In a world that too often averts its gaze from the slaughter of Christians, President Donald Trump has once again exposed the cowardice of Western leaders.
On Christmas Day 2025, he ordered precision airstrikes on Islamic State camps in Nigeria’s Sokoto State, directly confronting terrorists who have been butchering innocent believers with impunity.
While Britain’s Keir Starmer, the European Union’s bureaucrats, and the entire Commonwealth apparatus issued nothing but silence or tepid platitudes, Trump acted—delivering a “powerful and deadly strike” against what he rightly called “ISIS Terrorist Scum” targeting Christians.
In doing so, he shamed them all, highlighting their moral bankruptcy and reminding the free world who truly stands guard over Western civilisation and its foundational faith.
As usual, Trump is the only leader with the courage to defend Christians when no one else will. Where others wring their hands and hide behind diplomatic euphemisms, he deploys American power to protect the persecuted.
This is not mere rhetoric; it is decisive action that saves lives and sends an unequivocal message to jihadists: your reign of terror ends here.
The West owes him — and the United States — an enormous debt of gratitude. Every Western nation should be rallying in vocal support, yet most remain embarrassingly mute, preferring progressive virtue-signalling to the hard defence of our shared heritage.
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Nigeria, a former British colony and prominent Commonwealth member, exemplifies this shameful inaction. British influence shaped its institutions, laws, and the spread of Christianity through generations of missionaries.
Yet as thousands of Nigerian Christians have been massacred in 2025 alone — over 7,000 in the first eight months according to monitors like Intersociety — Commonwealth leaders have done precisely nothing of substance.
Where was the Commonwealth when churches were razed in Benue State, when villages like Yelewata were wiped out in single nights of horror?
Issuing vague statements of “deep concern,” no doubt, while burying their heads in the sand as they so often do. The organisation that boasts of upholding human rights and shared values has proven itself utterly impotent in the face of what many rightly call a genocide against Christians.
Keir Starmer’s Labour government fares no better. Obsessed with domestic progressive agendas that promote multiculturalism and curry favour with the European Union, Starmer has offered zero meaningful response to the crisis.
His silence is deafening, especially as his policies facilitate mass migration from regions rife with the very ideologies fuelling this violence — importing problems while ignoring their roots.
The EU, mired in endless committees and reluctant to name Islamist extremism plainly, embodies the same paralysis: talk without end, action never.
Trump’s strikes lay bare this hypocrisy, shaming Starmer and his continental counterparts for their refusal to confront evil head-on.
Independent reports underscore the urgency Trump alone has grasped. Open Doors ranks Nigeria as the deadliest country for Christians worldwide, with Islamic State West Africa Province and radicalised militias targeting believers in a campaign of abduction, murder, and displacement.
While violence affects many Nigerians, the deliberate religious persecution of Christians cannot be obfuscated as mere “resource conflicts.” Trump refuses to play that game of equivocation; he calls it what it is and acts accordingly.
Better to bomb these terrorists in their lairs than allow them to grow unchecked, exporting savagery that could one day haunt Western streets.
Trump’s intervention — coordinated with Nigerian authorities—proves prevention through strength works. It is leadership that the West desperately lacks elsewhere.
One would expect the Special Relationship between Britain and America, forged in shared history and values, to demand that Westminster stand squarely behind this action.
Instead, Starmer’s government risks squandering it through indifference. Britain, with its historic ties to Nigeria, should be leading the charge in gratitude and solidarity, not lagging in embarrassed quietude.
In an age when Christian communities face extinction across Africa and the Middle East, Donald Trump stands as civilisation’s lone sentinel.
He has warned that further attacks on Christians will meet further responses—a commitment the persecuted have prayed for in vain from others.
The West should not merely applaud from afar; it should actively support him, recognising that in defending Nigerian Christians, he defends the soul of our civilisation itself.
For too long, leaders like Starmer have prioritised appeasement over principle. Trump’s Christmas Day strikes serve as a clarion call: it is time to choose sides. Gratitude is the least he is owed; unwavering alliance is what he — and the beleaguered faithful —deserve.
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