President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with \u201cguns-a-blazing\u201d if Africa\u2019s most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an explosive post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader \u2014 who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 said he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was \u201cfacing an existential threat in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, \u2018guns-a-blazing,\u2019 to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He ended his post with \u201cWARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump on Friday posted, without evidence, that \u201cthousands of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Claims of Christian persecution have also been pushed by some in Nigeria, where ethnic, religious and regional divisions have flared with deadly consequences in the past and still shape the country\u2019s modern politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria is almost evenly divided between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with \u201cguns-a-blazing\u201d if Africa\u2019s most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists. In an explosive post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader \u2014 who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 said he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was \u201cfacing an existential threat in Nigeria.\u201d \u201cIf the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, \u2018guns-a-blazing,\u2019 to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,\u201d he said. \u201cI am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,\u201d he added. He ended his post with \u201cWARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!\u201d Nigeria is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction. Trump on Friday posted, without evidence, that \u201cthousands of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.\u201d Claims of Christian persecution have also been pushed by some in Nigeria, where ethnic, religious and regional divisions have flared with deadly consequences in the past and still shape the country\u2019s modern politics. Nigeria is almost evenly divided between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27457,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456\/revisions\/27457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}