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WHERE, OR WHERE IS THE PUSSY POPE FRANCIS HIDING TODAY? - Pope's response to Nicaragua's brazen assault on the Church was pathetic - A Christmas Muslim Genocide in Nigeria 4,500 Christians killed in 2023. 52,000 in over a decade.
A Christmas Muslim Genocide in Nigeria
4,500 Christians killed in 2023. 52,000 in over a decade.
Muslims celebrated Christmas in Nigeria by massacring around 100 Christians across a dozen communities. The Jihadis hacked Christians to death with machetes and burned down churches as part of a genocidal campaign that has killed 52,000 Christians in over a decade and forced millions to leave their home and become refugees in the African nation.
In America, not a single person marched, rallied or protested over this actual genocide.
The rampaging mobs crying that Hamas is suffering genocide remained silent. Black Lives Matter had nothing to say about it and neither did any of the politicians and social media influencers who spend all of their time pushing fake casualty numbers out of Gaza.
According to the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), a local NGO, over 4,500 Christians were killed this year in Nigeria. Unlike Israel’s defensive war against Hamas, this latest year of the ongoing Muslim genocide has resulted in no UN Security Council sessions or UN General Assembly votes. And the media has kept the killing off its front pages.
Every human rights organization that shouts “genocide” whenever a Hamas terrorist dies has yet to declare genocide over the killing of over 50,000 civilians by Muslim gangs aided and abetted by the Muslim rulers who have taken over Nigeria and waged war on Christians.
Earlier this year, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ‘Godfather of Lagos’ educated in Chicago and once accused of ties to heroin trafficking, named “leader of warriors” by the Emir of Borgu, took power earlier this year, replacing the brutal regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former dictator backed by the Obama administration to usurp former Christian President Jonathan Goodluck.
Intersociety described the massacre of 700 Christians earlier this year as a “farewell gift” to outgoing President Muhamadu Buhari warning that 100 churches had been destroyed by Islamic Jihadists in just 60 days. Every time a terror mosque is bombed in Gaza, it’s in the headlines, but how is it possible that 100 churches being destroyed in mere months isn’t news?
Intersociety began its count of the over 50,000 murdered Christians in 2009. That’s no coincidence. As part of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Obama administration had set out to ‘flip’ Middle Eastern countries from secular to Islamic rule, but in a less well known move, had also begun flipping African countries from non-Muslim to Muslim rule, resulting in the massacre of Christians. There is more Christian blood on Obama’s hands than anyone in a long time.
The Obama administration staged a Muslim coup in Côte d’Ivoire leading to a civil war in which it indirectly intervened in favor of Alassane Ouattara who has remained in power since 2010. In Kenya, Obama backed efforts by his cousin, Raila Odinga, who like Obama claimed to be Christian, but had developed close ties to the country’s Islamic population and ran as their champion, to take power. And in Nigeria, Obama had pressured the government to stop fighting Islamic terrorism. The end result of these efforts was a horrifying wave of Boko Haram terror.
Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist group dedicated to enforcing Islamic law, amped up the violence while the Obama administration insisted that the Nigerian military should avoid going after the terrorists and instead pumped a fortune in foreign aid to deal with “social inequities”.
The money instead helped finance a genocidal wave of Islamic violence, much as it had in Gaza and Iran, but the Obama administration and its leftist allies went on lying about the genocide. The official position was that Muslims were killing Christians in response to oppression. If only they had better economic prospects and more political power, the violence would stop.
The Obama administration refused to add Boko Haram to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations which allowed the Jihadists to benefit from money coming out of the United States until mounting political pressure from Republicans forced it to do the right thing. But not until thousands had been killed while Obama officials falsely claimed that Boko Haram was not an Islamic terrorist group and that FTO designation would only alienate Nigerian Muslims.
In 2021, the New York Times published an op-ed claiming that, “there is no proof that a well-organized, ideologically coherent terrorist group called Boko Haram even exists today.” But by 2014, Boko Haram’s mass kidnapping of hundreds of Christian girls led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. The efforts to deny that an Islamic terrorist group inspired, trained and financed by Al Qaeda, which had killed thousands, even existed, ended.
