With the media focused on Gaza, Christians across Africa fall to a globalizing jihad

While the world’s eyes are on Gaza, people who would otherwise care have been made blind to the plight of black Christians persecuted across Africa. There are approximately 15 African countries where jihadists—ideological cousins of Hamas—oppress indigenous Christian populations.

In countries like Nigeria, jihadist assaults by Boko Haram and Fulani are almost exact analogues to the Hamas pogrom in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Armed groups storm African villages there, slaughter, torture and burn innocent villagers, and rape and kidnap women and girls as sex slaves. Americans know a bit of this because Michelle Obama, in an instinctive reaction to a mass kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram jihadists in April 2014, created a campaign, “#BringBackOurGirls.” Sadly, she suddenly aband