{"id":20366,"date":"2021-11-12T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T22:56:49","slug":"the-jihadist-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-jihadist-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jihadist Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/chinas-xi-warns-of-grim-situation-with-taiwan\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"white_horse_blog-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20242\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-jihadist-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria-intensifies\/jihadis\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jihadis&amp;#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20367\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jihadis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/author\/Raymond+Ibrahim\">Raymond Ibrahim<\/a><b> &#8211; October 10, 2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What several <a href=\"https:\/\/csi-usa.org\/csi-issues-genocide-warning-for-christians-in-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/voices\/genocide-in-nigeria-calling-it-what-it-is.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observers<\/a> have for years characterized as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewpointnigeria.org\/stop-this-senseless-and-bloodshedding-in-the-middlebelt-can-tells-buhari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pure genocide<\/a>&#8221; of Christians in Nigeria has reached new levels.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009 \u2014 first at the hands of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization, and later by the Fulani, who are Muslim herdsmen also radicalized and motivated by jihadist ideology \u2014 more than 60,000 Christians have either been murdered or abducted during raids. The abducted Christians have never returned to their homes and their loved ones believe them to be dead. In addition, in the same time frame, approximately 20,000 churches and Christian schools have been torched and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these findings are documented in an August 4, 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/intersociety-ng.org\/43-000-christians-killed-by-nigerian-jihadists-in-12-years-18500-permanently-disappeared-and-17500-churches-attacked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also known as &#8220;Intersociety,&#8221; a nonprofit human rights organization based in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17832\/jihad-genocide-christians-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Ibrahim &#8211; October 10, 2021 What several international observers have for years characterized as a &#8220;pure genocide&#8221; of Christians in Nigeria has reached new levels. Since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009 \u2014 first at the hands of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization, and later by the Fulani, who are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-jihadist-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria-intensifies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Jihadist Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Intensifies<\/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":[3149,16260,1007,175,177,16262,15503,16261,1008,241],"class_list":["post-20366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-3149","tag-pure-genocide","tag-boko-haram","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-fulani","tag-intersociety","tag-islamic-insurgency","tag-nigeria","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5iu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366","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=20366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20368,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}