But the motives behind the lies that enabled the Christian genocide remained the same.
Obama got what he wanted with Muhammadu Buhari, but after two terms of the former Muslim dictator, the killing goes on. Boko Haram, an Al Qaeda ally, has gotten bogged down in fighting a local splinter group affiliated with ISIS, for the bragging rights to Christian genocide. And ordinary Fulani Muslim tribesmen and gangs have taken over campaigns of butchery like those that occurred over Christmas. And some Nigerian Christians say that the atrocities of these ordinary Fulani Muslims are even worse than those practiced by Boko Haram.
“The disembowelling of pregnant women and the butchering of the fetus is a specialty of theirs,” the rector of a Nigerian seminary described.
Obama officials claimed that the real issue wasn’t Muslim terrorism but Muslim oppression. A decade later as Fulani Muslims have gone on massacring Christians, the story hasn’t changed even as the massacres continued under the regime of Buhari: a fellow Fulani Muslim.
Instead of addressing the Fulani Muslim genocide of Christians, human rights organizations and the media have claimed that members of the Fulani ethnic group are the ones facing “persecution” in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region for their Jihadist tendencies.
The massacre of Christians in Nigeria, like Oct 7 and Islamic terrorism around the world from India to America is part of a thousand year Islamic genocide of non-Muslims commanded by the Koran. Every time their victims fight back, the Islamists and their allies cry “genocide”, but the true genocide is the one that has claimed countless millions across every religious group in every part of the world. It is a thousand year genocide that the world must fight back against.
Muslim terrorists are not the victims of genocide, they are its perpetrators.
We must stand with the Christian victims of Islamic genocide in Nigeria, with the Jewish victims of genocide in Israel, the Hindu victims of genocide in Kashmir, the Buddhist victims of genocide in Myanmar and with the atheists being murdered in Bangladesh.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Pope's response to Nicaragua's brazen assault on the Church was pathetic
After dribs and drabs of criticism in responses to reporters over the past several months, Pope Francis finally came out with a statement about the full-blown assault on the Catholic Church from Nicaragua's Marxist dictator, Daniel Ortega.
Pope Francis used his New Year’s Day address to highlight concern over the worsening situation of the Roman Catholic Church in Nicaragua as a result of a protracted crackdown by the government of President Daniel Ortega, which has detained clerics, expelled missionaries, closed Catholic radio stations and limited religious celebrations.
Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the traditional New Year’s Angelus prayer and blessing, Francis said he was “following with concern what is happening in Nicaragua, where bishops and priests have been deprived of their freedom.”
He expressed his “closeness in prayer to them, their families and the entire church in the country,” and called on all Catholics to “pray insistently” to find “a path of dialogue to overcome difficulties.”
“Let’s pray for Nicaragua today,” Francis said.
Vatican News reported on Monday that at least 14 priests, two seminarians and a bishop had been arrested in recent days in Nicaragua, and that the country’s top church leader, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, had expressed his closeness “to the families and communities who are without their priests at this time.”
Closeness? What closeness? The priests were right there, and now they aren't. They've been whisked away to unknown places, kidnapped by the state, and are now ensconced in some communist dungeon where they likely are being tortured and abused. The guy in the capital, or in Rome, offering 'closeness' is far away, just saying he feels their pain.
It may be the right sentiment, but it's not good enough.
The pope's call for 'dialogue' is a doozy, too. Dialogue? It's like negotiating with terrorists. Dialogue has been going on for a long, long, time in night-haunted Nicaragua. It's the same call the pope makes to Venezuela's and Cuba's dictators who have destroyed their countries, thrown thousands into their own dungeons, driven many more to flee, and crushed all political freedoms. A lot of good that did -- these dirtbag dictators are more powerful than ever.
A powerful condemnation on the world stage, as many previous popes have done with other cruel regimes, would do a lot more. Let Ortega mock Pope Francis with a question about how many divisions he has -- so he can find out the hard way in this information age.
