There is nothing covert about what is happening to Christians in Nigeria. The men carrying out attacks on believers are not hiding their intentions. They are broadcasting them.
Survivors report that Islamist Fulani militants tell them directly, as they burn their homes and cut down their neighbors: “We will destroy all Christians.”
That is not the language of a land dispute or a tribal conflict, no matter how many times the Nigerian government has tried to frame it that way.
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That is a religious extermination campaign, and it is being carried out in the open, with near-total impunity, while most of the Western world looks the other way.
Of the 4,849 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in the past year, 3,490 of them — 72 percent of the global total — were killed in Nigeria.
No other country on earth comes close to those numbers, and yet Nigeria rarely
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