Leah Sharibu is an African Christian woman captured and held in captivity in Nigeria for eight years. Setting her free should be a prime concern of Western human rights organizations.
She has all the qualifications to make it to the top of their lists: she is a woman, she is black, she was kidnapped, raped, and impregnated by her captors, and treated this way only because of her beliefs.
More recently, a 20-year-old Alawite girl, Batoul Suleiman Alloush, was kidnapped from her university campus in Latakia, Syria on May 3, 2026, also because of her faith. She, too, will get no help from organizations in the West that were created to save people just like her.
Why is this happening? People of conscience in the West have been made blind to an entire category of the oppressed, those who are victims and targets of jihadism, a movement human rights organizations here seem embarrassed even to name, yet a movement that has spread torture, enslavement, and murder across the globe.
Willful blindness to jihadism’s victims is a betrayal of the West’s fundamental principles; a betrayal that leaves tens of millions without the help of those who should, and have in the past, been their most natural and powerful allies.
This is not a small population. Over the past decade, for example, Islamist terror in sub-Saharan Africa alone has killed more than 150,000 people. Yet Amnesty International has not called an emergency session, the university protesters are absent, and op-ed pages have been largely quiet.
Who in America hears about the Ahmadi Muslims of Pakistan killed for how they pray, or about the Coptic Christians of Egypt who live under systematic persecution by the Muslim Brotherhood, whose churches are bombed and whose women are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam? Who here knows anything about the intimidation of Egyptian liberals by jihadists?
Nigerian Christians suffer massacres weekly, often daily. The Druze, the Kurds, the Christians, and the Alawites of western Syria are experiencing similar attacks. Jihadist violence erupts in Europe’s cities, yet to name it risks opprobrium, even penalties. Even jail.
How can this be? The ideology that increasingly dominates Western institutions is founded on “anti-colonialism,” which views history as a story of white oppression inflicted upon darker-skinned peoples around the globe through imperialist ventures. That same oppression, posited by progressives, is mirrored inside Western societies by a “white supremacy” that dominates domestic minorities.
This framework sorts all humanity into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Moral status is fixed according to one’s place in this binary scheme rather than by actual behavior or culpability. A major corollary of this worldview is that the “oppressed” may not be judged or criticized.
And that is precisely the reason why nobody from Amnesty International is coming to free Leah or Batoul: because the anti-colonialist paradigm has no vocabulary for when a group defined as oppressed within the West (Arab or Muslim immigrants) is an oppressor outside it, victims of jihadism the world over are automatically, almost by definition, ignored.
Adherents to this progressivism are, by the very terms of their own framework, made mute when confronted with an Arab jihadist murdering gay men, or Nigerian Islamist militias enslaving black Africans, or men “of color” stoning adulteresses.
Jihadism and its powerful weapon
A new organization, the International Freedom Coalition (IFC), intends to correct this flaw. It is formed by a confederation of survivors and advocates representing communities victimized by jihadist violence across multiple continents.
Historically, each affected community has viewed its experience as an isolated struggle, when in fact each has been confronted by a branch of the same global network: jihadism. It is important to note that this is not a struggle against Islam, as Muslims who stand in the way of the jihadist movement are also targeted and killed.
Jihadist strategy is to seize Arab and Islamic countries first, then assert jihadist rule and eliminate minorities. Their work is expanded abroad, including in the free world, where they create enclaves and demand separate and special treatment, intending to eliminate the host nations’ traditions, culture, and laws.
Jihadism includes preliminary non-violent infiltration and settlement phases, along with the planned deception of Western populations, obscuring true intentions through the use of Western human rights language: tolerance, interfaith dialogue, and anti-racism.
Once these groups gain enough traction, they launch urban conflict within the free world, as is now visible throughout Europe. Jihadists have also developed a powerful geopolitical weapon: labeling their opponents “Islamophobes” and making any criticism of their aims a taboo subject.
This deception campaign, currently visible in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, is designed to crumble civil societies from within.
The IFC is the first international response to what has become a globalizing jihad. It aims to globalize resistance.
Source:
www.jpost.com
