Posted on 05/31/2026 8:14:46 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Six million dead. Ten million enslaved. Twenty-five million displaced. The raging genocide hiding in plain sight — and why you’ve never heard of it.
They say the winners write the history books.
What if the Nazis had won?
The Holocaust would be a vague conspiracy theory — denied, spun, suppressed, purged from the media. Anyone who raised it would be marginalized, branded a fringe lunatic. Israel wouldn’t exist. The Middle East would be under total Islamic domination. And eventually, America would be fighting Nazis on the homefront.
We don’t have to guess what that world looks like. There’s a real example today — chillingly parallel, hiding in plain sight.
Nigeria. An ongoing genocide possibly more bloody than the Holocaust.
Before I go further — the point of that comparison is not to rank the dead. Six million souls is six million souls. The difference is that in Europe, the right side won and wrote the history books — so the world was forced to reckon with what happened. In Nigeria, the wrong side won. And the world is being told there’s nothing to reckon with.
Unlike the Holocaust, Nigerian Christians could in theory spare their lives by converting to Islam and joining the jihad. Hitler gave the Jews no such exit. But no human being should be forcibly converted under torture and death threats. What is happening in Nigeria has its own name, its own horror, and its own demand for the world’s attention. It is jihad. We must respond.
To understand what’s happening today, you first need to know about a place called Biafra. There’s a reason you’ve probably never heard of it. But you should.
Today’s Nigerian genocide did not emerge from chaos. It has a genesis — and from it a consistent ideology, tactics, bloodline, and throne that have never changed. Only adapted.
In 1804, a scholar named Usman dan Fodio led the Fulani — a nomadic Muslim tribe perhaps originally from the Sahara — in a declaration of holy war across West Africa. He built Africa’s largest pre-colonial empire on conquest, mass displacement, and enslavement. He called it the Sokoto Caliphate. Its spiritual authority over Nigeria’s Muslim north has never been broken — not by colonialism, not by independence, not by a constitution. The 20th Sultan sits on that throne today. Same institution. Same ideology. Same bloodline. Same ambitions, tactics, and tribe. Two hundred and twenty-two years and counting.
In 1914, Britain stitched together two incompatible worlds — the Christian south and the Caliphate north — into one colonial territory and named it Nigeria. Administrative convenience. When they granted independence in 1960, they handed the keys to the north and left.
What followed in the southeast — Biafra — was electric. Its people, the Igbo, are among the most remarkable on earth. Renowned for their entrepreneurism, hustle, and integrity. They carry an ancient tradition of descent from the lost tribes of Israel — working synagogues still serve their communities today. They are overwhelmingly Christian.
And they happened to be sitting on one of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves.
In the summer and fall of 1966, organized Islamic mobs killed thirty thousand Igbo across northern Nigeria in coordinated pogroms. On September 29th, the killing erupted simultaneously in at least a dozen cities — a coordination that required planning, not passion. Nearly half the dead were children.
The Igbo drew the only logical conclusion: this forced marriage to a bloodthirsty Caliphate simply wasn’t going to work. On May 30, 1967, after futilely trying to negotiate a structure for peaceful co-existence, Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra.
The Caliphate came with full jihad fury. When military assault couldn’t break them, it imposed a total blockade. They shot down Red Cross planes bringing food for starving children. A federal spokesman stated policy on the record: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war and we have every intention of using it.”
By 1969, more than a thousand children were dying every day. Time, Der Spiegel, the New York Times all ran the photographs. But the West was consumed — Vietnam, Woodstock — and a genocide of Black Africans simply didn’t break through. Britain kept arming the side doing the starving. Why? Igbo oil. Washington called it an internal affair. The UN stood down.
As many as three million dead. Mostly children. Mostly Christian. The world built museums for Hiroshima. It forgot Biafra existed.
On May 29, 1969, a 20-year-old Jewish American student named Bruce Mayrock — a graduate of Flatbush Yeshivah — set himself on fire on the lawn of the United Nations. His sign read: “You must stop the genocide — please save 9 million Biafrans.” He died the next day. No one listened.
Biafra surrendered in January 1970. Every Igbo bank account seized. Each survivor handed twenty pounds. Start over.
Now you know about Biafra. That chapter ended in 1970. The conquest didn’t.
For a brief moment beginning in 2010 — the year of my first of sixteen trips to Nigeria — an accidental Christian president named Goodluck Jonathan started pushing back. For the first time in living memory, the Caliphate’s machine was losing ground. The Obama administration, David Axelrod’s political firm, and the full machinery of Western diplomatic pressure colluded to remove him and install Muhammadu Buhari — former military dictator, open Sharia advocate, the man Boko Haram chose as their preferred government mediator.
