Even though Muslim groups in Nigeria like Boko Haram have been murdering Christians in a campaign of religious cleansing for years, Nigerian Christians have demonstrated enormous restraint in their responses to the incessant attacks. The great lengths they have taken not to respond with similar atrocities against Muslims has largely been overlooked by the media who at every turn try to force the narrative that what transpires in Nigeria is “sectarian violence,” and use Christian attempts to defend themselves from their attackers as evidence to support their fallacious narrative that there is no aggressor but that both religious groups are at fault. Reality however is that Christian communities are under attack from a determined enemy that seeks an Islamic caliphate to replace the existing state of Nigeria.
Debate is raging in Nigeria between Christian pacifists and Christians who believe in Just War Theory, or at the very least, in the God given right to self-defense. Some church leaders are calling upon their congregations to offer no resistance to the attacks by Islamic Jihadists while other leaders are calling on Christians to defend themselves.
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