The Nigerian government agrees to accept Trump’s help against Islamic terrorists

American Thinker ^ | 11/02/2025 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

I doubt most people realize that Nigeria, located in West Africa, is the world’s sixth most populous country, with around 213.5 million people. Over 53% of the population is Muslim. That’s never a good thing for the remaining population in a country, because Muslims do not believe in pluralism.

Lately, Nigeria’s Muslims have been on a rampage, slaughtering Christians left and right. President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. will intervene and will do so aggressively if necessary. Democrats were unimpressed—they don’t believe there’s a genocide—but Nigeria’s president, having first rejected the demand, just announced his willingness to accept the proposed help.

I asked ChatGPT to assemble a list of Islamic attacks on Nigeria’s Christian communities in 2025, and it obliged with a horrifyingly long compilation of such attacks (citations omitted)L

January–February 2025

• Late Jan → Feb 9 – Gombe & Kaduna states: At least 50 Christians killed and dozens kidnapped since late January; an ECWA pastor (Bala Galadima) killed in Lubo, Gombe; multiple pastors slain in Kaduna/Gombe. Alleged perpetrators include Boko Haram and other Islamist militants.

April 2025 (Holy Week / Palm Sunday period)

• Apr 13 (Palm Sunday) – Plateau State (Middle Belt): ~50–56 Christians killed in a village massacre attributed to Fulani militias. Follow-on reporting tallies >120 Christians killed across Plateau around this period; NGOs describe a pattern of assaults on Christian villages.
• Apr 14–16 – Plateau State: Additional spate of attacks leaves ~113 dead (mixed victims but with Christian communities highlighted) and 2,000 displaced.

May 2025

• May 27 – Benue State (Middle Belt): 42 killed across four communities in attacks blamed on (primarily Muslim) Fulani herders; a Catholic priest critically injured. (Benue’s farming communities are largely Christian.)
• May 21 – Middle Belt (unspecified localities): 8 Christians killed, hundreds of acres of farms destroyed in Fulani militia raids.

[SeekAndFind]

Nigeria's President Tinubu walked back his initial opposition. Suddenly, whether because he looked at his nation’s bank account or because of internal or external pressure, he’s now amenable to American military support:

Nigeria said it would welcome U.S. help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of military action by President Donald Trump over what he said was the ill-treatment of Christians in the West African country.

"We… welcome U.S. assistance as long as it recognises our territorial integrity," Daniel Bwala, an adviser to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, told Reuters. https://t.co/38Ynv5I2iB — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 2, 2025

Nigeria said  it would welcome U.S. help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of military action by President Donald Trump over what he said was the ill-treatment of Christians in the West African country.

[SeekAndFind]

More here:

After massacres of Christians in Nigeria, Trump does the Pope's job for him

[frank ballenger]

Raymond Arroyo (regular on The Ingraham Angle and his own TV and radio show The World Over Live) has hammered the Nigerians and the weak reaction of the previous and current Pope’s people for a long time, citing stories of the horrific killings in Nigeria (and the suppression in China).

Sadly, the Vatican hasn’t agreed with him about action.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Sadly, the Vatican hasn’t agreed with him about action.

OK, what kind of action can the Vatican do other than to denounce the killings and ask people to pray?

[frank ballenger]

RE: OK, what kind of action can the Vatican do...

True, as a Woody Allen line in his book Side Effects:
“He considered much of the religious talk to be so much chin music.”

I guess the organized religions are irrelevant and impotent.
A shame.

[No name given]

Not much, I hate to say.

[InkStone]

OK, what kind of action can the Vatican do other than to ... pray?
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but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 59:2

[aquila48]

I’m not crazy about sending troops there. Sending arms OK, but not troops.

[doc maverick]

The pope is a failure.
Just like the last one.
Thankfully, Trump has a green light from Nigeria’s leader.
I’ve met two very nice Christian nurses originally from Nigeria.
Very caring, intelligent…..they hear from their relatives what these muslim savages are doing. They talk about it with tears in their eyes.
Boko Haram had better back off or they will be exterminated:
“Boko Haram officially known as Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da’wa wa al-Jihad and sometimes referred to as its state name Daular Musulunci, is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group split, resulting in the emergence of a hostile faction known as the Islamic State’s West Africa”Province.”
The so-called islamic state of west Africa, my ass!
No more!

[hanamizu]

“He considered much of the religious talk to be so much chin music.”

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Don Drysdale had a different definition of ‘chin music’.

[frank ballenger]

RE: Don Drysdale had a different definition of ‘chin music’.

Ha. He used to say he imagined a target had been painted on some hitters after one of his teammates was hit by a pitch or one hit a home run.

Remember the name “Sal, the Barber” ?
He gave the hitters a close shave...

“Sal Maglie, nicknamed for his aggressive pitching style of throwing inside to batters, giving them “close shaves” with his fastball. He was known for his intimidating presence on the mound despite a gentle personality off the field.

Maglie had a successful career from 1945 to 1958, playing for several MLB teams, including the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees.”

[MinorityRepublican]

OK, what kind of action can the Vatican do other than to denounce the killings and ask people to pray

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[mbrfl]

They, at the very least could be more vocal about the killings and be ore direct about where the blame lies. Beyond that, and thinking outside the box, if the Vatican was really dedicated to being a force for good, it might take an active role in creating a coalition of Christian nations to address the problem. Such a suggestion likely will evoke almost universal disapproval, and understandably so, with comparisons to the crusades being made. But what are the alternatives?

We have a strong American President willing to lead on issues of peace, but can the world always count on an America that’s in a position to provide such leadership? And without America to do the heavy lifting, what other force is out there in the world to help when such humanitarian crises arise? The U.N.? How different would it be for the Vatican to play the role the U.N. plays in organizing a peace keeping coalition of forces?

Just something to think about. The balance of powers in the world is changing. Trump has had such a positive influence on the world by thinking outside of the box. Maybe the rest of the world should take some inspiration from him and seek new ways to address old chronic problems rather than expecting different results from the same old failed approaches of the past.

[magooey]

Decades ago Christians from Nigeria complained that the population numbers for the Muslim North were significantly exaggerated. This implies that Nigerian election results may be due to large scale fraud.

Another issue that the administration should look into.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SharpRightTurn]

“Nigeria’s Muslims have been on a rampage, slaughtering Christians left and right.”

Not the sort of people we should be admitting into our own country.

[rrrod]

Interesting but let’s see. Wiping out the Islamic terrorists of Nigeria and Sudan is quite possible because they are in plain site.
Russia won’t be happy because they are allied with the terrorists.

[PIF]

Sadly, the Vatican hasn’t agreed with him about action.

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Why would it as the Vatican became a vassal to the muslim world under Frankie.

[mbrfl]

I would suggest dividing the country, with the Muslims controlling the north and the Christians controlling the south, but that would only be a temporary solution. I have no doubt that it wouldn’t be long before we’d start seeing border incursions from the north into the Christian controlled south in no time. Muslims are never happy unless they dominate everyone around them.