While the world’s media fixates on celebrity gossip and political theater, a real genocide is unfolding—one that the global elites and left-wing institutions refuse to name. Christians are being slaughtered in Africa. Beheaded. Burned alive. Driven from their homes. And the perpetrators? ISIS and its affiliates, openly declaring war against Christian communities across Mozambique and the Congo.
This isn’t hyperbole. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has sounded the alarm on what it calls a “silent genocide” being carried out by Islamic State affiliates in central and southern Africa. And they’re absolutely right. If these were attacks against any other group, the headlines would dominate every news cycle. But because the victims are Christians—and because the narrative doesn’t serve the left’s agenda—there’s a deafening silence.
Let’s be clear: This is religious cleansing. In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) has released its own propaganda, bragging about raids on “Christian villages,” broadcasting images of beheaded civilians, and celebrating the destruction of churches and homes. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) recently targeted a Catholic village, killing at least 45 people and torching homes, shops, and vehicles. These groups don’t hide their motives—they’re motivated by radical Islamist ideology, seeking to annihilate Christianity from the region.
And yet, the United Nations can’t even bring itself to say the word “Christian.” Its reports talk vaguely about “insurgents” and “displaced persons,” as if this were just another tribal conflict. It’s not. This is jihadist terrorism targeting people for their faith. The U.N. is complicit in the cover-up by refusing to name the victims or the ideology behind these atrocities. As MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez rightly notes, the West is asleep at the wheel. Africa is being consumed by a growing ISIS insurgency, and our so-called global institutions are too cowardly—or too ideologically compromised—to act.
Over 46,000 people have already been displaced in Cabo Delgado alone, most of them children. These are real human beings—fathers, mothers, families—forced to flee their homes under threat of decapitation and rape. And what does the global community do? Issue statements. Hold summits. Offer meaningless platitudes. Meanwhile, TotalEnergies, a major energy developer, was forced to suspend a $20 billion natural gas project in the region. So not only are we watching a humanitarian catastrophe, we’re also seeing the destabilization of a resource-rich region that could have brought economic growth to Africa and energy independence to the West.
This is what happens when the world refuses to confront evil. For eight years, jihadist insurgencies have been gaining ground in Africa while Western powers looked the other way. The Biden-era foreign policy of appeasement and neglect allowed these groups to regroup, reorganize, and rearm. Now they’re claiming territory, burning churches, and executing Christians with impunity.
We need a serious policy shift—and under President Trump, we’re finally getting one. The Trump Doctrine is simple: confront evil directly, speak the truth without fear, and prioritize the safety of Christians and other persecuted minorities. During his first term, Trump decimated ISIS in the Middle East by taking the shackles off our military and refusing to play political games. It’s time to bring that same resolve to Africa.
We cannot allow ISIS to establish a new caliphate on another continent. We cannot allow the slaughter of Christians to go unpunished. And we cannot allow the globalist institutions—the U.N., the media, the NGOs—to continue whitewashing jihadist terrorism in the name of diversity and tolerance.
The world needs moral clarity. Christians are being targeted for their faith. Churches are being burned because they represent the Gospel. And the perpetrators are Islamic extremists who hate everything the West stands for.
It’s time to call it what it is: a holy war against Christians. And it’s time for America to lead the world in fighting back. Not with vague resolutions or diplomatic double-speak, but with real action, real aid to the persecuted, and a real commitment to crushing Islamic terrorism wherever it rears its head.
The truth matters. Lives depend on it.
