"The shameful silence over the slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians".
Towards the end of September, comedian Bill Maher provoked social-media outrage by asking a simple question: why does the coverage of Gaza get so much mainstream-media attention when the persecution of Christians in Nigeria gets almost none?
‘They are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria’, he said on his talk show, Real Time:
‘They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches… These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. 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.’
Yeahhhh... but this is what Bill does. Every now and then he delivers some utterance that sounds like common sense.
ReplyDeleteNot to belittle the issue he spoke on this time, but Maher knows just how many scraps of non-left wisdom he needs to throw to keep the right interested and the left slightly outraged, and himself therefore close to the spotlight.