Don’t spread this bullshit propaganda. This article promotes the “Christian genocide” conspiracy and obscures the recent attack on muslim students (thus making it appear as more attacks on “Catholics”). Islamophobic imperial disinfo.
Like the other person, in the west it’s being pushed as a Christian thing but it’s pretty indiscriminate. Heavily rural conservative Christian pastors, evangelicals, southern baptist, etc - really push the idea of Nigeria as some christian genocide thing to push fear in US christians and probably drive attendance and donations
These days it’s more about tradition nomadic groups vs the settled towns. Similar issues along the Sahel like in Sudan with the janjaweed groups in the past to today’s civil war. Nigeria has a significant problem with bandits and those pastoral nomads that come into heavy conflict with their staunch beliefs in their rights to have their animals graze as has been tradition for who knows how many thousands of years.
I think it’s to a degree recognized in law for pastoral rights for nomads but it’s pretty non-compatible with modern city/property rights society and they’re hyper aggressive to a point where it’s probably many taking advantage of historic rights to pretty much be bandits. Nigeria has an insanely complex web of different violent dissident groups throughout the country
Someday the evangelical Muslims may be the primary aggressor again in the future but today it seems to be the pastoral nomads and generic bandit groups. Boko Haram is way smaller than it was like 15 years ago. Maybe a backseat these days to the ISIS affiliate that’s spread around the surrounding countries substantially like if I recall correctly, Burkina Faso and Mali. ISIS in Nigeria isn’t to the degree as those two. Not even close yet. ISIS or Al Qaeda affiliates. Incredibly complex and hard to keep up with