The liberal media: covering for Muslim violence around the world!
When such violence occurs in the West, the liberal media is often reluctant to release the names and associated information about the perpetrators. How often have we heard “the motive for the attack is unknown,” despite the knife-or-gun-wielding perp having yelled Allahu Akbar as he carried out his attack!?
That same liberal instinct extends to Muslim predations in other parts of the world. Thus, in response to President Trump’s warning that he might order military action in Nigeria to counter the persecution and killing of Christians, CNN This Morning devoted a segment seeking to debunk the claim that Christians are being singled out for persecution there.
Host Audie Cornish brought in Kenya-based CNN correspondent Victoria Rubadiri, who claimed that allegations of a religious war in Nigeria are “certainly not the case.”
Central to the effort Cornish and Rubadiri made to dismiss allegations about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria was that only conservatives are raising such concerns.
Thus, Cornish opened the segment by saying:
“Leaders in Nigeria pushed back against claims out of the US political right that Christians face some existential threat there.”
Rubadiri echoed that assertion, saying that allegations of persecution of Christians have:
“Been rumbling in a lot of the social media spaces on the right, or the conservative part of the US.”
Let’s examine their claim that it’s only the “political right” and “the conservative part of the US” have raised the issue.
Bill Maher, hardly a conservative, spoke out on the September 26th episode of his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher:
“I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.”
Per Grok:
- In 2023, a bipartisan bill (H.R. 5519) to create a U.S. Special Envoy for Nigerian Christian persecution passed the Democratic-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee 46–0. Republican Rep. Chris Smith introduced it, but 29 Democrats co-sponsored the bill.
- In 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, called the killings “genocide-level” and tripled aid to displaced Nigerian Christians.
- The Norwegian Labour Party government funds the Stefanus Alliance, a left-leaning Lutheran group that runs safe houses for attacked Christian villages.
- Global Human-Rights NGOs, almost all left-of-center, have condemned the violence. Amnesty International issued reports titled “Harvest of Death” and “Targeted for Faith” — highlighting Christian villages wiped out.
- Human Rights Watch: Issued a 42-page brief “They Burned Everything” — documenting Fulani attacks on Christian farming communities.
- Even the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect–founded by George Soros’ Open Society!–lists Nigeria as an R2P crisis because of “Christian genocide.”
- The UN and the Vatican under Pope Francis — not exactly conservative strongholds, have also weighed in.
- UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion (2022): “Christians are deliberately targeted for killing and kidnapping.”
- Pope Francis (2023): called it “a terrible genocide” in an open letter co-signed by 350 African bishops, many of them liberation-theology progressives.
As for Rubadiri’s claim that more Muslims have been killed than Christians, a study by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa found that Christians were 6.5 times more likely to be killed in the violence than Muslims.
NewsBuster Isaac White documented today that ABC and NBC have similarly tried to downplay Muslim violence against Christians in Nigeria.
So, why does the liberal media choose to serve as useful idiots for perpetrators of Muslim violence? Seen in a broader light, this is how civilizations decline.
Here’s the transcript.
CNN This Morning
11-3-25
6:12 am ETAUDIE CORNISH: This morning, leaders in Nigeria pushed back against claims out of the US political right that Christians face some existential threat there. That’s after President Trump doubled down on an ultimatum to bring in military action to the country.
So in a Truth Social post over the weekend, Trump threatened to stop aid, and come in guns a-blazing to stop what he calls the mass slaughter of Christians.
PRESIDENT TRUMP ON AIR FORCE ONE: They’re killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria. And there are other countries, very bad also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They’re killing Christians. They’re killing them in very large numbers. We’re not going to allow that to happen.
CORNISH: The Nigerian government and President Trump’s advisor on Africa say what’s happening there is much more complex. We’re bringing in Victoria Rubadiri. She joins us live from Kenya to do a little fact-checking.
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VICTORIA RUBADIRI: And it’s really important to add there, Audie, that religion is a very important fault line in Nigeria, but it’s not the main driver of the violence in the country.
CORNISH: Can you just give us a little information about how you think this made its way into political discourse in the US? I’m also reading that this might be information from decades ago. Can you give us some context?
RUBADIRI: Certainly. It’s been rumbling in a lot of the social media spaces on the right, or the conservative part of the US. Many, of course, pointing to what they’re calling religious war in Nigeria. That certainly is not the case.
And the numbers also points to that. Groups that have been monitoring this violence over the last 15 years or so that it started taking up more headlines have said, yes, thousands have been killed. But what they say is more Muslims have actually been killed in these attacks.
And the reason being, most of these groups like Boko Haram or some ISIS affiliated terror groups focus their attacks in northeast Nigeria. Now, in Nigeria, more Muslims actually occupy in the north. More Christians are in the south. And for that reason, there’re more Muslim victims in these particular attacks.
And it’s a very complex situation when it comes to issues of insecurity and insurgency in Nigeria. We also have issues of conflict around resources like land and livestock between herders and farmers.So it goes beyond just terror or religion. Many analysts say that it’s more an issue of geography that determines the victim than it is faith or religion.
CORNISH: That’s Victoria Rubadiri. Thank you so much. Very, very helpful.