What the pope fails to recognize in this weak call for Nicaragua's communist regime to play nice with the Church is that a full frontal assault on the Church has begun now. This is not a few objectionable things, this is a systematic bid to shut down the Church and chase it out of Nicaragua.
What does Daniel Ortega want in his arrests and kidnappings of these Nicaraguan priests? Well, to create terror, of course, to discourage any priest from speaking out about the corruption and poverty that Ortega's regime has brought.
He also is tidying up loose ends, having jailed seven political opponents who challenged him for the presidency. In going after priests, what he wants is an end to one of the last groups of people who can speak out against him and his oppressive, rotten, socialist regime.
He's long past the stage of being a social democrat, as he claimed years ago in his bid to persuade a new generation of voters to elect him, following his stint as a Sandinista revolutionary back in the 1980s, where by 1990, Nicaraguan voters threw him out.
There wasn't going to be any of that in Ortega's recrudescence that began in 2007, when he got elected again, and has extended to four terms, the last few of which have been universally condemned by the State Department and others as nakedly fraudulent.
What we have here is a full-blown Cuba model, Ortega being a lifelong ally of the communist regime there. The freedoms are gone. The opponents are jailed. The locals are fleeing. Now it's time to shut down the churches, leaving just the all-powerful state as their substitute.
Cuba has that horrid model, and Ortega, who is getting on in the years, having reached the age of 78, undoubtedly wants to duplicate that model before he goes, and with weak Joe Biden running the U.S. up in el norte, he knows the time is now.
Surely the pope can see what is going on, and must know that it's his Church that's being gored now ... and yet he doesn't.
Is it the pope's own latent Marxism that is making him reluctant to condemn Ortega, or think he can go head to head with Ortega and correct things with a little mano a mano dialogue?
Or is it the pope's de facto support for the source of Ortega's power, the global illegal migrant trade based on Joe Biden's attractive nuisance, the U.S. open border, which has become a cash cow for Ortega, who is organizing charter flights from all over the world to ship migrants north at a pretty penny to himself. Ortega, as I noted here, has an actual plan to destroy the United States by inflicting millions of illegal aliens from all over the world upon it, and the pope has loudly supported this project, criticizing the U.S. for not taking all comers as un-Christlike despite wreckage of Nicaragua that drives Nicaraguan's migrants out, and the wreckage of many places that are now shipping migrants through Nicaragua's abetment. The pope never has any criticism for Nicaragua on that front, or for those places that drive migrants to leave. He only has criticism of the U.S. for not taking in all comers and paying for them.
Could it be that? Is the pope choosing the migrant trade to Get Gringo, and leaving Nicaragua rot, even if it means Catholic clergy are being 'disappeared' and tortured in Nicaragua's filthy dungeons?
I don't want to think that's true, but it's what comes to mind when one sees a weak response like this from the Vatican. The pope should be holding this hellhole regime up to shame and demanding the release of the kidnapped priests, citing the Argentine 'dirty war' or better still, the Castro regime as the disaster in the making. It shouldn't place taking the U.S. down a peg over defending Nicaragua. The pope, of course, has spent a lot of time taking down critics of his own from the U.S., as well as wasting time on blessings for gays and other non-doctrinal changes that have the appearance of changes. While he's been busy doing that, Nicaragua (and Nigeria) have been under full-blown attack.
What happens to a nation that doesn't allow any churches? It becomes like Cuba, a desperately miserable place brimming with people with no social capital, no moral compass, and no future. It creates ruin, and that's what we are seeing now in Nicaragua. The pope's job here is not to make useless calls for 'dialogue' but at this point to state his outrage at what is outrageous.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and all that. But in the city of Jesus’ birth, the mood is quite different, and the locals will tell you that it’s all Israel’s fault.
In the run-up to Christmas Day, Gil Zohar of Religion Unplugged reported sorrowful words from the Rev. Dr. Munther Ishaq, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church: “Christmas celebrations are canceled this year — for it’s impossible to celebrate Christmas while our people in Gaza are going through a genocide. Usually, it’s Jesus in the manger surrounded by the shepherds, surrounded by the Holy Family Joseph and Mary and the magi who came from the east.”
