There is an ongoing genocide of Christians there, but what do Biden’s handlers care about something as trivial as that?
“US removes Nigeria from list of ‘religious freedom violators,’” TheCable, November 17, 2021 (thanks to Tom):
The United States government has removed Nigeria from the list of countries blacklisted for “engaging in violation of religious freedom”.
In December 2020, the US had listed Nigeria among countries blacklisted for “violating religious freedom”.
However, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, had described the US allegation as a case of “honest disagreement between the two nations on the causes of violence in Nigeria”.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, announced 10 countries “of particular concern”, with Nigeria now missing from the list.
“The United States will not waver in its commitment to advocate for freedom of religion or belief for all and in every country. In far too many places around the world, we continue to see governments harass, arrest, threaten, jail, and kill individuals simply for seeking to live their lives in accordance with their beliefs,” the statement reads.
“This Administration is committed to supporting every individual’s right to freedom of religion or belief, including by confronting and combating violators and abusers of this human right.
“Each year the Secretary of State has the responsibility to identify governments and non-state actors, who, because of their religious freedom violations, merit designation under the International Religious Freedom Act.
“I am designating Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Eritrea, Iran, the DPRK, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”
“I am also placing Algeria, Comoros, Cuba, and Nicaragua on a Special Watch List for governments that have engaged in or tolerated “severe violations of religious freedom.”
“Finally, I am designating al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West Africa, Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and the Taliban as Entities of Particular Concern….
Wellington says
A good rule of thumb, to wit, whatever the pathetic and wuss-like Secretary of State, one Antony Blinken, asserts, conclude exactly the opposite and you will have a 90%+ chance of a proper calculation respecting where the truth actually resides. As here with Nigeria.
The Brandon Administration continues in full destructive mode to the USA. Blinken serves as just one example of this. Indeed, I know of no one in the Brandon Administration who is both competent and honest. Does anyone?
mortimer says
Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, is CLUELESS about Islam and much else. He is the man who didn’t stop the very RASH and DANGEROUS precipitous exit from Afghanistan abandoning the entire country to a REAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
Blinken is MAKING THE WORLD MORE DANGEROUS again and again. Blinken is blilnking CLUELESS.
Check Burry says
Yes as soon as I saw him I thought what a wet piece of chewed string.
Im surprised that list is only 10, there are far more Dumps doing smiting to kuffars
The UK will be on that list soon with the different factions now invading us.
TN Patriot says
There aren’t any in the Brandon Administration that are “competent and honest.” I doubt that there are any that are either…in fact I KNOW intuitively that there are none that are “honest.” If there are any that are competent, they are only competent in the ability to launch one more agenda item that has a high probability of further collapsing the freedoms of American citizens.
somehistory says
Because there is a hatred of Christianity and Christians…explained by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago…the government is doing all it can to make life for Christians as difficult as possible.
Mr. David Horowitz wrote, “Dark Agenda” to explain in great detail with a multitude of sources, what is happening in America regarding this issue.
The “mandate” that was set to impose the ‘get the jab, or lose the job,’ was denying Christians the Right to refuse based on their religious conscience.
During the ‘pandemic,’ casinos, bars, tattoo parlors and other businesses were allowed to open, but churches remained off limits…even when the congregation met in the parking lot and stayed in their cars.
The slaughter of Christians by mozlums in nigeria is not opposed by those who wish to eliminate Christianity in the U.S. Why should the U.S. government oppose killing Christians in Africa when they are so against their own Christian citizens in America?
So much for biden being a “good Catholic.” He is in favor of baby-killing and still gets to participate in church services, so this stand against nigerian Christians won’t crimp his style with the pope.
Wellington says
I would strongly assert, somehistory, that contempt for Christianity goes part and parcel with contempt for Western Civilization.
No one can say they admire Western Civilization while at the same time denigrating Christianity, the major religion of the West since Constantine.
Besides, no matter one’s particular religious choice or lack thereof, it is simply stupid to deny that the greatness of Western Civilization, easily the greatest of all civilizations many times over, is as much tied up with the Judeo-Christian tradition as it is with the tradition of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome.
somehistory says
Wellington,
It’s much like someone who says the *dish* is delicious, but then proceeds to kill the cook. The hatred so many have for the basis on which the freedoms we have had, rest…up until recently, at least…makes little sense when those same haters use those freedoms to ‘kill the cook.’
