Nigerian Genocide: Climate Change or Islam?

Just when you thought the global warming crisis was petering out due to lack of interest, we learn that it is causing the ongoing genocide in Nigeria. From the United Nations:

Over the past decade, conflict between communities has claimed countless lives in Nigeria’s lush Middle Belt region and displaced an estimated half a million people in Benue State alone. Similar clashes are playing out across the Sahel region as climate change disrupts traditional livelihoods and intensifies competition for dwindling supplies of water and productive land.

A report released [last year] by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in collaboration with research partners, examines the intersection between climate change, conflict and forced displacement. It warns that more frequent extreme weather can aggravate tensions and weaken social cohesion, intensifying the root causes of conflict and instability.

Let’s see if Nigerian Christians agree that it is the weather that has been killing them off in alarming numbers, or if they might suspect a different cause — namely Islam:

Justice G Danjuma, an evangelist for the Remnant Christian Network in Nigeria’s Taraba State, … said the attacks in his region are “overwhelmingly driven by religious animosity.” He added that the majority of Nigerian Christians “reject the climate change narrative pushed by Western media,” and many regard this narrative as “deeply offensive and misleading.”

Survivors of attacks struggle to understand how climate change would cause people to “burn churches, kill pastors, and massacre worshipers during Christmas or Palm Sunday services,” said Danjuma.

Climate change may also cause the government to impose strict gun control on Christians while allowing Muslims to brandish AK-47s. Global warming has a similar effect in US cities like New York, where law-abiding prisoners are prevented from defending themselves while armed hooligans terrorize them with the tacit consent of liberal authorities, free from the inconvenience of stop and frisk.

Those suffering from climate anxiety can rest assured that the weather will knock off with the bloodshed in Nigeria as soon as all Christians have been eradicated.

On a tip from R F.

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On a tip from Varla.

A Portland Christmas

Look to moonbattery-addled Portland for the latest updates to the Newspeak Dictionary. Today we learn that the term “Christmas tree” has been deleted. Until Christmas has been abolished completely, such trees will henceforth be referred to simply as “trees”:

As thousands gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square for the Oregon city’s 41st annual tree-lighting on Friday night, leaders and speakers avoided mentioning “Christmas” at any point — including in the ceremony itself and the event’s ads.

The festive occasion was kicked off with a woman from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs thanking everyone in the crowd for coming out on Native American Heritage Day.

Now there’s a holiday wokesters will celebrate with enthusiasm, instead of while holding their noses like they do with Christmas.

Draped in a Palestinian flag, [another featured speaker] used her stage time to lead the crowd in a “Free Palestine” chant.

Those who have opened a Bible will note that calling for the eradication of Jews from Israel is to put it mildly not Christian. But where moonbats hold sway, Christmas is not about Christianity; it is about moonbattery.

On a tip from abcanc.

Costly Kwanzaa

Anyone who doubts that blacks are oppressed is reminded how expensive it can be to celebrate Kwanzaa, the race-based pseudoholiday contrived to compete with Christmas. Worthly lists a few of the ways it can dig celebrants deeper into debt:

• Importing Authentic Kinara* From Overseas
• Hosting Lavish Karamu Feasts With Catered Menus
• Printing Personalized Kwanzaa Greeting Cards In Bulk
• Buying Seven Separate Sets Of Candles For Each Principle**
• Purchasing Imported African Artifacts As “Authentic” Decor
• Commissioning Custom African Attire For One-Time Use
• Buying Exclusive Kwanzaa-Themed Jewelry
• Paying For Custom Kwanzaa-themed Wrapping Paper For Gifts
• Commissioning Oversized Kwanzaa Banners And Billboards
• Hiring Professional Performers For Principal [sic] Readings

Click through for pricey details.

Afrocentric moonbats are reassured that a future Democrat regime will probably discover it is a human right to force other people to pick up your Kwanzaa costs.

*A kinara is a Kwanzaa version of a menorah; the first one was created by breaking holders off a menorah.
**A candle is burned for each of the seven principles listed by Ronald McKinley Everett a.k.a. Maulana Karenga, the Marxist scumbag convicted of torturing women who invented Kwanzaa. As noted previously, these principles are the same as those of the Symbionese Liberation Army, best known for kidnapping and brainwashing Patty Hearst.

On a tip from Mike B.

Oklahoma University Student Gets Failing Grade for Biblical Take on Transgenderism

You can guess what happens when students fail to bark the mandatory moonbattery regarding unholy transsexual psychosis. They get failing grades. Sometimes they push back:

An Oklahoma University class assignment on gender stereotypes sparked controversy after student Samantha Fulnecky flunked her essay and then filed a discrimination complaint.

Fulnecky holds that she was punished for her religious beliefs.

The psychology class was taught by transgender graduate student Mel Curth, who uses “she/they” pronouns. The prompt asked students to write about “how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.”

Fulnecky’s biblically influenced response did not reflect required support for LGBTQetc ideology. She made disobedient observations like this:

“Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth.”

Wrong answer, squealed Curth, who proclaimed her viewpoint to be “highly offensive” because transsexuals are sacred in the liberal religion, being a “minoritized population.”

The University of Oklahoma issued a statement on X confirming that a “graduate student instructor” had since been placed on administrative leave while administrators review the student’s discrimination complaint.

Oklahoma is not California, where Fulnecky no doubt would have been promptly expelled.

On a tip from Franco.

Economic History Lesson From a Moonbat

To grasp why anyone would consider it sane policy to inundate the country with unassimilable volumes of unskilled labor from the Third World, it helps to have a lesson in economic history from a moonbat:

Thanks to the leftists who run our schools, this is the thanks our ancestors get for busting their tails for centuries to build the wealthiest country in the world out of wilderness.

On a tip from Wiggins.