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Jihad Rising in Africa While the West Averts its Eyes

Massacres, rape, slavery, and displacement — but, with no Jews involved, the West is silent

Across Africa, Islamic terrorists continue to kill, humiliate, and displace countless Christians and un-Arabized Muslims, yet this atrocity is all but unknown in the West.

While many hours and dozens of articles worth of coverage are devoted to Israel every day across the world’s media outlets, these acts of religious genocide are documented here and there, now and again.

“All decent people — including especially those who are partisans, even activists, in ‘human rights’ movements — need urgently to address this question,” write Charles Jacobs and Uzay Bulut in Gatestone. “Why does the liberal West turn a blind eye when Islamic jihadists abduct, abuse, rape, enslave, forcibly convert or murder millions of darker-skinned people in Africa and the Middle East? A refusal to address such lethal moral blindness signifies that the West has chosen a path to its own demise, and will be abandoning countless innocents as it goes.”

Read their article here.