{"id":704,"date":"2010-03-18T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:30:42","slug":"nigeria-%e2%80%93-except-it-ain%e2%80%99t-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria \u2013 Except It Ain\u2019t So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>500 \u2013 mostly women and children &#8212; were butchered in Nigeria last month due to \u201cethnic tensions\u201d and \u201ceconomic decline,\u201d say the MSM\u00a0 \u2013 except it ain\u2019t so.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Muslim-on-Christian massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, it was in retaliation for Christian-on-Muslim killings in January &#8212; except it ain\u2019t so.<\/p>\n<p>The killings in January began when Muslim youth attacked Christians on a Sunday morning on their way to church. The Christians fought back, killing some of the Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Two problems:<\/p>\n<p>1) The real situation is that many Africans are leaving their indigenous faiths for either Christianity or Islam. MOST have chosen Christianity \u2013 leading to problem #2.<\/p>\n<p>2) Because of their bias, Western media misrepresent the issues, saying the violence is due mainly to economics and ethnic differences and that both sides are equally to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Except it ain\u2019t so \u2013 read more <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/2010\/03\/12\/the-age-of-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500 \u2013 mostly women and children &#8212; were butchered in Nigeria last month due to \u201cethnic tensions\u201d and \u201ceconomic decline,\u201d say the MSM\u00a0 \u2013 except it ain\u2019t so. It was a Muslim-on-Christian massacre. Reportedly, it was in retaliation for Christian-on-Muslim killings in January &#8212; except it ain\u2019t so. The killings in January began when Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}