{"id":90191,"date":"2020-03-03T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90191"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T23:19:33","slug":"ct-nigerias-government-agrees-islamist-terrorists-target-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90191","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Nigeria\u2019s Government Agrees: Islamist Terrorists Target Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In comments given exclusively to CT, the administration of President Muhammad Buhari clarified that this targeting is not new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Boko Haram is targeting individual Christians. In doing so, their target is all Nigerians, and their goal is to divide Christian brother against Muslim brother,\u201d Mohammed, the information minister, told CT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Boko Haram seeks\u2014and always has sought\u2014is to drive a wedge between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy targeting Christians, they seek to promulgate the falsehood that the democratically elected Nigerian government does not care to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy targeting Muslims, they seek to promulgate the falsehood that the terrorists themselves follow truthfully Islamic teachings, and those they target do not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the strategy of the desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/march\/nigeria-boko-haram-iswap-target-christians-government-agree.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nigeria\u2019s Government Agrees: Islamist Terrorists Target Christians <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WqZOsSnFmM\">https:\/\/t.co\/WqZOsSnFmM<\/a> my new article for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CTmagazine<\/a>, with another exclusive statement from the federal branch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WquN3vVS27\">pic.twitter.com\/WquN3vVS27<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jayson Casper (@jnjcasper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnjcasper\/status\/1234559106427629568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In comments given exclusively to CT, the administration of President Muhammad Buhari clarified that this targeting is not new. \u201cYes, Boko Haram is targeting individual Christians. In doing so, their target is all Nigerians, and their goal is to divide<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90191\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,108,157,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria-africa","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90195,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191\/revisions\/90195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}