that has love for the world, the love of the Father, is not in them. Okay, so just keep that in mind as we. As we watch this and you wonder kind of why does nobody talk about it? Nobody cares.
Speaker 2:In the last couple of days, precisely uh, from the Sunday, the 25th um, we have had ongoing relentless attacks against Christian Christian communities approximately 55 miles south of Jaws, the capital of Plateau State, and these attacks are part of a pardon you know they follow a pardon of violence that has killed more than 200 Christians in the central region of Nigeria since the holy month of April.
Speaker 3:So real quick, just so that you know, joss is in Plateau State. It's north central Nigeria. One of the things that I think is important to note I think a part of the problem is that we're so far away in America we don't understand the history or the cultures there. So the Hausa and Fulani tribes are the predominantly Muslim tribes in that area. They came to Islam in between the 8th and 9th century, and the Mali Empire was one of the first empires to convert to Islam. And you see Islam spreading through West Africa as a result of the Mali Empire's success in travel and trade, and also Muhammad and his Muhammadians okay, the Muslims. They spread all throughout northwest Africa and they spread Islam through these regions, right, so the Hausa and the Fulani are the predominant Islamic tribes there.
Speaker 3:In north-central Nigeria, the Christian tribes are predominantly the Birom and the Nagas or the Angus tribes. Okay, and they came to faith in Christ well, some would say through missionaries in the 18th and 19th century. But what's interesting about both these tribes the Birom and the Angus tribe, is that they migrated from Ethiopia and Egypt. In fact, the Nagas tribe, they have an Afro-Asiatic language that they speak. Okay, and the Afro-Asiatic languages are Shemitic tongues, berberic tongues and Kushitic tongues.
Speaker 3:So it's quite interesting that you see these people migrated. The Bera migrated from what we know as Ethiopia down into the Sudan, then to Chad, then to Niger and now, where they have settled, into the Joss Plateau in north central Nigeria. So it's quite interesting. It almost seems like God is pursuing these people because if they had for thousands of years been occupying the northern half of parts of Africa and they migrate over time, I wonder what caused those migration patterns and what do those people believe and understand about God, and how did they have a faith and knowledge of who Yeshua is, and why did the missionaries come to those places specifically? So those are just questions I want you to think about, as we're kind of seeing the evening after celebrating Palm Sunday with shouts of hallelujah.
Speaker 2:There were thunderings, there were thunderous gunshots all over the community and more than 55 people were massacred at an instant and dozens of houses were burned down. And interestingly, or rather more heartbreaking, is the fact that children and women form the vast majority of the victims of these massacres. In one particular room, I walked into a room where I saw the bodies of eight children from ages between three and eight that were literally slaughtered. They were literally slaughtered and you could see their brains plastered with walls and you could see the room was entirely flooded with their blood. And I could not I just could not imagine what manner of human being would do that.
Speaker 3:And yet, this is terrible. I mean, who kills children? I mean, I think that this is a part of the problem, right, when you get into these conversations about equality as it relates to religion. And in the Western world, we have this moral relativism and it's this idea that all belief systems are equal and they're not Okay. Any belief system that would give justification for murdering and killing people is a flawed ideology, and you have to look at what these beliefs teach. I think it's very telling to me, because, when you have to look at what these beliefs teach, I think it's very telling to me because when you go to the Bible and you see what Jesus and his disciples taught, it wasn't a rejoicing in death and it wasn't a murderous intent 2 Corinthians, 10, 4 and 5, for, though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
Speaker 3:The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. It is a spiritual battle that we are fighting, not one of a physical nature, because we don't need to oppress people to make them believe in Jesus. We simply just walk in love.
Speaker 3:You look in John, chapter 18, 10 through 11, and you see how the Messiah behaved when his own disciples tried to incite violence when they were taking him away to be crucified. And Peter takes out a dagger or it's a sword, it says, but really it's like a small dagger, it's a small, you know, kind of pocket sword, if you will and he cuts off the temple guard's ear and the Messiah's response is put your sword away. Shall I not drink the cup my father's given me? This is this idea that I have not come to wage war against mankind for we battle not against flesh and blood, not against flesh and blood, ephesians 6 says, but the principalities in the heavenly places and heavenly realms. So as Christians, we're not called to take up arms, okay, in war against people of different faiths and different cultures that differ than us. We're called to pray for them, to love them.
