The Christian Slaughter the World Ignores
As Islamist violence spreads across sub-Saharan Africa, thousands of Christians are being murdered while the West looks away.
by James H. McGee
July 6, 2026, 10:22 PM
Africa has a way of disappearing from our radar screens. It’s scarcely surprising, then, that the ongoing slaughter of African Christians fails to capture the attention it deserves. Partly this reflects a simple unfamiliarity — most Americans, even “African” Americans just don’t know much about Africa. Moreover, the narrative is, to say the least, “inconvenient.” Despite the many thousands of black lives snuffed out across Africa, “Black Lives Matter” has never seemed to care. The fact that the victims are overwhelmingly Christian and the perpetrators overwhelmingly Muslim represents another “inconvenient truth.”
Nigeria continues to be the epicenter of this rolling holocaust. On June 22, Fulani “herdsmen” — in fact, Islamist terrorists — raided a Christian village in Nigeria’s Plateau State, murdering 28 people, including the village’s pastor. As has become common, the Fulani raiders arrived in the middle of the night, shooting anyone who came out of their houses and then shooting their way into targeted homes.
Do we wish to see the emergence of terrorist “homelands” that will make our experience with Afghanistan or Syria pale in comparison?
One survivor noted that the attackers called out the names of local Christian leaders, clearly being guided by Fulani from neighboring villages. For example, the community’s spiritual leader, the Reverend Markus Nyam, appears to have been specifically targeted. As if this poor community hadn’t suffered enough, just one week later, on June 29th, gunmen stormed a high school where students were taking final exams, kidnapping 36 students and three teachers in an attack attributed to either the Islamist group Boko Haram or one of its affiliates.
On this latest occasion, Nigerian security authorities responded quickly enough to rescue a handful of students, a surpassingly rare event. More often than not, this kind of rapid response has been notable only by its absence. After previous massacres, Christian leaders pleaded with the government to provide protection against “marauding Fulani terrorists,” a plea, obviously, that fell on deaf ears.
https://spectator.org/the-christian-slaughter-the-world-ignores/