The words of the two I referenced…both Jews…are proven by the actions of those who hate and murder.
raja says
Somehistory,
Genocide of Christians is fine for the US admin, they seem to give a free pass. You have rightly implied about its contempt for the local Christians. Islamists are emboldened to kill as many as they are a big chunk of population. I know an attorney, who believes in purging all the non-Muslims from the face of the earth. If an educated or learned person has such warped thinking, God save the uneducated and illiterates.
Most important of all, killing any fellow humans should be condemned with retributions, which the powerful nations don’t seem to follow. We should not be focusing on only Christian, X, Y, Z and so on. Killing Hindus in Islamic states should be equally disconcerting. Afterall, didn’t Yahweh allow non-Jews to settle among the Israelites with safeguards and security (to the alien)?
Mankind has gone bad to worse as he deviates from God’s way, primary examples being islam and Left of all shades and stripes.
somehistory says
raja,
Since the biden fake admin removed nigeria from the list, and Christians are being slaughtered there, that is why I referenced what is happening in the U.S. with regard to his treatment of Christians here.
Of course, the killing of any human in this manner is wrong, and wherever mozlums are, they murder those who are in disagreement with them…even in places such as afghanistan where the vast majority are mozlum, but not necessarily of the exact degree as the taliban, isis, ql queda.
biden doesn’t seem to care who might be slaughtered by mozlums; and had promised that mozlums would be at every level of his admin.
Since he doesn’t care what is happening to Christians in this country, and there are certainly more acts of discrimination against Christians as well as more Christians living here, than other groups, it is clearly evident that he would not care for the Christians in nigeria who are being murdered every day.
Johnny B says
If you like to have your country destroyed and become persecuted like you never imagined as a Christian just vote for Socialism. I’m writing this because I know that at least in America there has to be millions, who consider themselves to be Christians and think that voting for the Democrats is the right thing to do and feel offended by the likes of Donald Trump. They really need to get their heads screwed on right and reconsider before it’s too late unless we’re already beyond the point of no return going into complete insanity and destruction of the West.
James Lincoln says
Johnny B says,
“…in America there has to be millions, who consider themselves to be Christians and think that voting for the Democrats is the right thing to do and feel offended by the likes of Donald Trump.”
That is correct, and I know many of those Democrats. They don’t realize that Pres. Trump’s supports Christianity and Pres. pretender Sleepy Joe actually does not…
During the 2020 US Presidential Election, Biden supporters – almost universally – failed to look at “policies”.
Instead, “emotions” took over.
They considered Pres. Trump to be – at times – crude, rude, offensive, and loud.
They neglected to realize that his policies were sound.
GreekEmpress says
https://www.aciafrica.org/news/4114/charity-foundation-relocates-children-displaced-after-torching-of-nigerian-orphanage
The Muslims attack families, orphanages, refugee camps—
How can our administration be so blind?
Do they not read international news?
gravenimage says
GreekEmpress, thank you for that link.
Dhimmi says
Islam has realistic chances in conquering demographically Europe, Russia and Africa in a century and india in two centuries, much of the old world and possibly also Australia and Canada where they experienced high growth but from a small base . Without counterforce
Infidel says
I think they’ll get more resistance from Russia. Note that this is the same country that conquered Turkistan and pretty much ended the era of Turkic jihadist conquests from West to South Asia
gravenimage says
Maybe, Infidel–but Putin and Russia have been doing a great deal of appeasement re Islam, and are allowing Shari’ah on Russian soil in Chechnya–so I’m not sure I’d count on it. I wish I could.
Dhimmi says
Russia has the largest muslim comunity in size and percentage among all european countries but due to mass migration from middle east and africa, the muslim population in western europe grows faster than in Russia. Putin does not think in terms for Islam and in principle does not care since islamic demographic takeover would take place long after he is bones
gravenimage says
Putin *should* care about Russia–but his appeasement of Islam does nothing but hurt her people.
