Breitbart.com reports: “Nigerian activists and leaders at the front lines of the jihadist mass killings in the country denounced attempts to erase the religious aspect of the persecution in the country during a recent online press briefing alongside the human rights organization Open Doors, noting the overwhelming evidence that the killers are seeking to eliminate Christianity entirely.

‘Anyone who has spoken about climate change, who is talking about land, talking about – no, no, no, no,’ Terwase Orbunde, former Chief of Staff to the Governor of Benue State and member of State Security Council, told reporters during the briefing, which took place on December 16 and which Breitbart News attended. ‘That may be ultimately what they want to do, to take the land, but first is to destroy the people – and because they are Christians. We cannot separate [that] fact.’

Another speaker, journalist Steven Kefas with the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa, noted that he had documented terrorist attacks targeting civilians more often on Sundays and Christian holidays, with no corresponding spike in attacks during Islamic holidays. Kefas also noted that a disproportionate number of Christians die in ‘bandit’ attacks even in majority-Muslim Nigerian states, casting doubt on claims that the jihadist killings are part of a generalized crime wave affecting everyone equally…”