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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Jihad in Africa

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF Articles

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January 8th, 2024
by ASCF Sr. Analyst Laurence Sanford

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Islamic jihadists are committing genocide against Christians in Africa. The most dangerous country in Africa for Christians is Nigeria, with over 52,000 Christians having been slaughtered by Muslims in the past decade. 18,000 churches and 2,200 schools have been burned down. Muslims celebrated Christmas Day in 2023 by hacking to death over 100 Christians with machetes.

Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa, with over 220 million citizens. Muslims represent slightly over 50% of the population. Ruled by Fulani Muslims since 2014, the central federal government has done little to stop the genocide committed by Fulani Muslim terrorist groups or Boko Haram, which means “Western Education is Forbidden.” The group's official title is “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophets Teaching and Jihad.” Launched in 2009, Boko Haram’s objective was to create an Islamic state under Sharia law. Presently, twelve northern Muslim-majority states have imposed Sharia law on Muslims. A parallel legal system applies to infidels.

The Obama administration urged the Nigerian government not to use military force against Boko Haram, claiming the slaughter was due to social inequities between Muslim Fulani herdsmen and Christian farmers caused by climate change. A Nigerian nun, Sister Moniker Chikwe, said, “It is tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a
religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters, clad entirely in black, chanting Allahu Akbar and screaming Death to Christians.”

USAID (United States Agency for International Development) provided more than $500 million in aid to Nigeria in fiscal years 2021 and 2022. Much of the aid went to the northeastern region of Nigeria, where the majority of atrocities are committed.

Following the slaughter of more than 200 Christians over the 2022 Christmas holiday season, Roman Catholic Bishop Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, called the Fulani Islamists “sons of Satan” who came from “the deepest pit of hell.”

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Marxist Liberation Jesuit, should be defending Christians but has said nothing about Islamic atrocities in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world. He is too busy condemning Israelis for defending themselves and falsely accusing Israel of killing two Christian women in a Gaza church. When has he condemned Muslims for killing thousands of Christians?

Nigeria also led the world in the number of Christians abducted, sexually assaulted, forcibly married, or abused. In 2014, Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno State. Few have been returned to their families. Most were forced into marriage. Since Chibok, thousands of school-age children have been kidnapped, and thousands of teachers killed. Children are no longer being educated.

Summary

Christianity and Western Civilization are under attack all over the world, from Islamic Jihadists to Communists to Marxists/atheists in the West. Nowhere is it more dangerous than in Africa. See the map and article at: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/

Mainstream media has closed its eyes to reporting on Islamic genocide. A mosque is destroyed in Gaza storing Hamas military weapons, and the world is aghast. 18,000 churches in Africa are destroyed, and the world yawns. No U.N. votes are condemning the atrocities. No Washington D.C. rallies are protesting the slaughters and enslavements.

Jihadists are active not only in Nigeria but elsewhere in Africa.

● Eastern Africa: Somalia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mozambique.
● Western Africa Sahal: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, and Benin
● Central Africa: Lake Chad, northern Nigeria, Cameron, and Chad.

Action

1. Recognize that Islamic terrorist organizations are alive and expanding. Their goal is Islamic world domination. The groups include Boko Haram, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda.
For a more complete list, see the U.N.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups
2. Support local African governments that are battling the terrorists.
3. Support Christian organizations fighting for survival and peace in Africa.
4. Contact elected officials to bring attention to the persecution happening in Africa.
5. Strengthen the U.S. military to deter Islamic jihadists.
6. Increase U.S. “Gray Zone” actions against jihadists.

Peace Through Strength!

Laurence F. Sanford
Senior Analyst
American Security Council Foundation
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