Speaker 3:On the contrary, in the Quran it's very clear what it teaches, surah 929, fight those who do not believe in Allah in the last day, nor comply with what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who are given the scripture until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled. This is in the surahs, okay. So they're instructed to oppress and to tear down and to break down those who do not believe in Allah and his messenger, in surah 2, 191. And do not fight them at the sacred mosque, unless they attack you there. If they do so, then fight them. That is the reward of the disbelievers. So violence is the reward of those who don't believe. For those of us that are Christians, for those that don't believe, the reward is the fact that you get separated from God. But it's not ours to wage war and to push you out. But again, I think that the Nigerian government is up to something and we're going to learn more about that here. This gentleman is going to tell us all about it.
Speaker 1:You sent me a video before we got started of and again, if you're watching this and you're a little queasy, I think it's important for the world to see this you sent us a video of basically a mass grave. What happened there? When was this of?
Speaker 2:basically a mass grave. What happened there? When was this? Yeah, so I was trying to describe a situation, an incident that happened and it's still ongoing in an area called Mushere M-U-S-H-E-R-E, located in the Bocos County, where terrorists shouting Allahu Akbar have embarked on a mission you know, a village, a mass village burning mission. This attack started on the evening of May, the 25th, on a Sunday evening, with the murder of a pastor. He was attacked in his residence and killed. His wife was injured and left for dead, alongside with another resident in the house.
Speaker 3:Evildoers will not inherit the kingdom of God. Once again, if you're coming in the name of a God or a spirit that is calling you to kill babies, to rape and kill men's wives, to burn down their homes, to come into their village in the dead of night like vipers and you're going to say Alu Akbar, alu Akbar, god is great. While you're doing it, I have to ask you what God do you serve? I'm not quite sure, but I know what Jesus says and I know what Revelation says. Revelation 21, 6 through 8 says he said to me it is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this and I be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all the liars, they will be co-signed to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. This is what is written in our scripture. So anything that's against that, any God or any spirit that calls you to take arms and to kill children, is not. We don't worship the same God, and so you have to dispel this idea that Yahweh and Allah are the same. They're not. The Quran is not the same as the Bible, it just isn't.
Speaker 3:In its plainest day, revelations 22, 12 through 15 says this look, I am coming soon, my reward is with me and I will give to each person according to what they have done.
Speaker 3:I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning, the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs. Those who wash their robes that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. And so this is a stark warning for those that would want to embrace these ideas or say OK, well, you know, these things happen around the world, it's not a big deal, but what manner of man do you have to be to go in and to bash a child's head into a wall, or to shoot a child or to rape a woman in the presence of her husband. That's not God honoring, but you're shouting Allahu Akbar while you're doing it, and so, again, my question is perhaps we don't have the same God, maybe we're worshiping different entities?
Speaker 2:By the following morning, just when the survivors were being conveyed to the hospital and the body of this pastor was also conveyed to the mortuary, these terrorists returned and killed seven more people. Right and after, the military intervened and pushed back these invaders. The following morning, while the mass burial for these eight people these seven people that you saw in that video was ongoing, these terrorists mobilized and came back again, this time around in a larger number. Residents and witnesses described the force as more than 500. They estimated the force that attacked the mourners to be more than 500. And they literally abandoned the corpses in that mass grave and flee for their lives, before soldiers later accompanied a few people much later at night to bury them. But then it didn't stop there. By 8 pm I was awake up to 3 am the following day, making phone calls and appealing to soldiers, persuading them to intervene, Because this time around, more than eight communities were flooded at the same time and Christian houses and churches were set up simultaneously across these communities.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, once again, look at the level of intentionality that you have to have in order to commit these acts of atrocity. There's a level of anger and wrath inside of things. You're not pleasing the Most High God because you go in in a coordinated attack and kill people and burn down their homes and you know again. It's such a stark contrast when you look at the Word of God and you see things like 1 John, 4, 7 through 12. Be loved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us that God sent his only Son in the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the appropriation of our sins Beloved.
