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Nigerian Rights Advocates Ask Pope, Trump, to Intervene to Stop Christian Genocide
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Excerpt:

The rights group also expressed its deep concern that Christians are not represented in Kaduna state government, since the governor, deputy governor, and State House of Assembly speaker are all Muslims, despite constitutional provisions that members from different ethno-religious communities be represented in strategic offices.

Such a state of affairs is no accident, the group alleges, but rather “the Kaduna state government and the office of the Nigerian President are deeply entrenched in the selective appointments of mostly Moslems as holders of virtually all strategic positions.”

The effect of this is to consign “millions of Christians to the inglorious position of second-class citizens,” the statement said, making them “cannon fodder for the spiraling armed attacks by armed Islamists masquerading as herdsmen, kidnappers and bandits.”

“This is the fuel that has ignited widespread mistreatment of Christians,” the group asserts. “The incessant attacks by armed Islamists targeting only pastors; Christian schools and clerics of Christian denomination have become a national emergency.”

Full article:

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2020/01/15/nigerian-rights-advocates-ask-pope-trump-to-intervene-to-stop-christian-genocide/

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