The slaughter of Christians has become a regular occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa, the Barnabas Fund reports on Saturday, and the \u201ccause is Islamism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hotspots of Islamic terrorist activity include the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northern Mozambique, and northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, the Christian aid and persecution watchdog group\u00a0asserts<\/a>, and the perpetrators \u201care not just rebels or militants, but jihadists.\u201d<\/p>\n The report notes that Islamic terrorists from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are affiliated with the Islamic State and together with Islamic State Mozambique, they form the Islamic State Central Africa Province.<\/p>\n The violence in Nigeria and across West Africa \u201cis carried out by the Islamic State West Africa Province, jihadi group Boko Haram, and other Islamist extremists,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n Terrorist groups affiliated with the Islamic State or al-Qaeda \u201chave proliferated across sub-Saharan Africa,\u201d the group observes, leading some observers to make \u201csobering predictions of an African caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n Many secular governments and international bodies have condemned violence such as the recent atrocious massacre of Christian schoolchildren in Uganda but downplay the vital religious element in these attacks.<\/p>\n Massacres like that in Uganda are often blamed on \u201ceconomic downturns, marginalization and lack of opportunity, corrupt or authoritarian government, or environmental problems that reduce the supply of arable and pastoral land,\u201d but the simple fact is: \u201cthe victims were Christians who were targeted for that very reason,\u201d the report points out.<\/p>\n Commentators too often ignore \u201cthe stated aim of Islamists across Africa: to kill as many Christians as they can,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n The ADF terrorists who carried out the Uganda massacre \u201chave been slaughtering Christians in their hundreds in north-eastern DRC,\u201d the text states, and in northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, \u201cmore than 11,000 Christians have been murdered 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