Slavery Report: Nigeria
Islamic Jihadists, their Christian black slaves . . . and the West's deafening silence.
July 9, 2019
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Among the most disturbing aspects of the long-running civil war in Nigeria has been slavery. Conflicts between the Muslim majority and the 40% Christian minority have led to the growth of terrorist violence in which the taking of Christian slaves has become a source of compensation for Islamic fighters.
The recent rise of jihad organizations like ISIS affiliate Boko Haram has been the main source of contemporary slave raids. The most infamous incident of a slave raid was Boko Haram’s abduction of 276 Christian schoolgirls in the town of Chibok on April 14, 2014 which inspired Michelle Obama’s “#BringBackOurGirls†hashtag. Most slaves are young girls, kidnapped and kept as the concubines of the Islamic soldiers.
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