Religion Unplugged adds that Ishaq set the Baby Jesus in a “crèche featuring building debris”; this ugly politicization of Christmas “was a gesture of solidarity with Gaza’s beleaguered civilians caught between Hamas gunmen and Israeli Defense Forces.”
Zohar does his best to give the impression that “Gaza’s beleaguered civilians” are “caught between Hamas gunmen and Israeli Defense Forces” because those Israeli forces are so inveterately evil. The unaware reader would get no idea from the Religion Unplugged report that Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7. Ishaq, who is further identified as a “Palestinian theologian,” says sadly: “This is what Christmas looks like in Palestine.”
It has not always looked this way. Ishaq claims that Palestinians are going through genocide at the hands of Israel, yet Bethlehem’s Christian population has left the city mostly during the era of Muslim rule. In the 1950s, when the little town of Bethlehem was governed by the wicked Israelis, it was over 85% Christian; in 1995, however, it passed under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, and now it is around 12% Christian.
What’s more, there is no genocide in Gaza or anywhere else among the Palestinians. The source for the generally accepted casualty figures in Gaza is the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas. To take their figures at face value would be akin to trusting the word of Josef Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry for information about the conduct of World War II. Hamas has a vested interest in exaggerating the number of civilian casualties in Gaza because it knows how effectively civilian casualties turn international opinion against Israel.
The international media doesn’t seem to notice or care, but Hamas has lied repeatedly. On Oct. 19, for example, the total casualty number increased by 307, from 3,478 to 3,785. Yet at the same time, the total number of children killed went from 853 to 1,524, an increase of 671. Nor was that the only time such a thing happened. On Oct. 26, the total number of casualties increased by 481, while the number of children casualties went up by 626. Clearly, the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza is not too concerned that people will study these numbers closely; the idea is simply to shock and appall people with Israel’s alleged inhumanity, and that is working well enough.
It is also important to remember that Munther Ishaq is not in Gaza at all, as Bethlehem is in Judea and Samaria, now known as the West Bank. But he nevertheless wanted to claim some coveted victim status for himself and his congregation. “Here we wanted to say,” he explained about his crèche, “that it is as if they are looking for Jesus in the midst of the rubble. We wanted to send a message to the world – a message that while the whole world is celebrating Christmas in festive ways, here in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus where Christmas originated from, this is what Christmas looks like to us.”
Zohar tells us that this craven cleric “preached against the IDF offensive from his pulpit at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the adjoining town of Beit Sahour,” but doesn’t say anything about his preaching against the Oct. 7 jihad murders.
Ishaq’s sermon, says Zohar, “followed the IDF’s strike on Gaza City’s oldest active church, the historic St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church. The bombing killed 18 people, injured others and displaced about 400 civilians who were taking shelter in the church complex.”
He gives no hint, however, of what even the Washington Post, never a friend of Israel, reported: “The Israel Defense Forces said in an emailed statement that a strike targeting a Hamas control center ‘damaged the wall of a church in the area’ and that it was ‘aware of reports on casualties’ and was reviewing the incident. They declined to provide further information and reiterated, ‘It is important to clarify that the Church was not the target of the strike.’”
Ishaq also said: “Christmas is the solidarity of God with those who are oppressed, with those who are suffering, and if Jesus is to be born again, this time this year he will be born in Gaza under the rubble in solidarity with the people of Gaza.”
Ishaq doesn’t bother to explain how he reconciles Jesus’ own recorded words with the oft-repeated genocidal statements of Hamas leaders or the Gazans’ enthusiastic support for Hamas. In the world that Ishaq and Zohar inhabit, the facts don’t matter; only the narrative does. That narrative is one in which everything is Israel’s fault, no matter what the actual facts of the case may be. And so Christmas used to be the season of joy, hope, and renewal, but in the town of Jesus’ birth, the new Christmas spirit is one of lies, rage, and hate.
Communist Nicaragua marked 500 days since imprisoning Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez on Tuesday by publishing photos of an alleged “medical examination” on the Catholic leader.
