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Samuel Smith<\/a> – November – 17, 2020<\/p>\n The rise of violent extremist groups throughout Africa, as well as the constant attacks against Christian communities in the continent\u2019s most populated country, has religious leaders fearful that \u201cthe next jihad\u201d is underway as world leaders seem to be rushing to address the problem.<\/p>\n \u201cI know one thing has never really changed: No one gives a damn about Africa except for their natural resources or if there is going to be a big party because there is a peace treaty being signed,\u201d said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, director of the global social action agenda of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization with over 400,000 family members.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s just the truth and it\u2019s a terrible truth. It might be one of the vestiges, frankly, of colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n Cooper teamed up with Rev. Johnnie Moore, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, to author the new book The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The book was written after the unlikely duo traveled together<\/a> to Nigeria earlier this year to meet with dozens of Christian victims of terrorism from five different regions.<\/p>\n In recent years, Nigeria, the continent\u2019s richest country, has dealt with the rise of Islamic terrorist groups in the northeast (Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province) and an increase of deadly attacks on farming communities carried out by militarized radicals from the Fulani herding community.<\/p>\n In the past few years, it\u2019s been estimated that thousands of Christians have been killed while millions of Nigerians have been displaced from their communities. Some human rights groups have warned<\/a> that attacks against Christian communities in Nigeria have reached the standard for genocide<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samuel Smith – November – 17, 2020 The rise of violent extremist groups throughout Africa, as well as the constant attacks against Christian communities in the continent\u2019s most populated country, has religious leaders fearful that \u201cthe next jihad\u201d is underway as world leaders seem to be rushing to address the problem. \u201cI know one thing … Continue reading \u2018The Next Jihad’: Evangelical leader, rabbi warn about ‘Christian genocide\u2019 in Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[15403,213,1007,175,177,15404,385,1008,241,10277,4974],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-the-next-jihad","tag-africa","tag-boko-haram","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-colonialism","tag-genocide","tag-nigeria","tag-persecution","tag-rabbi-abraham-cooper","tag-simon-wiesenthal-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4YM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19146,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}