French Philosopher Describes 'Massacre Of Nigerian Christians, Massive In Scale And Horrific In Brutality' Underway, Turkish Presence, And Qatari Influence

War on Christianity turning into genocide in Nigeria

with help from Turkey, Qatar and China.

In a series of reports in French and American media, renowned French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy narrated a visit he made to Nigeria where he found that a massacre of Christians "massive in scale and horrific in brutality" is taking place. He also mentioned the Turkish presence and Qatari influence there.

In a December 20, 2019 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "The New War Against Africa's Christians," Levy wrote about the violent Islamic extremists "more or less linked with Boko Haram" among the Fulani ethnic group. A bishop whom he met explained the Fulani extremists' pattern of attack: "They usually arrive at night. They are barefoot, so you can't hear them coming unless they're on motorcycle... Before villagers can take shelter or flee, the invaders are upon them in their houses, swinging machetes, burning, pillaging, raping. They don't kill everyone. At some point they stop, recite a verse from the Quran, round up the livestock and retreat. They need survivors to spread fear from village to village, to bear witness that the Fulani raiders fear nothing but Allah and are capable of anything." A Westerner living in Nigeria reportedly said that "Boko Haram 'instructors' have been spotted in Bauchi, another northeastern state, where they are teaching elite Fulani militants to handle more-sophisticated weapons that will replace their machetes." 

Recounting testimonies of victims whom he met, Levy wrote that one woman whom he met said that On July 15, "Fulani extremists rode into her village on long-saddle motorcycles, three to a bike, shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' They torched houses and killed her four children before her eyes" before cutting off her arm. Fulani extremists cut three fingers off the right hand of another woman, cut the nape of her neck with a machete, shot her, and poured gasoline on her and lit it on fire. She somehow survived.

Bernard-Henri Levy wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the Fulani extremists.

While in Nigeria, Levy encountered a Turkish member of a "religious mutual assistance group" that the man said was opening madrassas for the daughters of Fulani people. Levy describes an armed Fulani man wearing a jacket with Turkish- and Arabic-language badges. While sitting among Fulani men, one of whom says: "The Christians are dogs and children of dogs. You say Christians. To us they are traitors. They adopted the religion of the whites. There is no place here for friends of the whites, who are impure," a postcard vendor offers Levy portraits of Osama bin Laden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A report that MEMRI published on December 18, 2019, discussed an audio recording uploaded to YouTube in March 2014 reportedly featuring a phone call between a senior Turkish government official and a Turkish Airlines executive in which the latter says: "I am transporting dozens of materials, they are going to Nigeria right now, okay? [I do not know:] Are they going to kill Muslims or are they going to kill Christians? We are in sin right now, so you know" (see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 8421 March 2014 Audio Reportedly Features Phone Call Between Turkish Airlines Executive, Erdoğan Advisor About Turkish Arms Shipments To Nigeria: 'Are They Going To Kill Muslims Or Are They Going To Kill Christians? We Are In Sin Right Now', December 18, 2019). On November 26, 2019, Nigerian news outlets reported that a spokesman for Nigeria's Defence Headquarters, had said that the Nigerian government was investigating claims that the Turkish government was sending weapons to Nigeria-based terrorist organization Boko Haram.

Buhari a Fulani

In a French-language article about the subject published on December 5 on the website of the French weekly Paris Match, Levy wrote: "A man came out to tell me I had nothing to do here. He spoke English. I had the time to make him admit... that he was Turkish, a member of a network of religious mutual aid funded by Qatar and responsible for opening, in the northern and central localities, madrasas for Fulani girls." The same article read: "And President Buhari... who already reigned between 1983 and 1985, following a coup, and who is still in today thanks to subsidies from Ankara, Qatar, and the Chinese, is himself a Fulani."

Following is the text of Bernard-Henri Levy's article as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal on December 20, 2019:

"Fulani Extremists Have Become Deadlier Than Boko Haram And Accounted For The Majority Of The Country's 2,040 Documented Terrorist Fatalities In 2018"

Please click on link for the full article on WSJ.