The Daniel Ortega regime arrested Álvarez, an outspoken critic of Nicaragua’s human rights abuses, in August 2022 and sentenced him in February to 26 years in prison for “treason.” The regime also annulled his Nicaragua citizenship, rendering him a stateless person, in clear violation of international law.
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Bishop Álvarez was the first senior member of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church’s leadership to be arrested in Ortega’s ongoing persecution spree against Christians in the country. The list of Christian political prisoners since his arrest has grown to seventeen Church clergy members. The latest to be arrested, Fathers Ismael Serrano and Jader Hernández, were detained this weekend.
In the pictures published on Tuesday by Nicaraguan state media outlet El 19 Digital, Bishop Álvarez appears noticeably thinner and paler. The photos are the third set the regime has released since his sentencing in February.
The pictures were accompanied by an official press release that contained a list of “healthy” vital signs allegedly documented during the medical examination, which it claimed took 15 minutes to conduct.
“Today, Tuesday January 2, 2024, Rolando Álvarez Lagos underwent a medical re-examination by Dr. Yesser Rizo (Internist), in the presence of the General Commissioners of our National Police: Zhukov Serrano and Luis Barrantes,” the regime’s press release read.
The press release continued by claiming that Bishop Álvarez “expressed that he feels well and keeps exercising.”
“The doctor reported that Rolando Álvarez’s vital signs and state of health are fine. No blood tests were performed because he had ingested food,” the press release concluded.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, raise their fists during the commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the Pancasan guerrilla campaign in Managua, on August 29, 2018. (INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images)
On November 28, the Ortega regime published over 30 photos and a video of the bishop allegedly taken during the course of several different family visits and medical examinations. The pictures were published one day after Bishop Álvarez’s 57th birthday.
On March 23, the Ortega regime published its first “proof of life” for Bishop Álvarez, who had not been seen since being sentenced a month prior. The pictures and videos followed growing local and international pressure from human rights groups, activists, and politicians who demanded proof of life of the bishop. The Ortega regime allowed the priest to share a lunch meal with two of his siblings under the strict surveillance of the prison’s security officials.
In all these episodes, Álvarez has appeared in a tightly controlled “preferential” visitor’s room located inside La Modelo prison and not in the maximum-security cell where the Ortega regime keeps Álvarez.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued a press release on Tuesday urging the Biden administration and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to call for the immediate and unconditional release of all members of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church who have been unjustly arrested by the Ortega regime.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) prepares for a news conference at the House Triangle on the Belarus Democracy Act of 2011 which would sanction Belarusian leaders who participate in human rights abuses. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Smith led a congressional hearing in December in which several members of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church who experienced repression recounted their harrowing stories to Congress, detailing how they were arrested, interrogated, tortured, and brutalized by members of the Ortega regime. The Sandinistas reportedly accused them of being part of an “organized crime” syndicate, by which they appeared to mean the Catholic Church. Some of the witnesses said they were also accused of “undermining the dignity of the state and of Nicaragua” and spreading “fake news.”
The U.S. Department of State published a press statement Tuesday calling the Ortega regime to release Álvarez immediately and without conditions.
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, issued a tepid call for “dialogue” between the ruthless communist regime and his institution on January 1.
“I express my closeness in prayer to them, their families and the entire Church in Nicaragua,” Pope Francis said. “I hope the path of dialogue can be followed to overcome difficulties.”
The Vatican has not played a major role in condemning the repression of the Church in Nicaragua, though local clergy have for years denounced Sandinista state violence.
Ortega has continuously persecuted the nation’s Catholic Church after Church leaders expressed support for anti-communist dissidents during the April 2018 wave of peaceful protests. During that event, thousands of Nicaraguans flocked to the streets calling for the end of four decades of communist rule.
Since then, Ortega has led a relentless persecution campaign against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church that dramatically escalated in 2022, beginning with the banishment of the papal nuncio Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag and other members of the Church. The Ortega regime has also forcefully shut down Catholic television and radio stations, prohibited Catholic festivities and processions, seized the Church’s bank accounts, universities and other assets.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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