Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over killing of Christians. By AFP in The Australian.
President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if Africa’s most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists. …
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” …
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,” he added, warning the Nigerian government that they “BETTER MOVE FAST!”
In the rest of the article, AP of course pooh poohs the idea in the usual non-factual way beloved of the New Class, with lots of strategic omissions. And of course AP are nothing but derogatory towards Trump and Christians.
So what is going on in Nigeria? Philip Bradfield in News Letter explains:
According to research by Open Doors, a non-denominational mission supporting persecuted Christians around the world, more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria today than in the rest of the world combined. …
It says that 75% of all 49,470 Christians killed around the world for faith-related reasons from 2014-24 were in Nigeria.
The charity reports that 43,952 Nigerian Christians were killed because of their religious affiliation from October 2011 to September 2025.
This includes 2,800 Christians in the past year – from October 2024 to September 2025 – almost eight people killed a day.
Fulani tribesmen armed by radical Islamists, and Boko Haram, kill Christians — and also Muslims who aren’t sufficiently radical:
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported in July that about 30,000 armed Fulani bandits operate in northwest Nigeria where they “predominantly target Christian communities” often targeting them with illegal “taxation”.
It said groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Fulani militants aim to “impose a singular interpretation of Islam”.
Open Doors says tensions between Muslim Fulani herdsmen and Christian farmers goes back long before the mass murders. However it says Islamic militants have now radicalised and armed many Fulani.
It too says Boko Haram seeks to create an Islamic State across northern Nigeria.
It reports that many Fulani herdsmen have been radicalised by the Islamic militants to conduct large-scale, systematic attacks against Christians using sophisticated weaponry.
Evidence of their radicalisation, Open Doors says, comes from the many victims who report the Fulani shouting “Alluhu Akbar” and also “we will destroy all Christians” during attacks. …
Interviewees say ISWAP asks for higher ransoms for Christian abductees than for Muslims, in order to destabilise Christian families and churches.
It says local Muslims who do not submit to the fundamentalists are also killed in significant numbers, though Christians are 6.5 times more likely to be killed and 5.1 times more likely to be abducted.
Nigeria’s Genocide Against Christians ‘Spreading Like a Cancer’. By Uzay Bulut in Gatestone.
In 2010, Nigeria was widely viewed as a rising regional power. It was often said to be the only nation where radical Islam was actively being pushed back. …
That changed dramatically after 2011. There were bloody riots in several cities and small towns then due to the election victory of Goodluck Jonathan, an Igbo and a Christian. At the time, the Boko Haram (‘Western learning is forbidden’) insurgency was in its second year and growing. …
In 2014 Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. Now that was newsworthy for the blob.
Other than the massacres, there are also thousands of church burnings, abductions and forced conversions of Christian children and women to Islam. …
Our reporters have documented that mass kidnappings of women in Kaduna state in 2023 were in fact aimed at capturing scores of women in Southern Kaduna and selling them as sex slaves in the Fulani bandit community. …
“Mass rape of Muslim women belonging to “noncooperative” clans is a terrorist weapon deployed in bandit gangs …
The Fulani bandit gangs … usually attack mosques that are aligned with Imams who are not aligned with the Wahabbist forms of theology advocated by the Izala Islamic center in Jos.”
Reporting is difficult:
The team usually see photos and videos on messaging services such as WhatsApp, or by cell phone text from friends. Sometimes the terrorists themselves make bragworthy videos of themselves in the bush celebrating by shooting off scores of bullets; sometimes they send heartbreaking videos of torturing kidnap victims to the victims’ families. …
“The chief reason there is so little media attention is that the Nigerian media themselves have deliberately failed to give a clear picture of who is doing the violence and why. When I started reporting in 2019, no Nigerian newspaper identified the ethnicity of the gangs’ burning villages in Kaduna State and murdering scores of people in the middle of the night.
“The criminals would be called ‘unknown gunmen,’ or ‘herdsmen,’ or ‘hooligans.’ It appears that obvious obfuscation was in obeisance to Nigerian officials looking over the shoulders of their bosses. …
“Besides TruthNigeria and Sahara Reporters, and a couple of investigative nonprofits, most media appear to be controlled by cash payments from government spokesmen or others offering ‘courtesy gifts.’ When the army holds a presser, every reporter who shows up gets a cash envelope, the more influential his paper, the bigger the reward.
The New Class don’t want to talk about this. But Trump has just forced it onto the agenda.
Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. According to a 2025 analysis by the Pew Research Center, Muslims grew faster than any other major religious group from 2010 to 2020, increasing by 347 million people to reach a global population of 2.0 billion during that period.
While Christianity remains the largest religious group, projections suggest that Muslims will surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group in the second half of the 21st century.
hat-tip Stephen Neil