Dimmi says
they cannot conquer russia in the military way, but through demographic change as muslims have large families, often with low education and muslims are already in a substantial number, from the time of Russian empire and Soviet Empire or from the times of Tatarian invasions. We should not forget that once the Southern Russia was scythian, now is islamic. In the Neolitic the European Diaspora and civilisation extended from Northern India to Egypt, including central Asia, now much of that is gone and it is islamic. Russia itself can also fall but not through a nation to nation war but through an internal war. Putin is the exact opposite of what the western people believe him to be. Yes he is a hard military men but there, in the East, Socialism was always about conquest while, in the west, the soviet agents influenced the socialist parties to be always for a self defeating peace. So, Putin is a hard military men but he is still as education and formation from the socialist era and his family had been in the soviet secret services from Lenin to Gorbachov and Yeltsin . Russia has more muslims than the west but the number of muslims in the west grows faster due to inept politicians which have no strategic logic and are totally brainwashed, like Merkel or clueless like the EU leaders or even open multiculturalists self-declared like Boris Johnson
gravenimage says
Putin has been appeasing Muslims as much as the West has–supposedly as a bulwark against Western freedoms. But Islam is *far* more of a threat to Russia than is the West.
Infidel says
Burma doesn’t belong in the above list. Yeah, the country is Buddhist, but they leave alone non-Buddhists who’re not interfering in the religious affairs of Buddhists, or trying to convert them. Hindus live just fine there. So do Christians: the only exception to that rule is missionaries. I know that the State Department and the USCIRF think that it’s a right to convert other people to their own religion, but those countries have every right to contest that definition of ‘freedom’. Aside from all that, the main reason Burma is being dinged for is the Rohingyas, but those are people who the Brits may have brought into that country but who never assimilated, so Burma is within its rights to expel them to neighboring Bangladesh, where they were originally from: the British colonial definition of Rohingya is ‘Bengali muslim from Chittagong’
Bulk of the other countries were either muslim or communist. Only other exception was Russia, but other than having 4 recognized ‘traditional religions’ – Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism – I don’t quite see the issue. People who practice Shamanism can still do it, the only restrictions I see are on missionary activity, which is government regulated
Ray Jarman says
+1 Infidel,
I totally agree with your opine, especially about Burma. It looks as if Blinken is carrying water for the pernicious cult.
gravenimage says
Agree about Burma, Infidel.
Relic says
“I am designating”
we get alot of that around here
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers remove Nigeria from list of countries blacklisted for ‘engaging in violation of religious freedom’
……………..
So now a *genocide*, with frequent government complicity, is not enough to consider a polity in violation of religious freedom? What a sick joke.
In fact, murder is the greatest violation of an individual’s rights, as should be obvious. This is what is happening to Christians in Nigeria today. This is grotesque.
Under Biden, though, I *wish* I could be surprised.
Compare and contrast with our previous president:
“Nigeria’s president: Trump “looked at me in the face. He said ‘why are you killing Christians?””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/09/nigerias-president-trump-looked-at-me-in-the-face-he-said-why-are-you-killing-christians
This was just over a year ago…
Ray Jarman says
Spot on Gravenimage. +1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Ray.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Somehistory writes, “Because there is a hatred of Christianity and Christians…explained by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago…the government is doing all it can to make life for Christians as difficult as possible.”
So in the year 2021 – 2,000 = 21 A.D., Jesus Christ explained hatred of Christianity and Christians. When did Christianity begin? Jesus Christ seems to have had remarkable, indeed godlike, powers of prophecy.
gravenimage says
Jesus did indeed speak about the persecution of those who would follow him. You can look it up, Mark.
somehistory says
Jesus does **indeed** have God-like powers of prophecy. He is said by Isaiah to be Wonderful Counselor, Eternal Father, Mighty God and Prince of Peace, and as such, He has all of the Power and Authority to see as far into the future as He deems necessary.
He died, was resurrected and returned to Heaven in 33 CE. The “2000” years was a rounding of the number of years since He told us that Christians would be “hated” and “persecuted,” “haled before kings and governors for (His) sake.”
Ray Jarman says
When the president (Muhammadu Buhari) of Nigeria aids and abets the blood thirsty Fulani monsters that have killed thousands of Christians in the Hausa states, Blinken turns both blind eyes. If a civil war occurs in Nigeria, I would bet that the Biden regime would side with the Muslim monsters and Buhari.
OLD GUY says
This Democrat Administration is on the road to HELl, and they are trying their best to take the American citizens down with them. GREED & POWER destroys people and nations, and there is a lot of GREED in Washington D.C.
Lisa Tea says
A couple weeks ago 100 Christians were kidnapped during a church service in Nigeria. A couple weeks before that 40 Christians were killed by Muslims in Nigeria. The week before that I think another dozen Christians were killed in their village. I realize that math is now considered racist, but even Winken-Blinken should be able to add 2 + 2 and get 4. But then again, he thinks there are only a little more than 100 Americans left trapped in Afghanistan. .