By Selwyn Duke
While the Islamic threat has receded from American public consciousness, with domestic woes and Ukraine’s conflict sucking up the media oxygen, it hasn’t receded as a world stage force. One place long bedeviled by it is Nigeria, where Boko Haram and other Muslim entities have long been waging war against Christians, native religious groups, and the government itself. Yet the situation is now so bad that the nation is “devolving toward chaos,” as one observer puts it, and the jihadists have made such headway that the Nigerian government has ordered schools in Abuja, the capital, closed and the students evacuated.
Oil rich and, with its 218 million people, Africa’s most populous country and the planet’s sixth most, Nigeria would be quite the prize for any caliphatist. Christian persecution is the norm there now, too, with this site indicating that more than 100,000 of Jesus’s followers have been murdered by jihadists in the last 22 years.
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