{"id":43981,"date":"2021-12-13T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43981"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:09:30","slug":"a-puzzling-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43981","title":{"rendered":"A Puzzling Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, The American Spectator<\/a> reported that last month Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the State Department\u2019s list of countries hostile to religious freedom. In April, the U.S. government\u2019s own Commission on International Religious Freedom had urged Secretary of State Blinken to keep Nigeria on the list.<\/p>\n

The articled reports:<\/p>\n

In 2020, the Trump administration designated Nigeria as a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern\u201d (CPC) on religious freedom. In a letter, the Family Research Council and host of other organizations committed to religious freedom have asked<\/a> Biden: \u201cHow can it be, less than a year after that significant designation, that Nigeria\u2019s CPC designation has been dropped without a public explanation?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The groups note in the letter that anti-Christian persecution in the country has grown even more intense since 2020: \u201cThe ongoing violence, killing, and displacement against Christians and others have only increased. In fact, during 2021, massacres happen almost nightly, while by day, young boys are killed in the fields. Pregnant women are brutally dismembered, their babies mutilated before their eyes. And now, an entire church congregation has been abducted and held captive.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armed Islamic terrorists and radicals \u201chave become even more brazen, torching entire villages and farms, ambushing, and killing innocent people in gory, unspeakable ways,\u201d they write. \u201cMass killings\u2014the kind that used to be sporadic\u2014are now a national emergency. Catholic News Agency reported in July, \u2018an estimated 3,462 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the first 200 days of 2021, according to a new study. This equates to 17 Christians being murdered every day in Africa\u2019s most populous country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Biden has declared the promotion of transgenderism abroad a \u201cpriority\u201d of American foreign policy. That apparently stands at the apex of his hierarchy of rights. \u00a0\u201c[The State] Department has committed to\u202fincreasing U.S. engagement on\u202flesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+)\u202fhuman rights issues\u202fabroad,\u201d says<\/a> Blinken. \u201cAs we do so, we work with partners around the world who bring to bear\u202fexpertise\u202fon their unique challenges and innovative solutions. We recognize that,\u202fthrough these partnerships,\u202fwe will be able\u202fto\u202fbuild a safer, more inclusive global society for all\u202fLGBTQI+ persons.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what preoccupied Blinken in the months preceding the collapse of Afghanistan. Then after it fell, he told<\/a> Congress that he was \u201cfocused on\u201d the plight of the \u201cLGBTQI+ in Afghanistan\u201d under the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talk about an \u201cunbalanced\u201d agenda. Blinken can strain at the gnat and swallow the camel. As he trivializes human rights abuses, monstrous ones are occurring in a country that he claims is no longer a foe of religious freedom. Never mind that an organization called Genocide Watch says<\/a> \u201cNigeria has become a killing field of defenseless Christians.\u201d The group says that \u201cbetween 11,500 and 12,000 Christians have been massacred since June 2015 when the Buhari Government of Nigeria came to power. These statistics are based on careful records kept by church groups that include the names of victims and dates of their murders.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That Biden can overlook this while prattling on about the supposed glories of transgenderism and chastising Russia for its insufficient enlightenment (Blinken said that Biden rebuked Putin at their summer meeting for not supporting the LGBTQ agenda) reveals much about this administration\u2019s bankrupt agenda. Only a president that prizes religious freedom at home will care about its loss abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that our President has mixed up his priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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