The mass slaughter of Christians across parts of Nigeria, violence which has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced over two million people, is almost entirely fuelled by Islamist extremism.
This is the stark keynote conclusion of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief (APPG FoRB)’s new report Nigeria: Unfolding Genocide? Three Years On, which has just been launched in parliament. It features contributions from a range of 47 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), think tanks, journalists, academics and charities.
Each was asked to rank the significance of a range of factors behind the violence which currently targets freedom of religious belief in Nigeria. The factors included poverty, climate change, ethnic tensions and religious extremism. More than half considered religious extremism the biggest driver of the violence.
