VIDEO: US Congressman Moore Reveals Fresh Plans To Conduct More Airstrikes Amid New Threat Against Nigerian Christians
The lawmaker representing Virginia’s Second District in Congress, Rep. Riley M. Moore has hinted at another United States sanctioned airstrikes on terrorists in Nigeria after the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) explicitly declared Christians “legitimate targets.”
Recall that ISWAP recently released an image showing a Christian village in Adamawa State engulfed in flames, accompanied by a statement declaring that Christians across Nigeria are “legitimate targets.”
The Islamic terrorist group allegedly said Christians could “spare their blood” by converting to Islam or by paying the jizyah tax, a levy historically imposed on non-Muslims under extremist interpretations of Islamic rule.
Speaking in an interview, Moore predicted additional attacks on Nigerian terrorists if they do not stop committing atrocities. “I think there’s going to be a strategic security framework that’s going to be set up at some point here soon between our two countries.”
H added that ISIS-supported terrorists in Nigeria are committing “the slaughter of Christians” in that African nation.
Moore said he recently joined other members of Congress on a trip to Nigeria to learn firsthand what was happening.
In the interview, he told newsmen that what they learned was hard to bear. “I will tell you the stories that we got from the ground, talking to internally displaced individuals, Christians who were living in these refugee camps, IDP [internally displaced persons] camps, it was just absolutely heartbreaking.”
It’s hard to fathom, he said, hearing a mother describe her children being murdered. “I had met a woman who had all five of her children murdered right in front of her, and she was pregnant and was able to escape, [and] had the child in one of these refugee camps.”
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Moore said stories like that were repeated often. “I met another woman who had her husband and two daughters murdered right in front of her, and they actually killed her unborn child.”
The extent of the violence, Moore said, is difficult to comprehend. “I mean, this is the most barbaric violence that you can imagine, and now we’ve had ISIS issue a statement saying Christians of Nigeria convert or die, or you can pay the tax to live under our caliphate.”