Speaker 3:If God 1 John he goes into talking about, how can you say that you love God but yet hate and despise your brother? Say that you love God but yet hate and despise your brother? So for men, 500 in number, to go in into the dead of night while people are sleeping in the peace of their home and to bring a spirit of chaos. That's not. If that's your God, then I don't want to serve your God. I'll just be honest. There's no way that we can serve the same God.
Speaker 2:And those attacks according to information originals are still ongoing as we speak.
Speaker 1:Well, masara, we're talking about anti-Christian pogroms. We're talking about mass graves. We're talking about terrorism. We're talking about kids being killed because they're Christian. Why is no one literally no one in the West reporting about this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the Nigerian authorities who are, by the way, Literally no one in the West reporting about this distort the narrative to churn out false narratives, describing these attacks as mere clashes between sedentary farmers, who are chiefly Christians, and semi-nomadic cattle herders.
Speaker 3:So they're lying. I mean, and they're lying because if you study what's happening in Nigeria, there is this Muslim-Muslim controversy it's the Muslim-Muslim ticket is what they call it essentially where the president and the vice president are both Muslims and the state of Nigeria the country of Nigeria is approximately now 52 percent Muslim. There are many in that, in that environment, that want it to be an Islamic state. So the theory is that if you kill out Christians, you're getting rid of those population groups and you're making more of the country more Islamic in nature. Okay, so therefore, you can now bring in an Islamic caliphate and you have groups like Boko Haram and ISWA, which is the Islamic state West Africa, that are operating in these territories and they're being unchecked by the government.
Speaker 3:Imagine in America, imagine this you hear a story about 500 people being massacred in Georgia, north of Atlanta. Do you think that the people that did that atrocity would just be walking around in the government playing it down and saying, oh, it's just some people clashing with each other's different ethnic groups clashing. No, they would be apprehended. That's the benefit of us living in America is that we have at least the ability to recognize OK, right from wrong in that regard, and we know that killing and murder is vile and you don't do that. Now we have our own problems, of course, with school shootings and these kinds of things, and it's just, it's horrendous that those things occur in our country. But imagine if we were seeing groups of people being killed indiscriminately in our country and the government just did nothing about it.
Speaker 2:It appears that the US authorities, particularly under the previous administration of President Joe Biden, have bought into these lies and have continued to spread the lies, you know, distorting the narrative, hiding the truth about the attacks, making the world believe that this is not a situation to be concerned about and therefore let's just allow them to deal with their issues. These are just clashes between different ethnic groups or people of different groups, and therefore let them deal with their problems. But again, what is going on is an agenda a clear-cut, calculated agenda to eliminate Christians in Africa's most populous nation and impose an Islamic caliphate, a caliphate governed by extremist ideologies, governed by Sharia. And I say this confidently because I have been covering this violence for the past 15 years and I have seen communities Christian communities uprooted and replaced with Muslims, and those communities are not just turned to no-go zones for Christians, but they are also converted to staging grounds for more terror attacks. Converted to staging grounds for more terror attacks.
Speaker 2:I remember a particular incident. I mean on a couple of years ago, on June, the 23rd of 2018, I was attacked. My team was attacked at a location approximately 30 miles southwest of Jaws, at an intersection leading to a town called Mahanga. Now you can look that up on the internet. On Google Maps, search the town Mahanga, m-a-h-a-n-g-a. Now, that town was initially a Christian town that was attacked precisely on September 11, 2001. Now this is a story that the world does not even know. Even the Christians and the rest of the people in the United States do not know. While Al-Qaeda terrorists were wreaking havoc in the United States, where they eventually killed more than 2,900 people in a terror attack that remains perhaps the largest and the most devastating in history, another set of terrorists, also shouting Allahu Akbar, marched to this town, which was originally known as Rankum, spelled R-A-N-K-U-M and killed more than 200 people and displaced the remaining residents and instantly took over the town. As we speak, that town has not just served as a staging ground for more terror attacks, but has produced more mahangas like it.
