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Related: About this forumTrump Threatens to Go "Guns-a-Blazing" into Nigeria over "Killing of Christians"
President Trump is threatening to bomb Nigeria, alleging the country is failing to protect Christians from persecution, even as many victims of the fundamentalist insurgent group Boko Haram are Muslims. "This theme of persecution of Christians is a very politically charged, and actually religiously charged, theme for evangelicals across the world," says Anthea Butler, the author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Despite the fact that the country's conflict cannot be reduced to religious enmity, for extremist evangelical Christians, Nigeria "is a place where the administration could prosecute a holy war" using a "savior narrative."
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Trump Threatens to Go "Guns-a-Blazing" into Nigeria over "Killing of Christians" (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Monday
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Thats my thought too. The people being taken by ice are probably mostly Christian.
Srkdqltr
Monday
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If he was really opposed to the killings, he would do something about mass shootings here in the US!
Attilatheblond
Monday
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MiHale
(12,347 posts)1. We should go 'guns a-blazing' to the White House...
Hes killing Christian children in the United States also Christian women, Christian men. When you put politics and religion together it gets muddled real fast.
Srkdqltr
(9,080 posts)2. Thats my thought too. The people being taken by ice are probably mostly Christian.
A report said the ice people would not let a Catholic Bishop in to give detainees communion.
Attilatheblond
(7,745 posts)3. If he was really opposed to the killings, he would do something about mass shootings here in the US!
This is just another attempt to keep xian* fundies here on his side as he is losing many due to not releasing the Epstein files
* I reserve the word 'Christian' for those who actually practice what their 'savior' preached.
Deep State Witch
(12,435 posts)4. There Are Christians in Gaza
That are being persecuted. I'm just sayin'...