by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n
PJ Media<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people \u2014 especially Christians \u2014 the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash. Lesser known, however, is that whenever foreign governments try to subdue the jihadis, the Obama administration objects and calls for the \u201chuman rights\u201d of the terrorists.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>,<\/p>\n Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday [5\/17] in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Troops used jets and helicopters to bombard targets in their biggest offensive since the Boko Haram group launched a revolt almost four years ago to establish a breakaway Islamic state and one military source said at least 30 militants had been killed.\u00a0 But three days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a strongly worded statement saying: \u201cWe are \u2026 deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thus here is Kerry grandstanding about the \u201chuman rights\u201d of Boko Haram, a jihadi group whose name means \u201cWestern Education is a Sin\u201d \u2014 that is, a group whose very name embodies hostility for Western civilization. (Of course, it\u2019s not surprising that the Obama administration overlooks Boko Haram\u2019s animus for the West, considering that it was\u00a0just revealed<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cit is Obama administration policy to consider specifically Islamic criticism of the American system of government legitimate.\u201d)<\/p>\n But what about the \u201chuman rights\u201d of the victims of jihadi terror? In 2011, when Egypt\u2019s Christians protested the constant attacks on their churches and the Egyptian military responded by\u00a0massacring them at Maspero<\/a>, including by running them over with armored vehicles, the White House then said nothing about \u201chuman rights,\u201d declaring instead that \u201cnow is a time for restraint on all sides\u201d \u2014 as if Egypt\u2019s beleaguered and unarmed Christian minority needed to \u201crestrain\u201d itself against the nation\u2019s military.<\/p>\n As for Nigeria\u2019s Boko Haram, the group has been responsible for some of the most horrific human-rights abuses. Indeed, of all the human rights abuses I catalog in my new book\u00a0Crucified Again: Exposing Islam\u2019s New War on Christians<\/em><\/a>, Boko Haram\u2019s relentless slaughter of Christians is the most savage, resulting in\u00a0more Christians killed than in the rest of the world combined<\/a>.<\/p>\n The group has bombed or burned hundreds of Christian churches, most when packed for service. The Christmas day church attacks \u2014 in 2010, 2011, and 2012 \u2014 which left hundreds of Christians dead or dismembered, are the tip of the iceberg of Boko Haram\u2019s hate for Christianity. In the group\u2019s bid to cleanse northern Nigeria of all Christian presence, it has threatened to\u00a0poison the food eaten by Christians<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cto strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by\u00a0kidnapping their women<\/a>.\u201d The group frequently storms areas where Christians and Muslims are intermingled \u2014 from villages to colleges \u2014 and singles the Christians out before\u00a0slitting their throats<\/a>\u00a0to cries of Allahu Akbar. Pregnant and elderly Christian women and children have been raped, enslaved, and slaughtered simply for being \u201cinfidels.\u201d<\/p>\n The fact that Boko Haram\u2019s motives are clear-cut and fueled by jihadi doctrine \u2014 the creation of an Islamic state that enforces Sharia law and is Christian-free \u2014 has not stopped the Obama administration from pointing to anything and everything else to rationalize its bloodlust.<\/p>\n The very next day after Boko Haram bombed Christian churches celebrating Easter in April 2012, killing 39 Christian worshippers, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs\u00a0Johnnie Carson said<\/a>, \u201cI want to take this opportunity to stress one key point and that is that religion is not driving extremist violence\u201d in Muslim-majority Nigerian areas where churches were and continue to be attacked.<\/p>\n As far as\u00a0Bill Clinton<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is concerned, \u00a0\u201cinequality\u201d and \u201cpoverty\u201d are \u201c\u2018what\u2019s fueling all this stuff\u2019\u201d \u2014 a reference to Boko Haram\u2019s anti-Christian jihad. Foreshadowing Kerry\u2019s concern for the well-being of Islamic mass murderers, Clinton also said that\u00a0<\/em>\u201cit is almost impossible to cure a problem based on violence with violence\u201d \u2014 a suggestion that Nigeria\u2019s government not retaliate in response to Boko Haram with any severity.<\/p>\n Talk of \u201cpoverty,\u201d \u201cinequality,\u201d \u201cgrievance,\u201d and the rest of the canards used by Western leaders to overlook Islamic violence blatantly ignores all the facts. Boko Haram began its jihad in earnest because a Christian won what was described as Nigeria\u2019s freest and fairest elections. And Islamic law forbids non-Muslims from ruling over Muslims \u2014 not because they\u2019re bad for the economy, but because they\u2019re infidels.<\/p>\n The full name of Boko Haram is \u201cSunnis for [Islamic] Propagation and Jihad\u201d \u2014 which doesn\u2019t reflect any economic grievances. Their repeatedly stated goal is the establishment of a pure Sharia state in Nigeria. In other words, they are motivated by the same Islamic supremacism that is prompting jihadis all around the Islamic world to attack, kill, and displace infidels, leading to, among other travesties,\u00a0a mass exodus of Christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once again, then, reality is easily ascertained \u2014 at root, Boko Haram\u2019s terror campaign is entirely motivated by Islamic teachings \u2014 even as the Obama administration\u00a0refuses to designate the group as a terrorist organization<\/a>, wastes millions of U.S. tax dollars on\u00a0superfluous initiatives<\/a>\u00a0(or diversions), and pressures the Nigerian president to\u00a0make concessions<\/a>\u00a0to the jihadis \u2014 including building more mosques, the very breeding grounds for Islamic \u201cradicalization.\u201d<\/p>\n And now, when the Nigerian government goes on the offensive to neutralize the terrorists responsible for countless inhuman atrocities, the Obama administration offers \u201ca strongly worded statement\u201d to defend their \u201chuman rights.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, when such jihadis daily persecute and murder non-Muslims around the world \u2014 Christians at the top of the list \u2014 the only sound coming out of the White House is of crickets chirping.<\/p>\n Postscript:<\/strong>\u00a0Following Kerry\u2019s call to protect the \u201chuman rights\u201d of Nigeria\u2019s jihadi terrorists,\u00a0Obama himself\u00a0has just urged Myanmar to\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>halt violence against Muslims\u201d and \u201cmove ahead with economic and political reforms\u201d \u2014 all while omitting the fact that the government\u2019s offensive is in response to violent, separatist Muslims, whose jihad has nothing to do with \u201ceconomic and political reforms,\u201d only the subjugation of infidels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigerian government is criticized by the U.S. for going after mass murdering terrorists. by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media It\u2019s well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people \u2014 especially Christians \u2014 the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[377,225,227],"tags":[366,507,57,379,1061,1062,162,478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1A5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6393,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-crosses-red-line-by-supporting-jihadi-terrorism\/","url_meta":{"origin":6081,"position":0},"title":"Obama Crosses Red Line by Supporting Jihadi Terrorism","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Jihad Watch By now it should be obvious that whenever the U.S. interferes in another nation\u2019s politics in the name of \u201chuman rights,\u201d that that is only a pretext. 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