[Breitbart] Catholic Bishops this week called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to protect Christians from the deadly Moslem terrorist menace at the hands of the Fulani herdsmen gripping the African country.The comments from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria came days after the April 24 attack by suspected murderous Moslem Fulani herdsmen that killed the 19 Christians, including two priests, during morning mass at the Catholic Church in the Ukpor-Mbalom community of the Gwer East Local Government Area in Nigeria’s Benue State.
Amid the ongoing carnage at the hands of the herdsmen, Christians have accused President Buhari, who shares ethnicity with the semi-nomadic Fulani group, of leniency towards the terrorists, Africa News reports.
In the wake of the April 24 massacre, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other followers of Christ condemned the heinous attack.
The attack came a day after David Curry, the CEO of Open Doors USA, a group that monitors Christian persecution across the world, highlighted the "rising threat" against Christians posed by the terrorist Fulani herdsmen in comments to Breitbart News.
"Despite this rising threat [by murderous Moslem Fulani herdsmen] ... This is the conflict in Nigeria that no one is talking about," he said, echoing the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
The Catholic Bishops Conference accused Buhari of failing to keep Nigerians safe by ignoring festivities between the settled Christian farmers and the herdsmen that "have left hundreds dead," Africa News points out.
In a statement shared with various African news outlets, the Bishops describe the Fulani as a "wicked and inhuman gang of the rampaging and murderous terrorists, who have turned the vast lands of the Middle belt and other parts of Nigeria into a massive graveyard."
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI), repeatedly cited by the U.S. State Department, revealed last year that Fulani murderous Moslem herdsmen carried out more attacks and were responsible for more fatalities in Nigeria in 2016 than the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS/ISIS)-linked Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...In 2016, the index noted that Fulani snuffies had killed 60,000 people since 2001.
Open Doors USA points out, "In the last year alone, Fulani
Consistent with reports from Open Doors, the Catholic Bishops noted that the attacks by Moslem terrorist Fulani herdsmen against Christians have intensified in recent months, declaring in the statement:
Since then, the bloodletting and the destruction of homes as well as farmlands have increased in intensity and brutality. Now our Churches have been desecrated and our people murdered on their altars. ... We collectively feel abandoned and betrayed.
Consistent with the position of other Christian groups, Rev. Ayokunle Olasupo, the CAN president, urged members of the religious minority in the African country to rise and defend themselves against the herdsmen.
Citing the
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
group, Curry acknowledged that some Christians had killed members of the Moslem Fulani herdsmen group.