Violent jihad attacks against Christians are growing increasingly commonplace worldwide. Christians are living under conditions of genocide in Africa and in the Middle East. Less heard about are other forms of torment that Christians experience due to bigotry by Muslims. In the article below, “a Nigerian priest who oversees trauma care for people victimized by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria visited the United States this week to share his concerns about how Christians are facing lesser-known forms of societal discrimination because of their faith in Christ.” Despite the pervasiveness, severity and damage of Christian persecution, the world at large remains indifferent and more concerned about appearing “Islamophobic” by calling out the sufferings of Christian minorities.
“Nigerian priest details 6 ways Christians face discrimination by Muslims in Nigeria”, by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, March 14, 2020:
WASHINGTON — A Nigerian priest who oversees trauma care for people victimized by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria visited the United States this week to share his concerns about how Christians are facing lesser-known forms of societal discrimination because of their faith in Christ.
Father Joseph Bature Fidelis, the director of psychosocial support and trauma care in the Diocese of Maiduguri, Nigeria, attended a weekly meeting of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable presided by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.
For the meeting, Fidelis prepared an “ask note” on behalf of his diocese calling for the U.S.’s intervention in the plight of Christians in Nigeria.
“A lot of it is going on and sometimes it’s not so much known to the wider world,” Fidelis told The Christian Post in an interview Tuesday morning. “The response is very slow. So people continue to suffer for their faith.”
In Nigeria, thousands of Christians have been killed in recent years by extremist violence carried out by Boko Haram and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province in Northern Nigeria. Thousands more have been killed amid increased attacks carried out by radical Fulani herders against Christian farming communities in the Middle Belt of the country.
In addition to the extremism and communal violence, Fidelis stressed that Christians living in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria are facing other forms of persecution that are lesser reported in the media but are impacting Christians’ finances, jobs, education, retirement and ability to worship.
Political deprivation
According to Fidelis, one particular phenomenon being seen in northern Nigeria is Christians being “deliberately deprived” of certain high-level positions in government.“They are denied promotion or cannot access certain offices simply for being Christians,” Fidelis said.
Instances of political deprivation, he said, can be seen widely in Borno state and Yobe state.
In Yobe, Fidelis said Christians can’t be head of a government school.
“Muslims have been so much in power, so a lot of Christians will not be able to have access to certain positions,” he explained. “You don’t see it openly done. Let’s say you go for an interview and five or six of you are supposed to qualify for a director position in a department. The Muslim is given preference over a Christian. That pattern has been there steadily. So you watch it and you see that certain positions are just not given to Christians.”….
mortimer says
Even if secular law is in place in the very constitution, Muslims act as if Sharia is superior over constitutional law. This gives Muslims the right to disregard constitutional law … by hook or by crook.
Islam is intrinsically duplicitous and two-faced and thus incompatible with the policy of transparency..
toomanyhobbies says
if there was even one way any Christian had discriminated against even one muslim the press would be going wild…
mortimer says
This might be called ‘STEALTH DHIMMITUDE’.
Ade Fegan says
Perhaps .. except that it is not that subtle
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Six ways Muslims discriminate against Christians
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Ugly stuff–this is what happens when Muslims reach 50% of the population.
Goofy says
We typically don’t hear a word from pope Francis who is much more interested in maintaining good diplomatic relations with the leaders of the cult of Islam which has based it’s very existence on stolen biblical narratives and still commands it’s believers to fight to death, humiliate and exploit the Christians and the Jews.
The Roman Catholic church has decided that Islam contains som “truth” to the apparent effect that I leads to God. We need explanation of what kind of truth that is, as the god of Islam Allah has nothing in common with God of the Jews and Christians who wants intimacy with us and who is full of truth compared with Allah who is unapproachable and who relates to his creation as slaves. The Christian faith has eternal life in close relationship with Christ and the Muslim faith has a paradise in which Allah has no role apart from furnishing the Muslim faithful with great numbers of recycled virgins recruited from hell as sex slaves in the paradise which is the perverse male vision of bliss. How can you possibly reconcile these completely different perspectives?