I’ve been speaking a lot lately about the terrible tragedy of what could be called ‘the forgotten jihad’, the jihad in Africa. I call this the ‘forgotten jihad’ because whilst many in the West are rightly and properly concerned about the issues of jihad and of ‘sharia-creep’, the Jihad in Africa and targeted against Africans, tends to fly below the radar.

There are, in my view, two reasons for this ignorance of the mass murder of Africans by jihadists. The first is that Africa is far away and unknown by many people and many of us are more concerned about the threats that radical Islam poses to our own nations and families. The second reason is that there are Islamic groups in the West who have a vested interest in playing down these murderous Islamic jihadist groups in Africa and playing up the mostly bogus claim that the West is full of Islamophobia.

This jihad has had an appalling human cost which should be more well known but it is thanks to groups like the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), that we do not. A recent article in Jihad Watch told of how CAIR has put up a fog of false claims of ‘Islamophobia’ that has gone a long way to taking people’s eyes off of Islam-inspired atrocities.

Jihad Watch said:

A few weeks ago, almost 500 men and boys were rescued from an Islamic center in Nigeria; the detainees “were allegedly sexually abused and tortured.” They were also reportedly subject to slavery, chaining, beatings and starvation while being forced to learn the Qur’an. The youngest among them was five. But as the article from the Washington Times points out below, Islamic supremacist groups such as CAIR (and many others) are quick to claim “Islamophobia” and victim status, but they are virtually silent on real instances of abuse, when those abuses are committed by their fellow coreligionists.

Groups like CAIR and their counterparts in the UK and elsewhere in the West are indeed quick to scream about ‘Islamophobia’ but are not speaking with any clarity, volume or integrity about Islamic murder, Islamic enslavement, Islamic misogyny and Islamic abuse. If they did then it would go some way to show good conduct and moral clarity on the part of CAIR and similar groups. But all we get from them is dishonest guff about how Islam and Muslims are ‘persecuted’ and the turning of a complete blind eye to the sort of problems that have been suffered not just in Africa, but all over the world.

It’s time that we and especially our governments, stopped listening to these purveyors of dishonest pabulum because they are not helping build bridges between different communities but instead merely putting up a fog of ‘Islamophobia’ noise to distract from the more nasty aspects of Islam.