Speaker 3:I hate to say it, but this is what Islam is about. I mean, let's look at it. Muhammad was a warlord and a conqueror. He was, that's just a fact. He conquered Medina. He conquered Mecca. He went all throughout the Iberian Peninsula. He went all throughout North Africa. He went all the way east in the Mongolian states. He went all the way north into Europe. He was pushed back by Europeans, but not until he conquered Constantinople, which is now modern day Turkey, or Istanbul. Conquered Constantinople, which is now modern day Turkey, or Istanbul. Ok, they, they, they. They take over, but Mohammed and Islam cannot drive out the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3:And where there is persecution, the gospel will continue to be preached, and Jesus said this very clearly to those of us that are followers of him Matthew, chapter 24, verse 9 through 14. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time, many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be to me in this verse is the hearts will grow cold. A group of people that, because of their belief system, think that they have the authority to go in and kill and murder and do vile acts in the name of their God. Once again, you have to question what is the source of the information? Are they themselves perverting the scriptures or are they just living out and being a model example of their leader? For those of us that are Christians, our model is Jesus, and Jesus was the even.
Speaker 3:According to the Quran, esau was perfect. He was a man with no sin. He committed nothing, no harm, no violence against anyone. On the contrary, muhammad was an individual who had quite a bit of transgressions and sordid past, and the Quran says very clearly that Muhammad had to repent of his sins, that and we don't even know if he was excused from his sins. Whereas Esau, who we call Jesus, they call Esau, he is at the right hand of the father. He was taken up. So who would you rather follow? A perfect man without sin, or a man who was a warlord and a conqueror and went and subjected nations and people groups all throughout his lifetime? I think it's very clear and obvious who we should be following. But there are those around the world that would disagree, and that's fine. We can do that. We can disagree, but there is truth and there is right from wrong and it's obvious to me to see that killing people, killing children and women, burning down villages is wrong, unequivocally.
Speaker 2:More than 150 communities that have been captured by terrorists acting on the orders of their superiors, their warlords, their commanders in Mahanga, or with active collaboration of terrorists in Mahanga to capture more communities. And this is happening over and over again. So the area that has suffered the latest attacks is one of those that has managed to survive the attacks through the efforts of civilian guards, civilian volunteer guards who, by the way, just managed to defend with makeshift weapons, chiefly homemade single-shot pipe guns and hunting rifles, which are never in any way effective to repel these attacks.
Speaker 3:Wow, this is heavy. It really is. It's heavy on my heart to listen to this because, you know, they don't even have weapons to fight. They have no violent intent against their attackers, they're not even prepared. They're having to get makeshift weapons just so that they don't get massacred.
Speaker 3:I mean, this is crazy that we are having to deal with these kinds of things and, honestly, it gives me more confidence to know that what I believe is true, right, that it is the gospel, is offensive to those that don't want to submit or surrender to the truth, because why would you have the need to drive somebody else out of a place unless you wanted to silence them? And you want to silence truth when you want to live a lie, and this is what people do when they're trying to avoid accountability. You get rid of those that would hold you accountable because their very lives, their very existence, bothers you, and this is an issue that we have in our world. But I'm encouraged at the end of the day, because the question is what should our response be as Christians? Well, our response should be to be like Jesus, our response should be the Beatitudes, and I'm going to leave us with this passage, because I think it's a phenomenal passage for us to reflect on and remember that Jesus gave us a very clear blueprint of how to handle persecution, and he said this in Matthew, chapter 5, 1 through 12. And this is the infamous, or the famous, sermon on the Mount.
Speaker 3:Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you. Because of me, rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. And so, when I look at this, blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are those that give mercy.
Speaker 3:My prayer is that those that committed these things would have would find forgiveness. I pray for their souls. I pray for them, because there has to be a level of darkness inside of you to make you go in and do something like this. And I pray that, when they go to bed at night, that the Holy Spirit convicts their hearts and minds that they repent and that God forgives them and they come to a place where they recognize the truth. And the truth is that God is love, jesus is his son and he came to cleanse the earth of our iniquity, to take away our strife, to take away the pain, to take away the fear, to take away the intentions that are selfish inside of us. And it's only the evil one that drives someone to kill and to murder and to persecute. And I pray for these people that are committing these acts because they do not know what they do. I hope you've been blessed by this. I am Brandon C Ricks. This is Equipped for Life. Once again, be blessed and be strong on your journey.