Since 2009: 125,000 documented Christian deaths. 60,000 peaceful Muslims killed. Nearly 19,000 churches destroyed. Ten to twelve million displaced. I stood in Bokkos months after the 2023 Christmas Massacre and saw mountains of fresh dirt where illegal strip-mining operations had moved in behind the killing. The people erased. The machinery arrived.
The International Crisis Group calls it farmer-herder conflict. This narrative was crafted by a career Sharia propagandist funded by George Soros, promoted by Washington lobbyists, and adopted by every major Western outlet until it became the official story. Meanwhile, Salisu Shehu — the world’s leading boko haram scholar (literally, Western education is forbidden) — runs the federal agency controlling what fifty million Nigerian children are taught. The winners are literally writing the history books. Right now.
Jewish human rights scholar Charles Jacobs puts it simply: “What is happening to the Nigerian Christians is exactly what happened to the Jews living near Gaza — jihadists storming the innocent, murder, torture, people burned alive, kidnapped as slaves and sex slaves, all to the screams of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ Jihad is jihad, worldwide.”
A genocide is raging in Nigeria right now. Today. While you read this. And the world is being told it’s a weather problem.
Now you know better.
Tell someone.
The history books got it wrong. Let’s make it right.
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I do remember those Cliff Robertson commercials asking for help. There will be no solution without somebody’s boots on the ground. No room for safe zones.
Nobody seems to care here either. Where’s the UN in all this?
Biafran refuges were in DC in the early 70s. At least one of them became a taxi driver. I pulled him over. His name was so long it was abbreviated on his DL. No shiite.
Six million murdered and Two hours later, not a single one of the Allahu Akhbar Chorus has shown up to condemn actual genocide of Christians.
But within two hours of a misbehaving Jew abusing a statue (no actual Christians physically harmed!) they were on multiple threads condemning Jews generally in triplicate.
They hate Jews more than they love Christians.
(OBTW: Said misbehaving Jews were punished rapidly by the Israeli government.)
Free Christian Biafra! Let Nigeria break up into its components!
The US and Britain did wrong in 1970. It’s high time to correct this mistake—hopefully without US boots on the ground!
Mark Levin is talking and things like this, just don’t know how to get in touch with him...
“We don’t have to guess what that world looks like. There’s a real example today — chillingly parallel, hiding in plain sight.”- from the article.
I’m old enough to remember Biafra and I am sure a good many of you do too. It was presented in the American press as a side piece on the news, a humanitarian crisis in Africa, never as a political genocide against Christians.
Well it never stopped. And it is still being ignored.
Now, here in our country we have BLM, very much interested in bleeding reparations and more ease from hard working Americans, rap singers being cancelled for trying to raise awareness, and undereducated morons running around, terrorizing Jewish students and faculty on college campuses.
In the meantime, islamic jihadist fascists are having a field day in all of Nigeria with the dead climbing in the millions and completely ignored by the media, the UN and the fellow traveling democrats.
Where is THAT outrage?
Amen.
I rate evil based on the quantity of untimely death. If a person is murdered, starved to death or accidentally killed or such, I count the bodies to understand how large or small the problem is, and react accordingly in most cases (unless it strikes close to home, like the muslim murder of Jews, in which they want to murder my family pretty directly.)
So Nigeria has long had my attention.
But look at the proportions of death in Nigeria versus, say, Gaza, and the relative amount of ink spilled in the press and electrons consumed on FR.
I conclude that the world is generally anti-Semitic. They can’t be roused to millions of dead people murdered by islam on purpose in Nigeria. But they can stay permanently and daily offended by the lowest civilian casualty rate in urban warfare ever in gaza, in which Israel does its very best to avoid killing the civilians behind which hamas hides.
For example, we have about a dozen posters here at FR who focus somewhere around a majority of their posts slamming Israel and Jews. I class that as anti-Semitic. They actively go find reasons to hate Jews daily.
But in over a year of keeping track, only one of them once (Liz) showed up to condemn the purposeful genocide of Christians by muslims in Nigeria, or any of the other similar slaughters anywhere in the world (Niger, Mali, Sudan, Pakistan, etc.)
I recall the Biafra stories well, though I was only six at the time. Reporting must’ve been heavy. Pics of starving kids.
Never knew the background though. They might have forgotten to mention it to this day.
It hasn’t been different since Lucifer hit the planet. His plan to destroy the planet and corrupt God’s children began in the Garden and has never stopped.
Jew hatred began with Abraham, and Christian hatred began with Christ. That it continues unabated should not surprise anyone. That the devil has been unable to destroy either should, also, be unsurprising, but his efforts with islam and the democrat party have been pretty good (and yes, I am being facetious).
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