Richard Bartholomew takes apart a May 20 WorldNetDaily article by Steve Peacock on violence in northern Nigeria. Not only does the headline, “Obama: Slaughter of Christians a Misunderstanding,” falsely claim that President Obama has spoken out about it — he hasn’t, and the article doesn’t even quote him — Peacock falsely implied that the U.S. Agency for International Development is denying the role of Islamic extremism in Nigeria or portraying the situation as a “misunderstanding.”
In fact, Bartholomew points out, the USAID document that Peacock quotes from points out that the Nigeria conflict, “at its root, it is more about the governance of contested resource,” not a “religious war.”Even though Muslim and Christian communities are in conflict, the motivation is not primarily a religious one. Other experts on the issue agree with this assessment.
This is just another ham-fisted attempt by WND to falsely paint Obama as anti-Christian.